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. 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
>>
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