[Electronics-Talk] Orcam

[Tracy Carcione]

I think that is true.
Tracy

> In the past, it was not possible with the Orcam to save what you were able
> to read. Is that still true?
>
> Louis Gosselin
>
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> 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
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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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