[Blindtlk] Questions about formatting and about picture conversion with KNFB reader

[Chris Nusbaum]

Jim:

Unfortunately, this is the nature of the beast when it comes to OCR
software. The formatting will change slightly or significantly, depending on
how complex a document is. If you are editing the document and need to keep
it formatted in a certain way, I would suggest saving it as a Word file,
opening it on your computer and do the necessary re-formatting in Word.
Having a sighted person double check the formatting before finalizing it is
always a good idea as well.

As to your second question, I don't see why KNFB Reader wouldn't recognize
the text in the picture your friend took, as long as the text is visible
enough to be recognized. You could simply try importing the photo from your
camera roll into KNFB Reader, tell it to recognize, and see what it does. If
it doesn't work, the Seeing AI app from Microsoft can also do this,
sometimes with more accuracy than KNFB.

Hope this helps,

Chris

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Subject: [Blindtlk] Questions about formatting and about picture conversion
with KNFB reader

Good morning,

 

Two questions for you.

A few weeks ago, I was in a class where some handouts were being passed out.
A friend of mine took a picture of the handout he got using my KNFB reader
app.  He'd never seen the app before, and was a bit skeptical about
something that happened while taking the picture.  He said that the
formatting didn't look right or didn't look as it did on the actual handout.
Does the formatting need to be edited or something?

It read OK when I took it home.  So, when the picture is taken, does the
formatting change in some way?  How can I make sure the formatting is the
same?

 

Yesterday, I was in the same class, and my friend accidently used my camera
to take a picture of some papers handed out.

So, now I just have a picture.  I seriously doubt that KNFB reader would
convert such a picture, right?

 

I think that next time, I'll just get my own copies of handouts.  We just
thought we were taking advantage of my pone and the apps.  If anyone knows
how to convert a picture using KNFB reader, I'd love to know.

 

Thanks.

Jim

 

 

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