Hello, Dane, Glenn, Anne, and Others, If you are using these OCR apps freehand, then the results will depend of how well you have mastered holding the iPhone flat and aligned with the page. Most totally blind users will probably get better results from Prizmo in that circumstance. You can train yourself to use these OCR apps freehand with a good deal of practice. Using a support platform like the StandScan Pro, that difference goes away, although I think Prizmo is still slightly more tolerant of pages that are not perfectly aligned.
Both Prizmo and TextGrabber offer translation options (but only at the Google Translate level). TextGrabber is slightly more optimized for the multi-language environment in terms of its support. Not only will TextGrabber OCR up to 3 different languages on the same page as Anne described, but its native support for OCR of non-European languages is better. (I know we have some Russian speakers on list; you'll get better OCR results from TextGrabber all other things being equal.) In TextGrabber you can keep separate track of the original OCR and translated text. For English only use, these are still two of the best OCR apps in App Store (irrespective of the their VoiceOver support). Prizmo may do better at screening out images mixed in with text. They use different OCR engines, so there are occasions where one or the other may work better on straight text. One really useful feature of Prizmo is the ability to OCR from PDF documents, not just jpeg images from the camera roll. For Ian, or anyone expecting to receive scanned PDF handouts while in university, for example, Prizmo will directly OCR the results from this format. This doesn't require your iOS device to even have a camera, as long as the device that scanned or took a picture of the PDF document had good resolution. And if someone sighted either scanned the document on a copier, or generated the PDF in image format, it was probably aligned. Prizmo will handle that as a multi-page document. Both TextGrabber and Prizmo are apps worth having. Cheers, Esther On Nov 11, 2013, at 9:26 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Glenn, > > TextGrabber works great if you have a StandScan Pro. I really like > TextGrabber because I don’t need to know in advance whether my document is in > French or English, as TextGrabber can handle three languages in one document. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 11 Nov 2013, at 15:25, Glenn wrote: > >> I have both, but I have found that text grabber is not as accurate. >> The nice thing about text grabber is that it automatically finds the text >> and takes the picture without pushing a button or tapping on the screen. >> Glenn >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net> >> To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> >> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 9:54 PM >> Subject: Prizmo And Textgrabber, OCR for IOS >> >> >> >> >> Sent from Dane's iPhone +613400494862 >> Hi! >> >> I like Prizmo, has anyone tried Textgrabber? I understand that Textgrabber >> can perform language translations as part of the OCR process. >> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
