Hi, While looking for list recorder, I came across an app called Lumen trails. L u m e n trails. It claims it's fully compatible with voiceover. Has anyone tried this?, It says you can track anything. Expense reports, calories, cigarettes smoked if you're quitting, to do lists, etc. Beth
Sent from my iPhone On May 7, 2013, at 1:20 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi Kim, > > The most liked OCR apps for users on this list are Prizmo and Text Grabber. > However, taking a picture free hand and getting good OCR results is difficult > for most blind people because you never know if the lighting is really good, > are you holding the phone at the perfect distance, are you holding it > parallel to what you are trying to scan etc. > > If you are able to do this in your office and you don’t have or don’t want to > use a flatbed scanner with something like Openbook, your best solution would > be a product called Standscan. You can search the archives for that word and > you’ll find a lot of posts from March about the Standscan. It is basically a > very simple cardboard box which is open to the front (facing you). It folds > flat and when you unfold it, magnets hold it together in its box shape. The > Pro version which costs $29.95 also has a number of LED Lights and you can > operate it either with a battery pack or by plugging it in to a wall outlet > with a power supply. The top of the box has a hole and you would put your > iPhone on top with the camera lense pointing straight down through the hole. > The LED Lights provide optimal lighting and the way the box is constructed > means the camera is at the correct distance to take a picture of a letter > size piece of paper. You can get very good scan results, but I would hesitate > to trust the scans with receipts because often the print quality of receipts > especially if they are printed with a thermal printer is not the best. In any > case, this would be as good as it gets as far as OCR with the iPhone is > concerned. It would probably a lot more reliable if you use an app like list > recorder and just ask for the few pieces of relevant information at the > store, hotel or wherever you may be, all you need would be the > receipt/invoice number, the date and amount possibly split up into the amount > for the product or service and tax if that applies to your State. You could > just ask the sales clerk for that information and record it. > > If you want to get a Standscan, you can do so at www.Standscan.com > The Standscan does fold very flat and is very portable when it’s in that > state, but even though you can learn to set it up relatively quickly, I would > say it’s not something you want to do while you are at the counter at the > store. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Kim Samco > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 8:38 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Expense reports? > > Hello, > > Have any of you found any apps that will take a picture of a receipt and then > tell you what the receipt is? I’ve tried various OCR apps but either the > apps have a problem, or I have a problem having any success with small > receipts. > > I need to start doing my own expense reports for my employer and, of course, > reading the receipts is a problem. > > Thanks! > > Kim > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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