Hello there, Firstly, happy independence day to all members!
and now, I am not sure weather it has been alredy shared or not, but if you are looking for a free and accessible alternative to scan your documents and convert into readable digital text in word, ppt or pdf format, you might try the Office Lens app by Microsoft. What makes it better than other ocr scanning apps is its simple and accessible interface and its smart algorithm that have ability to refine and produce a cropped clean image, that optimizes the ocr and you get satisfactory results. It oppens with camera and on its bottom, you can choose weather you want to capture it as a picture, document or white board. While taking picture, keep the object that you want to scan focused for some time, before clicking, it will allow the camera to adjust to get a optimized picture, as there is no audio feedback while using the camera, you might need to use your imagination at its best. After clicking, the image would be displayed, if it seems good, tap on the done button at upper right corner or tap on retake button at upper left corner to take the picture again. After you hit the done button the list would appear with lots of options like export to One note, Onedrive, word, powerpoint, pdf etc. and tap whatever option you like, then You will have to enter your microsoft account login details, or create a new account, you need to do this only for the first time. After that, the screenmight go inactive for some time as it processes the document and on my iphone 4s, it took around 2 minuts to convert a page of a medium sized novel. The result gets directly saved over the cloud when you tap to open the converted document, it gets downloded from there, once open you can share this document to save it on other apps like iBooks or Office suit etc, so that, you do need to download it everytime you need it. Although , you could not do batch scanning, like KNFB Reader or Cam Scanner, this small app could become useful in many ways, atleast you will not have to run to get your certificates or photo scanned everytime. This app is available for both iOS and Android and you can download it from the App stor e or play store or through the following links: Apple App Store: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/in/app/office-lens/id975925059?mt=8&at=1000l5aY Google Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officelens&hl=en Also, if there is any such better app, please let me know and gratify. I'll be happy to know. With best regards, Ajay Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
