[Electronics-talk] Barcode scanner or app

Sat Apr 13 01:00:29 UTC 2013

The bar code scanner can not tell you the right price as the store sets the 
price, the manufacturer makes the product and will not know what the store 
will charge for an item.
The bar code can tell you who made the item, what it is made of, such as 
ingredients, nutricanal values, salt, fat, sugar, calories and even cooking 
instructions and warnings for use.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Bloodsaw" <lbloodsaw2018 at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 8:09 PM
Subject: [Electronics-talk] Barcode scanner or app
The store will tell you their price at the check out.The bar codes are 
listed in the Standard Brands Bar Code Syatem.

David Evans, NFBF and GD Jack.

> Will a barcode scanner tell me the price of a food item in the store?  or 
> will I hear the name of the product only?
>
> On Apr 12, 2013, at 7:58 PM, "Walter Cone" <walt.cone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The hardest thing is to find the bar code.  There is no standard for 
>> where the bar code is so you have to hunt for it.  You need to have the 
>> camera a certain distance from the can or package you are scanning but it 
>> will work for you.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Comcast e-mail
>> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 6:17 PM
>> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device
>>
>> I was going off of what I understood through my own experiences. I 
>> watched a friend hunt for a bar coad scanning app for a good month or so 
>> it seemed without luck. As for the GPS, I went off of what I know. I'm 
>> sure that updates have taken place that I don't know about so I 
>> appriciate the news!
>> Fortunently for me, my friends and I are starting a local group that 
>> discusses Apple products, the latest apps, the latest news and everything 
>> and anything to do with any product that is made from Apple. I'll have to 
>> check out the apps that you listed for myself and be on more of the same 
>> page as you are.
>> Kendra
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>> From: "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov>
>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 9:13 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device
>>
>>
>>> Kendra,
>>>
>>> Some of what you say is simply not true.
>>>
>>> There are many blind people who are successfully using their iPhone
>>> for OCR, color identification, and scanning bar codes. Apps being used
>>> by blind folks for OCR include Say text, Text Detective, and Prizmo.
>>> There is an app called Color Visor that does a fair job of color
>>> identification, and an app called Digit-Eyes that will read bar code
>>> info. Using the iPhone for tasks like OCR presents some of the same
>>> issues that are presented by using the KNFB Reader, namely, holding
>>> the device at the precise distance and angle required to get a good
>>> picture. There is a new product called the Standscan that has been
>>> designed to address this problem. It is basically a box with one side
>>> open. You place your iPhone or whichever device that you use for this
>>> purpose on the top. There is a hole that lines up with the camera lens
>>> on the device. The device sits about 12 inches above the bottom of the
>>> box. You slide the reading material into the bottom of the box. The
>>> Pro model has built in LED lights that are powered by either batteries
>>> or a AC adapter is included. After placing the device and the reading
>>> material in their places, you launch the OCR app and follow its
>>> instructions to take the picture. The Standscan Pro costs about $30. I
>>> have both an iPhone 5 and a KNFB reader, and find the results of scans 
>>> to be about equal.
>>> As for GPS, at this time there is no accessible solution that gives
>>> you all of the capabilities of a product like Sendero for the
>>> Braillenote, but this will soon change, as Sendero will soon be
>>> releasing a product for the iPhone. But if all you need is information
>>> about where you are and what is around you, there is a plethora of
>>> free or very inexpensive apps that provide this info.
>>>
>>> Kendra, I am curious as to whether or not your comments come from your
>>> own experience, or what someone told you.  In any event, the
>>> information you imparted in your post is wrong, and could give someone
>>> the wrong idea about the capabilities of the iPhone.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Kendra Schaber
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:10 PM
>>> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
>>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device
>>>
>>> There are no accessable scanning apps for blind people that I know of.
>>> The best GPS app is called GPS Drive. There are no good bar coad
>>> reading apps that I know of. I also don't know of a good color app. I
>>> do know of a good object identafier app called Tap Tap See which if
>>> you take a picture, it tells you what you got for a picture. The
>>> object of this app is to help you find objects around the house or
>>> while you are in a place that doesn't allow you to explore in other ways 
>>> besides site.
>>> Kendra
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
>>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 6:23 PM
>>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> For those of you using an I device, which free aps do you find helpful?
>>>> Are there aps for scanning, bar code recognition, and color
>>>> identification?
>>>> How about GPS aps?
>>>>
>>>> I’m asking because I intern in a section 508 office and they want to
>>>> do an outreach session on accessible aps for disabled people. This
>>>> includes blindness and two other disabilities.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Ashley
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