Hi Anne, It sounds as though both apps still need a bit of work, before they can replace the traditional flat-bed scanner. I don't yet own an iPhone, although I was considering buying one provided one or both of the aforementioned scanner/OCR apps was truly useful. I'll probably wait a while longer, given the current state of these apps. I wish we had a scanning app for the iPhone as good as the Kurzweil app being sold by the National Federation of the Blind, here in the U.S.
Anyway, thanks for your input. Cordially, Rafael On Apr 6, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Rafael, > > I'm totally blind and have used both SayText and Prizmo with some success. > > SayText seems to work best for reading envelopes, and Prizmo for reading a > page of a book or a sheet of A4 or the equivalent. > > They both need good lighting, so I use Light Detector to gauge the level of > light. > > With both apps, you place the iPhone with its camera in the centre of the > document, then raise it. With SayText, the autofocus mechanism tells you when > to keep still and wait for it to take the picture. > > With Prizmo, the phone vibrates, then you say "Take Picture" and it does just > that. With Prizmo, you need to have a headset connected as it switches to the > phone speaker rather than the normal speaker as soon as the picture has been > taken. > > Both apps require a bit of practice before you can get decent results. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > On 6 Apr 2011, at 20:52, Bejarano, Rafael P. wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I've been reading a bit about two scanner/OCR apps for the iPhone: saytext >> and prizmo. Neither sounds sufficiently well developed to meet the needs of >> totally blind individuals at this time, but perhaps I'm underestimating >> their utility. Has anyone on this list tried either product, and if so, how >> useful did you find it? >> >> Cordially, >> Rafael Bejarano >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
