Category: accessible Devices
Hi, Have any of you used the Abisee EyePal? It's an ocr reading device and looks like a camera on two legs that form an L onto which you put your book. You had to install special software for it to run and it connects to a comoputer via usb. I tried installing the software onto multiple pcs one running vista, and one running seven. The scanning was slow and sluggish, and the program crashed very often. I spoke to tech support but they just told me to run it on a newer os, which I did but got the same results. The program seems to be very unstable. Eventually, I gave up on it, and now just get all my materials digitally off of bookshare or other book-giving sights.
Have any of you used this device?
What have beeen your experiences with it?
Matthew
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I saw a demo of the Eye Pal, and was pleased, but, not over-joyed. That camera stand looks a bit unwieldy and fragile. The feature set for the stand-alone Eye Pal is very limited, for the money. I'd much prefer an app that works with either a smartphone cam, or off-the-shelf hand-held cam.
Now that would be nice. I used the computer connected one though. I may get an Itouch soon, and they say there are OCR apps for it. I'm not sure though. Who knows.
Matthew