Do all three of these work well with IOS 7? I've tried all of them and I can't remember which but one or two crashed.
On 10/27/13, Sandratomkins <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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