Yes, all of this money to spend on flimsy poorly-designed four-track tape
recorders and cd book players that cost three or four times as much as
something you can buy on the open market just to play books in proprietary
formats. Not to mention screen access software that costs more than many
desktop computers that it would run on.
Okay, I could go on, but I imagine most people here have the picture
already.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Belville" <lisab12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 2:53 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Kind of OT, Question about new OCR Technology
Hi, Monica.
Thanks for the information.
I can understand why developing technology to recognize handwriting is so problematic. I don't think my signature looks the same from signing to signing, so having something do this accurately is no easy task. There's probably not that vast variation with numerals, though, and there's probably a data base somewhere with every possible street number/city and state combination for the software to consider.
Of course it will be expensive. Blind people just have all of this money we're just itching to spend on adaptive stuff
. <sarcastic laugh>
Lisa
----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:26 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Kind of OT, Question about new OCR Technology
Hi, Lisa. The U.S. Postal Service has been developing this kind of software, and they have made a lot of progress with the technology. However, they are scanning addresses and such, not page upon page of handwriting. I do know that they use scanners made my AGFA, a company that provides scanning solutions to large corporations. That is as far as my knowledge goes except to say that this new technology probably has a pretty hefty price tag.
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At Friday 6/2/2006 07:29 AM, you wrote:Hi, all.
I honestly can't remember if I've posed this question on list before. If so, my apologies.
A friend of mine said someone told her about new scanning products being developed that will have some ability to recognize handwriting.
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