Hi Anne, I'll need to try this again, but my recollection from trying perfect OCR some months ago is that I got better results using ClearCam to take multiple pictures and then run Perfect OCR on the image from the camera roll as opposed to taking three pictures in the Perfect OCR app. ClearCam is an app that was made by Occipital -- the people who originally made the Red Laser barcode app that eBay bought. Back before we had voice control options, I found that ClearCam was the easiest way to take a picture for OCR that was not blurred if you weren't relying on vision, since it would fire off multiple shots and then save the clearest one to the camera roll, and tell you which one it was. (It was almost never the first one in the sequence, which tells you that there tends to be some camera shake from tapping the button to expose.)
This could have improved since then, since at that time it tended to be a memory hog, and it seems better in that regard. It's certainly worth getting as a free app. It's listed as one of the "notable apps" under the App Advice app guide on "Document Scanners for the iPhone" -- which includes apps that only produce images and have no OCR capability. Here's the excerpted entry: Source: http://appadvice.com/appguides/show/document-scanners-for-the-iphone <begin quote> Perfect OCR: document scanner with high quality OCR by Pixoft Perfect OCR builds on TurboScan, which is also featured in this AppGuide. The app takes all of the great features found in that app like SureScan and adds OCR capabilities. OCR or optical character recognition takes an image and applies a text layer over the image. The app is hit or miss with OCR conversions. If you are working with some standard paper print outs the app performs great. If you try to scan newspapers the app will not perform as well. The app can be a very useful for turning an image into text. <end quote> HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 14, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > I got better results using the camera directly and taking just one picture > rather than taking three. I have no sight at all, and I got middling results. > I'll try again when light conditions are better. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 14 Jul 2012, at 19:58, jeremy wrote: > >> So far, the application works with semi-ok results. Using the camera was a >> bit tricky though. This was made more difficult in my situation do to having >> my phone in a case with a camera cover but my resulting OCR was better than >> anything else I've seen so far. Wasn't able to use any shortcuts to click >> the camera so had to rely on doubletapping the button. The app asks you to >> snap three pictures of the document, in this example the instructions for an >> itunes giftcard. >> I really think that if one were to place the phone in a stand of some sort, >> this app would really work well with what I've noticed. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en.
