On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 07:11:55 -0700,
Brian Buhrow <buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org > wrote:
>Greetings and felicitations:
>I received the following note from a company called Cobblestone
>software. It asks the question: is bar coded information on paper
>something that the blind would find useful? Frankly, I don't
>really know. I would need time to think about it. But I thought
>that the idea was novel enough for others on this list to see;
If the software runs on a PC, I could probably try it out, since I
have both the 600 dpi laser printer and the 300 dpi scanner. I went
to www.cobblestone.com and got an empty web page. A Lycos search
turned up something related to Macintosh software, so maybe that's the
platform they use. I remember a local computer user magazine
distributing the BASIC source code for the Eliza program in the format
Jim Rebman describes. I have also recently read a journal article
where somebody proposes putting bar codes at the end of lines to be
used as a checksum and/or error-correcting information for OCR.
I really doubt that this will go into widespread use, but bar codes
are certainly being used more and more.
equipment.
-- Lloyd Rasmussen
Senior Staff Engineer, Engineering Section
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress 202-707-0535
(work) lras@loc.gov www.loc.gov/nls/
(home) lras@sprynet.com
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