[blindlaw] FW: KNFB READER, AnyoneUsingIt?

[denise avant]

Hello,
I have a knfb reader. Sometimes, when you go to conferences, there are
unexpected handouts that need to be read. If you had a reader, you could
snap the picture, and have it in real time along with your sighted
colleagues. 
If you're traveling to a hotel because of a conference, and don't have
sighted assistance in your room, you use the mobile reader to find out what
print materials are there.
These are job related activities. Why should you have to hunt down someone
to read to you on the spot if there is a portable solution that can help?
The braillenote, which I have is good, but it cannot substitute when you
need material read to you on the spot.


-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Roger Baccus
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 5:35 AM
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Cc: R B
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] KNFB READER, AnyoneUsingIt?

My counselor feels that it is a good thing to have. However, she does not 
see it as essential for my job. I can't come up with impelling reasons to 
justify it. I am sure that Although I don't possess OpenBook or equivalent, 
I do have access to scan material at work.

Here is the response from rehab.

***

Roger,



I appreciate your request for a KNFB Reader but I'm still not clear on what 
print would need to be read while you are at a conference or other venue. 
Would you be given new printed material without explanation?  Do you have a 
scanner and software (like Open Book) that you are using now at ULVA and/or 
at home to access printed material?  Also, if you are at a conference and 
given information (such as would be on a business card or brochure) could 
you keep it to scan at the office?  If someone is giving you information at 
a conference you can put it right into the MPower including contact names 
and phone numbers or you could save their business card to scan and save 
later at work right?  If you are listening to a presentation at a conference

you can record the notes in the MPower.  The hand-outs at conferences are 
usually the same information that is presented verbally and could be scanned

and saved when back at the office.  I agree that shopping without access to 
print is a little more challenging but we have to relate it to a work need. 
I'm trying to figure out if using the Mpower and existing equipment if you 
can find a way to accommodate.  Can you give me more explanation?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sarah Clark" <goldflash9 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] KNFB READER, AnyoneUsingIt?


> Hi Roger,
> The KNFB Reader is quite effective.  I have the mobile version, and 
> expected that it would be useful, but its accuracy surprised me.  In my 
> experience, at least in so far as reading letters and other similar 
> documents which contain paragraphs of text, it seems to be every bit as 
> accurate as the regular Kurzweil or Abbyy OCR software.  Soon after I 
> received it, I was reading something with it and my husband walked into 
> the room, overheard it reading, and was blown away on how well it had 
> recognized the text.  I've also used it to read receipts and check cooking

> directions on packages.
> Other than that, I haven't had much extensive use with it, so can't 
> comment on how it would handle tables and other things that are specially 
> formmatted.  But if its OCR with letters, etc is any indication, it would 
> seem that it would handle the specially formatted items as well as 
> Kursweil does.
>
> Sarah
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Roger Baccus" <rogerbaccus at gmail.com>
> To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:36 PM
> Subject: [blindlaw] KNFB READER, AnyoneUsingIt?
>
>
>> How effective is the KNFB Reader in everyday reading situations? I like 
>> it. How can I justify getting State Rehab to buy one?
>>
>>
>> http://www.rogerbaccus.com
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