As for which is the best app, both Prizmo and TextGrabber work very well with the stand scan pro. I also find the both of these apps work pretty well when used freehand. However, this is a real skill and many people find it very frustrating to develop it.
For ease of use, TextGrabber has, by far, the easiest interface! I think, were I to recommend one above another, I would suggest starting off with TextGrabber. good luck, Sandy. Sent from my iPhone > On 27 Oct 2013, at 16:28, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ed, > > The name of this accessory is "Standscan" (you might want to read this > letter by letter to get it since it can be difficult to understand and the > Pro version has a strip of LED lights across the top inside. You can get a > wall adapter or a 12 Volt battery adapter which uses 8 Double A batteries. > These 2 items are accessories, the Standscan Pro comes with a 9 Volt battery > adapter which uses one of these square 9 Volt batteries, but some report > that it works better with the 12 Volt wall adapter or 12 Volt battery > adapter since using a single 9 Volt battery doesn't put out quite as much > light. > > You can buy it at www.standscan.com, the Standscan Pro is $30, I think the > wall adapter is $4.50 or $5. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Pinky > Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 9:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Regarding Prizmo: Heaven knows I'm miserable still > > 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." As fans, we approach musical autobiographies with trepidation, > fearing that, stripped of melody and rhythm, our lyrical heroes will reveal > themselves to be unremarkable artists and shallow thinkers. But from the > opening pages of Morrissey's autobiography, which evokes the grim backdrop > of "Victorian knife-plunging Manchester" with relish, you know you are in > good hands. > With characteristic pretension, Morrissey's first book has been published as > a Penguin Classic, a move that has offended purists - something that, one > suspects, was always part of his intention, > > harsh working-class poverty and atrocious education, with only the warmth of > a large Irish family as (inadequate) protection. > Morrissey produces pungent passages on the useless brutality of sink > schools, reminiscences of dejected teachers and tormented children, a cold > burning condemnation of a system where "shame is cattle-prodded into kids > who are in pursuit of bliss amid the unrelenting disapproval". > Still, in the midst of this horror, Morrissey can be sharply amusing. > The sympathy he gains sporting a bandage for a burn teaches him "all I shall > ever need to know about attention and style". He demonstrates how depression > and narcissism can be survival tactics, noting, in passing, that "sadness is > habit forming". > Music and television provided succour, and Morrissey writes illuminatingly > about both, but the real revelation is how his fascination for poetry > (picked up in libraries after school, waiting for his mother to collect him) > helped him develop He seems to understand what makes him so fascinating as > an artist and difficult as a human > > + > Rag > REVIEW BOOKS > > Heaven knows I'm miserable still > > Morrissey's memoirs, the best written by a musMan s&ce Dylan, echo the anger > and lyricism of his songs, says Nell McCormick > > Morrissey: AutobiocjraDhy 480PP, pENGUIN CLASSICS, • £8.99 (PLUS £ 1.35 P&P) > 0844 S71 1515 ~M anchester is the old fire wheezing its last, where we all > worry ourselves soulless, forbidden to be romantic." As tans, we approach > musical autobiographies with txepidation, fearing that, stripped of melody > and rhythm, our lyrical heroes will reveal themselves to be unremarkable > artists and shallow thinkers. But from the opening pages of Morrissey's > autobiography, which evokes the grim backdrop of "Victorian knife-plunging > Manchester" with relish, you know you are in good hands. > With characteristic pretension, Morrissey's first book has been published as > a Penguin Classic, a move that has offended purists - something that, one > suspects, was always part of his intention. > Morrissey carries off this audacious literary heist with a beautifully > measured prose style that comhines a lilting, poetic turn of phrase and an > acute quality of ohservation, revelling in a kind of morbid glee at life's > injustices with arch, understated humour, a langllter that > > harsh working class poverty and atrucious education, with only the warmth of > a large Irish family as {inadequate) protection. > Mon'issey produces pungent passages on the useless brutality of sink > schools, reminiscences of dejected teachers and tormented children, a cold > burning condenmation of a system where "'shame is cattle-prodded into ldds > who are in pursuit of bliss amid the unrelenting disapproval". > Still, in the mi&st of this horror, Morrissey can be sharply amusing. > The ssn'npathy he gains sporting a bandage for a burn teaches him "all 1 > shall ever need to know about attention and style". He demonstrates how > depression and narcissism can be survival tactics, noting, in passing, that > sadness is habit forming". > Music and television provided succour, and Morrissey writes illuminatingly > about both, but the real revelation is how his fascination for poetry > (picked up in libraries after school, waiting for his mother to collect him) > helped him develop He seems to understand what makes him so fascinating as > an artist and difficult as a human such a distinctive style, leading from > the sharp couplets of Edward [,ear mad Hilalre Ballot to Dorothy Parker, > Oscar Wilde, Stevie Smith, WH Auden and John Betjeman, "a monument to the > sadness .of human wrtu . > > is a shadow away from depression > lie quotes long passages of or anger. As such, it is rccognisably favourite > verses that could, with the _~ • . . . . - . > ~ ddition of shimnae, ry guilar lines, the voice ~,t the most distractive > ,l~.,~~th.~_. _.{ -. > ;. ~.-,t-..o~°° 0--- ......... > > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > 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. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > 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. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > 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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