Re: Calendar Issues

2013-09-25 Thread Sandratomkins
hi, I seem to have missed something: is that Voh calendar something I need to download is an app or is it something integral to the system? Thanks, Sandy. Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Sep 2013, at 15:44, Ron Pelletier wrote: > > Hi Laura Ann, > > You shou really should consider the VO Calenda

Re: Help with help with hand writing mode

2013-09-23 Thread Sandratomkins
hi, I have found if you enter the . Or what you might call a period, and then flick down with two fingers your first option will be a comma. Sandy. Sent from my iPhone > On 23 Sep 2013, at 01:16, Ron Pelletier wrote: > > Hi, > > Just tap the screen with one finger and you'll have a full stop.

Re: Dictating without the dictation button -- how to do it?

2013-09-22 Thread Sandratomkins
try to finger double tap winning the edit mode Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Sep 2013, at 12:56, Kimber Gardner wrote: > > Hi All, > > I used to use dictation all the time in ios6. But now with ios7 there > is no dictation button. I read a blog post that described how to do it > and they made it

question about displaying emails

2013-09-20 Thread Sandratomkins
Sent from my iPhone hi, I have a small problem with the new update in my inbox I'm shown something like 22,000 emails I've would like to go back to the just downloading 50 at that at a time does anyone know how to do this? Sandy. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: iOS 7 on iPhone 4

2013-09-19 Thread Sandratomkins
I am using for S. And I have just upgraded. And my phone is working very well indeed! Sandy. Sent from my iPhone > On 18 Sep 2013, at 20:23, Arianna wrote: > > Crap. I have a for us. And the worst of it is, I just recently upgraded to it > from a 4. This was around February or so of this year

Re: IOS7?

2013-09-11 Thread Sandratomkins
es: http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/ > > On 09/11/2013 09:33 AM, Sandratomkins wrote: >> Hi, >> I didn't get to listen to the presentation about the new phones, but I'm >> interested to know about the new operating system. Is there anywhere I can >>

IOS7?

2013-09-11 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, I didn't get to listen to the presentation about the new phones, but I'm interested to know about the new operating system. Is there anywhere I can go to hear more about the details of I OS7? Thanks, Sandy. Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Terribly SORE index finger!

2013-08-27 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, I too get sore fingers but have discovered that I can use the phone ambidextrously perfectly well. It just takes a little practice. Sandy. Sent from my iPhone On 27 Aug 2013, at 13:24, wrote: > I have had the same roblem and have been known to use a thin handkerchief or > kleenix between

Re: Bulgarian voice with VO?

2013-08-25 Thread Sandratomkins
gt; available there, it won't be available on the iDevices. > I hope that's of use. > Aman > > On 2013-08-24, at 10:47 AM, Sandratomkins > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> This is possibly the most stupid question i have yet posed, but is there a >>

Bulgarian voice with VO?

2013-08-24 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, This is possibly the most stupid question i have yet posed, but is there a Bulgarian voice for voice-Over? I have looked in the list under settings/general/accessibility/voiceover/language rotor, in the hopes of finding a Bulgarian voice, but it doesn't seem to be there. i have a f

Re: Voice Dream reader and zipped files

2013-07-23 Thread Sandratomkins
ich text-based > Daisy books live. If you are using such a file, try renaming it to > .daisy and accessing it, once more, with VDR. Sometimes the .daisy > extension works when the .zip extension doesn't. > Aman > > > On 7/23/13, Sandratomkins wrote: >> Hi all, &

Voice Dream reader and zipped files

2013-07-23 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi all, I am having great problems we putting new books into my Voice Dream reader at the app doesn't seem to want to unzip files. Can anyone advise? Thanks, Sandy. Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to

Re: Fleksy question

2013-07-19 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, Much as I like Fleksy, I don't think it ready to be a default keyboard yet. Although many don't seem to experience it, I and others still can't manage efficiently the accurate mode. I would love to see some improvements re this. Sandy Sent from my iPhone On 19 Jul 2013, at 13:54, AppleG

Re: Fleksy, still a major problem for me.

2013-07-17 Thread Sandratomkins
had this problem. The keyboard is responsive when I am typing in my > own text. Which iPhone are you using? I'm using a 4S. > Best, > Anna > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 17, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Sandratomkins > wrote: > >> >> >> Sent from my i

Fwd: Fleksy, still a major problem for me.

2013-07-17 Thread Sandratomkins
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Sandratomkins > Date: 17 July 2013 10:47:43 IST > To: biph...@googlegroups.com > Subject: Fleksy, still a major problem for me. > > Hi, > >I just updated my version of Fleksy and have the same problems that I

Re: Help Still Needed Selecting and Copying Text

2013-07-16 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, I just tried to select some text from a Google page and here it is! pigment-, pigmento- + - Word Information wordinfo.info/unit/1670/ip:8/il:P Latin: "paint"; coloring matter involving both animals and plants. ... A pigment found inplants, algae, and some bacteria, that absorbs light ... A

My Way light, what I was doing wrong!

2013-07-09 Thread Sandratomkins
hi all, A week or so ago, I wrote to say that the App My Way light wasn't working for me. All my compass readings were, near enough, diametrically wrong. I couldn't understand why this should be when, for others, it seems to work. Well, I think i have it! My case, which has a flap that fold

A suggested use for audio labels.

2013-07-07 Thread Sandratomkins
HI, Having been reminded of Audio Labels, by the recent discussion re labelling boxes for a move, I bethought myself "Hmmm, I remember thinking when this first came out, there could be many and varied uses for it", but in the intervening months/years, I forgot all about it. So, here goes wi

Re: best OCR apps

2013-07-06 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, Text Grabber has a lovely, simple interface and has quite a good OCR Engine, but prizmo's is a little more sophisticated. So, if you come across a piece of text, perhaps in a newspaper/magazine where text is displaced by pictures/headlines/cartoons etc, prizmo might do rather batter tha

Labelling boxes, using iPhone Apps!

2013-07-06 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, I know we were meant to drop this thread, as it had strayed off topic, however, I have another solution which involves only the iPhone and its apps. So, I hope this is OK. There is an app, which I think many of us have forgotten about, it is called "Audio Labels" (I can find the li

Re: Can You Set Manual Routes With Sendero Groups?

2013-07-04 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Sieghard, I wonder if you can help re this, My Way Light: I fired it up last night and took a stroll around the house, putting in markers. I should explain that we have enough land here to mark places, sometimes at a distance of, say, 100 yards. I marked gates, steps, back doors etc. How

More than a Line: What the Future Holds for Refreshable Braille - AccessWorld® - February 2013

2013-06-24 Thread Sandratomkins
hi, i found this! It is a beginning. hth sandy http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw140205 More than a Line: What the Future Holds for Refreshable Braille Braille Technology Deborah Kendrick Refreshable braille displays have been an integral piece of the access technology landscape f

If there's anybody out there? info needed on the latest re full page braille displays.

2013-06-24 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, Noting that, here at least, the list is almost dormant, i am guessing there is an issue with accidental placing of people on "monitored mode", so am hoping that this reaches someone who can direct me in the general direction of the latest news on full page braille displays. i was j

a small observation about using Siri.

2013-06-18 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, For those using Siri: do you ever find that Siri just can't hear a particular word? For example, i asked Siri to "Translate the word languid into italian", but Siri could only hear me say "translate the word language into italian". Now, here's the thing, i never noticed before that when

Re: Using Siri or Dragon to transpose radio speech into text/braille?

2013-06-14 Thread Sandratomkins
hone On 14 Jun 2013, at 10:38, Sandratomkins wrote: > Hi Aman, > >The "In Touch" programme also has a transcription service, so, if > preferred, one can read the text of the various interviews. This feature of > accessibility is due to human transcribers and so

Re: Using Siri or Dragon to transpose radio speech into text/braille?

2013-06-14 Thread Sandratomkins
if anyone has > gotten an untrained program to recognize a normal speaker over long periods, > whether remotely or locally, I would appreciate hearing of it. I will have a > look at In Touch this week, Sandy, with thanks for letting us know about it. > Aman > > > -Original M

Re: Editing dictated text messages.

2013-06-11 Thread Sandratomkins
rotor set to words) till you reach the word to be > corrected, then you change to the "letter by letter" setting of the rotor to > correct. > > This can get a lot more complicated and introduce selecting text, but let's > see where you want to go once you've

Editing dictated text messages.

2013-06-11 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, i have come to it very late, but I am only just starting to play with the dictation button in text messages. I cannot find out how to edit out mistakes. Can anyone describe how to do this? I can either read the whole message or not at all, can't seem to move by word or letter. Than

Using Siri or Dragon to transpose radio speech into text/braille?

2013-06-11 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi everyone, I was just listening to a programme on radio 4 UK, called "In touch". This is a weekly prog dedicated to the interests of the VIP community. This time it was looking at the potential of using voice recognition to provide Deaf Blind people with a transcript of radio programmes.

Re: standscan

2013-06-10 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Larry, I have the StandScan pro, plus 12 volt battery holder, and find it folds and unfolds easily. i don't actually see the likelihood of the box suffering too much over a reasonable period of time, even with repeated use. However, in the earlier versions, there was a problem with regar

Re: standscan

2013-06-10 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, I have both the StandScan Pro and the ScanBox and, after trialling both, must say that, while, physically, they are very similar, the lighting provided by the StandScan, when used with the 12 volt aettery supply, is infinitely more reliable than the 9 volts lighting of the ScanBox. Plus

Re: text detective and text grabber was: RE: text grabber sale

2013-06-06 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, Although I do have Text Detective, I haven't played with it very much, but I am well acquainted with Text Grabber and, for that matter, Prizmo. I think the main reason I never bothered too much with Text Detective was that because one has to position the phone across the page, you can o

For lovers of Shakespeare.

2013-06-06 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, Some years ago now, just after I got my first iphone, I downloaded a free app called "Shakespeare". At the time I was very disappointed because, although this marvellous app did allow me to read all of the plays sonnets and poems, voiceover kept saying "heading" with every new line, so t

Re: Prizmo and images.

2013-05-26 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi again Annie, I don't know the answer to your question with regard to prizmo bombing out/crashing, but have you updated it this week? I thik I remember 2 updates very recently and one of them specifically mentioned your crashing issue. As for the best size to choose for using the SSP,

Re: Prizmo and taking pictures.

2013-05-26 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Annie, You could turn off "Page identification, or whatever it is called" but it is just as easy to ignore the up down etc and move straight to "take picture". I do now find that the guitar sounds are useful and, visually, the screen is busy getting a good focus/fix on the text and does

Re: OK, I bought Voice Dream Reader, but where are the language choices?

2013-05-24 Thread Sandratomkins
dditional voices but > they aren't that expensive and the quality is pretty good. > > If this isn't clear enough let me know. > > Kimber > > On 5/24/13, Sandratomkins wrote: >> Hi, (and especially you Mr. Turner!!!) >> >>I had not thought to

OK, I bought Voice Dream Reader, but where are the language choices?

2013-05-24 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, (and especially you Mr. Turner!!!) I had not thought to buy Voice Dream Reader before now as I, unlike the rest of the world, can't stand those Acapella voices! Plus, for english, I am very happy with Daniel HQ. However, i do like to read a bit in Italian and find the compact voice uncl

Prizmo got constipated!

2013-05-24 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi OCR practicianers! Having bought an Italian voice from prizmo, I thought to see if I could use the app to read a book with that voice. I had 2 copies from Gutenberg, both "Alice in wonderland". The first copy in English and the second in Italiano. Well, I made a mistake and chose the one

Re: OCr of white text on coloured image.

2013-05-23 Thread Sandratomkins
what this app recognizes. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -Original Message- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Sandratomkins > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 6:33 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: OCr of white text

OCr of white text on coloured image.

2013-05-23 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, I received a birthday party invitation which is like a post-card. It is shiny, the background is floral and purple (mainly) and the script is white and , in places, swirly,. In other words, not something that we can scan as yet. I tried many times with prizmo, using the StandScan Pro pl

Found my contacts!

2013-05-21 Thread Sandratomkins
hi, Please ignore my last post re the lost contacts, I performed a reset and voila! There they are, all of them! Sandy. Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.

Lost my contacts!

2013-05-21 Thread Sandratomkins
HI, I noticed that I had many more contacts on my iphone 4, which I am running without a Sim card, using WiFi, compared with my 4s, which has the sim. So, I thought to force an iCloud backup, first with the 4 and then with the 4s. but noticed that I still had only 70 odd contacts on the 4s,

Re: Text grabber

2013-05-19 Thread Sandratomkins
Ciao Gabriel, Thanks, I was hoping you would cast an eye over this for us. So, is it your impression that this would be the sort of thin one might expect from a basic translation app? or do you think that it is worse than that? I got the impression that, in a case of need, it would convey t

Text Grabber and Translator. Using the translation feature.

2013-05-19 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, Spurred on by Shoshana's enquiry, I thought I would try another scan, this time of a flyer given to me yesterday when out walking with Himself (Gorgeous Goldendoodle, Chad) in my local town. Now, as with many of my scans, there are Irish words, mainly, place or people's names, so the tr

Re: Text grabber

2013-05-19 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Shoshana, I don't know if this is going to work, and we may need to rely upon a native Italian speaker to discover just how good the translation functionality really is. Obviously, how good the translator in Text Grabber may vary from language to language, but I have a little Italian, so

Re: Comparing Prizmo 2 and Text Grabber using the StandScan pro and a more complicated layout.

2013-05-18 Thread Sandratomkins
Hey Gabriel! Prego! Sandy Sent from my iPhone On 18 May 2013, at 12:39, "Gabriel Battaglia \(Kriyaban\)" wrote: > Sandra, just thanks for all of your jobs as reports, observations, > suggestions and opinions you gave us. > Gabriel. > > -- > You received this message because you are sub

Comparing Prizmo 2 and Text Grabber using the StandScan pro and a more complicated layout.

2013-05-18 Thread Sandratomkins
Hallo, i hope I am not boring you all to death! However, with the latest incarnations of prizmo 2 and Text Grabber, I am looking to find their various strengths. Without a doubt, I still like the immediacy of the TG interface and often find it perfectly adequate to the task. However, when I

Re: Text grabber

2013-05-17 Thread Sandratomkins
yes! Sent from my iPhone On 17 May 2013, at 14:45, Lynn Coats wrote: > Hi, > I went to look for text grabber in the App Store, and what it came up with is > text grabber plus translator. Is this the right one? It sells for nine > dollars and something cents. Thank you. > Lynn and the K dog >

Prizmo2, The StandScan Pro and a 2 page scan.

2013-05-17 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, One of the things that worried me about the new incarnation of prizmo was the lack of the voice command, effectively, giving me the use of both hands when using the StandScan Pro. While I would still like that option, I am finding that once I tap the "Take Picture" button and the guitar

Re: Prizmo.

2013-05-17 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Shirley, I don't, as yet, see the need to buy extra voices for Prizmo, so, might I suggest that if you have some cash burning a hole in your pocket, you spend it on Tex Grabber. The interface of TG is much simpler and even using it free-hand, it is now much easier to use than of yore. Pl

Re: going to the 1st page in email, is it possible?

2013-05-17 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Ramy, The easiest way to find the message, in these circumstances, might be to go back into your Inbox, find the message again and doubletap it. This should put you at the start of the message itself. However, it might be that you have "details" turned on. If you flick left from the

After listening to the AppleVis podcast on the StandScan Pro and various OCR Apps...

2013-05-17 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, i just listened to the Podcast on AppleVis introducing the StandScan Pro and some OCR Apps. I have to admit that if I were new to either the StandScan Pro or prizmo/Text Grabber/et al, I would not be tempted to try to use my phone for my scanning needs. At the end, the Presenter (Sorry

Text Grabber free-hand.

2013-05-17 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi again, It is possible I will be sending a few messages re how to get the best out of some of the OCR Apps, I am making sure to keep the subject lines clear so that those who are not interested can just skip them. Hope that is OK? Right! This time I shot the same page of a brochure as

Using Prizmo free-hand

2013-05-17 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, I am just trying to get my head around the new Prizmo. I was always pretty good at getting acceptable/very good results using prizmo free-hand, so was a little frustrated at first with the new Prizmo 2. I find, and this is purely personal, that I get the best results if I hit the "quick

Observing free-hand Prizmo 2.

2013-05-15 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, At the bottom of this please finda nice bit of scanning (from an ancient magazine I found) using Prizmo 2, plus the "find page" and sound feed-back or whatever it is called. I have been rather frustrated trying to get Prizmo to do what it use to do for me. I could always force a sh

Initial thoughts on Prizmo 2.

2013-05-15 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Fellow OCr Fans! Like many of us, I downloaded Prizmo 2 yesterday and have played with it a little. primarily, I have questions about it and, perhaps, some of you have the answers? 1. We do seem to have lost the option to give voice commands to take picture. Am I wrong? 2. Prizmo n

Re: Unzip utility

2013-05-15 Thread Sandratomkins
David, Possibly not the best, but I have always used Filer. It will deal with both Zip and Rar files and has the usual "Open in" option. Good luck, Sandy. Sent from my iPhone On 15 May 2013, at 10:43, David Chittenden wrote: > Which unzip utility do people recommend? I found 90 in t

Re: tips for scanning lables with text detective

2013-05-12 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, Generally speaking, I find I get my best results using a baarcoode scanner. If you have the sttanddscan pro, then rolling the bottle across the base of the box will make it more easy to find the code for you. Good luck, Sandy. Sent from my iPhone On 12 May 2013, at 15:43, Sieghard Weitz

Re: Enhancing the Text Grabber experience.

2013-05-05 Thread Sandratomkins
wrote: > In the description of the app they give: > supp...@abbyy.com > as there contact address for questions and suggestions. > > Richard > (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) > > On May 5, 2013, at 6:09 AM, Sandratomkins > wrote: > >> Hallo

Enhancing the Text Grabber experience.

2013-05-05 Thread Sandratomkins
Hallo the list, I wonder if any of the Text Grabber developers are here on this list? I can't find a support address for them within the app. I just scanned about 50 sheets of text, using the StandScan Pro and Text Grabber. With my trusty stickers in place, i just dropped the phone, sans ca

Positioning stickers with my StandScan Pro.

2013-05-04 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, Harry sent me a new StandScan Pro, as I had problems with the connection to the lights with my old, one of the first, StandScans. Included were 2 L-shaped restickable stickers. I have placed one of these at the top left corner of the phone when in position and it makes it really

A work around for multi-page scans using Text Grabber.

2013-05-04 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, Now that we can be reasonably sure of readable scans when using Text Grabber together with the StandScan Pro, I'd like to share something I discovered that might make things a little easier when scanning more than a single sheet of text. for example, a hand-out at college, or several pa

Re: Barcode apps, please help.

2013-04-24 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Annie, I too got this app this morning after reading of your success. Here in Ireland we are challenged re databases and barcodes. I find this "Best Barcode Scanner" to be fast and much more flexible as to sourcing databases. Plus, with one of my scans, I found one of the sources to be "

Re: StandScan Pro is broken.

2013-04-20 Thread Sandratomkins
en > wrote: > >> Ok it has a screw, and that will be interesting to find a screwdriver for >> this one, it is a little small. That will be one thing to commend on, it is >> not ok, that you need a screwdriver to insert a battery. >> >> Cheers Annie. >>

Re: StandScan Pro is broken.

2013-04-20 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Annie, I have mine in front of me, If you hold it with the cable away from you and can feel the screw thing underneath, just use your thumb to press on the top of the box near to the end nearest you, and slide, the whole top slides and comes off. You can then just slide it back on a

Re: StandScan Pro is broken.

2013-04-20 Thread Sandratomkins
Hallo again Annie, I strongly suspect that it is the connection between the cable and the lights themselves as mine too is iffy. As I am also awaiting a replacement for the same reason, i just asked my practical partner to take a good look at what is happening. These are his findin

Re: StandScan Pro is broken.

2013-04-20 Thread Sandratomkins
Annie, After such a short time, I think you should contact the StandScan people and tell them. The contact between the cable and the lights themselves is delicate and needs strengthening, in my opinion. Meanwhile, if scanning text, try text grabber and turn on the flash, it is one of t

Re: Standscan not holding together and other thoughts on the product,

2013-04-06 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi David and all, To add to what you have said, David, the StandScan Pro and other similar boxes were designed with the main-stream in mind, this is because for optimal imaging, a light box is necessary. It just so happens that this requirement works perfectly for us! Personally speaking, I

Re: talking goggles

2013-04-06 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, I just downloaded Talking Goddles and tried it with the StandScan pro and a flier that arrived yesterday. Now, I had read it perfectly with Text Grabber, but was delighted, when in video mode, to hear Talking Goggles read the first two/three lines of text, but it didn't want to rea

Fwd: Standscan pro - I admit defeat

2013-04-02 Thread Sandratomkins
the whole in it is the lig of your box. Once this lid is in position, the little cable should be sticking out from the far left corner. Fingers crossed for you, Sandy. Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Sandratomkins > Date: 28 March 2013 16:09:14 GMT > To:

Suggestions for StandScan Pro maintenance and usage.

2013-03-30 Thread Sandratomkins
Hallo, I thought to make a few observations re maintenance and usage of the SSP to those of us who have invested in it. i have had mine for a few weeks now and have noticed the following: 1. Although we get, by far, our best results when using 12 volts, either with the battery back-up or t

Re: Standscan pro - I admit defeat

2013-03-29 Thread Sandratomkins
Krister, Now, the question has to be, have you managed a scan yet? I am guessing that the positioning of the phone might be a challenge, in which case, together with some handy marker dots, your Home-Help person might be able to afix them for you? Then all should be plain sailing! Look

Re: Standscan pro - I admit defeat

2013-03-28 Thread Sandratomkins
Krister, I don't think I can improve on David's excellent description, but if I add one of my own, between us all, we might get you assembled! Indeed, if you could find someone to help assemble, just for the first time, it would be very useful to see how the finished thing fits together. Ho

Re: Text Grabber doing very well with the SSP!

2013-03-27 Thread Sandratomkins
elected French > from the list of languages. Is there something else I should have done? > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 26 Mar 2013, at 14:21, Sandratomkins wrote: > >> Anne, >> >>I knew you'd like those aromatic song-birds! They d

Re: Alignment of the phone's camera using the StandScan

2013-03-26 Thread Sandratomkins
; so now I just have to set the phone between the sticky notes and it is lined > up perfectly. > I folded over the sticky notes along the glue to give a little thicker line. > HTH,ichard > (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) > > On Mar 26, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Sandratomki

Re: Alignment of the phone's camera using the StandScan

2013-03-26 Thread Sandratomkins
way is your home button pointing? > I have mine to my right, which I believe means the top of my page will be to > my left, not right as you said below. > I am right-handed, for what that is worth. > > > Richard > (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) > > On Ma

Re: Alignment of the phone's camera using the StandScan

2013-03-26 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Eileen, 1. If your case is easy to remove, then do that, it can't but help. 2. Are you right handed? I am left, but will offer my advice based upon the norm, I.E. right handedness. place the phone on the top of the box, with the open side of the box facing you. Obviously, you want the top

Re: Text Grabber doing very well with the SSP!

2013-03-26 Thread Sandratomkins
n one. Any suggestions as to how this works would be much appreciated. Sandy. Sent from my iPhone On 26 Mar 2013, at 12:44, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Sandy, > > Oh, I love those garlic doves! > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 26 Mar 2013, at 13:30, Sa

Text Grabber doing very well with the SSP!

2013-03-26 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi All, Since Prizmo did so well with a complicated bit of text yesterday, I decided to try Text Grabber with the same book. I find that you have to be vareful to place your text/book tight up against the back inside corner of the StandScan pro, for best results with Text Grabber, but also,

Using the StandScan Pro with a barcode app.

2013-03-25 Thread Sandratomkins
Hallo to Annie and others interested in further uses of the StandScan Pro. Annie, you asked if the SSP could help in barcode reading. So long as the items are small enough to place inside the box and yet be far enough distant for the camera to focus, then yes! As we all know, finding th

Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths.

2013-03-25 Thread Sandratomkins
aterials. Once I have some confidence with the device, I will begin to > experiment. Thanks for all your hard work in making it easier for all us to > use Ocr on our iPhone. > > Best, > Eileen from my iPhone > > On Mar 25, 2013, at 6:24 AM, Sandratomkins > wrote: > >> Hi

Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths.

2013-03-25 Thread Sandratomkins
5 Mar 2013, at 13:34, "Fred Olver" wrote: > Sandy, is it possible that these apps learn from scanning or not? > > Fred Olver > > - Original Message - From: "Sandratomkins" > > To: > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 8:24 AM > Subject:

Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths.

2013-03-25 Thread Sandratomkins
the most difficult books to get a sensible result from. I am really impressed > that you can get such results with a IPhone and standscan. > > Best regards Annie. > On Mar 25, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Sandratomkins > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have just been

Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths.

2013-03-25 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, I have just been playing with Text Grabber and Prizmo in conjunction with my StandScan Pro. I decided to try them with a book that I attempted to scan many years ago using a flat-bed scanner and Kurtzweil. My results, possibly, ten or more years ago, were less than satisfactory. In fact

Re: Prizmo VS TextGrabber with the StandScan Pro using 12 volt AC

2013-03-19 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Richard, Don't give up on TG yet! You have to have all your settings right. So, as Esther says: the right recognition language (by the way, i had mine inadvertently set to Italian so I too got some strange sounding results for a while there). No cropping and, a suggestion, don't save ima

Another observation with Text Grabber.

2013-03-19 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi agin, Sorry if there is too much info, but I am keeping the name Text Grabber in the subject line so you can always skip it if not interested. Something I have noticed over time is that most of the OCR apps won't recognise white text on black backgrounds. In other words, reversed col

A little bonus with Text Grabber.

2013-03-19 Thread Sandratomkins
Hallo, It is worth mentioning that if you turn "flash" on, when using Text Grabber, especially, in conjunction with the StandScan Pro, you can almost use it without the lights provided with the box. Obviously, the 12 volts obtainable with the mains adaptor or the larger battery power suppli

Re: Help please! Text Grabber has stopped taking shots!

2013-03-18 Thread Sandratomkins
, removing all of the apps from her App Switcher and triple > clicking the home button before returning it to her. > > On 17/03/13 07:27, Sandratomkins wrote: >> Hi, >> >>Any Text Grabber experts out there? I was just playing with the StandScan >> Pro and Text

Re: Standscan question

2013-03-18 Thread Sandratomkins
hi Keith, Things that are a little thicker are no problem, but this will all be a matter of degree. I have just spent a little time playing with various CD covers and found that when the writing, on the back, is black on white, I get a reasonable OCR, but it is prone to a little flack (Siri

Something good about Text Grabber.

2013-03-17 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, Just a small observation re Text Grabber: once you have successfully ocrd your page, you can read it using your different options in the rotor. I.E. line/word/character. This is not true of Prizmo (Oh! What a traitor!) With Prizmo, you can move a finger down the page and read by line, b

Re: TextGrabber Questions

2013-03-17 Thread Sandratomkins
ption foe taking a photo. Is this the first step in the > process? Are there any help files or a manual for this app? Thanks for the > assist. > > Les > On Mar 15, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Sandratomkins > wrote: > >> hi Sieghard, >> >> Thanks for this

Re: Attention: Standscan Pro discount code and bonus

2013-03-17 Thread Sandratomkins
Fred, I think you will find that the need for 12 volts is something more useful to us than to the average user of the box. I think that many people will use this for shooting images of stuff, like small items for eBay etc. Which reminds me, I have ahd some success using a barcode app and th

Re: OCR of PDFs on my iDevice. Can this be done?

2013-03-17 Thread Sandratomkins
my iPhone 4. > > It may be the case that ABBYY's Fine Reader Touch app will do what > Matthew wants. But it requires setting up an account, and paying to > upload the scans to an ABBYY web site through the app. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Mar 14, 12:29 p

Help please! Text Grabber has stopped taking shots!

2013-03-17 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, Any Text Grabber experts out there? I was just playing with the StandScan Pro and Text Grabber and will it take a shot? No! I had fiddled a little with the settings, but they are back to where they were now and still nothing. Any tips most appreciated. Sandy. Sent from my iPhone

Feed-back re the StandScan Pro? Successes/failures?

2013-03-17 Thread Sandratomkins
Hallo to all, but especially those who have received their StandScan Pros, I wonder, will people consider giving feed-bakc to the list as to how you are finding the box and if it has improved your scanning/ocr experience? We have seen, on list, a massive growth of interest in this produ

Re: An important suggestion for anyone contemplating buying the StandScan Pro!

2013-03-15 Thread Sandratomkins
> > Regards, > Sieghard > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Sandratomkins > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:13 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: An important suggesti

Re: An important suggestion for anyone contemplating buying the StandScan Pro!

2013-03-15 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, While I saw a brief description of the 12 volt battery case, on the StandScan site, neither I or my partner (a veteran online shopper!) can find it to buy. Perhaps, this explains why I never received it with my order. Now, just a suggestion, I am sure, as has been mentioned here, it

Fwd: An interesting bit of reading via StandScan and prizmo that arrived in the post.

2013-03-15 Thread Sandratomkins
stands in other countries prior to attending their selection. Happy reading, Sandy. Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Sandratomkins > Date: 13 March 2013 14:55:00 GMT > To: sandratomk...@googlemail.com > Subject: 2 > > WARNING Under the Juries Act,

Re: OCR of PDFs on my iDevice. Can this be done?

2013-03-15 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Esther, Thank you so much! I had bought Text Grabber ages ago, but was not impressed at the time. However, I just tried it again, using my StandScan Pro and was delighted by the results and also the speed of execution. The interface is much simpler than prizmo too! I shall play with this

Re: An important suggestion for anyone contemplating buying the StandScan Pro!

2013-03-12 Thread Sandratomkins
; > Thanks, > Sieghard > > -Original Message- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Sandratomkins > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 4:19 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: An important suggestion for anyone contemplating buy

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