Comparing Prizmo 2 and Text Grabber using the StandScan pro and a more complicated layout.
Hallo, i hope I am not boring you all to death! However, with the latest incarnations of prizmo 2 and Text Grabber, I am looking to find their various strengths. Without a doubt, I still like the immediacy of the TG interface and often find it perfectly adequate to the task. However, when I tried a comparison shot taken from a magazine page, with 2 columns and with the added difficulty of a headline situated in the centre, displacing the text to either side, I discovered that Text Grabber got seriously confused and pplanted a sackfull of carots half way down each column. Whereas, Prizmo 2 did an excellent job! I can only deduce from this that Prizmo 2 still has the better, that is, more sophisticated, OCR engine. For letters etc, there is nothing to choose between them, but when you need more intelegent OCR functionality, I must say that prizmo 2 is the one to use. Happy scanning, and here, as always, is an offering, this time from Prizmo 2. Temping in the city in my college holidays for me means three things: easy money, a relief from Cambridge stress and jobs which usually involve no more mental strain than thinking of what to wear the next day. Yet one night, sitting on the commuter coach, ploughing through the rush hour traffic, out of London and into the suburbs, I began to wonder what temping meant for others. I had noticed immediately that most of the temping agencies were staffed by women. These seemed to be wellpresented, attractive girls in their mid twenties with pleasant manners who dealt with temps as they applied for work. There were rarely men doing these jobs; instead, the male members of staff seemed in managerial positions or would go out to companies in which temps worked, in order to liaise with clients. The majority of temps, too, were women. They ranged from twenty year old secretaries bored with their previous employment to forty year old mothers returning to work when children were of school age, but despite this variation they were predominantly assigned to low-scale clerical and secretarial positions. In most cases this meant that female temps were either directly or indirectly subordinate to men, thus reinforcing the office bimbo image of working women and the stereotypical image of the female temp. What is even more damaging than this image is the reality of the temp's working situation. In a temporary assignment, unlike a permanent job, there is little room for promotion, so the women who temp are often left with little chance to develop their skills, even though these might already be quite substantial, l also came into contact with women who had excellent educational qualifications which were not utilised in their temping jobs. One girl l met, Natalia, temping while travelling, had an excellent university degree, yet was still placed in a low scale clerical position, subordinate to male supervisors with half her skill and intelligence. This was not the only type of discrimination. In one company l was assigned to, working in the share issues department of a large bank, there was a fairly even mix of male and female temps, mostly students. Even on the job the male temps were placed in the more prestigious positions whereas the girls were confined to filing, sorting and coffee-making. Thus I became aware that temping, and the practices associated with it, directly contributed to women's disadvantage in the workplace. Yet l noticed another side to temping, that is the positive aspects it gave women, which must not be overlooked. Feminists have been eager to point out that the breaks women take from work, to have children disrupt their careers. However, women who temp are able to take a break from work whenever they feel. One such woman, Karen, was working for a few weeks while her husband was at home, looking after her baby. Thus, by temping she was saved from part- time work for little money or home work. temptation -a look at office temping The skills temps have are not easily devalued and aided by cross-training schemes at temping agencies women are quickly able to regain their confidence in the labour market. This allows women who temp the freedom to work whenever they want, and although this may raise theoretical problems, in reality temping is ideal for women who want to work and spend time with their families. I also noticed that temping is used by younger women to find suitable jobs for temporary assignments often become permanent. Temps are often freed from the nightmare of sexual harassment, being able to terminate jobs whenever they feel. Alternatively, if a temp likes a job she may apply for the permanent position. One temp I spoke to, Michaela, had left her previous unsatisfactory job and was one the verge of finding another which she preferred with the insurance agency for whom she was temping. I felt this gave women like Michaela more choice, yet, paradoxically, Michaela's job was one of the least
Re: Comparing Prizmo 2 and Text Grabber using the StandScan pro and a more complicated layout.
Sandra, just thanks for all of your jobs as reports, observations, suggestions and opinions you gave us. Gabriel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Comparing Prizmo 2 and Text Grabber using the StandScan pro and a more complicated layout.
Hey Gabriel! Prego! Sandy Sent from my iPhone On 18 May 2013, at 12:39, Gabriel Battaglia \(Kriyaban\) gabriele.battag...@gmail.com wrote: Sandra, just thanks for all of your jobs as reports, observations, suggestions and opinions you gave us. Gabriel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Comparing Prizmo 2 and Text Grabber using the StandScan pro and a more complicated layout.
Hi, Sandra, that's good stuff. Thanks for posting that one and for everything else that you post in this regard. Tom - Original Message - From: Sandratomkins sandratomk...@googlemail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:36 AM Subject: Comparing Prizmo 2 and Text Grabber using the StandScan pro and a more complicated layout. Hallo, i hope I am not boring you all to death! However, with the latest incarnations of prizmo 2 and Text Grabber, I am looking to find their various strengths. Without a doubt, I still like the immediacy of the TG interface and often find it perfectly adequate to the task. However, when I tried a comparison shot taken from a magazine page, with 2 columns and with the added difficulty of a headline situated in the centre, displacing the text to either side, I discovered that Text Grabber got seriously confused and pplanted a sackfull of carots half way down each column. Whereas, Prizmo 2 did an excellent job! I can only deduce from this that Prizmo 2 still has the better, that is, more sophisticated, OCR engine. For letters etc, there is nothing to choose between them, but when you need more intelegent OCR functionality, I must say that prizmo 2 is the one to use. Happy scanning, and here, as always, is an offering, this time from Prizmo 2. Temping in the city in my college holidays for me means three things: easy money, a relief from Cambridge stress and jobs which usually involve no more mental strain than thinking of what to wear the next day. Yet one night, sitting on the commuter coach, ploughing through the rush hour traffic, out of London and into the suburbs, I began to wonder what temping meant for others. I had noticed immediately that most of the temping agencies were staffed by women. These seemed to be wellpresented, attractive girls in their mid twenties with pleasant manners who dealt with temps as they applied for work. There were rarely men doing these jobs; instead, the male members of staff seemed in managerial positions or would go out to companies in which temps worked, in order to liaise with clients. The majority of temps, too, were women. They ranged from twenty year old secretaries bored with their previous employment to forty year old mothers returning to work when children were of school age, but despite this variation they were predominantly assigned to low-scale clerical and secretarial positions. In most cases this meant that female temps were either directly or indirectly subordinate to men, thus reinforcing the office bimbo image of working women and the stereotypical image of the female temp. What is even more damaging than this image is the reality of the temp's working situation. In a temporary assignment, unlike a permanent job, there is little room for promotion, so the women who temp are often left with little chance to develop their skills, even though these might already be quite substantial, l also came into contact with women who had excellent educational qualifications which were not utilised in their temping jobs. One girl l met, Natalia, temping while travelling, had an excellent university degree, yet was still placed in a low scale clerical position, subordinate to male supervisors with half her skill and intelligence. This was not the only type of discrimination. In one company l was assigned to, working in the share issues department of a large bank, there was a fairly even mix of male and female temps, mostly students. Even on the job the male temps were placed in the more prestigious positions whereas the girls were confined to filing, sorting and coffee-making. Thus I became aware that temping, and the practices associated with it, directly contributed to women's disadvantage in the workplace. Yet l noticed another side to temping, that is the positive aspects it gave women, which must not be overlooked. Feminists have been eager to point out that the breaks women take from work, to have children disrupt their careers. However, women who temp are able to take a break from work whenever they feel. One such woman, Karen, was working for a few weeks while her husband was at home, looking after her baby. Thus, by temping she was saved from part- time work for little money or home work. temptation -a look at office temping The skills temps have are not easily devalued and aided by cross-training schemes at temping agencies women are quickly able to regain their confidence in the labour market. This allows women who temp the freedom to work whenever they want, and although this may raise theoretical problems, in reality temping is ideal for women who want to work and spend time with their families. I also noticed that temping is used by younger women to find suitable jobs for temporary assignments often become permanent. Temps are often freed from the nightmare of sexual harassment, being able to terminate jobs whenever they
Re: Comparing Prizmo 2 and Text Grabber using the StandScan pro and a more complicated layout.
Hi Sandy others, I found that 3/8 inch velcro hook portion make good tactile markers to line up the phone on top with aperture of the StandScan Pro. This way the phone stays in place and I have use of 2 hands. I am able to use 1 hand to flatten the written materials and take the picture with other. It was suggested a while back when I reviewing another camera OCR to use small weights at the corners ohr at spine of a book to flatten the pages when scanning 2 pages at once. Just my two sense. Eileenp Sent from my iPhone On May 18, 2013, at 4:36 AM, Sandratomkins sandratomk...@googlemail.com wrote: Hallo, i hope I am not boring you all to death! However, with the latest incarnations of prizmo 2 and Text Grabber, I am looking to find their various strengths. Without a doubt, I still like the immediacy of the TG interface and often find it perfectly adequate to the task. However, when I tried a comparison shot taken from a magazine page, with 2 columns and with the added difficulty of a headline situated in the centre, displacing the text to either side, I discovered that Text Grabber got seriously confused and pplanted a sackfull of carots half way down each column. Whereas, Prizmo 2 did an excellent job! I can only deduce from this that Prizmo 2 still has the better, that is, more sophisticated, OCR engine. For letters etc, there is nothing to choose between them, but when you need more intelegent OCR functionality, I must say that prizmo 2 is the one to use. Happy scanning, and here, as always, is an offering, this time from Prizmo 2. Temping in the city in my college holidays for me means three things: easy money, a relief from Cambridge stress and jobs which usually involve no more mental strain than thinking of what to wear the next day. Yet one night, sitting on the commuter coach, ploughing through the rush hour traffic, out of London and into the suburbs, I began to wonder what temping meant for others. I had noticed immediately that most of the temping agencies were staffed by women. These seemed to be wellpresented, attractive girls in their mid twenties with pleasant manners who dealt with temps as they applied for work. There were rarely men doing these jobs; instead, the male members of staff seemed in managerial positions or would go out to companies in which temps worked, in order to liaise with clients. The majority of temps, too, were women. They ranged from twenty year old secretaries bored with their previous employment to forty year old mothers returning to work when children were of school age, but despite this variation they were predominantly assigned to low-scale clerical and secretarial positions. In most cases this meant that female temps were either directly or indirectly subordinate to men, thus reinforcing the office bimbo image of working women and the stereotypical image of the female temp. What is even more damaging than this image is the reality of the temp's working situation. In a temporary assignment, unlike a permanent job, there is little room for promotion, so the women who temp are often left with little chance to develop their skills, even though these might already be quite substantial, l also came into contact with women who had excellent educational qualifications which were not utilised in their temping jobs. One girl l met, Natalia, temping while travelling, had an excellent university degree, yet was still placed in a low scale clerical position, subordinate to male supervisors with half her skill and intelligence. This was not the only type of discrimination. In one company l was assigned to, working in the share issues department of a large bank, there was a fairly even mix of male and female temps, mostly students. Even on the job the male temps were placed in the more prestigious positions whereas the girls were confined to filing, sorting and coffee-making. Thus I became aware that temping, and the practices associated with it, directly contributed to women's disadvantage in the workplace. Yet l noticed another side to temping, that is the positive aspects it gave women, which must not be overlooked. Feminists have been eager to point out that the breaks women take from work, to have children disrupt their careers. However, women who temp are able to take a break from work whenever they feel. One such woman, Karen, was working for a few weeks while her husband was at home, looking after her baby. Thus, by temping she was saved from part- time work for little money or home work. temptation -a look at office temping The skills temps have are not easily devalued and aided by cross-training schemes at temping agencies women are quickly able to regain their confidence in the labour market. This allows women who temp the freedom to work whenever they want, and although this may raise theoretical problems, in reality
Re: Comparing Prizmo 2 and Text Grabber using the StandScan pro and a more complicated layout.
prismo 2 never gives me anything just keeps saying as other have stated, no page even when VO says page found and then no page detected On 18 May 2013, at 12:39, Gabriel Battaglia \(Kriyaban\) gabriele.battag...@gmail.com wrote: Sandra, just thanks for all of your jobs as reports, observations, suggestions and opinions you gave us. Gabriel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
