Re: Optical Character Recognition

James Jolley wrote:
On 2008-10-11 19:12:49 +0100, Rob

That does look impressive.

But, and without wishing to sound mean - over £1100 for the software alone? Is there any concession or government funding for visually impaired people?

There is "access to work" but as I don't work myself I am not entitled to this. I got what they call the "classic reader" wich is a standard PDA with a camera attached to the bottom of it. It's not the mobile phone version they have now. I refused to buy it on principle as I felt that the company are robbing the blind. When I got the reader last year, this new one came out a year on and we were told that they were dropping support for the one I had. anyone with sense would put the company down as rogues and leave well alone. In any case, the reader classic is the same OCR, just not in a mobile that I probably wouldn't use anyway. I'm not really a mobile phone person.



I had a look at their (sightandsound) site. I'd estimate their computers are three times the price of a Dell equivalent. I'd be a little more assured if there was *anything* on their support pages. But there isn't so I'm not.

I'm afraid/ashamed that I know very little about this, but our university seems to provide quite extensive support to students with disabilities. A dyslexic student I tutored last year got (given to keep) a computer, printer, dictaphone - completely useless of course because no one told her how to use any of it, and most of my time was spent trying to support the technology, rather than the student. Hopefully that was a one-off.

My point is that enrolling on a course may give you and others access to quite a range of resources. And of course the education discount on Macs :-)

Rob
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