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A demonstration of the iCARE portable reader

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Terri Hedgpeth,

John A. Black, Jr.,

Sethuraman PanchanathanAuthors Info & Claims

Assets '06: Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

Pages 279 - 280

https://doi.org/10.1145/1168987.1169054

Published: 23 October 2006 Publication History

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This demonstration will show the features and function of the portable iCARE Reader device, which allows people who are blind or visually impaired to read books (and other forms of printed text) in a more natural and convenient way than current tabletop flatbed scanner systems.

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