[optacon-l] Re: Introduction from a Long-Time Optacon User
- From: "Natalie" <nataliej@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 08:40:06 -0400
When I get a new document to transcribe I don't have to ask a million
questions about formatting. The Optacon answers them for me.
Natalie
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From: "Wilna Turnbull" <WTurnbull@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7:08 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Introduction from a Long-Time Optacon User
> Yes, the Optacon may be of the old generation of technology, but nothing
> can replace it yet. Especially if the layout of a document is familiar
> it beats a scanner by far.
>
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> [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DAVID PLUMLEE
> Sent: 05 July 2010 08:40 PM
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> Subject: [optacon-l] Introduction from a Long-Time Optacon User
>
> I am an Optacon user who began using the instrument around 1980. I
> obtained my first
> Optacon from the Kansas City Optacon Foundation; and when that
> organization disbanded,
> those of us who still had Optacons were given letters saying that the
> units were
> now ours to keep. I use mine for a variety of reading tasks such as
> checking mail
> that doesn't read very well on the scanner, digging through instruction
> manuals,
> and reading some displays on some electronics. Several years ago, I
> read Popular
> Electronics and even built one or two small projects according to the
> schematics
> given in those magazines.
> As I have told some friends, I can read things with an Optacon that no
> scanner or
> OCR device currently available on earth will touch. Since the
> "decoder," "motor
> controller," and "information processor," if you will, are all contained
> in my mind,
> I can understand a variety of print material because I can take that
> camera anywhere
> I want on the page or display.
> I hope that a "new generation" of the Optacon can be fabricated. I'd
> like to see
> an instrument that would do better on modern appliance displays; I'd
> like to see
> some kind of "memory" so that a line could be "captured" and examined.
> One problem
> in reading modern displays is that the reading flashes off and on. I
> can envision
> an instrument that is still portable but equipped with a computer
> interface that
> would use computer memory and software to do the "capture" functions of
> which I speak.
> Also some of the contrast is poor on many displays, so that the current
> Optacon models
> will not read them. Additionally, some displays are recessed or set at
> an angle
> so that the standard Optacon camera will not read them. I have only the
> standard
> camera and a CRT lens for my Optacon. I did not obtain the "calculator"
> lens for
> my unit.
> I would be interested in following an email list on the Optacon. I
> found your email address in the March 2009 Missouri Chronicle. I
> look forward to hearing from you.
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