Re: Prizmo version 2 iOS app is released and on sale for $5.99
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 --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/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/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/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/
Re: Prizmo version 2 iOS app is released and on sale for $5.99
Yes, if you have no voices in the voice reader, you'll need to purchase some first. I have the same problem and unfortunately at the current time I do not have enough money in my iTunes account to buy voices. Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2013, at 7:27 AM, chris h (sky) challswor...@sky.com wrote: 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 --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/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/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/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/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find
Re: Prizmo version 2 iOS app is released and on sale for $5.99
Hi Josh and Chris, I never bothered to get additional voices to use the Voice reader within the Prizmo app, since I could use VoiceOver to review the material. The OCR functions are only meant to temporarily store results. Version 1 of Prizmo did have the Voice Reader function, too. It is still going to be easier for many people to use the StandScan Pro to quickly take pictures of documents to OCR, but I think that many more who found it difficult to use Prizmo freehand to take pictures of documents will find this possible. It is still not a replacement for the KNFB reader setup, as I understand it, for automatically adjusting everything when you take a picture. The voice activated picture taking feature of the first version is gone. So I am using a split tap to activate the shutter. They've added some kind of stabilizer mode for the process of starting the manual picture taking when you activate the shutter button above the home button, which is announced as Take Picture. You don't just get an immediate shutter opening and closing. I did like the voice activation feature of the first version, where you could just say Take Picture, but this is more discreet, and doesn't have to drop VoiceOver's volume so you can get a good voice trigger. I now put one finger on the Take Picture button and raise the iPhone, then tap the screen with another finger to trigger the shutter and picture taking. While I can review the scanned material in the Prizmo app, I prefer to read the results as converted documents in another app. The export options have an open in function that lets to send the file easily to other applications, including apps like Dropbox or, VoiceDream reader. So I'm doing most of my reading in the VoiceDream reader app, with the InfoVox voices I purchased for that app. I guess that if I needed to use the translate option, which I believe requires an internet connection, and read text in another language, I might use in-app purchases of voices for Prizmo. But I think this is more of a convenience for people who don't already have VoiceOver turned on. The voices are the Infovox/iVox voices from the Acapela group, but include a couple of voices that aren't available for the Mac, like Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. (These are all available in VoiceDream reader, along with a few Neospeech English voices.). Originally, I couldn't figure out why the Chinese and Japanese voices were added to version 2 of Prizmo when the app doesn't OCR these languages (unlike TextGrabber), but then I realized it was for translation support. HTH. Cheers, Esther On May 15, 2013, at 1:39 AM, Josh Gregory joshkar...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, if you have no voices in the voice reader, you'll need to purchase some first. I have the same problem and unfortunately at the current time I do not have enough money in my iTunes account to buy voices. Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2013, at 7:27 AM, chris h (sky) challswor...@sky.com wrote: 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
Re: Prizmo version 2 iOS app is released and on sale for $5.99
I just bought this app and used it on a typed letter. I find that the lighting is critical. after a third try in different lightings, I got near perfect OCR results. I found it best to put the white letter on a darker background for contrast, but I don't know if that was actually necessary. the voice directions for getting a good image are interesting too. A little weird at first, but they eventually focus you in on a good image. the image stabilization that kicks in after clicking the take picture button seems to work well too. - Original Message - From: Esther mori...@mac-access.net To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:08 AM Subject: Re: Prizmo version 2 iOS app is released and on sale for $5.99 Hi Josh and Chris, I never bothered to get additional voices to use the Voice reader within the Prizmo app, since I could use VoiceOver to review the material. The OCR functions are only meant to temporarily store results. Version 1 of Prizmo did have the Voice Reader function, too. It is still going to be easier for many people to use the StandScan Pro to quickly take pictures of documents to OCR, but I think that many more who found it difficult to use Prizmo freehand to take pictures of documents will find this possible. It is still not a replacement for the KNFB reader setup, as I understand it, for automatically adjusting everything when you take a picture. The voice activated picture taking feature of the first version is gone. So I am using a split tap to activate the shutter. They've added some kind of stabilizer mode for the process of starting the manual picture taking when you activate the shutter button above the home button, which is announced as Take Picture. You don't just get an immediate shutter opening and closing. I did like the voice activation feature of the first version, where you could just say Take Picture, but this is more discreet, and doesn't have to drop VoiceOver's volume so you can get a good voice trigger. I now put one finger on the Take Picture button and raise the iPhone, then tap the screen with another finger to trigger the shutter and picture taking. While I can review the scanned material in the Prizmo app, I prefer to read the results as converted documents in another app. The export options have an open in function that lets to send the file easily to other applications, including apps like Dropbox or, VoiceDream reader. So I'm doing most of my reading in the VoiceDream reader app, with the InfoVox voices I purchased for that app. I guess that if I needed to use the translate option, which I believe requires an internet connection, and read text in another language, I might use in-app purchases of voices for Prizmo. But I think this is more of a convenience for people who don't already have VoiceOver turned on. The voices are the Infovox/iVox voices from the Acapela group, but include a couple of voices that aren't available for the Mac, like Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. (These are all available in VoiceDream reader, along with a few Neospeech English voices.). Originally, I couldn't figure out why the Chinese and Japanese voices were added to version 2 of Prizmo when the app doesn't OCR these languages (unlike TextGrabber), but then I realized it was for translation support. HTH. Cheers, Esther On May 15, 2013, at 1:39 AM, Josh Gregory joshkar...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, if you have no voices in the voice reader, you'll need to purchase some first. I have the same problem and unfortunately at the current time I do not have enough money in my iTunes account to buy voices. Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2013, at 7:27 AM, chris h (sky) challswor...@sky.com wrote: 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.
Prizmo version 2 iOS app is released and on sale for $5.99
Hello All, The new version 2 update of the Prizmo iOS OCR app is out, and the developers, Creaceed, have put this app on sale as part of its launch. Prizmo 2 is a free update for anyone who already bought the Prizmo iOS app. The app normally lists for $9.99 but may be purchased for $5.99 for a limited time: • Prizmo - Scanning, OCR, and Speech (on sale for $5.99) by Creaceed https://itunes.apple.com/app/prizmo/id366791896?mt=8 I've already tried out one new feature that will make this app useful even if you never use this with a camera to take pictures of a document to OCR -- you can open scanned PDFs in this app and OCR their contents. So if someone sends you PDF scanned documents as an attachment, you can just double tap on the attachment and select open in then choose Prizmo. The multipage document shows up on the main screen and you just double tap to open it. You can double tap each page and then double tap the recognize button at the top right corner, and read the text results. They've also simplified the work flow interface. The PDFs can be produced by other apps or opened from file or web sources like Dropbox, etc. (I haven't tried this yet.) If you want to take add images to a multipage document, there's and Add new page button. In addition to the original 10 languages that were supported in version 1, (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian). You can get support for additional languages as free downloads: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. The Prizmo support web site documentation also mentioned that for accurate OCR from a device's camera image, at least a 3 megapixel camera is required. Thus, in addition to iPhone support, they state that the cameras of the iPad 3, iPad 4, and iPad mini, and the 5th generation iPod Touch can be used. The built-in cameras of the 2nd generation iPad and the 4th generation iPod Touch are 1 megapixel or less. HTH. Cheers, Esther --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/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/
Re: Prizmo version 2 iOS app is released and on sale for $5.99
On May 14, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Esther wrote: Hello All, The new version 2 update of the Prizmo iOS OCR app is out, and the developers, Creaceed, have put this app on sale as part of its launch. Prizmo 2 is a free update for anyone who already bought the Prizmo iOS app. The app normally lists for $9.99 but may be purchased for $5.99 for a limited time: • Prizmo - Scanning, OCR, and Speech (on sale for $5.99) by Creaceed https://itunes.apple.com/app/prizmo/id366791896?mt=8 --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/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/
Re: Prizmo version 2 iOS app is released and on sale for $5.99
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 --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/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/
