Which surely means that it does almost nothing, as surely a sighted person can take a picture of a receipt with the camera? Cheers Alex-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Sent: 25 July 2012 23:10 To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: More Re: New scanning app from ABBY
Hello, I have a sighted person play with the app and this is what does. It takes pictures of things like receipts and the like and puts them on your camera roll. Then you can either email them, as well as saving in a dropbox file and a few other on-line storage systems. So, for a blind person, it doesn't do anything, however, for a sighted person, it is just another app for copying receipts and the like. This concludes my findings. On Jul 25, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Dan <key...@comcast.net> wrote: > Ok, > I purchased the darn thing, thinking that it would also scan documents using the camera. > I am really pleased with how well ABBYY does on the Mac. > Interestingly enough, when you activate the app, it does have the view finder and 2 on/off buttons as well as documents and a camera button. > When I press the camera button, the flash comes on for about 5 seconds or so and then shuts off. But during this time, ABBYY does not give any prompts. > I'll have to have someone sighted to play with it. > Just my findings so far. > > On Jul 25, 2012, at 2:28 PM, "Rick Alfaro" <rick.alf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Interesting, looks like you are correct. After reading more carefully, it >> actually doesn't mention OCR anywhere in the description. You would think >> it would at least integrate with Text Grabber but I guess not. >> >> Rick >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of David Chittenden >> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:28 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: New scanning app from ABBY >> >> It doesn't OCR. It scans images to PDF or jpeg. >> >> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >> Email: dchitten...@gmail.com >> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 26/07/2012, at 3:33, "Rick Alfaro" <rick.alf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Has anyone tried this new scan/ocr app from the Fine reader folks? >>> I'm wondering if gives any better results than some of the OCR apps. >>> Here's the App Store link for it. >>> >>> http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/finescanner-scanner-for-documents/id534 >>> 203582 >>> ?mt=8 >>> >>> Rick >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
