[Jocr-devels] gocr and the blind (fwd)

[hank]

they are expensive
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stoppard" <stoppard at ntlworld.com>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Jocr-devels] gocr and the blind (fwd)


> For give me for asking, but what is gocr?
>
> Something, optical chariter reader?
> I thought screen readers and braile displays were expensive every where
not
> just in the UK.
>
> Thanks,
> Nigel,
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John J. Boyer" <director at chpi.org>
> To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 2:14 PM
> Subject: [Jocr-devels] gocr and the blind (fwd)
>
>
> > Some of you might want to contact the BBC as suggested in this message.
I
> > might do so myself, but I don't have a scanner connected to my machine.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > --
> > John J. Boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer
> > Computers to Help People, Inc.
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> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:21:29 -0800
> > From: Oliver D. Iberien <oliver.iberien at mindspring.com>
> > To: jocr-devels at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Jocr-devels] gocr and the blind
> >
> > I was just listening to a BBC Radio 4 broadcast about the trouble the
> blind in
> > Britain have in locating books of any real quality to read. I wondered
why
> > they weren't simply using scanners, OCR, and braille displays and/or
> speech
> > synthesizers along with printed books. It turn out that the basic
software
> > sold to the blind is very expensive. This is $1000
> > (http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_news/nr_OB7S.asp), not including a
> > speech sythesizer. (It's thousands more for a braille display).
> >
> > It seems to me that someone could string something together using gocr,
or
> > similar, to give the blind affordable software and hence better access.
I
> > don't know if anyone is working on such a thing, but if so, you might
want
> to
> > contact the BBC broadcasters at intouch at bbc.co.uk. The website is
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/intouch.shtml.
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> >
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