Hi Fernando and All,
OCR using a camera puts much higher demands on
the OCR software than when using a flatbed scanner,
to correct for perspective distortion, non-perfect
focus, non-standard and non-uniform lighting, and
so on and so forth. You can read more about this
on the web page
Mobile OCR for the Blind
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/ocr.htm
The vOICe software already offers - for free - much
of the functionality that the P2RD is supposed to
provide when it comes out, but both will be limited
by the recognition quality of the (third-party) OCR
engines. In case you try The vOICe's OCR support,
set your screen display to 24 bit or 32 bit color
(Control Panel | Display | Settings tab), because
there is a known issue with JPEG image generation
in a 16 bit (or less) display mode that we are
currently looking into.
Best regards,
Peter Meijer
Seeing with Sound - The vOICe
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/winvoice.htm
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