Re: Switching Back
- From: "Mark Blier" <mblier@xxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:51:30 -0700
Hi, All,
Mary Ellen, what a good idea! So, you'd pass the camera over each =
symbol individually, and, as the entirety of each symbol is seen to be =
fully in the array, the character is recognized, and the ASCII value is =
output to a .txt file that can be read with anything.
Now, we're getting somewhere.
Mark Blier
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From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: Switching Back
Well for one thing checking to see if my signature came out on checks, =
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making sure that the return slip is in properly when I pay bills.
Also I had to give up just reading a book at my leisure. No matter what =
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screen reader people tell you, flat bed scanners simply are not equipped =
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reading books and to just be able to read my Yoga books and look up the=20
explanation of a posture I am not sure of is such a welcome relief =
again.
It is also fantastic to check your checks and make sure the printer =
didn't=20
print them too far up or over the line.
That's about all I can think of at present, Maybe reading instructions =
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how to heat up frozen foods too is something which I had to give up =
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much
I just had a thought about something, Why not develop software for our=20
notetaking devices such as the Pacmate or Braille Note or Voice Sense or =
Braille Sense and utilize the camera of cell phones?
Just my less than 2 cents worth but what do I know anyway?
Mary Ellen Earls
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From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:14 AM
Subject: Re: Switching Back
Mary Ellen, Sharon, and others,
Now that you have returned to using an Optacon, what tasks are you
relieved to use it for? Somebody (Sharon I think) mentioned what a
pleasure it was to "just read" a paper or a card without going through =
all
that scanning and computer operation. What other tasks are there? What
tasks could you suddenly do independently again that were kind of a
porblem in the absence of the Optacon? These are the kinds of things =
that
will figure into any sort of Optacon re-development. Also particularly
please mention any tasks that had to be given up altogether, say, the
exploration of cookbooks.
Catherine
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