[nabs-l] Best OCR Apps for the iPhone?

[josh gregory]

This is just me. But, I personally find the iPhone quite difficult to
line up properly with the paper you're trying to scan. It'll work, but
it'll also take time and patience.
Hth,
Josh

On 8/2/12, Bryan Jones <opensesame at me.com> wrote:
> Hi Arielle,
>
> I've personally had good success using Prizmo to OCR some course materials
> as well as, mail, business cards, etc, but I've also heard from many folks
> who struggle to get decent results with Prizmo or any of the IOS OCR Apps.
> It takes some patience and practice, and it seems to help if you have an
> iPhone 4 or 4S, both of which have better cameras than the iPhone 3GS. I've
> pasted a link to a great beginner's guide to using Prizmo from the Applevis
> website, which is a good resource for reviews and discussion of accessible
> IOS Apps. I've also pasted links below to 3 of the most popular OCR Apps,
> but there are many more which you can find by searching that same site.
>
> A Guide to using Prizmo:
> http://www.applevis.com/guides/guide-using-prizmo-scanning-and-ocr-application-iphone
>
> Prizmo review:
> http://www.applevis.com/ios-app-directory/lifestyle/prizmo
>
> SayText review:
> http://www.applevis.com/ios-app-directory/productivity/saytext
>
> TextDetective review:
> http://applevis.com/ios-app-directory/utilities/textdetective
>
> HTH,
> Cheers,
> Bryan
>
> On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:09 PM, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I got an iPhone about two months ago and I have heard there are some
>> good apps for reading printed text (mail, handouts etc.) Do any of you
>> have suggestions regarding the most reliable OCR apps to get? One
>> issue I have is that I have really bad aim when taking photos with a
>> phone camera, so I would like to get one that is highly accurate
>> and/or that provides viewfinder feedback.
>> I have heard that VizWiz (an app that will send a photo of something
>> to a human reader who will send back a translation within a few
>> minutes) is good, but I would like to use a software app so I don't
>> have to wait.
>
>
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