Anyone who tried the Braigo app, does it recognize text in Spanish for
instance? Thanks for the tip!
El 23/12/2016 06:30 p.m., Chip Orange escribió:
Hi Donald,
There's another OCR app, designed especially for the blind, which is free as
well. It's name is Braigo.
I haven't spent much time with it myself, but if KNFB isn't an option for you,
or you can't get it to work, I'd give this a try.
Hth,
Chip
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Donald Raikes
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 4:08 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: getting started with knfb reader
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. So far none of them has helped.
Are there any good alternatives to knfb reader? I sometimes need to
read stuff when my wife is unavailable, and I thought I had heard good
things about this app.
Also any idea how to get my money back from the app store :) ?
On 12/22/16, Evan Reese<ment...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
No try before you buy feature. It was on sale for several days last month
for $65, but it went back up to full price on December 1.
From what I heard from a computer savvy friend of mine with high partial
vision who’s played with it, I don’t think I’ll buy it unless it comes down
quite a bit further in price.
It’s pretty finicky about your stuff having to be flat for one thing, and
it’s also sensitive to lighting for another. He tells me that LED lighting
gives it trouble because of their color profile or something. Also, if you
have a light above it, say a chandelier above a table, as he has in his
dining room, and you put a document down on the table and hold your device
above the document, it can create a shadow which impairs OCR. This is
something that might not occur to a blind person who might not understand
why they’re not getting any results.
He says it does work a good part of the time, although not flawlessly, even
if lighting is good and the document is flat, but with these kinds of
caveats you shouldn’t expect too much.
Evan
From: Michael Maslo
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 1:58 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: getting started with knfb reader
Does this application offer a try to buy feature? Had anyone heard if this
will go on sale for Christmas?
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:54 Ekstrand, Pamela A. -ND
<pamela.a.ekstrand....@disney.com> wrote:
Have you turned batch mode off? If not, this could be why you are not
hearing results immediately.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [viphone@googlegroups.com] on behalf of
Gordon [gor...@gordonradio.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 1:51 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: getting started with knfb reader
Try holding your phone higher
from what you're trying to capture and see if you have better results.
I've found that about six inches is good.
On 12/22/2016 12:46 PM, Donald Raikes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently I decided I would like to try knfb reader to enable me to
> read product packaging.
>
> I have an iPhone 5 and installed the app, but I can't get knfb reader
> to recognize any text. I have tried it on a printed page and on a DVD
> cover, but it never seems to be able to read the text.
>
> According to the view finder, I have to keep rotating the page but I
> never get all four edges and all four corners in the field of view.
>
> Is there a trick to using this app or have I just wasted $100 of my
money?
>
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