KNFB Reader

A note on price: I know that the audience of accessibility apps are small and thus you need a higher price, but please consider lowering the price for the sake of humanity. Also, if you lower the price and integrate a few consumer friendly features, eg, saving the sound to a file, you can target the app to a wider audience. I think the 20$ first day price was perfect.

This program cannot read its own scans. It will read scans from Microsoft fax & scan.

Ok, at $19.99 for a limited time, I’ve very impressed and even at $99 for the regular price with a $100 Canon LIDE 210 flat bed scanner, this would be a very good alternative for an average user needing basic OCR scan and read. I tested this with a Canon LIDE 210 flat bed Canon scanner and the internal HP web cam on my HP laptop. The scanner accuracy and speed was very good with comparable speed and accuracy with OpenBook. With the WebCam, I found good results without needing the scanner but positioning the page to be scanned was difficult and my webcam has no flash. This would be likely a better option on a Surface Pro or Windows phone with a flash. This would be ideal for our casual user with a L.D. or Visual Disability needing easy OCR using Windows 10. I’ve long used the KNFB Reader on the iPhone with very good results. Users needing advanced tools and features would still possibly need either the full Kurzweil or OpenBook programs but KNFB reader is a much cheaper alternative.