Hello, I believe there are multiple ways to get the text. You can also put the scanned text into a word document, email message and PDF. Once you export the text to one of those you can then use a program to open that file with the text. Hoever if you want to read the results right away you do need to use the immersive reader.
Regards, Greg Wocher > On Apr 22, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > So, it would appear you have to use Immersive reader to get the text scanned > into useable text, is that correct? > My first test since redownloading it had mediocre results. > But, for free, and all, it isn’t bad since you can apparently do multiple > pages and save them. > iDentifi gets better results faster, but you have to copy to the clipboard > and paste each page somewhere if you want to save it. > > Two, free options. > > I will do some more testing. > > Richard > > > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>[mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 9:27 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App > > Tom, > > To test Office Lens with its reproduction of a scanned form, I went to the > IRS website and pulled up a 1040EZ tax form and filled in a few of the > blanks, printed it, and then scanned it with Office Lens in document mode. I > uploaded it to my Microsoft Word app and saved it to Dropbox. A 1040EZ form > is fairly involved with respect to formatting because it contains a lot of > lines and blanks in a tabular format. I was quite impressed with the > formatting of the scanned form by Office Lens and I would think it could be > turned into a form that could be filled in by others using the tools > available within Microsoft Word. > > I hope this helps. > > Alan Lemly > > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>[mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Tom Lange > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 8:52 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Office Lens, New App > > Hi, > I installed Office Lens on my phone quite some time ago but never really paid > much attention to it until I read the information about it in Tidbits. At > first I wasn't thrilled about having to set up a Microsoft account as it was > kind of a pain in the neck to do, but once that was done everything went > smoothly. I have several students who want a scanning app but can't afford > KNFB Reader's hefty price tag, so I showed Office Lens to them and they were > favorably impressed. At first I scanned a single-page document and exported > it into Immersive Reader and let Immersive Reader play it back. Frankly, the > defaukt voice in Immersive Reader sounded a little garbled to my ears and I > found that reading the document with VoiceOver while in Immersive Reader was > cleaner and crisper. Though I didn't test this, I would imagine that I'd be > able to use the VO rotor to navigate by character, word, line and so on and I > doubt that Immersive Reader's playback would let me do that. > Yesterday afternoon I did a second demo for a couple of students and that > time I scanned a multiple-page document. To do that, you do the first page, > then after the image is processed, you tap the Camera button, take your next > shot, let Office Lens process the second picture, then repeat that procedure > until all your pages have been scanned and processed. Tap Save All, then all > of your document images are presumably merged and available as a single > document which can be exported to whatever choices are available. Again, I > dumped them into Immersive Reader and let VO read. The results were clean as > a whistle and reading was seamless. Later on I talked with one of my > coworkers who also uses Office Lens and he agrees with me that it's a very > good app and you sure can't beat the price. Granted it's not as simple to use > as KNFB Reader and it's certainly easier to use than Prizmo, so for me, it's > a keeper. > > I have a question for the person who mentioned that Office Lens preserves or > at least approximates the document formatting. In the past, I've found that > PC-based packages like Open Book and Kurzweil 1000 will "mangle" forms of > various sorts, absolutely destroying their formatting and making them > unusable for anything except determining what information is asked for in the > form. Is it possible to scan something like a job application, then export it > into Word so that a blind person could then fill it out independently on a > computer, print it out and submit it? It would be fabulous if such a scenario > is possible. > > Tom > > > > Sent from my iPhone 7 > > On Apr 20, 2017, at 10:02 PM, Marie <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Glad to hear you are having the same experience I have had. The price is > unbeatable and every software or OS in the world collects information about > how we use our devices so why the big to-do about Microsoft? It is a darn > sight better than paying $99 for KNFB Reader in my opinion. > Marie > > > From: Alan Lemly > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 8:51 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App > > Marie, > > I have to agree with you. I had great success with Office Lens scanning a > two-page homeowners association minutes document. Granted, the document > contained print with a larger font but I liked the app's ability to scan it, > convert every letter correctly, format it with a similar appearance as the > original, and save it as a Word docx file to Dropbox. I did put the camera > mode on document and those using the app should be aware you can pick from > among business card, photo, document, and white board modes by a single > finger swipe up and down on the camera mode button. Also, the app was good > about indicating left and right needed movement when positioning my camera > before taking the picture. I already have a Microsoft account set up in my > iPhone 7 so I wasn't presented with anything having to do with that when > using the app. And I was presented with a screen allowing me to save it from > Word where I opened it directly to the desired folder in Dropbox. It was very > slick and well done even if not as quick as KNFB Reader. You absolutely can't > beat the free price and if you want to capture a document on your phone that > looks like the original, this is the app for that. And I'm not worried about > Microsoft getting access to my business any more than those who are Office > 365 users should be. > > Alan Lemly > > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>[mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Marie > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:01 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Office Lens, New App > > I am amazed that three of you say you did not find this app useful. I just > downloaded it today and am thrilled with what it does and how easy it was to > get started. Strange that our experience would be so different. > Marie > > > From: Richard Turner > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 1:44 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App > > I also tried this app and did not find it very good at all. > For free, the iDentifi app set to Text works great if you don’t mind not be > able to easily save the file. > > Richard > > > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>[mailto:[email protected]] > <mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 1:08 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App > > I tried it and found it less than intuitive. I heard about it from a Cool > Blind Tech Podcast after the CSUN where they mentioned how youcould scan a > business card and it would recognize all the text like names, phone numbers > and so on and you could easily create a contact entry from that and I could > not at all figure out how to do this. > > <> > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>[mailto:[email protected]] > <mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> On Behalf Of Mike B. > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 12:30 PM > To: VIPhone <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Office Lens, New App > > Hi All, > > Got this from Top Tech Tidbits. > 5. Microsoft Office Lens is a free alternative to the KNFB Reader on the > iPhone for reading print: > http://www.rsbc.org.uk/blogs/microsoft-office-lens-review-an-accessible-way-to-read-printed-documents/ > > <http://www.rsbc.org.uk/blogs/microsoft-office-lens-review-an-accessible-way-to-read-printed-documents/> > > > Take care. > Mike > Sent from my iBarstool. 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