Successful Envision AI’s Document Scanning Function of Newsprint-Quality Paperback Book!

Hello World! Today, I performed my initial document scan of a recently-purchased paperback book, and my computer vision science project is a PASS! ☺️

The paperback book I used, is called, William Shakespeare’s A Mid Summer Night’s Dream (equivalent copy on Amazon). Mine came from National Bookstore, here in The Philippines. For those using Bookshare.org, there are a couple of versions available.

For today’s science experiment, I used Envision app (Android version) on my Xiaomi Redmi 9T smartphone. I’m also an Android Beta Tester from the Google Play Store; I was previously an Android Beta Tester back in May 2019, when the app was still a free pre-release beta. I have been an annual subscriber since early-December 2019.

For copyright reasons, I have decided not to share the content read by Envision app, however, my half-sighted wife was a witness to Envision app’s fast processing speed of the document scanner function. I did save a few scans into the app’s library for later retrieval. I was performing a “proof of concept” science experiment, testing if my Android smartphone is able to read printed newsprint-quality text, as if I had to read the book for a “book report”. Though, with osteoarthritis in my hands, causing some book-manipulation issues, especially with the spine of a new book, I was able to position my smartphone accurately, via spoken instructions of Envision app, proving to my wife & I can successfully-read a printed pocket-book!

My original designation of my Xiaomi Redmi 9T smartphone, is to emulate an alternative to the expensive Envision Glasses, saving me thousands of dollars. Luckily, this computer vision science project is SUCCESSFUL! ☺️

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Happily-Married, comfortably poor, permanently disabled and totally BLIND. A Terrorism SURVIVOR that's still SURVIVING Terrorism + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Scientist since 1977, Acoustician since 1979, Computer Scientist/Programmer since 1982, Seismologist since 1988, Criminologist (Behavioral Scientist) since 1992, and many more! Also, had worked in two civilian and one military virology labs in the USA between 1993 and 2003. A Generation X, Filipino-American US expat, living in The Philippines, whom was naturally-born in Boston, grew up mostly in Seattle, some in Chicago, and have lived in Anchorage & San Francisco. Became permanently-disabled in 2003 due to health-related illness, ending my moonlighting career as an independent private investigator in the USA. RETIRED independent developer of computing & electronics technologies after 35 wonderful years, including 20 wonderful years in GNU/Linux development & 8 wonderful years as an independent embedded systems developer of digital electronics. Former speech synthesis systems developer of 30 wonderful years, specializing in foreign language phoneme-to-speech synthesis. Also was a beta tester of third-party software-based speech synthesizers. Former FCC-licensed amateur radio operator of 20 wonderful years, beginning with 2m packet-radio & AmSat communications between Anchorage & Manila. Former member of Anchorage Amateur Radio Club and Mike & Key ARC in Seattle. Learned 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing on a manual typewriter in 1980 at a US-based elementary school. Mastered 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing without looking at the keyboard in 1986. Now have osteoarthritis in both of my hands from all that touch-typing! My primary computer programming language is C, which I learned in 1990. My secondary programming language is B.A.S.I.C., which I self-learned in 1982. Prior to my sight-loss, I used to program in LISP/CLISP and Prolog for my early development of artificial intelligence & machine learning programs. Daily, to compensate/facilitate my sight-loss, I am actively using Apple iOS VoiceOver, Google Android TalkBack and Amazon Fire OS VoiceView screen-readers, in addition to my external Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and sometimes, my Orbit Writer Braille keyboard, as HOBBIES.

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