[optacon-l] Re: A question
- From: "Dianne B. Phelps" <d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 13:55:00 -0700
I learned to read the printing of family members and could often recognize
my name in handwritten form, though I couldn't read too much more in cursive
writing. I also, during training and a few times afterward, tried reading
print music which was just too tedius to accomplish very much. I could
recognize the notation with it, time signatures and key signatures.
Dianne
-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Cordelia Scharpf
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 1:45 PM
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Subject: [optacon-l] Re: A question
Amen. Plus, I was thrilled I could read handwritten texts and get to know
those various handwritings of family members and friends, not to mention my
sighted students whose homework I needed to check. Of course, I also got
help from amanuenses and later I had my students do their work on their
computers and send me their essays by e-mail. But, it always helped knowing
the layout and formatting of texts on a real sheet of paper. I can't imagine
doing without an Optacon, and whenever it is down, I feel like being tossed
back into an age zillions (of) years ago. I also found it quite fascinating
exploring some simple Chinese and japanese characters, but more complex ones
would require a better lens for magnification.
Best,
Cordelia
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From: "Dianne B. Phelps" <d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 9:10 PM
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: A question
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Anne Robertson
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 2:36 AM
> To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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