[nfbcs] Optacon thoughts

[Dale HELTZER]

It's amazing to me that such a relatively simple, useful tool hasn't been
resurrected. I would buy it in a heartbeat.


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Dale E. Heltzer
deheltzer at msn.com


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Subject: [nfbcs] Optacon thoughts

So I was helping a low-vision student this morning learn to use a desktop
magnifier (VisioBook) to get her math homework done. I pulled out my old
Optacon to insure I'd picked a representative page from the book and that I
had it correctly oriented.

I taught myself Optacon so I'm not that good at it. But it got me thinking:
nobody's ever came out with a modern Optacon; something that turns a camera
image in to a tactile display that the user will OCR with his own brain
power. Or at least, I don't think such a gizmo exists.

It's rather sad, really.

--Debee

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