K-NFB Reading Technology Inc and Sensotec NV, a Belgium-based company, created the technical development of the KNFB Reader app. The new app allows blind people, after have taken a photo, to listen to an audio read-back of the printed text.
For example Reuters interviews, Jonathan Mosen, who has been blind since birth. After recieving the app on his smartphone he then spent some time taking photographs of "packages in the mail, his son's school report and labels on bottles in the fridge. In seconds, he was listening to audio of the printed words the camera captured, courtesy of a new app on his Apple Inc iPhone."
Just after it's first day of being on the market the app has recieved a "rave of reviews and is being heralded as a life-changer by many people." KNFB Reader app can change the everyday life of a blind person. From something as simple as being able to read handouts in a classroom or menus in a resturant.
The app will be sold for $99 and will be available for Andriod users in the next few upcoming months. They may also explore a version with Google Glass. KNFB Reader app has already given the blind greater independence and also a new vision of sight.