After buying various assistive technology in my quite short life I go with the KNFB Reader. There are other contendors like colour detectors, GPS systems, the Mac with Voice Over built in but in my view the KNFB Reader seems to live up to much of its hype. Now I have had it over a year and am very used to taking a picture getting the distance and aim just about right most of the time it seems a reliable reader both at home and on the move. Like others on this list who own one I don't work but still find it useful for menus, checking letters before I bother to go to the PC and scan them, product boxes and more. I still take help when its there but its nice to know you have a decent OCR package in your pocket. Very unusual for assistive technology, pocket sized actually means it will fit into a standard pocket and not a giants!
At 14:52 23/06/2009, you wrote:
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