KNFB Reader app<\/a>.\u00a0 Perhaps most importantly, iOS will no longer be the exclusive home to KNFB.\u00a0 In the near future, the Android app will also be available. This will, in effect, drive down the cost of a hand-held reading machine to just a bit more than the app itself.\u00a0 The significant cost of Apple\u2019s hardware will cease to be a barrier to reading printed text on the go.<\/p>\nBoth platforms will also gain a handy new feature.\u00a0 Under the \u201cProfile\u201d menu, the \u201cScan Stand\u201d\u00a0 option will allow you to scan multi-page documents by just switching pages, while the KNFB Reader sits happily on a scanning stand and snaps pictures when text is detected.\u00a0 In a quick test on my office desk this afternoon, I scanned a ten page document in about a minute.\u00a0 With a bit of experimentation, capturing and recognizing an entire book could be done in little more than a half hour.\u00a0 Stay tuned for timed tests with such ambitious projects.<\/p>\n
There are other welcome tweaks, like automatic saving to dropbox.\u00a0 A cloud-based backup and restore feature is also useful.\u00a0 These great features will be free to all current users.<\/p>\n