[Electronics-Talk] Orcam

[cheez]

I guess if it were perfect instead of near-perfect, the price would have 
been quadrupled for either version.

Vince

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>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
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk
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>> Date sent: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 11:06:04 -0400
>> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Orcam
>>
>> 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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