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susan,
the problem with such a device would be that if you're totally
blind, you would not have any way of tracking this device
accurately over lines of text.

We havn't tried it, for that reason.

I rather doubt it would have the accuracy of modern OCR packages
because they use large samples of print to recognize fonts etc.
This thing must work on an almost letter by letter basis.

It might be of use for folks with enough vision to track it
accurattely but who don't have the resolution to read small
print.

tom Fowle


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