[access-uk] Re: ReCapture.
- From: "Peter Beasley" <pjbeasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:26:18 +0100
Use firefox and webvisum and your problem is solved.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Howard" <colin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <colin@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:33 AM
Subject: [access-uk] ReCapture.
Greetings,
I have just listened, via the good offices of Paul david, to a program from
The voice of America entitled Our World, it is a science magazine and this
one is dated 16 August, 2008. If you want to hear it, the link for The
Voice of america is:
http://www.voa.com
I heard what may turn out to be a damp squib but this could be serious for
us accessing web sites where capture graphics are used.
The article introduced the capture idea explaining how it works and somebody
has calculated that it takes around ten seconds to enter the string from the
graphic, which, as this is entered by many many each day, why not make use
of the fact that humans can more easily recognize graphics as words than can
data systems? The idea has been trialed to make this what is considered
wasted time, work.
The idea is that as many old books are being digitized nowadays, knowing
that no matter how good, often ocr software struggles with some words, why
not include one of these in a capture string? So, if this idea takes off in
a big way, a capture may consist of two graphics - one a word which a human
is likely to know, the other, an unrecogniseable word from a book being
digitized. The idea is that, if several users agree on what the second word
is, that word becomes accepted into the book.
Now, think what this could mean. Not only would a person have to enter one
graphic, but two and there could be no way in which the second could have an
audio feed.
Maybe the second could be a guess, in that case, an audio feed might not be
necessary but I suspect if (say) the word looked a bit like "Uganda" and the
blind person typed "extreme" which looks nothing like "Uganda" maybe the
software would be intelligent enough to realize the pattern looked totally
unlike the graphic.
Unless the audio is not required and a totally different word could be used,
this will cause many problems for us.
From Colin Howard near Southampton in Southern England.
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