Hello,
You'll probably get a lot of replies and the 2 apps which people will recommend the most will be Prizmo and Text Grabber. You may also get a few recommendations for Text Detective and SayText. Apps like Prizmo or Text Grabber are probably every bit as good recognizing stuff as KNFB Reader is. The main cause for poor results are poorly taken pictures where either the lighting is not good enough, the person who takes the picture holds the phone too close, too far away or not parallel to the text etc. People who use the Standscan which is a simple cardboard box where the phone rests above the page you want to scan and looks down through a hole in the top pretty much all get excellent results that often rival those of a flatbed scanner. But it's just the nature of the beast that a blind person can't take a perfect picture, make sure the page is not in shadow and all that. David from New Zealand was a KNFB Reader user before and now uses Prizmo and Text Grabber and he has several times posted reviews where he explains exactly why OCR on an iPhone can be just as good or better. It is my understanding that one of the features which made KNFB Reader relatively easy to use was the fact that it was quite forgiving with respect to focus and alignment, but one should also not forget that Prizmo is $9.99 and KNFB Reader was what, about $1,500? Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Avnish Chopra Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 9:37 PM To: ViPhone Subject: Decent OCR? . I have asked this question before. Is there no good OCR app? I mean some good app like the Text Scout or the KNFB Reader? Is it not high time that we IOS users got a decent one? I have tried at least a dozen applications but none of them are even half as good as the two mentioned earlier. Any suggestions as to how we can get reader onto IOS? Typed with Fleksy <http://fleksy.com/app> -- 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. 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.
