I agree Richard, this is a great product even in Beta. I would certainly think it should be more than the $5.00. I think the author have to have enough incentive in order to continue to develop such great applications.
Thanks From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 1:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Voice Dream Scanner beta it already blows Seeing AI away with the fact that you can do multipage documents in a batch and save as one file with formatting in tact. And it is all done right on the phone! This is also where it blows KNFB Reader away to because still, for $99.99, they cannot retain formatting. I'd gladly pay quite a bit more for an app this easy to use and especially with the integration with Voice Dream Reader. But, please, try it out and give him the feedback you have on anything and everything about the app. Richard The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." -- Alice Walker On Mar 14, 2019, at 10:33 AM, Michael Feir <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 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 <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftestflight.apple.com%2Fjoin%2F5amQM57U&data=02%7C01%7C%7C7a79687fa09241517f7e08d6a8a31eb7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636881815874177169&sdata=tlSRnrJIZQtZm21tu%2BaNlPxMsp7z%2BUSKJ%2B5w1JM%2FsAw%3D&reserved=0> . 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. 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