[Njtechdiv] Orcam

[Jane Degenshein]

I agree with you Andy as I use seeing ai even more than the KNFB reader
It is quick and the product recognition is quite good but sometimes, I use 
short text for cans, bottles, or other info I need fast
woo hoo

From: Andy via Njtechdiv
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2018 11:18 AM
To: New Jersey Technology Division List
Cc: Andy ; Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
Subject: Re: [Njtechdiv] Orcam

Tracy, how does this differ from SeeingAI?  SeeingAI seems to be able to do 
most of this.  For instance, you can use its "Document" mode to read a menu, 
or perhaps the "Short Text" mode could be useful for this as well if you 
needed something specific.  I've used "Short Text," for instance, to read 
serial numbers, etc.

Similarly, there's also a "Person" mode, and "Color," etc.  It's also worth 
noting that SeeingAI is free for Android and iPhone users.




  On Oct 27, 2018, at 11:06 AM, Tracy Carcione via Njtechdiv 
<njtechdiv at nfbnet.org> wrote:

  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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