Re: Text Grabber & Image to Text

2016-06-10 Thread Tom Lange
Hi, I've had Text Grabber on my various iPhones for at least four or five years now and recommend it highly to my students and to friends/acquaintances who are looking for a relatively simple, effective and inexpensive app for scanning printed material. I'm not sure what its price is in the app

Re: Text Grabber & Image to Text

2016-06-10 Thread William Gallik
I find it text grabber to be a very effective app, I use it for screening my snail mail. That is, I use text grabber to check the return address on envelopes that I think may be worth scanning with my computer. In fact, I could scan the entire page of Bing mail message with text grabber but it's

Re: Text Grabber Not Capturing The OCR With The StandScan Pro

2014-07-13 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi Sandy, I want to thank you again for all of your suggestions to troubleshoot this. After reading all of the threads, I wanted to double check and perform some general maintanence on the phone. I am using an iPhone 4 with 32 GB. The storage left on the phone is 9.6 GB, so there is still ple

Re: Text Grabber Not Capturing The OCR With The StandScan Pro

2014-07-13 Thread Sandratomkins
Hello again Eileen, Well, it seems I have the latest versions of both TextGrabber and Prizmo. I just put them both through their paces with the stand ScanPro and then again Freehand. Firstly, let me say, I find a little bit of erratic behaviour in both apps. Prizmo, four example, keeps bouncing

Re: Text Grabber Not Capturing The OCR With The StandScan Pro

2014-07-13 Thread Sandratomkins
Eileen, Her Majesty's following your posts! Now I understand that something seems to have changed and that you are, of course, already very proficient with the OCR apps and the stand ScanPro. I will go in forthwith and check I had the latest TextGrabber update and tried out. If I have similar pr

Re: Text Grabber Not Capturing The OCR With The StandScan Pro

2014-07-13 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Eileen, Obvious things first: are the lights on? Are you using mains or battery for the lights and, if the latter, do you have the 12 V battery supply? Next, positioning the phone is crucial! I presume you have the stickers that came with the stand Scan Pro, these are useful for positioning t

Re: Text Grabber Not Capturing The OCR With The StandScan Pro

2014-07-12 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hello David, Of course, the lights are on in the StandScan Pro and the camera is (what I think) is properly positioned in the aperture whole on the top of the StandScan Pro. For one who has gotten almost a perfect scan on the first attempt of each scan, this is a new behavior for me. That's why

Re: Text Grabber Not Capturing The OCR With The StandScan Pro

2014-07-12 Thread David Chittenden
Make certain the camera lens is over the hole in the top. If you do not have the lights in the stand ScanPro turned on, you also need to make certain the flash is in the hole as well. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 13

RE: Text Grabber Back On Sale

2014-05-22 Thread DJ
This is a very nice app for OCR purposes. I highly recommend it for those who frequently scan mail and other printed matterials. DJ -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eileen Misrahi Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 12:33 AM To: v

Re: Text Grabber On Sale

2013-12-31 Thread Feliciano G
Text ocr. Look up the application on the app store to get more information. Sent from the Super-iPhone > On Dec 31, 2013, at 1:18 AM, "Andrew J. LaPointe" > wrote: > > What is text Grabber? is that like a scanner that reads a typed Doc or does > it just take the text off of a pdf or somethi

Re: Text Grabber On Sale

2013-12-31 Thread Andrew J. LaPointe
What is text Grabber? is that like a scanner that reads a typed Doc or does it just take the text off of a pdf or something. Andy -Original Message- From: Eileens Misrahi Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 7:52 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Text Grabber On Sale Hello All,

Re: Text Grabber On Sale

2013-12-30 Thread Kay Malmquist
Thanks for this. I'll check it out. Take care. - Original Message - From: "Eileen Misrahi" To: Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 11:04 PM Subject: Re: Text Grabber On Sale Hi, The Store News app will breakdown into different categories that are listed in the app

Re: Text Grabber On Sale

2013-12-30 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi, The Store News app will breakdown into different categories that are listed in the app store. In each category, it indicates free apps, as well as apps that have been reduced. It's a way to find all sorts of things that one would like to purchase for their iPhone or iPad. I use to open the

Re: Text Grabber On Sale

2013-12-30 Thread Kay Malmquist
Okay, here I go again. What is the store news app? Should I be watching it or using it? Thanks for any help. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 30, 2013, at 6:52 PM, Eileens Misrahi wrote: > > Hello All, > > Just browsing the Store News app. Text Grabber is on sale for $1.99. It's > usually $5.99.

Re: Text Grabber: Is it broken?

2013-09-16 Thread Eileens Misrahi
hello Chuck, Thanks for confirming this. In the morning when I have a clear head, I will compose an email to the developers. At first, I thought I was missing something in the history menu, but I guess not if you are getting something similar to my observation. In the previous version, you did

Re: Text Grabber: Is it broken?

2013-09-16 Thread Chuck Dean
I just tried this this is what happened. I went to history, and then went to edit. I flick right and got the following message. Delete September 16, then the title of the document then switch button off. I double tap the screen which put a checkmark in the box. And then I can delete it by hit

Re: Text Grabber: Is it broken?

2013-09-16 Thread Eileens Misrahi
hi Chuck, When I was in the history menu, and flicked left, I didn't hear VO announce a checkbox. Is this just a given and that we are suppose to assume this? I will check this out a little later when I have some time. Thanks for pointing this out. Oh by the way, I use my clipboard fairly frequ

Re: Text Grabber: Is it broken?

2013-09-16 Thread Chuck Dean
One thing you can do when you were in the share menu, is use the copy command which will close the menu. Unfortunately, this will also put the text on your clipboard, but if you're not using the clipboard it should be okay. Chuck (mobile) Pleez x cuze enny tie ping or spelin air ores. On Sep 16

Re: Text Grabber: Is it broken?

2013-09-16 Thread Chuck Dean
Yes, when you're in the share menu area, the closes the menu button does not work with voice over on. In the history area, to delete items, to the left of each item is a checkbox. Double tap each item to engage the check. You can check as many items as you want. Once you have selected the items

RE: text grabber & Prismo question

2013-09-14 Thread DJ
Text Grabber does let you copy the text to the clipboard for use in other apps. DJ -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Paganelli Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 11:36 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: text

Re: text grabber & Prismo question

2013-09-14 Thread Alan Paganelli
Joan, I believe text grabber only does a page at a time but it does let you edit the text to fix errors. I don't believe you can save the file and then add to it later. HTH --- Regards, Alan Go Chicago Bears in 2013! Teenagers; Tired of being harassed by your stupid parents? Act now!!

Re: text grabber & Prismo question

2013-09-13 Thread Chuck Dean
I have not found any way to do this with TextGrabber. I wish it had this ability, as it is the only thing lacking with this app. Chuck (mobile) Pleez x cuze enny tie ping or spelin air ores. On Sep 13, 2013, at 7:29 PM, Joanne Chua wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering, have anyone of you liste

Re: Text Grabber & Prizmo

2013-07-08 Thread David Chittenden
The best way to find out current cost for any app is to open the App Store, double-tap on search on the bottom, double-tap on the edit field at the top, type the name of the app, and double-tap search in the lower right corner of the keyboard, or press the return/enter key on the bluetooth keybo

RE: text grabber and prizmo

2013-06-10 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Hi Larry, I haven't used Prizmo or Text Grabber for rounded labels, but I find that another fantastic app and one I use almost more than Tap Tap See now is Talking Goggles. It has a video mode which means it continuously recognizes things as you move it and it will do short bits of OCR. I have

RE: text grabber versus text detective

2013-06-09 Thread Larry Lumpkin
Thanks again for the post. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 6:58 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: text grabber versus text detective Hi Larry, Both of these are OCR

RE: text grabber versus text detective

2013-06-09 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Hi Larry, Both of these are OCR apps, another popular one is Prizmo. Text Detective apparently doesn't recognize an entire page in portrait mode and most people on the list prefer Prizmo and/or Text Grabber. You can find reviews for many of these apps on http://www.applevis.com. Here are the app

Re: What other scanning apps? was: Hi,Re: text detective and text grabber was: RE: text grabber sale

2013-06-08 Thread Joanne Chua
Hi Esther, Thanks very much for the detail email. That help. looks like Prizmo it is then. :) Cheers On 08/06/2013, Esther wrote: > Joanna asked about CamScan, which David identified as being an inaccessible > > app, but in fact, the app that was recommended on the ScanBox Kickstarter > page is

Re: What other scanning apps? was: Hi,Re: text detective and text grabber was: RE: text grabber sale

2013-06-07 Thread Esther
Joanna asked about CamScan, which David identified as being an inaccessible app, but in fact, the app that was recommended on the ScanBox Kickstarter page is not CamScan, but CamScanner+. This app also has a free, lite version. It is partly accessible, in that a number of the controls can be us

Re: text detective and text grabber was: RE: text grabber sale

2013-06-07 Thread David Chittenden
Text Grabber is an OCR app like Text Detective. For Text Grabber to really work properly, you really want to use the StandScan Pro device. Prizmo is another OCR app. The developers of Prizmo have recently added page aligning features for people with visual disabilities. David Chittenden, MSc, M

Re: What other scanning apps? was: Hi,Re: text detective and text grabber was: RE: text grabber sale

2013-06-07 Thread David Chittenden
CamScan has a free version. I tested it last year and it was not accessible. I just downloaded and tested it again, and it is still not accessible with VoiceOver. When VO is running, none of the buttons appear to activate, even when using a double-tap and hold pass through gesture. As there are

Re: text detective and text grabber was: RE: text grabber sale

2013-06-07 Thread Alan Paganelli
e and text grabber was: RE: text grabber sale What makes text grabber different than, or better than, text detective? Thanks From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Ferrara Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 12:54 PM To: viphone@google

Re: text detective and text grabber was: RE: text grabber sale

2013-06-06 Thread Lelia Struve
What exactly is text grabber? I bought text detective and I can use it but its not easy, I know it probably has to do with the fact that I need to practice and its definitely doable, but what is text grabber? -- Lelia -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Goo

What other scanning apps? was: Hi,Re: text detective and text grabber was: RE: text grabber sale

2013-06-06 Thread Joanne Chua
What other apps people have been using beside the ordinary Prizmo or Text Grabber or Text Detective? Anyone uses CamScann? It is one of the app suggest by scanbox. Regards Joanne (AU) Joanne Chua Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate. On 07/06/2013, at 4:12, Chuck Dean wrote: > I like the s

Re: text detective and text grabber was: RE: text grabber sale

2013-06-06 Thread Chuck Dean
I like the simplicity of Text grabber. After the initial setup, I position my phone, do a double tap on the screen, wait a few moments and I have readable text. BTW, I think I paid ten dollars for this app, and it is worth every penny to me. Chuck (mobile) Pleez x cuze any tie ping or spelin

Re: text detective and text grabber was: RE: text grabber sale

2013-06-06 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi, Although I do have Text Detective, I haven't played with it very much, but I am well acquainted with Text Grabber and, for that matter, Prizmo. I think the main reason I never bothered too much with Text Detective was that because one has to position the phone across the page, you can o

text detective and text grabber was: RE: text grabber sale

2013-06-06 Thread Michael Malver
What makes text grabber different than, or better than, text detective? Thanks From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Ferrara Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 12:54 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: text grabber sale Text Grabber is still

Re: Text grabber

2013-05-20 Thread Mario Barbuto
Ciao Sandy, unfortunately, I must confirm the Gabriel's comment. The quality level of translation is not acceptable. I even doubt it could give the sense of the original text. All the words are litterally translated without paying attention to the context where they are part of. Some verb

RE: Text grabber

2013-05-20 Thread shoshana hathaway
Thanks for the scans, Sandra. Once the beast and I become good friends, I'll most likely get this, especially as I have net friends who do me the courtesy of using English when they write to me, even though it isn't their primary language. I'm monolingual (forgot the French and German I studied lo

Re: Text grabber

2013-05-19 Thread Gabriel Battaglia (Kriyaban)
Grazie a te Sandra. I think the translation might be with a good quality, compared to the average quality of the automatic translation apps, running at present. I've not a large experience with this kind of apps but, assuming the Google translator is not bad, then, also this used by Prizmo isn'

Re: Text grabber

2013-05-19 Thread Sandratomkins
Ciao Gabriel, Thanks, I was hoping you would cast an eye over this for us. So, is it your impression that this would be the sort of thin one might expect from a basic translation app? or do you think that it is worse than that? I got the impression that, in a case of need, it would convey t

Re: Text grabber

2013-05-19 Thread Gabriel Battaglia (Kriyaban)
Ciao Sandra. The italian translation of this piece of text is awful. It would be better to say: no bad and not worst than many other automatic translations I saw. I got the main sense of the article, most of the words are litterally well translated but the structure of the sentences, che accord

Re: Text grabber

2013-05-19 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Shoshana, I don't know if this is going to work, and we may need to rely upon a native Italian speaker to discover just how good the translation functionality really is. Obviously, how good the translator in Text Grabber may vary from language to language, but I have a little Italian, so

RE: Text grabber

2013-05-18 Thread shoshana hathaway
Hi, is the translator fairly accurate? I ask, since most aren't, and an accurate translation feature would interest me, and incline me toward this APP. Thanks, Shoshana, trying not to trip over any guidewires (oops, make that *lines* guidelines! -- You received this message because you are sub

Re: Text grabber

2013-05-17 Thread Andy Baracco
Yes! Andy -Original Message- From: Lynn Coats Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 6:45 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Text grabber Hi, I went to look for text grabber in the App Store, and what it came up with is text grabber plus translator. Is this the right one? It sells for nine

Re: Text grabber

2013-05-17 Thread Sandratomkins
yes! Sent from my iPhone On 17 May 2013, at 14:45, Lynn Coats wrote: > Hi, > I went to look for text grabber in the App Store, and what it came up with is > text grabber plus translator. Is this the right one? It sells for nine > dollars and something cents. Thank you. > Lynn and the K dog >

Re: Text grabber

2013-05-17 Thread Les Kriegler
Yes, you the correct one. Sent from my iPhone On May 17, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Lynn Coats wrote: > Hi, > I went to look for text grabber in the App Store, and what it came up with is > text grabber plus translator. Is this the right one? It sells for nine > dollars and something cents. Thank you.

Re: text grabber version 3 is released

2013-04-10 Thread Esther
Hi All, I posted a detailed summary of version 3 TextGrabber changes in the app's entry at the AppleVis web site. As Eileen says, the OCR is faster and there is a single "camera" button for taking pictures, just above the home button. All labeling is much, much better, and includes hints. There's

Re: text grabber version 3 is released

2013-04-09 Thread Eileens Misrahi
Hello All, I have updated Text Grabber and the app is much quicker in producing the OCR results. Also, there is only one button to take the picture, which is located above the home button. It will also announce "recognize text" when the OCR is completed. These are just a few of my observations

Re: text grabber version 3 is released

2013-04-09 Thread Esther
Hi Annie, Thanks for the TextGrabber version 3.0 release notice. The "What's New" for TextGrabber includes: • Improved recognition algorithm • Full support for VoiceOver • Recognized and translated text-to-speech with VoiceOver • Sound tips for various interface elements • Option to display recog

RE: Text Grabber doing very well with the SSP!

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Turner
t: Re: Text Grabber doing very well with the SSP! Ciao Anne, No! For general scanning etc, I think you just need to choose a language. However, as the app has other potential re translation and access to different language dictionaries, i am thinking that I could avail of some of its functio

Re: Text Grabber doing very well with the SSP!

2013-03-27 Thread Sandratomkins
Ciao Anne, No! For general scanning etc, I think you just need to choose a language. However, as the app has other potential re translation and access to different language dictionaries, i am thinking that I could avail of some of its functions to improve my execrable Italian! Perhaps, if s

Re: Text Grabber or Prizmo?

2013-03-26 Thread Fred Olver
As has been mentioned in previous posts it is suggested that you get both text grabber and prizmo. Fred Olver - Original Message - From: Aaron Linson To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 7:59 AM Subject: Text Grabber or Prizmo? I've been looking at P

Re: Text Grabber doing very well with the SSP!

2013-03-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Sandy, I've used TextGrabber in French and it works great. I just selected French from the list of languages. Is there something else I should have done? Cheers, Anne On 26 Mar 2013, at 14:21, Sandratomkins wrote: > Anne, > > I knew you'd like those aromatic song-birds! They do s

Re: Text Grabber doing very well with the SSP!

2013-03-26 Thread Sandratomkins
Anne, I knew you'd like those aromatic song-birds! They do sound sort of French, don't they? Actually, Miss Perfection, I did spot them, but recognising them as one of the more usual mistakes made by all OCR packages, I.E. the running together of two letters, in this case, C and L givi

Re: Text Grabber doing very well with the SSP!

2013-03-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Sandy, Oh, I love those garlic doves! Cheers, Anne On 26 Mar 2013, at 13:30, Sandratomkins wrote: > This is one of the simplest recipes for stuffing tomatoes. All you have to > do'is cut'the tomatoes in half and strew them with flavoured breadcrumbs. > No• peeling or seeding is neces

Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths.

2013-03-25 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Sandy. It was very good, I guessed that it was prizmo that has made such a good result. I can tell a funny thing about scanning, a little offtopic, but interesting too. I had a very difficult cookbook, and my finereader pro 11 for windows, did not do very well, finereader 11 is one of the be

Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths.

2013-03-25 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Eileen, You are, of course, right! Dismembering books is sometimes the only way to go, even when using the full Flat-Bed plus PC option, but if we can manage to scan without the destruction, then so much the better! One way to scan from a new paperback without causing too much damage to

Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths.

2013-03-25 Thread Sandratomkins
5 Mar 2013, at 13:34, "Fred Olver" wrote: > Sandy, is it possible that these apps learn from scanning or not? > > Fred Olver > > - Original Message - From: "Sandratomkins" > > To: > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 8:24 AM > Subject:

Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths.

2013-03-25 Thread Fred Olver
I have done the same thing and actually thought about mentioning it as well. Fred Olver - Original Message - From: "Eileens Misrahi" To: Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 8:39 AM Subject: Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths. Hi Sandy, I am not sure that my co

Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths.

2013-03-25 Thread Eileens Misrahi
Hi Sandy, I am not sure that my comment will be off topic, but here goes. Way back when I was in grad school, I would have a book that would not scan very well with either OCR products. I would pull the binding off so I could lie a single page flat down on the flatbed scanner to get the optim

Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths.

2013-03-25 Thread Fred Olver
Sandy, is it possible that these apps learn from scanning or not? Fred Olver - Original Message - From: "Sandratomkins" To: Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 8:24 AM Subject: Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths. Hi Annie, It wasn't bad, was it?

Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths.

2013-03-25 Thread Sandratomkins
Hi Annie, It wasn't bad, was it? In the end, Prizmo took the prize! Text Grabber did well, but Prizmo dealt best with the columns. However, this was my second shot, the first showed the half frction for the lemon, but was less good elsewhere. So, why did it mistake the fraction in one

Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths.

2013-03-25 Thread Richard Turner
You did not say which app gave you that very good result, or did miss something? Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On Mar 25, 2013, at 5:20 AM, Sandratomkins wrote: > Hi, > >I have just been playing with Text Grabber and Prizmo in conjunction with > my StandScan Pro. I deci

Re: Text Grabber and Prizmo have different strengths.

2013-03-25 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Sandra. Is this scanning done with textgrabber or prizmo. I have been scanning books for many years, and I can tell that cookbooks are the most difficult books to get a sensible result from. I am really impressed that you can get such results with a IPhone and standscan. Best regards Annie.