Tim Cranmer wrote:
> It would now be possible to use OCR programs to go
> directly from print to Braille,
I remember there was a device on the German market a few years ago called
the Delta Reading device. It came from France and was marketed over here
by Papenmayer, who in their usual "used cars sales manner" called it
something like the biggest revolution for blind people after the invention
of Braille.
The device was similar to an optacon, but instead of print characters You
got Braille characters under Your finger. I tried it out but wasn't to
good at it. One of its problems was, that unlike the Optacon, You did not
get any feedback on whether You held the camera properly or not. So if You
did not hold the camera straight enough, the device would not recognize
the letter and give You a question mark.
This is one of the reasons I never got one for myself. However, a friend
of mine had one. He did not use it for too long. One of the problems with
that device was that it was difficult to set it up to recognize text
properly. By the time he had figured out things like the size of the print
material and the like I had read at least half a page already with my
Optacon.
Maybe those problems could be eliminated with the technology as it is
available now. But I wanted to make show those problems are mentioned
here.
Best greetings,
Norbert.
-- Lieber eine 5 in Mathematik als gar keine persönliche Note!
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