Hi Esther,
Just a comment re SayText: I have noticed that SayText is one of the best
apps at using the flash when the lighting is insufficient. Prizmo doesn't kick
in till the lighting is much worse and then it doesn't work very well, because
it doesn't seem to allow time for the Auto
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
Hi Sandy and Chuck,
I guess Chuck now has his answer about whether TextGrabber works well
with a StandScan Pro from an actual user; I just put in my order using
the viphone coupon discount. You're correct that the big problem with
TextGrabber is that it doesn't have the same tolerance of skewed
The person said scanned PDF. iBooks does not OCR scanned pages.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 14/03/2013, at 15:29, Chuck Dean chuckd...@me.com wrote:
iBooks can read most PDFs so there is no need for OCR .
It is
Yes, iBooks and mail are the best PDF readers I've ever worked with.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 14/03/2013, at 17:05, Chuck Dean chuckd...@me.com wrote:
OK, Matthew,
I have had some PDFs that do not read on my
I wouldn't want to do it, but you could take a screen capture of every page by
pressing the home and power button simultaneously. This will save an image of
each page to your camera role. You could then use prismo to ocr the images.
It would work, but would be quite time consuming.
Sent with
Hi Brett, Matthew, David, Chuck, and Others,
The problem is that none of the current iOS OCR programs can input
from a PDF file, so the current workaround involves displaying the PDF
on the screen and doing a screen capture. Then, you need to use an
OCR program that lets you input from your
Hi Esther,
Once again I have to thank you for your incredible knowledge of the
iPhone and its workings.
I also prefer Text Grabber and I have asked for a StandScan Pro for my
birthday, which is two weeks from tomorrow.
No need to send presents. :)
Have you tried Text Grabber with the StandScan
Hello all.
I'm just wondering if anyone has found a way to take an image based pdf file
and turn it in to text from an IOS device? I've got text books from the college
that come as image based pdf files and would like to be able to read them on my
iPhone 5 or iPad 2 instead of the computer. I
You need to use an OCR package. Voice Dream Reader is not an OCR package.
Prizmo can OCR images from your camera roll. For this solution to work, you
need to get the PDF page image into the camera roll.
1) Open the PDF file. I do this from directly in mail.
2) Press home and power buttons at
Have you tried to open the PDFs in iBooks?
I know it can read some PDFs, but I am not sure if the type you are
talking about will work.
Just a thought,
Chuck
On Mar 13, 4:19 pm, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com wrote:
You need to use an OCR package. Voice Dream Reader is not an OCR
iBooks does not OCR.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 14/03/2013, at 14:28, Chuck Dean chuckd...@me.com wrote:
Have you tried to open the PDFs in iBooks?
I know it can read some PDFs, but I am not sure if the type you
iBooks can read most PDFs so there is no need for OCR .
It is worth a try.
Chuck
On Mar 13, 6:49 pm, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com wrote:
iBooks does not OCR.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 14/03/2013,
The original question asked about image based PDF's, so I suspect OCR
will be involved, but of course, there's no harm in trying iBooks.
On 03/13/2013 09:29 PM, Chuck Dean wrote:
iBooks can read most PDFs so there is no need for OCR .
It is worth a try.
Chuck
On Mar 13, 6:49 pm, David
I am also assuming that he has the PDF files and not the print out.
Chuck
On Mar 13, 7:35 pm, Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com wrote:
The original question asked about image based PDF's, so I suspect OCR
will be involved, but of course, there's no harm in trying iBooks.
On 03/13/2013
Hello Chuck.
Sadly, iBooks will not work in this situation. It will of course display the
text, but since that text is actually an image, there is no way to read it with
VoiceOver.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
On 2013-03-13, at 10:29 PM, Chuck Dean chuckd...@me.com wrote:
iBooks can read
OK, Matthew,
I have had some PDFs that do not read on my desktop, so I emailed
them to myself and they would read in Ibooks. I don't know why.
Personally, I hate PDFs.
Chuck
On Mar 13, 7:47 pm, Matthew Campbell wrestling.ch...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello Chuck.
Sadly, iBooks will not work in this
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