Changed the subject to reflect the discussion. I think the KNFB is
excellent also, however, I was really disappointed when I tried to scan my
new visa card and KNFB was unable to read it and announced that there was no
text. I also tried to scan my 4 digit code for use with the card but again
no luck. It would be really great if the KNFB reader can be developed to
cope with these tasks. Thanks for the info regarding saving to Dropbox. I
have not carried out that task yet.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <[email protected]>
To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 12:10 PM
Subject: Early Birthday Presents
Hi!
Its been an interesting year what with one thing and another keeping me
occupied and away from my computers and other devices in the main, things
are calming down and sorting themselves out, just in time too given my
Birthday isn’t all that far away so time to “Splash out” and “Enjoy the
toys” again <smile>.
I received my iPhone 6 last week, I really did like my iPhone 5 but I was
finding it a little sluggish with IOS 8, the Telco I’m with offered me a
reasonable upgrade price to an iPhone 6 64GB model and the sale of my iPhone
5 paid the upgrade price.
In some ways I regret upgrading and no, not because of IOS 8 but because of
the shape of the iPhone 6. Yes, I’m in the minority as the majority of
people prefer the bigger screen but this does make for an iPhone which doesn’t
fit comfortably into its home - my buttoned up shirt pocket -.
There much to like about the newer iPhone though, it feels nice in the hand,
has a better speaker in my view etc.
So I have the new iPhone and time to explore the Apps Store for some new
goodies and I settled upon the KNFB Reader App.
I think that the KNFB Reader App would have to be the most expensive
purchase I’ve made through the IOS Apps Store but the outlay was well worth
it, I was performing OCR in seconds to a very high standard, the type of
standard I expect from OCR packages on my computer systems. I even took the
time - with a friends help - to scan an article which appeared in my local
paper with astonishingly accurate results - had no choice to scan the
article as a link to it online couldn’t be found -.
Your OCR work can be exported but the options for this are nicely tucked
away and not immediately obvious, you first have to save your OCR work and
then go into the “File Explorer”, and from there double-tap on “Edit”, I
exported my work to Dropbox where it was available for me to further
manipulate and edit on other systems and Apps.
These are daly days for the KNFB Reader App, its impressive to say the least
so I hope the developers get good feedback and encouragement to continue
with their work.
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