iBooks can read most PDFs so there is no need for OCR . It is worth a try.
Chuck On Mar 13, 6:49 pm, David Chittenden <dchitten...@gmail.com> wrote: > iBooks does not OCR. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: dchitten...@gmail.com > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > > On 14/03/2013, at 14:28, Chuck Dean <chuckd...@me.com> 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 <dchitten...@gmail.com> 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: 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, > >>> visithttp://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 > >>> 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>> 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, > > visithttp://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 > > 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > 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/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.
