Hi Annie, If you want to OCR books, you may be better off using Prizmo, unless you can get used to doing a good alignment of the pages. David's earlier suggestion was that you take a series of pictures with the Camera, and then process them one by one through Prizmo by selecting them in sequence from your camera roll. If you do this, I'd suggest that you take the pictures with the ClearCam app instead of the straight camera. ClearCam is an app by Occipitial -- the same people who developed the Red Laser barcode scanning app with a new algorithm for very fast acquisition. With ClearCam, the app fires a quick sequence of exposures, and then chooses the clearest image to save to the camera roll. It's almost never the first shot. If you haven't mastered tapping lightly enough to trigger the camera, this process ensures that any jitter or blur you may have introduced by tapping to start the exposure is compensated for by being able to use a clearer picture that is taken later in the sequence. This app is $0.99 in the app store: • ClearCam ($0.99 and just updated April 1, 2013) by Occipital https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clearcam/id364930963?mt=8
You can check whether the same images run through TextGrabber give adequate OCR. Actually, with TextGrabber there are a few ways that I get around the lack of batch conversions. They sort of work for Prizmo, but are clunkier. You can use the copy function and, when review the OCR text results, double tap in the edit field, move focus to the end of the text, and paste in what you've previously copied. Alternatively, just go through and OCR each page in TextGrabber without saving the scanned images. Then use the history function to pull up the text for the scan resukts of the individual pages. It's easier to do copy and paste with these resukts when you don't have to do the camera setups in between. If you save the final merged text to an email, you don't have to send it, but use the delete button, and when queried, don't go through with removing the post, but save it to your drafts. this also works as an intermediate storage, One comment: many of these Camera apps work from the camera roll, and can OCR. ZoomReader, which I've also used, works OK for taking pictures directly, but unlike Prizmo and TextGrabber, it doesn't do a good job of handling images that are rotated by 90 degrees or upside down when run from the camera roll. this is despite the fact that it will handle the different orientations when you take the picture with the camera. Even when alignment is near perfect, ZoomReader can fail to OCR from the camera roll. I think this is because the app is designed for people with some vision, who hold the iPhone camera upright (to point the camera as though you were taking a photo of someone standing in front of you, instead of pointing down at a table or at the bottom of the StandScan box.). So the ZoomReader app may be using the gyros in the camera to sense position. Anyway, my experiments with trying to use it to OCR screen captures, which I know are aligned without skewness, and where I deliberately rotate images before processing, shows that this app failed to OCR rotated images. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Apr 2, 2:33 pm, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote: > It may be possible with Text Grabber. I'll test a theory in a couple days and > let you know. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: [email protected] > Mobile:+64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > > On 03/04/2013, at 13:18, Annie Skov Nielsen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi David. > > > Ok when I can do 1 page at a time, but can I in anyway save the pages when > > scanned and recognized to the same document? > > > Best regards Annie. > > On Apr 3, 2013, at 2:00 AM, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Yes, open the camera rather than one of the OCR apps. Take the pictures. > >> When ready to OCR and read, open the OCR app and recognise from image > >> rather than camera. You cannot do batch recognition. It is one page at a > >> time. > > >> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > >> Email: [email protected] > >> Mobile:+64 21 2288 288 > >> Sent from my iPhone > > >> On 03/04/2013, at 12:47, Annie Skov Nielsen <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > > >>> Hi all. > > >>> I got the standscan to work. I am impressed. > > >>> It is easy to scan now, I have never felt that way before with my phone, > >>> it has always been something I could try if I had a lot of time to do it. > >>> . I am getting results close to the good results I get from finereader 11 > >>> in windows on vmware, that is really great. > > >>> I have tried with prizmo and textgrabber, but I get the best results with > >>> prizmo, but I will try to look into textgrabbers settings. > > >>> Is there any way to take pictures of more pages and afterwards recognize > >>> them. > > >>> I also see a differens in which direction the phone is turned depending > >>> on if it is a left or a wright page, I am scanning. > >>> Best regards Annie. > > >>> -- > >>> 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, > > 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. 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