[Electronics-Talk] Orcam

[mo]

I have also demoed an Orcam and I noticed that it is a lot easier and
quicker to perform OCR on a document due to the  wide angle  camera being
mounted in the middle of the glasses. All you have to do is hold the paper
out in front of you and it captures a near-perfect image.


On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 9:24 AM Ali via Electronics-Talk <
electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Thank you for this explanation. I saw a presentation in which
> Orcam was featured recently as well. I'm thinking of loaning one.
>
> Ali
>
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> From: Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk
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>
> I saw the Orcam yesterday.  It was pretty nice.
>
> Hold 2 fingers together, and that's about the length and width of
> the
> camera.  There used to be an extra processor, but now it's all in
> the
> camera.
>
> It attaches to a magnet that can clip onto any pair of glasses,
> on either
> side, depending on which hand is dominant.  There's a ridge that
> runs along
> the back of the camera that controls volume, and gives access to
> a menu that
> controls other settings.  The camera can also synch with
> Bluetooth
> headphones.
>
> You point at the thing you want the camera to read, and hold up
> your hand
> flat to pause it.  It read pretty well.  I had it read a very
> complicated
> menu.  It got a lot of one side, and not much of the other, but
> there was a
> lot of curly script and stuff on that side.  It read the shiny
> brochure the
> demonstrator had very well.
>
> The demo person said it can read labels, price tags, signs .
> whatever.  We
> didn't have most of those things to try.  It read a box well.  A
> can, not so
> much.  She said products we use often can be stored in memory, so
> it
> recognizes them quickly.  She also said, if you were in a grocery
> aisle
> looking at products, and it saw one that's in its memory, it
> would say it,
> and you could move around until you actually found it.
>
> There's 2 versions of the Orcam.  They both do all the things I
> just said.
>
> The fancier one, the Eye, also does color recognition.  That was
> pretty
> slow, compared to my Rainbow color detector.
>
> It also recognizes faces.  It always recognized the demonstrator,
> and would
> tell me when I looked in her direction.  We taught it to
> recognize Jerry,
> but it didn't recognize him so much.  There's a trick to teaching
> it, so
> maybe I did it wrong.  But, even when it didn't recognize him, it
> would say
> "There's a man in front of you."
>
>
>
> One or both models also read bar codes, but you have to point
> right at it,
> and that's just not happening.
>
> The one that is mostly for reading is $3500, and the Eye that
> does it all is
> $4500.
>
> Tracy
>
>
>
>
>
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