K-NFB Reader

The K-NFB Reader (an acronym for Kurzweil — National Federation of the Blind Reader) is a handheld electronic reading device for the blind. It was developed in a partnership between Ray Kurzweil and the National Federation of the Blind.

Keypad of The Reading Edge,^[1] a precursor of the K-NFB Reader

The original version of the reader was composed of a digital camera and a PDA, which contained specialised OCR software and speech synthesizers to read the scanned material aloud. It was released at a price of $3,495.^[2]

The software was later ported to the Symbian operating system, to be used on Nokia N82 camera phones, with a new price of $1,595.^[3]

Developed by the National Federation of the Blind and Sensotec NV in 2014, an iOS port was released at a price of $99. An Android version was released shortly after.^[4]

KNFB Reader can read:

• Receipts
• Package labels and mail
• Product and nutritional information
• Print on your computer or tablet screen
• Longer documents such as books and user manuals
• Private documents such as tax materials, mortgage documents, bills, and medical reports
• Ebooks and documents in the ePub format
• Documents in more than thirty languages

Innovative features

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• Text Detection (shows you where there is print to capture)
• Tilt and Viewfinder Assist (ensures you capture the entire page)
• Text Highlighting (pinpoints text for dyslexic and other print-disabled users)

See also

• Kurzweil Educational Systems