The person said scanned PDF. iBooks does not OCR scanned pages. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone
On 14/03/2013, at 15:29, Chuck Dean <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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, >>> 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. 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