[optacon-l] Re: A question
- From: "Dianne B. Phelps" <d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 12:10:28 -0700
That is interesting because that is the project I heard about six or seven
years ago. At the time I first heard about his work, he was going to have it
do both-That is speak and show us the tactile image. For my needs
personally, for OCR and reading, I will go to Dr. Kurzweil. He was the
father of all of that stuff, and his stuff has worked extremely well for me.
Now, if we could reinterest people like Dr. Bliss and other scientists in
regrouping on the optacon technology, we might could have the best of both
worlds. All I know is that I don't know what I would have done without the
optacon. OCR is just terrific, but it doesn't replace being able to have
contact with the page you produced and its formatting. It tries, but doesn't
quite make it.
Dianne
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On Behalf Of Anne Robertson
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 2:36 AM
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Subject: [optacon-l] Re: A question
Hello Cordelia,
I think the project you are referring to would be the P2RD developed by Oleg
Tretiakov. He touted it as a replacement for the Optacon, but it was nothing
of the sort. It was a similar idea to the KNFB Reader, in that it used a
camera to take pictures of text which were then interpreted using Abbyy
FineReader. The whole thing ran on a PC Notebook computer.
I had many a long argument with Mr Tretiakov after buying his device and
being seriously disappointed with it. He simply refused to understand that
his device was just another scan and OCR solution and no replacement
whatsoever for the Optacon.
Cheers,
Anne
On Aug 1, 2010, at 6:25 AM, Cordelia Scharpf wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I have been following the discussion about different models of the
Optacons and the arrays with 100
> vs. 144 pins for a while. My question is whethere there was not someone in
Florida trying to design
> a new Optacon? I came across him and his project about two or three years
ago, and his project was
> funded by National Institute of science, if I remember correctly. Do you
know anything more about
> this?
>
> Best regards,
> Cordelia
>
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