Hi Krister, I'm not a developer, so make no evaluation whatsoever of how much work they had to do to add the tilt guidance, field of view, and the anti-skewing stuff. I still think the price was too high, but as Kevin wrote on Friday, it just works. I know some people put a lot of time into learning to use Prizmo, and I understand that they got good results. I barely have enough time to breathe each day. I get up in the morning and am busy till I go to bed at night. I don't have that kind of time to spend practicing to use an app. So yes, I do think the price is high, but I also know that it meets my needs without requiring a ton of practice time. So I bought it, and I recommend it to others.
As to your question what if someone else built those same features into a mainstream app, I think that'd be fabulous. But right now that hasn't happened, so I'm going with the KNFB reader. Cheers, Donna On Sep 21, 2014, at 3:58 AM, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> wrote: > Well, Prizmo has some kind of guidance similar to the KNFB reader but it > seems to be unreliable at times and i don't think it has the tilt sensor. > What if that was built in? And another question on the same topic: The way we > all, me included skeptical as i am, rave about the KNFB reader, how much do > we really know about what the folks have done to make it this good? What if > it was only the tilt sensor and the field view report and the rest was an > ordinary OCR app? We make it sound like this app is the worlds 8th miracle, > what if it ain't? What if some mainstream developer added at leas the > guidance that Prizmo already has and a tilt sensor and it became just as good? > Sorry for sounding skeptical, i'm just wondering about things. > /Krister > >> 20 sep 2014 kl. 18:41 skrev Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com>: >> >> Well, I can certainly agree that assistive isn't always equal to overpriced, >> and indeed I have owned the flatbed and now own the camera edition Sara, >> both of which have worked quite well, and with mainstream OCR software and >> flatbed scanners, really quite excellently. Anything to lower the cost of >> investment is always useful though. I am hoping to standardise on something >> that is accurate and realistically caters to my needs, and this app looks >> very promising going forward. However I do worry that the cost would not be >> justified if I found another app. I have had all the mentioned apps so >> far--TextDetective, TextGrabber, and Prizmo--and have not even been able to >> choose among these three yet, though Prizmo is now the one on my phone. Can >> anyone suggest ways in which any of these three apps might somehow be >> improved to match the speed and accuracy of KNFB as it now stands? A >> difficult question, I know, but I'm hoping someone knows something I don't. >> This is mostly an exercise in discovery, of course, since I now own all four >> of them. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
