{"id":2340,"date":"2014-03-25T14:21:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T18:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2014-03-25T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T18:33:03","slug":"a-new-kind-of-book-reader-32514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2340","title":{"rendered":"A new kind of book reader, 3\/25\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A new kind of book reader<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><em>Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the recent CSUN conference in San Diego, Hims Inc. previewed the next step in the evolution of their BookSense readers.\u00a0 The Blaze EZ, which will be released later this year, has all of the traditional features of the digital book readers we know and love but adds access to one important new book format\u2014print.<\/p>\n<p>Through the use of a built-in camera and OCR (Optical character Recognition), the Blaze EZ becomes a mobile solution for reading printed documents aloud.<\/p>\n<p>At MDTAP, we often receive calls asking about various portable OCR solutions.\u00a0 At the moment there are few good answers.\u00a0 The Simbian platform on which the KNFB Mobile package ran is no longer available.\u00a0 This was a great tool and it has left us without a good answer.\u00a0 The Intel Reader makes an attempt, but falls short.\u00a0 Early returns indicate Hims may be on the right track with the Blaze EZ.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing and availability have yet to be announced.\u00a0 We expect to know all of the details soon, and when it is available, we will tell you all about it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2340\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new kind of book reader Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP At the recent CSUN conference in San Diego, Hims Inc. previewed the next step in the evolution of their BookSense readers.\u00a0 The Blaze EZ, which will be released later this year, has all of the traditional features of the digital book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}