[macvoiceover] Fwd: [VICUG-L] Another really cool app for the IPhone!
- From: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:29:17 -0400
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From: "Jody W. Ianuzzi" <jody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 24, 2010 8:21:10 PM EDT
To: VICUG-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [VICUG-L] Another really cool app for the IPhone!
Reply-To: "Jody W. Ianuzzi" <jody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> coming to app store and it sounds fantastic. Hi
> everyone, I wrote to the developer of Doc
> Scanner yesterday to suggest they look into a
> specifically designed for visually impaired
> people app for OCR and I got the best response
> ever back from them. What a company. Jussi
> Forsstrom, Jun 24 09:47 (EEST): Hi Andy! Thank
> you so much for your message. We are very
> pleased to hear your thoughts and really
> appreciate it! 
It's almost ironic that you
> contacted us now about using DocScanner as a
> reading tool, as we are just launching an app
> called SayText. 
SayText is an app designed
> especially for the visually impaired and by the
> way, it's free! In a few words to describe it's
> use, you need to place the iPhone on the center
> of a document. There's a big button for starting
> the tool, tap it. 
Slowly elevate the iPohne
> upwards from the document until you hear an beep
> sound - this indicates, that the document is now
> fully in frame and the camera will shoot
> automatically, when the picture is stable /
> focused. 
Now only thing you have to do, is to
> wait for a while (You can tap the screen to hear
> the OCR progress, e.g. OCR 35%). 
When the OCR
> is ready you can start the voiceover to read the
> document out loud. The app should come to
> Appstore in a week or so. We're happy to give
> you more info about SayText. There is a website
> for SayText:
> 
http://www.docscannerapp.com/saytext/ There's
> also a video, where Mr. Heikki Ekola, totally
> blind person uses it. He's representing the
> Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired -
> You can find the video here:
> 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlWJF27IdX4
> This video is also at the SayText homepage. We
> hope you'll find this app useful and if so,
> please tell to your friends about it! Your's
> sincerely, 
Jussi Forsström 
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