Hi Sandy, I have never used Texj Grabber in a moving vehicle. I'll have to store that in my tips bag for the future. Thanks for the tip on using Facetime. I have never used it, so I'll have to read up on what is involved. I do have plenty of family and friends that have iPhones. Also, MBraille now supports a dot command for it, so it will make it a snap to use it. With Red Laser, it has been hit and miss if I can find the barcode and get it to work. I usually end up using Digit-Eyes or Talking Goggles, which depends on what I need to identify. Text Grabber is my app of choice with the StandScan. It is more accurate than my scan and read software and hardware on my PC. Oh by the way, a cookie fortune is a tiny piece of paper maybe 1/2 X 1-1/2 in size (approx.).
Cheers, Eileen Sent from my iPhone On Feb 2, 2014, at 3:51 AM, Sandratomkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Eileen, > I am afraid I am one of the few people on this list who has never really > liked TapTapSee. When it was free it was at worst a dubious tool for me, but > with the advent of the credit system I just deleted it from my phone. The > tools I tend to use for various types of identification are: textGrabber, > camFind, and red laser. As for fortune cookies, I have never had one! I can > only imagine that the print is very small and His Honour tiny piece of paper? > This would, probably, pose a problem for most of the OCR packages. However, I > will say this: textGrabber has developed into a really useful scanning tool. > It works well FreeHand nowadays. It is easy to turn the flash on which > greatly improves your results. The only time it has let me down was, in fact, > yesterday. I was attempting to show the app off to some other VO users while > we were all travelling together on the train. In the past, I have used, with > some success, both Prizmo and TextGrabber while travelling on the train. But > because TextGrabber has developed a more effective automatic focusing system, > which works well in a steady environment, The movement of the train meant it > can no longer work there. A small price to pay for a really excellent app. > > Speaking personally, rather than use a nap like TapTapSee, I would prefer, if > it was really necessary, to Either use FaceTime or even Facebook to get help > from others to identify something for which my other apps will not work. > > JMT, > Sandy (HRH) > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2 Feb 2014, at 05:05, Eileen Misrahi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> You have a point, but I wondering if Sandy (Queen of OCR) uses TapTapSee >> current version and is having problems with it. I feel like I am fairly >> skillful using OCR apps and before the update to tapTapSee that their were >> numerous times that I needed to retake a picture because of it not being >> identified on the first take. JMO. >> >> Eileen >> On Feb 1, 2014, at 8:00 PM, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Each time you take a picture of a paper with text on it does not guarantee >>> the text will be recognisable, even by a human. Start working with an OCR >>> app to develop an understanding what I am talking about. >>> >>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >>> Email: [email protected] >>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On 2 Feb 2014, at 16:33, "Kay Malmquist" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I need to write this to the people at Tap Tap See, but right now I am >>>> anything but constructive. For some odd reason I love to know what my >>>> fortune cookie says. So I started tap tap see and took a picture. first >>>> come back was, "fortune cookie paper". Brilliant deduction Sherlock. I >>>> am blind not dense. Next came back with numbers. Oops! wrong side so I >>>> flip it over. Then next I get, "white paper with black text". No >>>> kidding! Next I finally am treated to the actual fortune. Now I had >>>> another one stuffed in my jacket pocket so I decided since I was in >>>> picture wasting mode I might as well try for more. First was fortune >>>> cookie paper, then text on white paper, then numbers, my bad again, turn >>>> it over. Then back to same stuff different side. Finally, the words I >>>> had been waiting to hear. all in all, 11 pictures wasted before outcome >>>> is achieved. I have paid for 100 pictures and feel this is a huge rip >>>> off. If I had a way to ask even though in this case I don't feel I should >>>> have to state the obvious, A lot of time and wasted effort could have >>>> been eliminated. 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