[vicsireland] Re: another interestingIPhone application
- From: Donal Fitzpatrick <dfitzpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:02:56 +0100
Yup certainly looks interesting doesn't it? Just one warning though. The
current camera isn't wonderful in terms of either resolution or indeed flash.
Therefore, the 3gs version of the iPhone might, just might have difficulties
with this task. However, with the improved camera in iPhone 4 it might go some
way to alleviating this situation, only time will tell.
On 24 Jun 2010, at 22:24, Joan Ann Brosnan wrote:
> Hi all
> I came across this on another list and thought some might find it
> interesting. Talk of these applications is making my decision about what new
> phone to buy much easier.
>
> 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 iPhohne upwards from the document until you
> hear a 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.
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