KNFB helps blind people "see" text, and the app sells for less than half the cost of traditional devices.
Release date: 2014-09-24 Scanning readers for the blind are nothing new, but these readers are priced between $250 and $1,500. But now the Massachusetts company has developed an app for iOS devices that can detect and read text at a relatively low price of only $99. The KNFB reading app is able to scan text, even images, and automatically convert it to speech. At the same time, the app can also translate text into English, French, German, Danish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swiss and Norwegian. The app can be used on iPhone 5 or newer devices and runs on iOS 7 and above. Once it detects that the text is in the best position, the app will take a photo and the photo will be instantly converted to speech. The app also converts images into document input text and stores them to Google Drive or Dropbox. In addition, the KNFB reading app is compatible with all point-and-click displays supported by VoiceOver on iOS. At the same time, the app does not need to be networked, which means it can be used in airplane mode. The app was developed by the International Blind Union in collaboration with Google employee futurist Ray Kurzweil. The Sensotec company in Belgium is also involved in research and development. Kurzweil said that the app will launch the Android version next month, and he is developing a version for Google Glass. Source: Kexun Medical Network Hunan Kangfutai Medical Devices Co., Ltd. , https://www.3kfut.com
When the user wants to read the text, they hold the device on the book page, the advertisement or the shop window, and the app scans the text. If the app does not detect any problems or the location is incorrect, it will prompt the user to move the phone or book while instructing the user to read.
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