Which Prizmo OCR app is recommended for the IPad pro?

2020-04-05 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi List, I found several Prizmo OCR apps at the app store. Which Prizmo app do you guys recommend for the IPad pro to convert pdf to text for VoiceOver? Thanks Chuck -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns

Contacting TextGrabber & Prizmo Developers

2014-06-19 Thread Georges Zaynoun
Hi folks, I need to urge these devs to add Arabic to their arsenal of languages, how can I contact them? Thanks. -- 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

Re: Latest Prizmo is relatively smooth

2013-12-18 Thread Alex Hall
I haven't tried, but the text is in edit fields so i imagine so. If that fails, there is always that very useful "copy last spoken phrase to clipboard" command, vo-shift-c. Also, Prizmo does allow exporting, but again I haven't used it. I usually just need to know what is

Re: Latest Prizmo is relatively smooth

2013-12-18 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
HI. can you select an copy the text in to say a text edit file? thanks Warm regards and blessings Maria, Joe and FurBabies Email: iMessage:bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 16 Dec 2013, at 12:16 pm, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I got Prizmo for Mac a while ago thanks to a series of promo

Re: Latest Prizmo is relatively smooth

2013-12-16 Thread Phil Halton
ec 15, 2013, at 11:04 PM, John Panarese wrote: > Prizmo has certainly improved as far as the interface goes. I still can't > get the hang of getting any really sharp scans though at this point. Of > course, this could be a case of user error, but I am still getting far better >

Re: Latest Prizmo is relatively smooth

2013-12-15 Thread John Panarese
Prizmo has certainly improved as far as the interface goes. I still can't get the hang of getting any really sharp scans though at this point. Of course, this could be a case of user error, but I am still getting far better results with DocuScan Plus and FineReader Pro. Take Care J

Re: Latest Prizmo is relatively smooth

2013-12-15 Thread Alex Hall
I have no idea, but the Prizmo team is pretty good about responding to users' questions. I don't have an email address here; you'd be best off googling "Prizmo for Mac" and getting the website that way. On Dec 15, 2013, at 8:31 PM, John Sanfilippo wrote: > I

Re: Latest Prizmo is relatively smooth

2013-12-15 Thread John Sanfilippo
Is this a strictly 64 bit app? John On Dec 15, 2013, at 8:16 PM, Alex Hall wrote: Hi all, I got Prizmo for Mac a while ago thanks to a series of promo codes they were giving out on Twitter. When I got it, it was pretty bad and not at all an efficient experience. I just did a scan with

Latest Prizmo is relatively smooth

2013-12-15 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I got Prizmo for Mac a while ago thanks to a series of promo codes they were giving out on Twitter. When I got it, it was pretty bad and not at all an efficient experience. I just did a scan with their latest update; it is still not perfect, but they have come a long way. First, in

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-07-23 Thread Nancy Wyman
photo. >>>>> >>>>> I have read people have gotten it to work so am hopeful there is just >>>>> a bit more of technique needed. >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> Mika >>>>> >>>>> >>

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-07-23 Thread Janet Ingber
Check out ABBYY TextGrabber and Translator. I've reviewed several apps including Prizmo and TextDetective and ABBYY is my favorite. HTH Janet On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:09 AM, Ray Foret jr wrote: > To spaek frankly, I am not impressed either. Text Detective doesn't get me > muc

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-07-23 Thread Ray Foret jr
ly taking the photo. >>>> >>>> I have read people have gotten it to work so am hopeful there is just >>>> a bit more of technique needed. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Mika >>>> >>>> >>>> On 5/15/

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-07-22 Thread Steve Holmes
>>> a bit more of technique needed. >>> >>> Best, >>> Mika >>> >>> >>> On 5/15/13, Kerri wrote: >>>> Does prism work on an iPhone 4? At the risk of sounding cheap, I don't want >>>> to utilize something that

Re: limitations of iPad Mini's camera for OCR apps [was Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo]

2013-07-21 Thread Steve Holmes
iPad mini. Thanks for your additional information and mention of Text Detective; that might be an interesting experiment. On Jul 21, 2013, at 7:59 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I think the iPad mini camera isn't quite good enough for a blind user to > easily use with Prizmo.

limitations of iPad Mini's camera for OCR apps [was Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo]

2013-07-21 Thread Esther
Hi Steve, I think the iPad mini camera isn't quite good enough for a blind user to easily use with Prizmo. If you use a StandScan Pro with a third or fourth generation iPad (assuming that you have this set up with additional support for the iPad), you can get OCR with Prizmo to work. I

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-07-21 Thread Steve Holmes
Has anyone gotten Prizmo to work with an iPad? I have had horrible results with Prismo where other apps like Goggles or Tap Tap See seem to work better. The iPad Mini does not have a flash with its camera. On Jun 14, 2013, at 6:36 AM, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: > Hi Anne. > > I use

Re: how long should Prizmo take to scan?

2013-06-16 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Alex, That seems ridiculously slow. I'm sure it was much quicker than that for me. However, I don't like Prizmo for the Mac anyway. Cheers, Anne On 16 Jun 2013, at 21:51, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying Prizmo again, now that I replaced my scanne

how long should Prizmo take to scan?

2013-06-16 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I'm trying Prizmo again, now that I replaced my scanner with one that works. However, it takes around three or four minutes to scan one page, yet making a photocopy with the same printer/scanner takes no time at all. Is the scanning process different, or is Prizmo just slow? I

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-14 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Anne. I used goggles with standscan yesterday, there was some creams which I could not find the barcodes on, nothing worked. At last I used standscan and talking goggles, If you lift your item a little inside the standscan it works pretty good. I would like, if the results where shown in bra

text-grabber vs. Prismo (was Almost perfect scan with Prizmo)

2013-06-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Yesterday afternoon I was messing around with both these apps to try and figure out if one is better. So far my results are inconclusive, I wasn't 100% happy with either scan. I was just holding the phone in my hand, I was not using a StandScan Pro or Scanbox. Just curious whether an

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-14 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, thanks for letting me know. my serch for a batch OCR ap for mac continues. Michael On 14/06/2013, at 8:59 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Michael, the app we're discussing here is for iPhone and other IOS devices, > not for the Mac. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 14 Jun 2013, at 11:54, Mich

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Michael, the app we're discussing here is for iPhone and other IOS devices, not for the Mac. Cheers, Anne On 14 Jun 2013, at 11:54, Michael Marshall wrote: > hey, > just wondering can this program do PDF files? if so can it batch convert? > thanks > > Michael -- You received this message

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-14 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, just wondering can this program do PDF files? if so can it batch convert? thanks Michael On 14/06/2013, at 6:46 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Fantastic, thanks, Anne! You've given me the confidence and encouragement I > need to go out and order myself one. I think it's going to make a big

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Nick, I find that Talking Goggles doesn't really work for me with the StandScan Pro, but it works great freehand in front of the kitchen window. It's in the kitchen that I use it most to identify things like jars of pâté or pachaged cold meats. Cheers, Anne On 14 Jun 2013, at 10:46, Ni

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-14 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
If the boxes were made of plastic rather than what they are made of now i'd get one. On 14 Jun 2013, at 09:39 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Kawal, > > There are two similar boxes to help with scanning using a smart phone. > There's StandScan Pro and ScanBox. The StandScan Pro is shipped

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-14 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Fantastic, thanks, Anne! You've given me the confidence and encouragement I need to go out and order myself one. I think it's going to make a big difference. Have you had any luck using the StandScan with Talking Gogles or one of those video-based apps which automatically read the results aloud

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Kawal, There are two similar boxes to help with scanning using a smart phone. There's StandScan Pro and ScanBox. The StandScan Pro is shipped from Hongkong and the Scan Box comes from Australia. They both work on the same principle of providing ideal lighting and positioning with no diffi

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-14 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Is it the same box that people were on about? The one you could get from Hong Kong? On 14 Jun 2013, at 01:14 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > I had doing some experimentation with Prizmo, and had mixed results. My > husband got me this box called scan box. He got it from Amazon. Using it, I

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Nick, I've been using the StandScan Pro for about three months now and would highly recommend it. My preferred OCR app for use with the StandScan Pro is TextGrabber + Translator which can handle three different languages at once and produces even better results than Prizmo. I use

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-14 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Have any of you tried StandScan? I've heard it's pretty good. I'm thinking about trying it myself. -- 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 macvisionar

Re: Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-13 Thread Ray Foret jr
the tip. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Jun 13, 2013, at 7:14 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > I had doing some experimentation with Prizmo, and had mi

Almost perfect scan with Prizmo

2013-06-13 Thread Eugenia Firth
I had doing some experimentation with Prizmo, and had mixed results. My husband got me this box called scan box. He got it from Amazon. Using it, I was able to get almost a perfect stand of a letter I got. True, the printing was very good, but I also read a bill and was able to figure out who

Re: Major problems with my first Prizmo scan

2013-06-11 Thread Anne Robertson
n the fundament! Sorry not to be of more help. Cheers, Anne On 12 Jun 2013, at 02:36, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I finally have my 2400 DPI Epson printer/scanner set up, so I grabbed the > free trial of Prizmo and gave it a shot. I used the manual the printer came > with as a tes

Major problems with my first Prizmo scan

2013-06-11 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I finally have my 2400 DPI Epson printer/scanner set up, so I grabbed the free trial of Prizmo and gave it a shot. I used the manual the printer came with as a test document. 1. The app has a bunch of unlabeled buttons and seems very cluttered. 2. There are options that make no sense at

Re: Prizmo

2013-06-09 Thread Anne Robertson
it does a good job very simply. I think the problem with Prizmo is that it doesn't seem to handle two pages at once, which for me is useless as it takes much too long to scan books one page at a time. Cheers, Anne On 9 Jun 2013, at 21:26, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Hi Anne, >

Re: Prizmo

2013-06-09 Thread Alex Hall
When I tweeted Prizmo about bad results on the iPhone, they told me to send them the results and a picture so they could investigate. If you could, would you please send them the text Abbyy and Prizmo gave you, plus a raw scan of the page (before OCR)? They really try, and I say that because of

Re: Prizmo

2013-06-09 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Anne, OK, that's really bad. Actually I conciddered to buy Prizmo but now I'll think about it. ;-) What I don't like on Finereader: - my scaner isn't recognized by Finereader - I'm not able to scan more than one page in a document - before I can read the text I have

Re: Prizmo

2013-06-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jürgen, I've got the latest version of Prizmo. I had to delete the version that was on my MBA as it wouldn't work any more and download the latest version. I bought it quite a while back and, although it was usable then, it was messy. I still think it's messy comp

Re: Prizmo

2013-06-09 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Anne, thanks for the reply.. From what version of Prizmo are you talking? I downloaded version 2.0.7 and from my first impression it seems pretty good. There are no unlabeld buttons - at least I haven't found them. Also: In the settings I could enable recognition of orientation - at

Re: Prizmo

2013-06-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jürgen, Prizmo for Mac is sort of accessible but horrible to use. It does not take care of orientation which is its worst fault. Also, you have to read the Help tags for most of the buttons and you often have to bring the mouse and use VO-Shift-Space to click buttons. To select your

Prizmo

2013-06-09 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, I now downloaded the demo version of Prizmo 2 and all in all it seems to be very accessible. Great. But what doesn't work is to scan a text. If I press CMD + Shift + i to scan, a dialogue apears where I need to choose a scaner. In the scrol area I found "CanoScan LiDE 200&q

Re: OCR: what does Abbyy offer that Prizmo does not?

2013-06-05 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Just one correction: It is true that DocuScan cannot do OCR on JPGs, which is a shame, but it can scan multiple pages into one file. I do this all the time and it is really easy. Cheers, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To

Re: OCR: what does Abbyy offer that Prizmo does not?

2013-06-04 Thread Alex Hall
When you say "better", do you mean better than Viewscan or Prizmo? Prizmo on the iPhone is remarkable provided you have good lighting, and a scanner, of course, has perfect lighting. Are there podcasts of these three apps in use? Maybe that would help... On Jun 4, 2013, at 4:55 PM

Re: OCR: what does Abbyy offer that Prizmo does not?

2013-06-04 Thread Henry D. Hollithron
ering trying the iPhone version of Prismo, but that is my opinion at present. HTH: Henry Education never ends. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last. Sherlock Holmes On 04.06.2013, at 15:58, Alex Hall wrote: > When you say "better", do you mean better than Viewscan

Re: OCR: what does Abbyy offer that Prizmo does not?

2013-06-04 Thread Henry D. Hollithron
: > But have you ever used Prizmo? From what I read it is a very nice solution, > but people keep recommending ViewScan and Abbyy as well. Each is rather > expensive, so I'd really like to know which is superior before I buy one. > On Jun 4, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote:

Re: OCR: what does Abbyy offer that Prizmo does not?

2013-06-04 Thread Alex Hall
But have you ever used Prizmo? From what I read it is a very nice solution, but people keep recommending ViewScan and Abbyy as well. Each is rather expensive, so I'd really like to know which is superior before I buy one. On Jun 4, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > I have bo

Re: OCR: what does Abbyy offer that Prizmo does not?

2013-06-04 Thread Eugenia Firth
n Fischler wrote: > I am also curious to hear more about Abby and Prizmo if anyone has used both > of them. I have a cancan and have been using the software that comes with it > to scan into PDF's and reading in preview. Do Prizmo and ABBY scan better as > sometimes my scans come o

Re: OCR: what does Abbyy offer that Prizmo does not?

2013-06-04 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, I think Donna was referring to docuscan, not prizmo when she mentioned cloud based processing. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jun 4, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > I don't know if Prizmo on Mac uses clo

Re: OCR: what does Abbyy offer that Prizmo does not?

2013-06-04 Thread Alex Hall
I don't know if Prizmo on Mac uses cloud-based OCR or not. I know the iPhone app does, but I think the full Mac app is local. I could be wrong, and I could find nothing online to confirm one way or the other. So you're saying Prizmo is cloud-based for OCR? That's a bit of a dis

Re: OCR: what does Abbyy offer that Prizmo does not?

2013-06-04 Thread Donna Goodin
wrote: > Hi all, > Regarding OCR, what is good about Abby Fine Reader? I was just talking to > someone on Twitter who strongly recommends Prizmo over all other OCR apps for > the mac. Docuscan can't handle JPG files or process multiple pages as one > file, and its OCR is clo

Re: OCR: what does Abbyy offer that Prizmo does not?

2013-06-04 Thread Brian Fischler
I am also curious to hear more about Abby and Prizmo if anyone has used both of them. I have a cancan and have been using the software that comes with it to scan into PDF's and reading in preview. Do Prizmo and ABBY scan better as sometimes my scans come out only partially which can be a

OCR: what does Abbyy offer that Prizmo does not?

2013-06-04 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, Regarding OCR, what is good about Abby Fine Reader? I was just talking to someone on Twitter who strongly recommends Prizmo over all other OCR apps for the mac. Docuscan can't handle JPG files or process multiple pages as one file, and its OCR is cloud-based. What about Abby though

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-16 Thread Rahul Bajaj
nt >>> to utilize something that is going to be inferior on my old phone. >>> On 2013-05-15, at 12:41 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: >>> >>>> I'm going to try it later as I've never been successful with it but this >>>> update might help. >>>

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-15 Thread Chris H
rote: I tried the new Prizmo update. I like it a lot. I was never successful at getting Prizmo give me good text until they came out with this update. I know other people of been able to get it to work without that, but not me. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2013, at 4:25 PM,

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-15 Thread Chris H
might help. Kawal. On 15 May 2013, at 01:21 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: I tried the new Prizmo update. I like it a lot. I was never successful at getting Prizmo give me good text until they came out with this update. I know other people of been able to get it to work without that, but not me. Regards

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
l Gucukoglu wrote: >> >>> I'm going to try it later as I've never been successful with it but this >>> update might help. >>> >>> Kawal. >>> >>> On 15 May 2013, at 01:21 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: >>> >>>&g

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-15 Thread Mika Pyyhkala
t;> >> Kawal. >> >> On 15 May 2013, at 01:21 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: >> >>> I tried the new Prizmo update. I like it a lot. I was never successful at >>> getting Prizmo give me good text until they came out with this update. I >>> know other p

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-15 Thread Kerri
gt; update might help. > > Kawal. > > On 15 May 2013, at 01:21 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > >> I tried the new Prizmo update. I like it a lot. I was never successful at >> getting Prizmo give me good text until they came out with this update. I >> know other people o

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Chris H
way, voice over will tell you things like move to the left etc. It will also use the word away if it doesn't see it. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2013, at 10:01 PM, Jed Barton wrote: Hey guys, I just got prizmo installed. I figured I would start out with a simple pr

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Les Kriegler
turn on page identification. That way, >>> voice over will tell you things like move to the left etc. It will also use >>> the word away if it doesn't see it. >>> Regards, >>> Gigi >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
> On May 14, 2013, at 10:01 PM, Jed Barton wrote: >> >>> Hey guys, >>> I just got prizmo installed. I figured I would start out with a simple >>> printed letter that I got. >>> I couldn't find any text, now I know there is stuff there. >&g

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Chris H
It's in Prizmo itself and not in the stock settings app. Chris E-mail and Facebook: challswor...@sky.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@christopherh40 Find my blog at challsworth2.wordpress.com On 15/05/2013 07:08, Les Kriegler wrote: Where is the setting lo

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Eugenia Firth
roud and happy Mac and Iphone user! > > On May 14, 2013, at 10:01 PM, "Jed Barton" wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> I just got prizmo installed. I figured I would start out with a simple >> printed letter that I got. >> I couldn't find any text, now

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-15 Thread Ray Foret Jr
e only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On May 14, 2013, at 10:01 PM, "Jed Barton" wrote: > Hey guys, > I just got prizmo installed. I figured I would start out with

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-15 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I'm going to try it later as I've never been successful with it but this update might help. Kawal. On 15 May 2013, at 01:21 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > I tried the new Prizmo update. I like it a lot. I was never successful at > getting Prizmo give me good text until they ca

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-14 Thread Les Kriegler
like move to the left etc. It will also use the > word away if it doesn't see it. > Regards, > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 14, 2013, at 10:01 PM, Jed Barton wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> I just got prizmo installed. I figured I would start ou

Re: Some prizmo questions

2013-05-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
uys, > I just got prizmo installed. I figured I would start out with a simple > printed letter that I got. > I couldn't find any text, now I know there is stuff there. > So my big question is, what's the magic secret, how far do you hold the > phone away from the docume

Some prizmo questions

2013-05-14 Thread Jed Barton
Hey guys, I just got prizmo installed. I figured I would start out with a simple printed letter that I got. I couldn't find any text, now I know there is stuff there. So my big question is, what's the magic secret, how far do you hold the phone away from the document, doc placement

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-14 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Something to think about anyhow. >> >> >> Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >> built-in! >> Sincerely, >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray >> Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! >> >> On May 14, 2013, a

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-14 Thread David Tanner
anyhow. > > > Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in! > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray > Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! > > On May 14, 2013, at 7:21 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > >>

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-14 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Iphone user! On May 14, 2013, at 7:21 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > I tried the new Prizmo update. I like it a lot. I was never successful at > getting Prizmo give me good text until they came out with this update. I know > other people of been able to get it to work without that, b

RE: The prizmo app

2013-05-14 Thread Jed Barton
: Re: The prizmo app Hi Jed It's on the iPhone and there's no scanner. The iPhone takes a picture of the page and the program does the OCR on it. Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Jed Barton wrote: > Hey guys, > Forgive me as I haven't been following thi

Re: The prizmo app

2013-05-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Jed It's on the iPhone and there's no scanner. The iPhone takes a picture of the page and the program does the OCR on it. Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Jed Barton wrote: > Hey guys, > Forgive me as I haven't been following this too much. > Tell

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
I tried the new Prizmo update. I like it a lot. I was never successful at getting Prizmo give me good text until they came out with this update. I know other people of been able to get it to work without that, but not me. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2013, at 4:25 PM

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-14 Thread Ray Foret Jr
25 PM, Maccessibility wrote: > Maccessibility has posted a new item, 'Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances > VoiceOver Support' > > Prizmo, a scanning, OCR, and speech application for iPhone and iPad, has been > updated with enhanced support for VoiceOver. From the release notes:

The prizmo app

2013-05-14 Thread Jed Barton
Hey guys, Forgive me as I haven't been following this too much. Tell me about this prizmo app. Do I need a scanner, or does the iphone do the work? Thanks, Jed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe

prizmo and the hovercam?

2013-02-05 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, has any one tried prizmo with the hovercam t5v? Thanks, Erik Burggraaf Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the ontario disability support program at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http

Re: Question about Prizmo

2012-05-02 Thread Gigi
m my iPhone On May 2, 2012, at 1:34 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Anne. > Seems to me like I remember you being the one that had Prizmo for the iPhone. > I just got it from the app store. I can a picture taken with the voice > option. However, whenever I get to o c r, I get no

Question about Prizmo

2012-05-02 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Anne. Seems to me like I remember you being the one that had Prizmo for the iPhone. I just got it from the app store. I can a picture taken with the voice option. However, whenever I get to o c r, I get nothing. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? -- You received this message be

prizmo question:

2012-04-08 Thread Chenelle Hancock
hi all, i just purchased the prizmo application over a week ago for my i-phone 4.s. and i wanted to know how do you delete your text from the application? thanks so much i most greatly appreciate it. sincerely, chenelle Sent from my iPhone On Apr 8, 2012, at 4:28 PM, macvisionaries

Re: Prizmo on the Mac!

2011-07-15 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Anne! Well what a Bummer! So at least Me and any others will not have to find out the hard way! Thank you for letting us know! :] Colin! On 15 Jul 2011, at 16:44, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Colin, > > I've tried Prizmo on the Mac and wish I hadn't wasted my

Re: Prizmo on the Mac!

2011-07-15 Thread carolyn Haas
n and that one > beginning with D and Abby fine reader! > Then people really like Prizmo on the Iphone! > But Prizmo is also available for the Mac and I was wondering why that is not > mentioned! > Is the Mac version not as good as the others or is it not vo friendly! > Or no one

Re: Prizmo on the Mac!

2011-07-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Colin, I've tried Prizmo on the Mac and wish I hadn't wasted my money. It's totally unusable. Even for a sighted person it's messy to use as you have to select the block of text you wish to OCR. I was really disappointed since I love Prizmo for the iPhone. I would

Prizmo on the Mac!

2011-07-15 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi all! Sorry to bring up OCR again! But I've seen on the discussions people talking about vu scan and that one beginning with D and Abby fine reader! Then people really like Prizmo on the Iphone! But Prizmo is also available for the Mac and I was wondering why that is not mentioned! Is th

Re: prizmo

2011-06-16 Thread Ben J Bloomgren
M, Craig J Dunlop wrote: > does anyone have instructions for using prizmo on my iPhone? > thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegro

Re: prizmo

2011-06-15 Thread Craig J Dunlop
thanks so much! I should be able to get it working with this. On Jun 15, 2011, at 2:00 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Craig, > > Here are the instructions for Prizmo that Esther posted a little while ago. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > One of the feat

Re: prizmo

2011-06-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Craig, Here are the instructions for Prizmo that Esther posted a little while ago. Cheers, Anne One of the features that contributes to Prizmo's increased effectiveness for visually impaired users is the ability to take pictures with speech control, by saying, "Take Pictu

prizmo

2011-06-14 Thread Craig J Dunlop
does anyone have instructions for using prizmo on my iPhone? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, sen

Setting up the Prizmo OCR app on the iPhone [was Re: Prizmo rides again!]

2011-06-03 Thread Esther
all, I'll preface this by stating that the Prizmo scanning and OCR app for the iPhone, normally priced at $9.99, is on sale this week for $2.99, as posted in the App Deals section of the AppleVis web site. The price has never been this low since the app was introduced late last summer, a

DUPLICAT POSTS was RE: prizmo?

2010-10-03 Thread LaMcAs
] On Behalf Of Søren Jensen Sent: 03 October 2010 19:53 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: prizmo? Hi. It works very well. Prizmo have an awesome OCR. The best I've seen on a Iphone yet. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheb

Re: prizmo?

2010-10-03 Thread erik burggraaf
en wrote: > Hi. > > It works very well. Prizmo have an awesome OCR. The best I've seen on a > Iphone yet. > Best regards > Søren Jensen > Mail & MSN: > s...@coolfortheblind.dk > Website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > > Den Oct 3, 2010 kl. 6:50

Re: prizmo?

2010-10-03 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. It works very well. Prizmo have an awesome OCR. The best I've seen on a Iphone yet. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ Den Oct 3, 2010 kl. 6:50 PM skrev erik burggraaf: > Guys, I am thinking of buying prizmo and

prizmo?

2010-10-03 Thread erik burggraaf
Guys, I am thinking of buying prizmo and an acapella voice for IOS4. Any one have experience with this package? Thanks, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in person, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com -- You