Well, for my money, it blows knfbe away. And I paid too much for that app, which has actually kind of gotten worse recently rather than better. It imports PDF files, which is the only reason I have it on my phone. It seems to me the five dollars isn’t quite enough. I agree you can’t charge too much. But five dollars is like giving the thing away, and Winston isn’t Microsoft. Mary
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 14, 2019, at 10:32 AM, Michael Feir <michael.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This seems quite promising as long as he sticks to a low price. I fuly agree > that the effort of developing this new oCr option is worth more. however, > he's up against some well established stiff accessible competition from > Seeing A I, Prizmo Go and of course, KNFb Reader. The only way to get > penetration is with a low price and sufficiently different features or user > interface. People will need to be able to justify getting it either instead > of or, more likely, in adition to one or more OCR apps already owned. Got to > admire the man's pluck and courage. Voice Dream Reader is still a highly > valued app on my iPHONE. > >> On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 1:17 PM Richard Turner <richardturne...@outlook.com> >> wrote: >> For those who have not heard, Winston Chen, the developer of Voice Dream >> Reader, is developing an OCR app called Scanner. It is in public beta, so >> anyone can test it and give him feedback. >> If you also install the Voice Dream Reader beta, you will be able to choose >> Scanner from the Add dialog in VDR. >> >> Here is the latest info from Testflight which you have to have installed in >> order to use the betas but it is free in the app store. >> I've tested the app quite a bit in the two days I've known about it and it >> blows everything else out of the water. >> There is one very annoying thing in beta 3 that I've asked him to disable, >> but if Edge Detection is on, there is a constant tone playing that is truly >> annoying. >> It doesn't say below, but you can use the up volume button to capture the >> image. >> Saving as PDF is not only fully accessible, but it retains any images in the >> document. >> At this point, unless I can convince him to charge more, he is thinking of >> charging $5.00 for the app. >> I think it is worth much more. >> Here is the info from TestFlight. >> >> From Testflight >> Here's the high level stuff: >> >> - State-of-the-art A.I. for OCR and text recognition: Fast and accurate, >> even in poor lighting conditions. Works entirely on device: No need for >> internet and your data stays private. >> >> - Export scans as plain text or PDF with embedded text to another app, or >> save them on your local device, iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive. >> >> - Works with Voice Dream Reader. You need to download the latest beta >> version of Voice Dream Reader, version 4.8.0. If you haven't signed up for >> beta, you can do it here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/5amQM57U. After >> downloading the latest Reader Beta, you will be able access the scanner >> directly from Reader and add scanned documents to your Reader library. >> >> Additional Features: >> >> - Automatic detection of document edges for stretching and cropping >> - Automatic detection of document orientation >> - Automatic image enhancement >> - Batch mode for scanning multiple pages quickly >> - Spoken words are highlighted in the text or the image >> - Select text-to-speech voice and change speed >> - Uses premium voices purchased in Voice Dream Reader >> >> Beta 3: >> - Auto Scan (if an page is detected and phone is held steady for 2 seconds) >> - Audible tone for page detection. VoiceOver only. Should there be a way to >> disable this? >> - Capture Button is now the entire video preview window >> - No longer read content again after enhancing image >> - Minor bug fixes >> >> Beta 2: >> - Improved orientation detection >> - Added option to automatic read text after capture >> - Fix crashes >> >> Beta 1: >> This new app let you scan paper documents with the camera and recognize >> text, listen using built-in text-to-speech, and save and export. >> >> Limitations: Only languages using Latin alphabets are supported. For >> example, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Russian, and Arabic are not supported. >> >> As with all Voice Dream beta tests, we're interested in every kind of >> feedback: nothing is too small or too insignificant. 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