[access-uk] Re: The SiRecogniser
- From: "Gary Robinson" <gary.r@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 00:15:54 -0000
Hi Steve,
interesting, the one thing that wasn't mentioned about the KNFB reader was it's
ability or not to read displays.
You don't say how much the Sirerecognizer is, do you know and is there a web
site for it?
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Nutt
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:39 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: The SiRecogniser
Hi Jackie,
The difference between KNFB and SiRecognizer, it seems to me, is that
SiRecognizer does more with objects. For example, KNFB will read papers,
bills, labels, etc, as you say, but it has no settings that I know of for
reading tins, jars, packets, digital displays, etc. Let me try to explain.
If I scan a tin, and it reads some of the text, but not all of it, with KNFB,
I would presumably have to swivel the tin and try again. That would be the
only option.
With Recognizer, I could certainly do that, but if it doesn't get the text, I
can hit the "Cylinder" button, and it would rotate the image it had already
scanned until it got some text. It is not always perfect, but you have the
option.
Again, if I am scanning a digital display, and I don't get good results, I
just hit the "Display" button, and it optimises the scan for digital displays
and rescans the image.
Finally, it has something called Steps. This is all this stuff put together.
You can have Recognizer automatically go through the steps one at a time, or
you can hit the steps button and go through one step, evaluate the results,
then go through step 2, etc. It has nine different steps from rotating the
image, to converting it to black/white, etc, to obtain results.
You also have control of the flash on the camera, you can turn it on and off,
if you know the lighting conditions.
In short then, from what I have gathered about KNFB, and I certainly don't
have one, so Jackie please correct me if I am wrong, you don't have so much
control over the processing of the image, as you do with SiRecognizer. Yes,
you can use SiRecognizer just like KNFB, and just scan stuff, but once you get
to know it, the steps and the different methods of analysis of the image,
really do come in handy.
Finally, because SiRecognizer is similar to KNFB on the PDA, except that the
camera is not attached, as cameras get better, it is easy to just change the
camera for a better one, without having to live without SiRecognizer by sending
it back for an upgrade. The camera is just a USB device. The down side to it
is that there is the wire between the two units.
I hope this helps.
All the best
Steve
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jackie Cairns
Sent: Monday 4 February 2008 10:36
To: Access UK Mailing List
Subject: [access-uk] The SiRecogniser
I am directing this message at Steve, who I understand is the dealer for the
alternative portable reader, the SiRecogniser.
Steve old boy, could you please give us some information about this machine
as an alternative to the K-NFB Reader and soon-to-be launched phone version?
Like many, no doubt, I know nothing about the SiRecogniser, except that it can
read displays etc as well as printed text.
I thought that rather than Emailing you privately for information, it would
be nice to share some stuff about it with the list as a whole since this has
been an interesting topic for several days, and making it a level playing field.
Thanks.
Jackie
Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx
Skype Name: Cairnsplace
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