Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wdl1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hpda!fortune!wdl1!jbn From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.wanted Subject: Re: character recognition from bit image Message-ID: <661@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 01:26:00 EDT Article-I.D.: wdl1.661 Posted: Fri Aug 23 01:26:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 13:17:16 EDT Sender: notes@wdl1.UUCP Organization: Ford Aerospace, Western Development Laboratories Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #R:cybavax:-13800:wdl1:5900020:000:399 Nf-From: wdl1!jbn Aug 20 17:02:00 1985 Oberon Associates makes a device much like this for the IBM PC; it's only $400 and appears to work OK, but it needs to be visually aligned on the line of text. Character recognition software is provided. There is a good reading machine for the blind from Kurtzweil, developed about ten years ago. Original versions ran about $20K, but the price must be down by now. John Nagle