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Subject:
Another really cool app for the IPhone!
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"Jody W. Ianuzzi" <[log in to unmask]>
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Jody W. Ianuzzi
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Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:21:10 -0400
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>coming to app store and it sounds fantastic. Hi 
>everyone, I wrote to the developer of Doc 
>Scanner yesterday to suggest they look into a 
>specifically designed for visually impaired 
>people app for OCR and I got the best response 
>ever back from them. What a company. Jussi 
>Forsstrom, Jun 24 09:47 (EEST): Hi Andy! Thank 
>you so much for your message. We are very 
>pleased to hear your thoughts and really 
>appreciate it! 
It's almost ironic that you 
>contacted us now about using DocScanner as a 
>reading tool, as we are just launching an app 
>called SayText. 
SayText is an app designed 
>especially for the visually impaired and by the 
>way, it's free! In a few words to describe it's 
>use, you need to place the iPhone on the center 
>of a document. There's a big button for starting 
>the tool, tap it. 
Slowly elevate the iPohne 
>upwards from the document until you hear an beep 
>sound - this indicates, that the document is now 
>fully in frame and the camera will shoot 
>automatically, when the picture is stable / 
>focused. 
Now only thing you have to do, is to 
>wait for a while (You can tap the screen to hear 
>the OCR progress, e.g. OCR 35%). 
When the OCR 
>is ready you can start the voiceover to read the 
>document out loud. The app should come to 
>Appstore in a week or so. We're happy to give 
>you more info about SayText. There is a website 
>for SayText: 
>
http://www.docscannerapp.com/saytext/ There's 
>also a video, where Mr. Heikki Ekola, totally 
>blind person uses it. He's representing the 
>Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired - 
>You can find the video here: 
>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlWJF27IdX4 
>This video is also at the SayText homepage. We 
>hope you'll find this app useful and if so, 
>please tell to your friends about it! Your's 
>sincerely, 
Jussi Forsström 
Norfello Oy -- 


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