You need to use an OCR package. Voice Dream Reader is not an OCR package. Prizmo can OCR images from your camera roll. For this solution to work, you need to get the PDF page image into the camera roll.
1) Open the PDF file. I do this from directly in mail. 2) Press home and power buttons at the same time to take a screen shot of the first page of the image. The screen shot will be the last photo in your photo album. If there are more than one page in the PDF file: 3) use a three finger flick up to advance the PDF image to the next page. Follow steps 2 and 3 until pictures have been captured of the entire PDF. 4) Open Prizmo and select text. 5) Select the OCR from image option. 6) Remember how many images you captured and count back that many images, or start with an empty photo book. Follow the prompts to OCR the images and save the resulting text files. You will get a separate file for each page. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 14/03/2013, at 11:06, Matthew Campbell <wrestling.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all. > I'm just wondering if anyone has found a way to take an image based pdf file > and turn it in to text from an IOS device? I've got text books from the > college that come as image based pdf files and would like to be able to read > them on my iPhone 5 or iPad 2 instead of the computer. I can do this, but > that requires me to use a computer first to OCR the images of the pages and > then save them as text or rtf files. It'd be nice to skip this step if > possible, and would allow me to study from an IOS device more effectively. > Does VoiceDream maybe do this? > Thanks for any opinions and suggestions. > Matthew Campbell. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
