Monarch as an Optacon

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I don’t know if APH wants to create new products that are hardware, but I got this idea today when I accidentally dropped some pages on the floor. I needed to get them back in order, so I pulled out my Optacon and managed to do that. I’m definitely not a very fast reader, but I can use the thing when I need to.

I realized a camera attachment to the Monarch could do the same thing. On the Optacon, you adjust the zoom level so you can read tiny or large print, and this piece of imagined hardware could do the same and even be bluetooth. The idea would be to quickly read print, or examine any graphic.

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It could be designed so that it provides OCR of the text, with the option of reviewing a tactile graphic showing the characters in outline. You would probably need a phone or another device to perform the image capture and processing though.

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@Jason_White @Deborah_Armstrong - Loving all the innovation. Anyone can always submit product ideas to APH here: Suggest a Product Form | American Printing House