[access-uk] Re: Are CCTVs that useful?
- From: "Colin @ New Vision" <cph.newvision@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:42:26 +0100
Hi Tristam
The product you are referring to is just under £3300.
There is also a product called LiveReader, a CCTV based on a digital camera
that takes a photo of the page. Then uses OCR to speak back the contents. It
also uses touch screen technology to access all the controls and features,
as you might have guessed at a price.
I heard at Sight Village that you are not going to get much change from
£6000.
Regards
Colin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tris-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 12:21 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Are CCTVs that useful?
> Hi Ray
>
> "One company has, of course, amalgamated a CCD camera with reformatting of
> text and auto-scrolling, which could be a decided advantage. As usual,
this
> comes at a price, a whapping price £3,000 I think... but I could foresee
> AISquared building in image capture to
> Zoomtext. In fact, they've been threatening to do just that for years,
>
> If you were in an office where you contstantly had to deal with large
> amounts of print, possibly doing copy typing then the cost would be more
> justified. As to Ai Squared and similar hybrid CCTVs you are correct,
there
> has been no windows counterpard to Visability or BreaTech's CloseUP
> software, both which ran in DOS and were CCTV type replacements. The
latter
> used OCR to reformat text for you.
>
> Regards.
>
> Tristram Llewellyn
> Sight and Sound Technology
> Technical Support
> www.sightandsound.co.uk
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