Hi all, so, I really tried to use the voice dream scanner. I am not blaming the product, I am blaming the operator. Me! I just don’t know how to use it. I listened to the podcast from Thomas and I just can’t get it.
Lelia Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 10, 2019, at 7:33 AM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Larry and all, > Please contact Winston with this issue/question. > [email protected] > Richard > > > Check out my web site at: www.turner42.com > “The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of > flying. There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack > lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." --Douglas > Adams, from Life, The Universe and Everything, p.59 > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Larry > Lumpkin > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 5:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Voice Dream Scanner. > > I would think that decolumnizing columnar text on a page aught to be a given > feature. OCR has been doing that for decades. I get it that splitting facing > pages probably isn’t available though that would be a wonderful feature. His > recognition is so good that I think many of us are jumping on it and wanting > the program to do lots of things. > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Richard Turner > Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 10:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Voice Dream Scanner. > > > From what I understand, it isn't designed with that in mind. > So it will take some trial and error to see for sure. > I know it is not designed to two two open pages of a book and separate them; > so I suspect two columns may be the same. > Richard > > > Check out my web site at: www.turner42.com > “The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of > flying. There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack > lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." --Douglas > Adams, from Life, The Universe and Everything, p.59 > > The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have > any." -- Alice Walker > > > On Apr 9, 2019, at 7:13 PM, Larry Lumpkin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you mean, Richard, that if a page of text has two columns, the scan > program won’t decolumnize the text? > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Richard Turner > Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 9:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Voice Dream Scanner. > > > It isn't designed for columns at this point. > Something you could write the developer about and request that feature. > Also, there is now a list dedicated to just Voice Dream Products. > The address to subscribe is: > [email protected] > Winston Chen, the developer is a member of that list. > Richard > > > Check out my web site at: www.turner42.com > “The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of > flying. There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack > lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." --Douglas > Adams, from Life, The Universe and Everything, p.59 > > The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have > any." -- Alice Walker > > > On Apr 9, 2019, at 6:58 PM, kitty hevener <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just took the plunge and got it. I couldn’t believe how quickly it scanned > and how accurate the scan was. To echo Reggie, wow!!! How does it handle > material in columns? The document I scanned had no columns. > > From: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2019 8:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Voice Dream Scanner. > > I agree, this is one of the best if not the best scanning app I’ve used so > far. I ran a number of tests on a few complex documents and on some documents > that were not very clear. In all cases with no exception VDS came on top. > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of regina > alvarado > Sent: Monday, April 8, 2019 12:44 PM > To: Viphone <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Voice Dream Scanner. > > I just tried VDS. Wow, is all I can say! Compared to other scanners out there > it outshines them all. I just took a piece of paper, put phone down in the > middle, lifted it up to where the tone was fairly steady and took the > picture. First try, great OCR! Never before on any of these apps did I even > come close on Ocr the first time! My hands shake too much. However, VDS was > immediate! Impressed. > Reggie Alvarado > > On Apr 8, 2019, at 1:27 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > And who really cares if KNFB Reader ups their game or not. It’s a free and > competitive market and one wonders why KNFB Reader costs $100 and Voice Dream > Scanner $5.99. KNFB Reader was developed by the NFB and I assume they do get > grants and such whereas Voice Dream Scanner is developed by a guy who I > assume does not. Maybe Winston has other income than that from his various > apps, but the same applies to the Seeing Eye GPS, at an outright purchase > price of $299 it is pretty expensive especially since Sendero also received a > lot of grants to develop it. > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Larry > Lumpkin > Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2019 7:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Voice Dream Scanner. > > I’m doing scans at our diningroom table with no lights on and am getting > consistently good results. > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dianne > B Phelps > Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2019 9:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Voice Dream Scanner. > > I did read through some mail this morning but felt that as I worked through > what I had, there may have been a degradation in scan quality after doing and > discarding several documents. I tried closing the program and restarting and > finally got something which identified what I had, but just wondering if > anyone else has noted this. It might have been that I was set up at my > kitchen table and I am personally not as comfortable out there as I am in my > big chair, page in my lap, phone to the center of the document, lifting and > positioning properly to get picture. I will play with it some more. Overall, > impressed and pleased and think it will ultimately be useful until or if NFB > gets things back in action with KNFB Reader. > > Russ, Thank you as well for that link. That demonstration was clearer to > hear, and I learned a lot of things with the descriptives there regarding > settings which I can try and work with as well. > > I am pleased with the purchase. 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