Where do you get the light box and how much is Scan Scan pro and the light box? Is there a cost for Prizmo. Which one of these ocr works the best or is there a better ocr? I know there is going to be personal choices of which one works best but I want to hear everyone's opinion.
Thanks in advance Ed. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sandratomkins Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 7:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Regarding Prizmo: Heaven knows I'm miserable still Hi, Re this question of how to use Prizmo: below are two fairly long extracts the first taken freehand using Prizmo and the second using the stand scan pro. Neither of these OCR renditions are perfect by any means, however, they are taken from the newspaper and The newspaper has been folded to give me a smaller size to photograph. Especially the one using the stand scan pro had to be folded much more and is by no means lying flat. Thus, at the end of the text there is quite a lot of nonsense and rubbish. So, for anyone new to using OCR packages on their phone, these two renditions do at least give you the flavour of the article in question. I could have chosen to use something flat like a letter and in that case I would expect the results to be very good both FreeHand and using the stand scan pro. But I wanted to demonstrate something that is actually very difficult. In the past, especially freehand, it was very difficult to get any results at all from the newspaper article. The print is so bad and because of the size of the sheet one had to move the phone too far away so the characters would be very tiny. However, Prizmo and TextGrabber are maturing as apps and are becoming more and more usable both FreeHand and using a lightbox like the stand scan pro. With the latest version of Prizmo, I take the shot in the following manner: if I am using the stand scan pro, I placed the phone on the top of the box in the right position, I slide the target text inside the box, then I tap the screen in the middle button where it says quick capture. I touch the same place again and here take picture, so I double tapped That. And Prizmo does all the rest for me. Using Prizmo freehand, nowadays is easier than it used to be. It offers us sound clues and verbal directions to help us find the correct position in which to hold the phone. So, if you're new to using Prizmo and your iPhone I suggest you play with it. Without a light box such as the stand scan pro, it is much more difficult to get a good result, however, it is possible! Good luck, Sandy. Heaven knows I'm miserable still Morrissey's memolrs, the best written by a musician since Dylar~ echo the anger and (vricism of his songs, says ]Veil McCormick Monissey: Autobioqraphy 480PP, PENGUIN CLASSICS, ~ £8.99 (PLUS £1.35 P&P) 0844871 1515 mmmmm ~ "~ ~ anchester is the old I • ] II fire wheezing its last, I • ] I where we all worry I V l ourselves soulless, ..L " ._It. forbidden to be romantic." 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