iBooks does not OCR. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone
On 14/03/2013, at 14:28, Chuck Dean <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you tried to open the PDFs in iBooks? > I know it can read some PDFs, but I am not sure if the type you are > talking about will work. > > Just a thought, > > Chuck > > On Mar 13, 4:19 pm, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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: [email protected] >> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 14/03/2013, at 11:06, Matthew Campbell <[email protected]> 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, >>> visithttp://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group >>> athttp://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 [email protected]. >>> For more options, visithttps://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/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. > 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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
