[Ohio-talk] OCR Workshop

[mzavoli at roadrunner.com]

Greetings Friends,

Are you in the market for an OCR reader and don't know which one to choose?  Do you want to learn its operations?  Then attend a free, remote-learning workshop hosted by the Andrew Heiskell Library for the Blind in New York City.  Please read on for more details!

Accessing Print with OCR: a workshop by Dennis Farro 
 
Thursday, May 2, 1:30 PM ? 3:30 PM 
 
To register in person or via Google Hangouts, email 
ChanceyFleet at nypl.org
 
or leave a message at (212) 621-0627. 
 
This workshop will provide an overview of the three main categories of 
optical character recognition available to the blind community today. The 
technology 
 
behind OCR will be briefly explained followed by a demonstration of three 
representative examples of scanning solutions. A stand-alone device, the 
SARA 
 
CE, a scanning software program, Kurzweill 1000, and several mobile 
scanning apps including KNFB Reader and Office Lens will be discussed and 
demonstrated. 
 
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Chancey S. Fleet 
Assistive Technology Coordinator 
Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library 
(212) 621-0627 
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Milena Zavoli