Hello Christian, I have not actually been using Prizmo 2, although I have a license for this as part of a MacUpdate bundle purchase. One unique feature of Prizmo 2 is that you're able to use your iPhone to acquire the images for OCR in place of your scanner, but for blind users that probably means you would be using a StandScan Pro or Scanbox to support your iPhone if trying this mode. My impression from listening to the Maccessibility Round Table podcast from February (think this was episode #30), is that with the sale price this was good option for a user with a scanner and occasional OCR scanning needs and, based on reviews, at the opposite end, this might work for instances where you want to do more detailed interacting nd processing with your individual scans. I believe that John Panarese has used this, so he may weigh in with comments. I don't think this is as useful as ABBYY Finereader Express for bulk scanning and processing, but Anne might be able to comment more about that.
Finally, I'll just mention that for users who have a later model iPad, there's a free user guide document in the iBooks Store for Prizmo 2 by Sandrine Loiseau, with versions in English and in French. It's one of these iPad interactive guides, so there are additional embedded features you can navigate to -- a little tricky, but doable with VoiceOver -- but this is the reason that you can't read this on the original iPad, since you need the later version of iOS. I do heartily recommend getting the iOS version of the Prizmo 2 app, since this only infrequently goes on sale, and is really good. I believe that Annie Skov Nielsen has been using the Prizmo 2 iOS app with a StandScan Pro to bulk scan books, and then send them to ABBYY Finereader on her Mac through Dropbox. Also, a distinguishing feature of the Prizmo 2 iOS app is the ability to OCR from PDF files, and you can use this to OCR scanned PDF documents that you receive as mail attachments, even on iOS devices with poor cameras, since the scan was done externally and should already be aligned. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Aug 1, 2013, at 9:17 AM, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > Hi Ester and all, > > Am 01.08.2013 um 19:26 schrieb Esther <[email protected]>: >> Since Sarah mentioned that the Downcast podcasting app for Mac is now >> available, and on sale from the Mac App store, I thought I would give the >> links for Downcast for iOS (on sale for $0.99, in celebration of the release >> of the Mac version), and also for Prizmo 2, which is also on sale now for >> $4.99 (regularly $9.99). Prizmo 2 for Mac is also half price ($24.99 or >> 21,99€) as part of their "Back to School" sale. > > I wonder in which situations Prizmo is better then the Finereader for Mac? > I'm using the Finereader to scan texts on Mac OS, should I buy Prizmo for > some reasons, is it better or do both programs nearly the same job? > > Thanks and cheers, > > Christian > <--- 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/>
