Hello all
just got this wonderful update to the app.
Haven't tried the Ocr function yet but have tried all I can do with the
interface so far with excellent results.
One issue I have is with the Voice Reader feature. It tells me I can
type or paste some text, then click the play button. But when I click
the play button nothing happens. Do I need to buy more voices?
On the whole a wonderful update and I can't wait to put it through its
paces with my posts etc.
Chris.
On 15/05/2013 05:50, Esther wrote:
Hi All,
Sorry for the last post that only clipped the price and URL information of version 2 of
the Prizmo app. I meant to add a few other enthusiastic comments. Not only is it easier
to do an OCR, because if VoiceOver is on, and the page size has been selected, the app
will actually tell you when you are too far to the left or right or need to move your
camera, but you can export the OCR results in either PDF or text and use the "open
in" function for compatible apps. Since I have VoiceDream reader, I can open the
exported text in that app, and to go along with Prizmo's support of different languages,
I can read the text in InfoVox voices for different languages. Also, although I'm not
using this facility, you can adjust the font size of the text that you've exported either
as PDF or Text format when you read in VoiceDream Reader, so this is really cool if
you're a low-vision user.
So to follow up on my original post, if you've been sent scanned PDF images of
documents from some bulk email distribution copying machine, you can read that
perfectly well with the Prizmo app -- even on iOS devices without good cameras
like the earlier iPod Touch models or earlier generation iPads. And the export
function works to put text into Dropbox, too. Plus you can store these
documents in VoiceDream Reader, and read multiple language outputs, and use
large fonts and highlighting.
Since Prizmo supports a whole set of new languages, you could probably even use
this to read documents in some languages without supported voices, by copying
the OCR text results to clipboard, and pasting into a translating app like
Google Translate just to us the voice support for reading other languages. I
think someone asked about Hebrew voice support on the Mac, and that's one of
the text languages Prizmo can OCR, and that Google Translate can read aloud.
I'll have to fool around with the Russian language download for Prizmo and try
it out.
Cheers,
Esther
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