I am also assuming that he has the PDF files and not the print out. Chuck
On Mar 13, 7:35 pm, Christopher Chaltain <chalt...@gmail.com> wrote: > The original question asked about image based PDF's, so I suspect OCR > will be involved, but of course, there's no harm in trying iBooks. > > On 03/13/2013 09:29 PM, Chuck Dean wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > -- > Christopher (CJ) > chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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