Hello Nancy, TextGrabber, the program that I said worked slightly better and faster than Prizmo on screen captures, is actually ABBYY's OCR program for iOS devices. The full name is TextGrabber + Translator by ABBYY, but you get better search results in the app store if you just type in TextGrabber (one word with no spaces). It'sa bit confusing, because ABBYY has a number of apps that sound similar. For example, there's an ABBYY Business Card Reader that is specifically for OCR of business cards and creating entries in your contacts, an ABBYY Fine Reader Touch that lets you take pictures and create PDFs and documents by uploading your pictures to their on-line server. (But there's no immediate feedback through OCR to let you train your picture taking if you have no vision). And there's an ABBYY Finereader for the iPhone that lets you take pictures with your camera and create image documents as PDFs or JPGs (again, not readable by the visually impaired.)
Also, the price of the TextGrabber app has been bouncing around a lot. It's gone down to $0.99 several times, but has been as high as $14.99, and was $9.99 for a while. right now it's $3.99. Prizmo is still better if you have to take a picture by hand, without any vision, because it will tolerate slightly more skewed pictures, and still work. But for screen captures, you don't need to worry about aligning the camera for the documents. Both Prizmo and TextGrabber work for other languages, too. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Feb 5, 2:55 am, Nancy Wyman <[email protected]> wrote: > Ester Have you tried Abbyy Fine reader? I'm just asking because it works well > on PDFs on the Mac. There is an app for iPad and iPhone but I haven't tried > it yet. > Nancy > > Nancy Badger, Ph.D > Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services > UT Chattanooga > Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse spelling errors. > > On Feb 4, 2013, at 11:45 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Jodie and Holly, > > > Short of using a web upload service that returns results to you at a > > later time, and which is easier to use from a desktop computer, my > > experience is the same as Jodie's. None of the current iOS OCR apps > > will work with PDF files -- it has to be a jpg or png image files. > > You have to take a screen capture of the page, and then run an OCR on > > the image from your camera roll with an app that lets you do this > > instead of taking a picture with your camera. I've had the best > > results with Prizmo and TextGrabber. Actually, the results doing it > > this way have been slightly better and faster with TextGrabber than > > with Prizmo, provided you turn off the switch for interactive crop in > > the TextGrabber settings. You do have to make sure that the screen's > > display brightness is turned up, and that your screen curtain is not > > on. You also have to process this page by page. > > > Apart from this, if you have printed output, and are on the same wifi > > network as a wireless scanner or all-in-one printer with a scanner, > > the VueScan Mobile app by Hamrick software will let you command a scan > > in high resolution from your iPhone and save the results to your > > camera roll. You the have to run a separate OCR app again. but you > > could distribute the OCR'd text from the printed page(s) you scanned > > to a number to a number of people. VueScan Mobile also lets you work > > with wireless or AirPrint scanners with page feeders. > > > I wrote a recent reply to this question in the AppleVis forums that > > gives details: > >http://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ios-app-discussion/prizmo-question > > > HTH. Cheers, > > > Esther > > > On Feb 4, 3:34 pm, Jodie Hoger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Holly. The only way I have been able to do this with an image of text > >> emailed to me is to take a screen shot of the page which then saves it to > >> the last item on my camera role. From here I can open my preferred ocr app > >> - had best outcomes with prismo, and open the last item on the camera role > >> and it will perform the ocr for me. it is a bit tricky and time consuming > >> and you can only do one page at a time however it is the only work around > >> for this issue for us at this moemnt in time. To take a screen shot of > >> your iphone you hold the home key and power button at the same time. You > >> will hear the camera shutter sound so you know you have taken the shot. > >> Hope this is somewhat useful. > >> Jo > > >> Sent from my iPhone > > >> On 03/02/2013, at 7:34 AM, "Holly" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> Does anyone know of an app that will allow me to import a PDF that is a > >>> scanned immage and perform OCR on it? Some of my school articles are like > >>> this, and I'd like a way to access them on my phone. Perhaps I'll send > >>> the Devs of Text Detective a request to add this feature. 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