Sandy, so, how slowly is "slowly?" I've not practice a ton, but I practiced quite a bit and seldom got any results, as in, it almost never beeped. So, how long does it take you to go from on the page to it beeping, and how high up is the phone when it does beep? Thanks, Richard
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sandy Tomkins Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 1:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: another scanning app? Hello, Chiming in here: I downloaded both Perfect OCR and Text Detective over the weekend. Now, my experience with these scanning apps teaches me that practise makes nearly perfect, but I must say that so far I get much, much better results with both prizmo and SayText. Indeed, I am finding that SayText is becoming my scanning app of preference! Even over Prizmo. Prizmo is always worth having onboard for those really tricky documents that SayText just wont manage, but for the majority of the time, I find SayText the easiest, most intuitive and, very often, the best at giving good results, of all the scanning apps. As yet, I have not had any sort of readable results from Text Detective, but must admit that SayText was the same at the beginning, so, maybe, I will be singing its praises after the next update, however, for now, I would recommend SayText, which, I think, is still free? Could be wrong about that though.If it is, I would highly recommend people to give it a try, you will see what I mean about ease of use, but you do have to lift the phone till you hear the beeps, moving it slowly higher and higher till you hear them, then waiting for the click of the camera. Happy snapping, Sandy. Sent from my iPhone On 15 Jul 2012, at 21:05, "Michael Malver" <[email protected]> wrote: I tried it. I love its intuitive, simple interface. Click the scan button, and if text is available, it appears in an edit box. The phone vibrates when recognition begins so you know if text is detected. If text is not detected, you are told, and scanning is performed again. In other words, you can reposition the document and camera without having to activate the scan button again. I found the accuracy to be rather bad, but I freely admit I'm not a great camera user, so suspect I may be the cause of at least some of the errors. At $1.99, I feel it's a program to purchase and watch as it develops. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maria Chapman Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 2:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: another scanning app? HI. have seen this one discussed on applevis. has anyone tried this app? It's called text detective. From what i can gather, it scans for text automatically and tells the user when or if it has found text. here is the link. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textdetective/id541494875?mt=8# <http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textdetective/id541494875?mt=8> God Bless! Maria from australia Newbie mac user. [email protected] will get you fb as well as email & iMessage. skype same as email,without the gmail part. twitter bubbygirl -- 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. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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.
