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

[Beth]

I remember many times the lights were off and my photos came out 
blank!  So yeah, like whuaft Ignasi says, keep a light on so you 
can take a photo.
Beth

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Ignasi Cambra <ignasicambra at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 00:26:53 -0700
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Best OCR Apps for the iPhone?

Once you get used to doing it the right way it really doesn't 
take
much patience. Just keep trying and find the right way to do it. 
Try
having the paper you are trying to scan on a flat surface such as 
a
table, and make sure the light is on.

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 2, 2012, at 7:14 PM, josh gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com> 
wrote:

 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-oc
r-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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