Hi Dan, Rick, and Others, Dan is correct. I carefully read through the app description when this thread first came up, and I think it simply captures an image at high resolution that can be sent to Dropbox, printed, or sent in image format to iBooks, etc. What's different about this app from TextGrabber and many other scanning apps for the iPhone is that it will save to either jpg or pdf format. Perfect OCR also had that ability, I think. Practically speaking, I believe you could send the results of this image capture to a desktop computer program that does OCR, and use more options. But without the feedback on whether the image you took was aligned, it would be hard to use. You could capture to the camera roll and try to send the results to TextGrabber, Prizmo, or Perfect OCR, and check whether those apps worked. In principle, this could give you access to higher quality scanning options, but the program itself does not OCR.
I can imagine using this with a camera stand accessory, such as the Kickstarter Scanbox product. (I haven't gotten this app, so comments are only based on reading the descriptions.) HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 25, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Dan 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" <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of David Chittenden >> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:28 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: New scanning app from ABBY >> >> It doesn't OCR. It scans images to PDF or jpeg. >> >> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >> Email: [email protected] >> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 26/07/2012, at 3:33, "Rick Alfaro" <[email protected]> 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/[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.
