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, Seven of Nine is trivial sublime. To read about injustice, please visit. http://www.stormbringer.tv/info/story1.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "John J. Boyer" <director@xxxxxxxx> To: <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > 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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list