I am forwarding this from another list. I know nothing more about this product than what's printed here.
Rachel Greetings,ÂI am Marco Gregnanin, CEO of the ITEX, a company specialized in assistive technologies realized with the direct advice of no sighted people. A man from the USA invited me to get in contact with your radio, just to let people know what we are doing in Italy (his mail is attached at the bottom of this page).Â
Well, SiRecognizer is the worldÂ's first portable system able to recognise flat and solid objects trough the eyes of a digital camera! Thanks to a patented algorithm, SiRecognizer can read text found on any object, regardless of its shape, skew or perspective.Â
A real computer with Windows XP and 60GB HardDisk, slightly bigger than a palm, able to recognise objects in less than ten seconds! SiRecognizer was developed specifically for the blind, visual impaired and dislexics. SiRecognizer can read books, magazines and newspapers of any size and complexity (up to a complete A2 page!), bottles, cans, medicines and their blisters. Texts found on TVs and LCD displays can all be read. Whatever the camera frames, SiRecognizer reads!Â
SiRecognizer can automatically adjust perspective, skew and shape of any object. It can correct the framing of the picture trough voice messages such as Â"move the camera to the rightÂ", Â"move the camera backwardsÂ" and (in the new version) Â"turn the object of 45 degrees to the rightÂ". It has editing features, voice recognition (command and dictation) and voice recording, MP3 features, handwriting modules, bluetooth, wifi and much much more.Â
We strongly believe that quality is the most important side of our work. And that's the reason for which SiRecognizer delivers the best recognition quality along with nine recognition strategies! You can use SiRecognizer in combination with any screen reader, braille bar and application. And, if you need connectivity in every single moment of your life, you can ask for the embedded HSDPA module.Â
SiRecognizer is also a portable video enlarger; it speaks and recognises texts in more than 20 languages (including Russian, Greek and Asian languages)! If connected to any scanner, SiRecognizer becomes an ultra-advanced reading system able to recognise complex table-rich pages. And it has has also color
recognition features!ÂSiRecognizer results are always excellent and can be saved in over 50 formats (txt, rtf, doc, xls, wav, html, PDF, ebook and tiff) not to mention various hybrid formats, specific for the sight-impaired (i.e. enlarged images and text). They can be modified with any Â"editorÂ" such as WordPad, Microsoft Word and even Microsoft Excel. This allows students to complete any kind of forms or questionnaires. SiRecognizer can save and/or print the results thanks to
USB, Ethernet, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity.ÂSiRecognizer gives you real freedom: finally you can read a book at the library, a timetable at the bus stop, etc. Simple things become a reality for everyone.
And it does simply work! ÂSiRecognizer is perfectly integrated with existing technology: Internet, GPS, Screen Readers, Braille Bars, printers, phones, mobile phones, monitor and TVs can all be used with no difficulties. By so doing SiRecognizer becomes i.e. a GPS guide for the city, a video enlarger with a BIG external monitor, a real computer with a Braille Bar and much more. Furthermore, Internet & Mail can be accessed trough any bluetooth mobile phone or with the optional HSPDA
module.ÂSiRecognizer has two powerful speakers (2 Watt each), a headphone jack and a stereo microphone that make it a perfect companion for everyday life. A joystick and seven special keys make the system completely accessible and independent. And just connect its mini USB keyboard to turn it into a REAL Windows XP
computer!ÂWe started the development of SiRecognizer back in 2005; the first release has been delivered in November 2006. From Italy, where we are based, we brought our technology to the UK, to Germany and, slowly, to the entire Europe. But we strongly believe that SiRecognizer should be used by american people as well, since it is an important aid, for everyday life as well as for the studies.Â
Well, if you think that the SiRecognizer can be interesting for american users, just let me know! I would be really happy to provide further information and/or to answer questions and, why not, to make you personally try how it works!Â
Please find attached some documentation on the SiRecognizer as well as on the ITEX.
Highest regards,  Marco Gregnanin  Marco Gregnanin C.E.O.  ITEX di Marco Gregnanin Via Eschilo, 209 00124 Roma - RM Italy  Web: http://www.itex.info E-mail: m.gregnanin@xxxxxxxxx Mobile: +39 / 347 / 34 15 141 Landline: +39 / 06 / 50 53 318Skype: m.gregnanin Â
