TAlking Camera
- From: "Ham Steve" <k8sp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 22:23:52 -0400
Charles,
I can think of two examples. One is a person who was able to identify the
contents of a round container, which a regular flatbed scanner couldn't do.
The second example is a guy who took a picture of the front page of a
newspaper at a newsstand, the kind where there is a large metal box that
displays the front page through a plastic window. You pays your buck and
get the whole paper. I doubt you could read that with an Optacon since the
paper isn't right against the plastic or the Optacon lens.
In what I saw, I don't think text recognition is different; probably
slightly worse and much slower than a PC with a scanner. But, offsetting
that is the portability. You can stick it in your suitcoat pocket, and had
I been wearing a sportcoat, it would have been tempting (grin).
Don't worry about what people think; they don't do it very often.
Steve, K8SP
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