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Systems Study of a Dial-Up Text Reading Service for the Blind

by Munson, John H.

Technical Note 67
Institution: AI Center, SRI International
Address: 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025
May 1972.

Note: Paper submitted for presentation to the 1972 ACM National Conference, Boston, Aug 14-16, 1972. Research supported by the National Institutes of Health grant 5R01EY00450-02.

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Abstract

This paper describes a feasibility study of a system that could allow blind persons access on demand to the printed page. A portable, user controlled scanner, based on the Optacon direct-translation reading aid, would collect image information for presentation to a computer.

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