Hello Dónal and David, You might want to wait for Ann Robertson's comments on sample results from the StandScan Pro. The StandScan basic model doesn't have sufficient light power for good results from general scanning. It's designed for inexpensive portable use with the iPhone (which is why the design appears to be flimsy). Effectiveness of use of OCR programs on iOS devices by blind users is a controversial topic, but among those who do this successfully (even before StandScan), there's a general preference for Prizmo, which has more tolerance to skewed images as well as doing good OCR. I think that ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator should work well with the StandScan Pro, based on how well it does on screen capture images. But I don't have direct experience with the StandScan Pro.
Here's a link to an old LifeHacker article reviewing iOS OCR apps: • The Best Image-to-Text App for iPhone (August 10, 2011) http://lifehacker.com/5829568/the-best-image+to+text-app-for-iphone You can use Safari Reader (Command-Shift-R). Interestingly, they use graphics for the section headings: "Features", "Where It Excels", "Where It Falls Short", and "The Competition". On my iPhone I saved each of the images to my camera roll and processed then in TextGrabber, which popped them all out. I don't recommend TextGrabber for visually impaired users without some way of setting up alignment, but it works great on screen captures, and handles multiple languages. I think Anne can comment both on the OCR programs and results with the StandScan Pro. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 23, 2013, at 10:36 AM, David Griffith wrote: > I have. > > I will comment further later but to be honest on first impression I am > disappointed. Basically a cardboard folder which is constructed into a box. > Quite flimsy and probably not suitable for any robust long term use. > I need to experiment further to see what the scanning results are like. > > David Griffith > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dónal Fitzpatrick > Sent: 23 March 2013 20:32 > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Stand Scan > > Hi all, > > Just had a conversation on twitter about a device called Stand Scan. I > provide a link below. Has anyone used this? I'd be interested in an > opinion because it looks very good. > > http://standscan.com/StandScan/ > > Cheers, > > Dónal > > Dr. Dónal Fitzpatrick, > School of Computing, > Dublin City University, > Glasnevin, > Dublin 9, Ireland > Tel. +353-(0)1-700-8929 > fax: +353-(0)1-700-5442 > email: dfitzpat (at) computing.dcu.ie > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
