[Nfbf-l] Another really cool app for the IPhone!

[Kirk]

Thanks  for the information  Jodie, It sounds  great! Kirk
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jody W. Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
To: "'NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List'" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:36 PM
Subject: [Nfbf-l] Another really cool app for the IPhone!



>coming to app store and it sounds fantastic. Hi
>everyone, I wrote to the developer of Doc
>Scanner yesterday to suggest they look into a
>specifically designed for visually impaired
>people app for OCR and I got the best response
>ever back from them. What a company. Jussi
>Forsstrom, Jun 24 09:47 (EEST): Hi Andy! Thank
>you so much for your message. We are very
>pleased to hear your thoughts and really
>appreciate it! 
It's almost ironic that you
>contacted us now about using DocScanner as a
>reading tool, as we are just launching an app
>called SayText. 
SayText is an app designed
>especially for the visually impaired and by the
>way, it's free! In a few words to describe it's
>use, you need to place the iPhone on the center
>of a document. There's a big button for starting
>the tool, tap it. 
Slowly elevate the iPohne
>upwards from the document until you hear an beep
>sound - this indicates, that the document is now
>fully in frame and the camera will shoot
>automatically, when the picture is stable /
>focused. 
Now only thing you have to do, is to
>wait for a while (You can tap the screen to hear
>the OCR progress, e.g. OCR 35%). 
When the OCR
>is ready you can start the voiceover to read the
>document out loud. The app should come to
>Appstore in a week or so. We're happy to give
>you more info about SayText. There is a website
>for SayText:
>
http://www.docscannerapp.com/saytext/ There's
>also a video, where Mr. Heikki Ekola, totally
>blind person uses it. He's representing the
>Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired -
>You can find the video here:
>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlWJF27IdX4
>This video is also at the SayText homepage. We
>hope you'll find this app useful and if so,
>please tell to your friends about it! Your's
>sincerely, 
Jussi Forsström 
Norfello Oy -- 



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