Is a basic webcam really able to read text at that angle for the “what is this word” example?

I wasn’t sure if any of this was real and that example looked extremely fake to me because I had a hard time believing the device being able to read text from that distance.

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heliographe an hour ago | parent [-]

In that demo, the lightbulb sits on the desk, less than a meter away from the page. What feels implausible about this setup? This is kind of thing you can do with your smartphone today.

	▲	rtpg 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		So is the demo real or is it smoke and mirrors? Could you have pointed at other words and have it work? (I think I overestimated how much of an angled shot it was the first time I saw it, on top of how easy or hard turning your finger into “actually capture this text”… but you’re totally right that in principle a camera at a non agressive angle can capture that text) (I like this overall concept a lot! Cooking is the right example, voice interfacing’s 96% use case is basically “my hands are dirty but I must use computing”)