[access-uk] Re: The SiRecogniser
- From: "Ankers, Dave (UK)" <Dave.Ankers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:50:40 -0000
Steve,
Thanks for the info, I've seen the SiRecognizer in action at sight
village, last year, and very good it was too.
Personally I'd wait for when the SiRecognizer is available incorporated
into a mobile phone, as I'm sure it will.
I can remember when B & T of T & T did a test of one of these systems,
using a digital camera. A complete waste of time it was. Then B & T of
T & T, looked at the SiRecognizer at sight village and were very
impressed too.
So keep us informed when that nice Italian chap has a SiRecognizer
equipped mobile phone, then I might get my wallet out.
Cheers
Dave
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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