ah. sorry got my wires crossed on this lol. when this app was mentioned earlier regarding light sensing, I thought this was just a light scanner to tell a blind user what level of light is in a room or being given by a bulb or anything like that,
oops lew On 19 Mar 2012, at 20:27, Esther wrote: > Hi Lew, > > The iPad 2 camera is too low resolution to give good results with Prizmo, at > least for visually impaired users. You can also tell this is the case by > trying to run Prizmo on a screen captured image -- where there is no shake in > taking a picture -- and comparing the results on an iPhone and an iPad. Now, > the resolution used for screen capture doesn't have to be the same as what's > used for the camera, but it's possible to tell that the same screens that I > can OCR with the iPhone 4 start to mistake letters on the iPad 2 screen > captures. For example, you can check this if you capture a screen of text > from iBooks. > > While a few people have gotten results using Prizmo on the iPhone 3GS, > reportedly the camera on this isn't really good enough for regular use by > visually impaired individuals. When Prizmo was first being intensely > discussed on the viphone list, with a lot of suggestions by Sandy Tomkins of > practical ways to improve results, Rose Morales was able to get a > near-perfect OCR of a book page on her iPhone 3GS at the first try. That's > very unusual, and it was enough to make some people, like Geoff Waaler, > purchase the app. He was able to use it to get some results on the iPhone > 3GS, but really the place where he's now using Prizmo is his iPhone 4S. > > I'd say that you'd really want an iPhone 4 or 4S to use Prizmo. The new iPad > camera is supposed to be as good as the camera on the iPhone 4, so that might > also be a possibility. > > Here's the App Store link: > • Prizmo ($9.99) by Creaceed: > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prizmo/id366791896?mt=8 > > HTH. By the way, there's also a Mac version of Prizmo which uses the camera > on your computer. I don't recommend that application for visually impaired > users, despite the success of their iOS app. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Mar 19, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Lew, >> >> I don't know how well it would work on an iPad, but I use it on my iPhone. >> It costs €7.99 so I should think that would be £5.99 or something like that. >> >> The developer is Creaceed. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> On 19 Mar 2012, at 20:19, Lewis Alexander wrote: >> >>> sorry to ask. is this for the ipad or iphone? also will it work on the 3GS? >>> >>> is there a link for the developer and also is this free or paid? >>> >>> cheers >>> >>> lew >> > > -- > 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, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- 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, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
