Thank you Richard Pearl with open book it’s going to be then. talking about phone apps, can’t KNFB reader Do column recognition? Sent from my iPhone
> On May 20, 2021, at 1:11 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Which scanning application is she using? > If Openbook, then the Pearl camera and Openbook will give better results than > any app on an iPhone at this time. > With Openbook, you can have it separate the facing pages, so you can scan two > pages at once and have them treated as two pages. > Plus, Openbook can deal with columns, where no scanning app can as yet. > > I’m not sure Winston is going to implement column recognition any time soon, > if ever. > > SuperSense is working on column recognition, which would help in separating > facing pages, but I would not try scanning a book with an iPhone or Android > device without a good stand so you don’t have to continually raise the phone > to the perfect spot each time…. > > > > > Richard > "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what > they become by it." > > - John Ruskin, 1819-1900 > > > Web site: www.turner42.com > > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > TaraPrakash > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2021 10:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: scanning apps > > Hi all. Has anyone compared scanning results between voice dream scanner and > Freedom Sscientific Pearl Kamra? Someone wanted help with scanning a book > that would not fit on her flat bed scanner because of a slightly bigger size. > I believe the reach of a camera-based scanning device would be A little more > than a standard flatbed scanner. i assume as far as recognition of the > text is concerned, A computer-based app would give better results because of > better processing speed. > > Any advice is appreciated > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Dec 23, 2020, at 6:46 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Simon, > if you have trouble holding the phone over a document, no app is going to > give great resullts. I do not like KNFB Reader. You may want to consider > getting a scanning stand. I love Voice Dream Scanner, but its way of letting > you know if you have text in view is a tone that plays. The louder the tone, > the more text. If you have it on auto-capture, once you are steady at the > loudest tone for 2 or 3 seconds, it will take the picture. > You want to be 10 to 12 inches above a full 8.5 by 11 document to get the > best results. > Supersense, tells you in words to move farther away, or 1 inch to the left, > etc. Supersense has a free trial, and if you are convinced by it, right now > it is haf price for a lifetime subscription for $49.99. Or there are monthly > or yearly plans. > Voice Dream Scanner on the other hand, is $5.99 one time purchase. > They both have great points about them and Supersense is designed to deal > with more objects than just text. > You could also use the free Seeing AI app to scan a single page. > Good luck. > > > Richard > > "You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a > Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in > deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I > was young." > "Why, what did she tell you?" > "I don't know, I didn't listen." > -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy > > > On Dec 23, 2020, at 3:29 PM, 'Simon Wong' via VIPhone > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yeah I would someday like to try I think it’s called voice dream scanner, I > tried the knfb reader. I didn’t find it very user-friendly, as it was hard to > get All of the page in the camera and it was kind of hard to keep the phone > in one position all the time. > > Sent from my iPhone > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. 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