OrCam MyEye Pro - The Most Advanced Wearable Assistive Device for The Blind and Visually Impaired. Featuring Smart Reading, Face Recognition, Color & Product Identification, Orientation (beta) & More

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It has a camera, a speaker and a cable that hooks up to a bigger device that is roughly the size of a smartphone. You cannot scan ahead in a book as you listen to previous pages, or save your scanned text to a computer or other device. Please Note: OrCam devices require the user to have control of their head and hands and be able to hear (with or without a hearing device). You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Boyd uses a speech-enabled iPad and Kindle, but she usually prefers to use her OrCam MyEye to review the screens.

When people around you notice, I can promise you that they're only interested because you're doing tasks that they didn't know were possible. Per the company, the device uses “highly accurate” optical character recognition (OCR) software to capture and read aloud printed or digital text from any surface.

Using AI technology, it instantly and discreetly reads printed and digital text aloud from any surface, recognizes faces, products, money notes and more, all in real time.

OrCam tended to fail in poor light conditions, and there was way to know if the failure was caused by text not being included in the view or because the light was inadequate.It is my understanding that this feature is still very much in early testing, but perhaps others will find it useful in the future. Furthermore, in the current health crisis, OrCam Read can help low vision users stay safe, improve mental health and reduce social isolation. An AI-powered Summarization feature via an AI assistant can scan a sentence or full page of text to verbally provide a recap.

Using it is quite intuitive, as you just need to point your finger at what you’re looking at and wait a couple of seconds. Content on this site is not intended to substitute for advice given by medical practitioner, pharmacist, or other licensed health-care professional.

Although I like being able to identify money with OrCam, I find it much faster and less awkward to use the MoneyReader app in conjunction with my iPhone 8 Plus.