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Seeing-Eye Computer Guides Blind

Posted by simoniker on from the jpegs-also-readable dept.

sushant_bhatia writes "Wired News has a story about seeing-eye computer guides for the blind. This is an interesting piece on efforts at Arizona State University and Wright State University to provide features for individuals who are blind. A very interesting project is called the iCare Reader, which allows any individual who is blind to read a normal library book through this product, which 'uses optical character-recognition software along with other software that compensates for different lighting conditions and orientations of the text.' Further details on this can be found at The Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (Cubic)."

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  1. Re:Wrong, imprecise blurb by slimsam1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    We should let you filter all of the comments on slashdot. It would get rid of all the useless crap. Oh, wait. Anyone who doesn't like useless crap shouldn't be here anyway! ;-)

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  2. Re:WHO IS GRAEME DEVINE? by graeme+devine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am Graeme Devine!

    I am most definitely whack!

    And I would have to say:
    You are on teh sp0ke!

    I developed the software at Guildhall.

    Please excuse my appearance. I try to look a bit, well, strange because I get taken more seriously at Linux / FOSS conferences if I do (Ive noticed FOSS people tend to take a negative attitude towards "normal" people).

    Honestly though, open source is a bit overrated. Its advocated by a lot of academics who have little experience in industry, but those of us in the "real world" realise that quite often the commercial alternatives are superior.

    Peace to all of you.