To clarify, Sandy posted to the viphone list. I haven't verified, but don't believe she's subscribed to Macvisionaries. I will copy one of her posts below which should help any interested party to get started.
Supplemental to Ann's comments, I have no light perception and can report getting some results using Prismo on my 3GS. I'd never depend on it to read a bill or contract, but can often get the gist of a page. Considering the much lower resolution of the 3GS camera, this is very impressive and infinitely better than my results with the SayText, SmartScan or DocScanner apps. Best regards, Geoff > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Sandy Tomkins <[email protected]> >> Date: 13 March 2011 14:04:52 GMT+00:00 >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: An example of Prizmo. >> >> Hi Tim, >> >> Before I begin, I must apologise for, what I imagine will be, a lengthy >> reply. >> >> First of all, so as to clear the decks, I should say that although I do >> have a modicum of sight, it only gets in the way when using these scanning >> apps, so I am working entirely without looking, so, working on that basis, I >> will tell you what I have done re settings and then describe the method I >> employ to make a scan. >> >> In the settings section of Prizmo, I disable the grid guide. >> >> From the home screen of Prizmo I select "Text" which opens another page, >> now, on this new page there is a camera option which I choose. I can't quite >> remember if I did this before entering the camera option or if I did it from >> the page before, but one of the options on one of the pages is "tool bar", >> double tap that and along the bottom of the page you should find some toggle >> buttons like "flash" etc, there is just one button which is not labelled and >> that is the one you need to double tap to turn on speech command. This will >> allow you to tell the camera to shoot, you say "Take picture!" This is >> important as it means you don't have to tap the screen thereby wobbling the >> phone. However, if you use this mode, you really need to use the >> earphone/mic because the speaker seems to default to small speaker and you >> can't hear what you are doing otherwise. >> >> OK, Choose your book. Can I suggest that you practise with something that >> is easy to scan. So, something with reasonable print if you can ascertain >> that, something with reasonable paper quality, and something that will sit >> nice and flat. My thinking is this, too often we start off with scraps of >> paper or foolscap printed letters etc, in either case, we are demanding too >> much before we are ready. If you use a normal sized paperback, for example, >> you won't need to take the phone so far away from your target image because >> of the larger size. Does that make sense? I have found it much better to get >> some successes under my belt before pushing things to their limit. I find >> that if you get a bit of confidence it makes you more likely to succeed with >> the tougher stuff. >> >> Right! Now there is the question of light levels. There are various >> options with Prizmo re using the flash, the scan I got from my herb book was >> taken without the flash, but the light level here in my kitchen on this >> fairly bright Sunday morning is quite good and I reckon this is a whole >> area for discussion, I.E. how best to proceed assuming a person has no light >> perception and wants good results. Whether one should use the flash by >> default or not etc. There are times when the flash could work against you if >> the surface you are scanning is shiny, for example. >> >> With the book open and the page I had chosen to shoot was sitting nice >> and flat, I double tapped that "Camera" button, then I hear "auto focusing" >> I already have the phone, face down, obviously, in the centre of the page, >> actually, I tend to try to have the top right of the phone in the centre as >> that is where the camera is and then, using both hands to hold the phone, I >> lift it about six inches above the page and say "Take picture!" If possible >> I like to hear "auto focused" just before I give the command, but not >> actually sure it makes any difference. You will hear the picture taken and >> you can move. >> >> I do find that I get better results if I use both hands to hold the sides >> of the phone because I have aterrible sense of the flat and I seem to do >> better with both hands to keep it perfectly horizontal, don't know if I am >> wxplaining this well, but I do have a firmer hold and keep it more still >> this way. >> >> Pretty much imediately, I touch the bottom right of the screen and double >> tap the "use" button. >> >> A new page will open, I flick twice to the right to hear "next" and >> double tap that. Now I hear "Processing", it generally takes about ten >> seconds, and, if you have been at all successful, you will hear a trill as >> your scannedpage opens. Sometimes, I do get a notification telling me that >> no text was extracted, but assuming that doesn't happen, I just do a double >> finger flick up to read the scanned page. >> >> I will say this, I have had this app for about a week to ten days and >> every now and again I open it up, dig out a book and give it a go. At first >> I only got, perhaps, 20 percent success, this is improving all the time, but >> sometimes it just won't work well at all, and this may well have something >> to do with lighting, so I will be paying attention to htat to see if I can >> sort out the best option re flash. >> >> Hope this elps a bit, do keep trying and remember to enable speech and >> disable the grid guide thing. >> >> Sandy. >> >> Sent from my iPhone On May 9, 2011, at 12:38 PM, carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi Erik: > I know Sandy T has done several posts on this app, using iPhone 4. She's > gotten some pretty impressive results. Check the archives from I believe > April. > > HTH > Take care > > Carolyn > On May 9, 2011, at 10:19 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> Hi, has anyone gotten prismo to work on the ITouch or the IPhone? I >> couldn't get it to do a scan, but one of my clients has bought it and wants >> to learn to use it. >> >> I'll give it another shot here, but would appreciate any pointers. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Erik Burggraaf >> User support consultant, >> Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, >> 1-888-255-5194 >> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >> >> -- >> 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. 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