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. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:21:29 -0800 From: Oliver D. Iberien <oliver.iberien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: jocr-devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxx The website is http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/intouch.shtml. Oliver ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Jocr-devels mailing list Jocr-devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jocr-devels _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list