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Re: Voice OCR App: Preliminary Impressions

2019-06-14 Thread Richard Turner

I was asked to allow access to the microphone and speech recognition when I
first ran the app.
I've not had time to try the voice control feature; but I just checked and if
you go to the main Phone settings, and go down to the Voice App, you will find
that it lists what Voice is allowed to access, which is both microphone and
speech recognition, along with the camera of course.
The developer, Shalin Shah I'm sure would love it if you would post your
findings as part of a review in the app store.
In the next update, he will be changing the app's name to say Voice OCR, so it
is easier to find in the app store.
Also he will fix a bug I found that if you are using a bluetooth earpiece, it
switches to speaker.
That will be fixed very soon.
I'll be testing it more tomorrow.
Later,
Richard

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On Jun 14, 2019, at 11:19 PM, Tom Lange
mailto:lang...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi,
I just love it when new apps come along when I least expect them, and tonight’s
new arrival was no exception. I was really excited when I saw the Voice app
announcement, and as soon as I got home from work I downloaded it from the app
store, installed it, grabbed a quick dinner, turned on the baseball game and
proceeded to put Voice through its paces. Here are my preliminary impressions.
I hope you don’t mind.
The first thing I noticed was that Voice OCR wouldn’t respond to my voice
commands and I could find no way to enable the mic, either in the Voice app’s
settings or in the Settings applet. Any tips?
I had a couple of pieces of snailmail to go through, just scanning the
envelopes to see what I had. Voice’s edge detection was almost instantaneous,
and the Capture button was easy to find, along with other screen elements. I
took pictures of each envelope free-hand, tapped the Done button and the
images were processed fairly quickly and accurately.
Next I tried scanning pages from a magazine that I had lying around. Pages
contain ads and coupons, so I expected print quality to be somewhat problematic
for scanning, but I have to say that Voice did a very good job with each page,
even when scanned upside down and with a deliberate 45-degree skew. There were
some scanning errors, but there was very little gibberish.
The Export feature is very nice. I was able to export scanned pages to a PDF
document and copy the pdf file to Voice Dream Reader using the Share Sheet. The
pdf was clean and easily read by Voice Dream Reader. Likewise, I was able to
export as text, then, using the Share sheet, copy that text to an e-mail
message which I almost sent to this list.
Automatic mode could be really handy, especially while using my Fopydo scanning
stand, but I’d like to be able to increase the time between scans; I found
myself barely getting pages lined up just right before the next shutter click.
Results with the Fopydo and automatic scanning were quite good as well, but the
app bogged down a couple of times, so I’ll try it again after rebooting the
phone.

I’ll have more to say about this app as time goes on, but for now I’d say that
Voice OCR is pretty good and well worth spending some time with.

Tom

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Voice OCR App: Preliminary Impressions

2019-06-14 Thread Tom Lange

Hi,
I just love it when new apps come along when I least expect them, and tonight’s 
new arrival was no exception. I was really excited when I saw the Voice app 
announcement, and as soon as I got home from work I downloaded it from the app 
store, installed it, grabbed a quick dinner, turned on the baseball game and 
proceeded to put Voice through its paces. Here are my preliminary impressions. 
I hope you don’t mind. 
The first thing I noticed was that Voice  OCR wouldn’t respond to my voice 
commands and I could find no way to enable the mic, either in the Voice app’s 
settings or in the Settings applet. Any tips?
I had a couple of pieces of snailmail to go through, just scanning the 
envelopes to see what I had. Voice’s edge detection was almost instantaneous, 
and the Capture button was easy to find, along with other screen elements. I 
took pictures of each envelope free-hand, tapped  the Done button and the 
images were processed fairly quickly and accurately. 
Next I tried scanning pages from a magazine that I had lying around. Pages 
contain ads and coupons, so I expected print quality to be somewhat problematic 
for scanning, but I have to say that Voice did a very good job with each page, 
even when scanned upside down and with a deliberate 45-degree skew. There were 
some scanning errors, but there was very little gibberish. 
The Export feature is very nice. I was able to export scanned pages to a PDF 
document and copy the pdf file to Voice Dream Reader using the Share Sheet. The 
pdf was clean and easily read by Voice Dream Reader. Likewise, I was able to 
export as text, then, using the Share sheet,  copy that text to an e-mail 
message which I almost sent to this list.
Automatic mode could be really handy, especially while using my Fopydo scanning 
stand, but I’d like to be able to increase the time between scans; I found 
myself  barely getting pages lined up just right before the next shutter click. 
Results with the Fopydo and automatic scanning were quite good as well, but the 
app bogged down a couple of times, so I’ll try it again after rebooting the 
phone.

I’ll have more to say about this app as time goes on, but for now I’d say that 
Voice OCR is pretty good and well worth spending some time with.

Tom 
  

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2019-06-14 Thread LaToya Fleming

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