Re: Amedia Live Reader

2016-07-09 Thread Monica Jones
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Amedia Live Reader My biggest problem with shooting any kind of picture is that when I have the phone held in a hand, or even both, I have hand tremors. What I do to compensate for this is braced the phone against my chin, which helps immensely. I also use Seighard's tip

Re: Amedia Live Reader

2016-07-05 Thread Mohib Anwar Rafay
n correct you is very helpful. >> >> To me it sounds like you haven’t been able to get good results and even >> though people have replied and explained what they do (Ron, Sandy, myself >> and others) you are at this point sarcastic and cynical about it. >> >> >

Re: Amedia Live Reader

2016-07-05 Thread englishrider91
egards, > Sieghard > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Krister Ekstrom > Sent: Saturday, July 2, 2016 4:17 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Amedia Live Reader > > How nice that people are getting such splended resu

RE: Amedia Live Reader

2016-07-02 Thread Ron
0 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Amedia Live Reader Per the subject of this post, has anyone tried Amedia Live Reader??? -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you

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2016-07-02 Thread rajmund
. Is there a demo of the app, to try somewhere? Sent from a BrailleNote - Original Message - From: "Ron" <ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca To: <viphone@googlegroups.com Date sent: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 14:51:28 -0400 Subject: RE: Amedia Live Reader Gordon, I'm afraid I dan't disagr

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2016-07-02 Thread Ron
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2016 7:17 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Amedia Live Reader How nice that people are getting such splended results with the knfv reader. I have to aggree with Gordan though. I don't know what the hell i do wrong vut for me the knfv reader just don't work perio

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2016-07-02 Thread Ron
y 02, 2016 3:21 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Amedia Live Reader Gordon, I have to disagree with you. For several years now, I have had very good results freehand first with Prizmo and now with KNFBReader and I’m totally blind. I think what makes the difference is whether we have

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2016-07-02 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
.com] On Behalf Of Gordan Radic Sent: Saturday, July 2, 2016 8:48 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Amedia Live Reader Hi! I'll reply on this one but this is a joint reply to Sieghard, Anne and Sandra. I have some sight left, something between 2 and 5 percent, that's what doc

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2016-07-02 Thread Gordan Radić
Hi! I'll reply on this one but this is a joint reply to Sieghard, Anne and Sandra. I have some sight left, something between 2 and 5 percent, that's what doctors are saying. I can see the picture on the screen, distinguish icons, even recognize some apps by its icon.

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2016-07-02 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom Sent: Saturday, July 2, 2016 4:17 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Amedia Live Reader How nice that people are getting such splended results with the knfv reader. I have to aggree with Gordan though. I don't

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2016-07-02 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I have a standscan or what they are called but i'd rather try doing it free hand since there's no room for a stand at the desk where i sit. Thanks for the info /Krister Skickat från min iPhone > 2 juli 2016 kl. 14:13 skrev 'Sandratomkins' via VIPhone > : > >

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2016-07-02 Thread 'Sandratomkins' via VIPhone
Krista, Did you ever get a stand to use with the OCR apps? I know this isn't the same as taking a picture on the fly, and I would be very happy to try again explaining how I do that. but a stand is a surefire way of getting good results. Krista, when you say you never got any help from the

Re: Amedia Live Reader

2016-07-02 Thread Ann Byrne
Per the subject of this post, has anyone tried Amedia Live Reader??? -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the

Re: Amedia Live Reader

2016-07-02 Thread Krister Ekstrom
How nice that people are getting such splended results with the knfv reader. I have to aggree with Gordan though. I don't know what the hell i do wrong vut for me the knfv reader just don't work period. I have asked on this list and on Applevis for help but haven't gotten any so now i rely

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2016-07-02 Thread 'Sandratomkins' via VIPhone
Hi Gordon, I would like to add my voice to Anne's here! I think it was both she and I who first championed the use of Prizmo, some years back, using the old 4 phone!! Certainly, at first it was a challenge, but we did get some results which would, at the very least, give one a good

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2016-07-02 Thread Anne Robertson
Gordon, I have to disagree with you. For several years now, I have had very good results freehand first with Prizmo and now with KNFBReader and I’m totally blind. I think what makes the difference is whether we have good spacial awareness or not. I was able to see perfectly as a young child,

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2016-07-01 Thread Larry Lumpkin
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2016 3:26 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Amedia Live Reader Hi Gordan, I definitely would disagree with you here. I think many of the KNFB Reader users get very good results freehand on the first try. I can certainly say that as long as I have a desk

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2016-07-01 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Reader seems to handle that no problem. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gordan Radic Sent: Friday, July 1, 2016 1:03 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Amedia Live Reader Hi! Whatever people are saying, I never believed

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2016-07-01 Thread Gordan Radić
Hi! Whatever people are saying, I never believed in ferrytales. Blind people acurately scanning text documents on the fly is just a ferrytale to me. I managed to get some decent results with KNFB Reader and Textgrabber but those were third or fourth shots in both

Re: Amedia Live Reader

2016-07-01 Thread Grant
Hi Joe, unfortunately, I couldn’t get Amedia to work reliably. Occasionally, when my phone’s camera was pointed at a printed page, one or two partial lines of text would be read aloud, generally in incomplete form. I sought sighted assistance to make sure that I was in fact aligning the camera

RE: Amedia Live Reader app

2016-06-07 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Hi Grant, This sounds interesting if it works well, but I am also not quite prepared to shell out $40 Canadian (I assume it's $29.99 in the US) for a new app which nobody seems to have ever heard about. I also wonder about the following item in the feature explanation: Hold the device flat