Karin Nero from OrCam is on hand to describe the benefits of using this OCR product. It comes in two models, the Read, and My Eye.
The Read is about the size of a pen, and is easily operated by hand. Just point at where the text is located and with one click it begins reading menus, magazines, books and even currency.
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the My Eye can be clipped onto any eyeglass frame. Again, with one click the device begins to OCR any text the wearer is lookinng at.With a smart reader feature is easy to search the page for particular items.
a new feature is coming soon to describe the wearer’s environment that is just in front of them.he can snap a picture, and have the immediate seen described. In addition, follow-up questions could be asked for details about the scene.
a new device will be on the market soon that will allow OCR images to be uploaded to a computer.
veterans in attendance have the opportunity to ask questions about using the devices, and onboard apps.
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active-duty Marine Corps. Missouri air National Guard.
Hillsboro, Illinois
Keith was a sergeant of an infantry platoon, and for a short time acting platoon commander. In the air National Guard, he was an air traffic control radar maintenance man. While never seeing combat himself, he personally trained many who went to serve in that role.
In preparing for his career in the Air National Guard, Keith was honor grad at his tech school. A similar level of certification that would equate to a two-year degree in electronic technology. On his way to completing retirement, he reached a proficiency as a seven level and his military occupation specialty. His service was cut short due to blindness. After a long and difficult battle, he was finally able to be rated as service-connected.
Keith is a member of the BVA, as well as County and statewide groups that advocate for blind people. Namely, the Madison County Association of the blind, and the Illinois Council of the blind.
Relying on his technical skills learned in the military, he taught himself how to code in HTML, JavaScript and to some degree in PHP. He keeps busy by developing websites in his own server space, as well as being active in podcast production.
Keith has also been proficient in using most common operating systems. Including Windows, Macintosh, iOS, Lennix and UNIX systems.