Gordon,
I’m afraid I dan’t disagree with you more. If a hundred dollars for an app is too rich for your blood, that is fine. Not all people living on a fixed income can afford it. I have been totally blind for about 40 years and I get very good results with the KNFB app. I do understand that some blind people have more trouble seeing their position in space but it can be worked on. Sometimes simple tricks can help. Bashing the software is not the solution as, in my opinion, it really is the best app for freehand OCR out there. Keep asking questions and, at some point, it will click and you will be the first one to say: “How can I have had so much trouble”. You may not believe this but, I know some people who take the picture first as they are usually aligned properly on their own and only use the field of view report as a second choice if it didn’t work well enough the first time. I am practicing this and have to say I am doing very well with it. The purpose of this list is to help one another so, ask away! Ron & Danvers From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2016 3:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Amedia Live Reader Gordon, I have to disagree with you. For several years now, I have had very good results freehand first with Prizmo and now with KNFBReader and I’m totally blind. I think what makes the difference is whether we have good spacial awareness or not. I was able to see perfectly as a young child, and although I’ve seen nothing at all for around 55 years, my visual memory is good. This helps me understand how to use apps with the camera. Cheers, Anne On 1 Jul 2016, at 22:02, Gordan Radić <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hi! Whatever people are saying, I never believed in ferrytales. Blind people acurately scanning text documents on the fly is just a ferrytale to me. I managed to get some decent results with KNFB Reader and Textgrabber but those were third or fourth shots in both apps. Giving hundreed bucks for KNFB Reader just to get some partial results is too much for me; fortunately, Textgrabber went free and now has in-app purchases for translations. Without a decent phone stand such as Fopydo or something else there's no purpose in acquiring OCR apps and that's my humble opinion. S poštovanjem <mailto://[email protected]> Gordan Radić <http://www.nemoviz.org/> <nemoviz_animated.gif> <mailto://[email protected]> <email.png> <http://www.facebook.com/nemoviz> <facebook.png> <http://www.twitter.com/nemoviz2014> <twitter.png> 1.7.2016. u 20:43, Grant je napisao/la: Hi Joe, unfortunately, I couldn’t get Amedia to work reliably. Occasionally, when my phone’s camera was pointed at a printed page, one or two partial lines of text would be read aloud, generally in incomplete form. I sought sighted assistance to make sure that I was in fact aligning the camera and the document correctly and was told that the image was in fact being displayed on the screen. I also tried Amedia and KNFB Reader side by side with two documents, again with sighted assistance,and KNFB performed OCR correctly whereas Amedia only read a couple lines of garbled text. Like you, I have some trouble with KNFB Reader also, but in my case I know that’s because I have difficulty aligning the camera with the page perfectly. I don’t think there’s any question that you’ll get better results with KNFB Reader though. For live text recognition, Talking Goggles does a reasonable enough job so at least you’ll know what document you’re holding. It requires an internet connection to work, but there’s a free, ad-supported version. I accessed my receipt for Amedia Live Reader from the iTunes Store and reported that the app wasn’t functioning for me, but I wasn’t offered a refund. 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