<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Albert..to add to the story. When I first got the digimemo and tried it out, then translated it and only got an inaccessible PDF image I was pretty disgusted, and that is putting it mildly....more research into this and I found the handwriting translation software. I installed it and when I copied that image and it made text and jaws talked it...I thought I had gone to heaven....it was and is that incredible. So the moral here is....make sure you get both--the tool AND the extra software--smile<br></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Brush Script MT';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:18pt;"><font color="#4040ff"> Denise </font></span></div><div><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Brush Script MT';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:18pt;"></span> </div><div>Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D.
<br>Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired<br>TechVision-Independent Contractor</div><div>Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training</div><div>509-674-1853 <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com"> deniserob@gmail.com</a></div><div> </div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/">http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/</a></div><div> </div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Albert J Rizzi <albert@myblindspot.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Professionals in Blindness Education
Division List' <pibe-division@nfbnet.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 23, 2011 4:15 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Pibe-division] Digital Handwritten Notes<br></font><br>Yes. print is print and cursive is cursive. So I am fascinated to learn that<br>this tool can interpret hand printed writing. Wow. <br><br>Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.<br>Founder<br>My Blind Spot, Inc.<br>90 Broad Street - 18th Fl.<br>New York, New York 10004<br>www.myblindspot.org<br>PH: 917-553-0347<br>Fax: 212-858-5759<br>"The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the one who is<br>doing it."<br><br><br>Visit us on Facebook LinkedIn<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org">pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org</a><br>[mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org"
href="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org">pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>] On Behalf Of Dr. Denise M.<br>Robinson<br>Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:20 PM<br>To: Professionals in Blindness Education Division List<br>Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] Digital Handwritten Notes<br><br>Albert<br>I need to be careful here, yes, hand written notes as in printed text. I did<br>try cursive, but it misses too many of the characters and does not translate<br>well...printing letters as in from the hand....did I do a better job of<br>explaining?--smile<br> <br> Denise <br> <br>Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. <br>Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired<br>TechVision-Independent Contractor<br>Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training<br>509-674-1853 <a ymailto="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com" href="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com">deniserob@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com"
href="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com">deniserob@gmail.com</a>> <br> <br><a href="http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/</a><br> <br><br><br> <br>________________________________<br><br> From: Albert J Rizzi <<a ymailto="mailto:albert@myblindspot.org" href="mailto:albert@myblindspot.org">albert@myblindspot.org</a>><br> To: 'Professionals in Blindness Education Division List'<br><<a ymailto="mailto:pibe-division@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:pibe-division@nfbnet.org">pibe-division@nfbnet.org</a>><br> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 2:25 PM<br> Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] Digital Handwritten Notes<br> <br> Denise,<br> <br> Not sure I am understanding you. when I saw it demonstrated it was<br>doing so<br> with printed
text. are you saying it can also do the same thing with<br>hand<br> written documents?<br> <br> Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.<br> Founder<br> My Blind Spot, Inc.<br> 90 Broad Street - 18th Fl.<br> New York, New York 10004<br> www.myblindspot.org<br> PH: 917-553-0347<br> Fax: 212-858-5759<br> "The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the one<br>who is<br> doing it."<br> <br> <br> Visit us on Facebook LinkedIn<br> <br> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: <a ymailto="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org"
href="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org">pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org</a><br> [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org">pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>] On Behalf Of Dr. Denise M.<br> Robinson<br> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 5:16 PM<br> To: Professionals in Blindness Education Division List<br> Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] Digital Handwritten Notes<br> <br> Albert<br> Yes, I am so amazed at the accuracy too. I tried drawing pies and<br>other<br> graphs and though when you translate the handwriting into text it<br>will take<br> out the pictures, but the words are still there. If low vision, you<br>can get<br> a PDF image of it and enlarge for the low vision student, or
just<br>keep it on<br> the computer and they can enlarge it themselves...technology is<br>really a wow<br> thing<br> <br> Denise <br> <br> Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. <br> Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired<br> TechVision-Independent Contractor<br> Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training<br> 509-674-1853 <a ymailto="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com" href="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com">deniserob@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com" href="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com">deniserob@gmail.com</a>> <br> <br> <a href="http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/</a><br> <br>
<br> <br> <br> From: Albert J Rizzi <<a ymailto="mailto:albert@myblindspot.org" href="mailto:albert@myblindspot.org">albert@myblindspot.org</a>><br> To: 'Professionals in Blindness Education Division List'<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:pibe-division@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:pibe-division@nfbnet.org">pibe-division@nfbnet.org</a>><br> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:51 PM<br> Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] Digital Handwritten Notes<br> <br> Denise and all,<br> <br> I actually had a friend who uses this tool demonstrate the same<br>in<br> my<br> presence. It is
fantastic and very very precise. It is more<br>precise<br> then my<br> kursweil scanner. <br> <br> Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.<br> Founder<br> My Blind Spot, Inc.<br> 90 Broad Street - 18th Fl.<br> New York, New York 10004<br> www.myblindspot.org<br> PH: 917-553-0347<br> Fax: 212-858-5759<br> "The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the<br>one<br> who is<br> doing it."<br> <br> <br> Visit us on Facebook
LinkedIn<br> <br> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: <a ymailto="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org">pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org</a><br> [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org">pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>] On Behalf Of Dr.<br>Denise M.<br> Robinson<br> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 3:32 PM<br> To: Professionals in Blindness Education Division List<br> Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] Digital Handwritten Notes<br> <br> Ok Lori--there
is<br> The NFB-Kurzweil reader is the size of a phone because it is a<br>phone<br> but<br> also has a camera attached. You hold it over anything in print<br>about<br> your<br> elbow to arm length, take a picture and it will read the text to<br> you. I will<br> do a longer blog on this to more fully explain its capabilites <br> <br> Denise <br> <br> Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. <br> Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired<br> TechVision-Independent Contractor<br> Specialist in blind
programming/teaching/training<br> 509-674-1853 <a ymailto="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com" href="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com">deniserob@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com" href="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com">deniserob@gmail.com</a>><br><br> <br> <a href="http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> From: Zephyr <<a ymailto="mailto:twilight2@kconline.com" href="mailto:twilight2@kconline.com">twilight2@kconline.com</a>><br> To: Professionals in Blindness Education Division List<br>
<<a ymailto="mailto:pibe-division@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:pibe-division@nfbnet.org">pibe-division@nfbnet.org</a>><br> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:04 PM<br> Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] Digital Handwritten Notes<br> <br> <br> Wow! It's not Sci-fi any more?<br> <br> Now, I want an ap that can scan and read hand-writing. I can<br> always<br> hope there already something in existence that I am just in the<br>dark<br> about.<br> <br> Thanks for sharing the topics which
should be brought to the<br> attention of all blind students, families, and teachers and<br> administrators.<br> <br> <br> <br> ----- Original Message ----- <br> From: Dr. Denise M. Robinson<br> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:dmehlenbacher@yahoo.com" href="mailto:dmehlenbacher@yahoo.com">dmehlenbacher@yahoo.com</a>> <br> To: Professionals in Blindness Education Division List<br> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:pibe-division@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:pibe-division@nfbnet.org">pibe-division@nfbnet.org</a>> <br>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 2:44 PM<br> Subject: [Pibe-division] Digital Handwritten Notes<br> <br> <br> <br> Digital Handwritten Notes<br> <br> <br><<a href="http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/2011/09/digital-handwritten-notes.html" target="_blank">http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/2011/09/digital-handwritten-notes.html</a><br> > <br> <br> Digital Handwritten Notes. it sounds like an<br>oxymoron...kind<br> of like a hairy bald guy, but it is
here.<br> <br> The writing surface is about the size of a small piece<br>of<br> paper. The whole board is light and easy to carry and about the<br>size<br> of an<br> 8x11 piece of paper. It is a tiny computer and you can add more<br>RAM-<br> with a<br> memory card. <br> <br> The blind student can take the digital note-taking<br>device to<br> a class where the teacher is very driven by writing on the<br>board.<br> The blind<br> student hands it to a sighted student and she takes notes on
it.<br>At<br> the end<br> of class, the sighted student rips off the pages for themself<br>and<br> hands the<br> board back to the blind student. The blind student can then<br>download<br> all the<br> notes onto the computer. In tangent with this is a handwriting<br> recognition<br> tool, which translates the handwriting into digital text that<br> talking<br> software can read. Note taking made easy.<br> <br> This is the one I have been using and as long as the<br> handwritten notes are legible, the pad can read it to the<br>computer.<br>
SolidTek<br> DigiMemo 692 Digital Notepad with Memory by SolidTek<br> <br> <br><<a href="http://www.amazon.com/SolidTek-DigiMemo-692-Digital-Notepad/dp/B0009OD4CS/r" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/SolidTek-DigiMemo-692-Digital-Notepad/dp/B0009OD4CS/r</a><br> ef=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1316716386&sr=8-3> <br> <br> If you read this information in my blog,<br> <a href="http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/</a> you can just click on the<br> links and it<br> will take you directly to the product, or if you are using<br>talking<br>
software,<br> just bring up your links and you can go to the product. This is<br>true<br> for all<br> the information in the blog.<br> <br> <br> Denise <br> <br> Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. <br> Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired<br> TechVision-Independent Contractor<br> Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training<br>
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