Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> writes:
> Martin was just sense-of-wondering at modern technology. I'm
> guessing his eventual project will snap frames for OCR on
> demand, then send the output through a braille terminal or
> a speech synthesizer.
Our messages basically crossed due to the time lag here
between fetches of mail from our ISP but you said it much better
than I did.
I have no idea at all what this project is going to look
like when it is done but it will be something like what you
describe. Snap a picture. Try to evaluate it as quickly as
possible. Snap another and soforth.
The ideal solution would make the person using it feel like
he or she is on a serial console without this layer of complexity
and is simply interacting with the screen.
The reality is that it will more likely feel like what it
is, a work-around that barely solves the problem, better than
nothing but not much.
If it lets me reconfigure the occasional wayward BIOS on
an old system without having to bother my dear wife or a friend,
I will call it good enough. If we let perfect kill good enough,
nothing ends up getting done.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
I will have been WB5AGZ for 50 years in October.
