Tom, what is Immersive Reader? Is it similar to Voice Dream Reader? I tried searching for it in the app store, but couldn't find any app by that name.
Thanks, Ari > On Apr 21, 2017, at 6:51 AM, Tom Lange <lang...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I installed Office Lens on my phone quite some time ago but never really paid > much attention to it until I read the information about it in Tidbits. At > first I wasn't thrilled about having to set up a Microsoft account as it was > kind of a pain in the neck to do, but once that was done everything went > smoothly. I have several students who want a scanning app but can't afford > KNFB Reader's hefty price tag, so I showed Office Lens to them and they were > favorably impressed. At first I scanned a single-page document and exported > it into Immersive Reader and let Immersive Reader play it back. Frankly, the > defaukt voice in Immersive Reader sounded a little garbled to my ears and I > found that reading the document with VoiceOver while in Immersive Reader was > cleaner and crisper. Though I didn't test this, I would imagine that I'd be > able to use the VO rotor to navigate by character, word, line and so on and I > doubt that Immersive Reader's playback would let me do that. > Yesterday afternoon I did a second demo for a couple of students and that > time I scanned a multiple-page document. To do that, you do the first page, > then after the image is processed, you tap the Camera button, take your next > shot, let Office Lens process the second picture, then repeat that procedure > until all your pages have been scanned and processed. Tap Save All, then all > of your document images are presumably merged and available as a single > document which can be exported to whatever choices are available. Again, I > dumped them into Immersive Reader and let VO read. The results were clean as > a whistle and reading was seamless. Later on I talked with one of my > coworkers who also uses Office Lens and he agrees with me that it's a very > good app and you sure can't beat the price. Granted it's not as simple to use > as KNFB Reader and it's certainly easier to use than Prizmo, so for me, it's > a keeper. > > I have a question for the person who mentioned that Office Lens preserves or > at least approximates the document formatting. In the past, I've found that > PC-based packages like Open Book and Kurzweil 1000 will "mangle" forms of > various sorts, absolutely destroying their formatting and making them > unusable for anything except determining what information is asked for in the > form. Is it possible to scan something like a job application, then export it > into Word so that a blind person could then fill it out independently on a > computer, print it out and submit it? It would be fabulous if such a scenario > is possible. > > Tom > > > > Sent from my iPhone 7 > >> On Apr 20, 2017, at 10:02 PM, Marie <scribbl...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Glad to hear you are having the same experience I have had. The price is >> unbeatable and every software or OS in the world collects information about >> how we use our devices so why the big to-do about Microsoft? It is a darn >> sight better than paying $99 for KNFB Reader in my opinion. >> Marie >> >> >> From: Alan Lemly >> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 8:51 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App >> >> Marie, >> >> I have to agree with you. I had great success with Office Lens scanning a >> two-page homeowners association minutes document. Granted, the document >> contained print with a larger font but I liked the app's ability to scan it, >> convert every letter correctly, format it with a similar appearance as the >> original, and save it as a Word docx file to Dropbox. I did put the camera >> mode on document and those using the app should be aware you can pick from >> among business card, photo, document, and white board modes by a single >> finger swipe up and down on the camera mode button. Also, the app was good >> about indicating left and right needed movement when positioning my camera >> before taking the picture. I already have a Microsoft account set up in my >> iPhone 7 so I wasn't presented with anything having to do with that when >> using the app. And I was presented with a screen allowing me to save it from >> Word where I opened it directly to the desired folder in Dropbox. It was >> very slick and well done even if not as quick as KNFB Reader. You absolutely >> can't beat the free price and if you want to capture a document on your >> phone that looks like the original, this is the app for that. And I'm not >> worried about Microsoft getting access to my business any more than those >> who are Office 365 users should be. >> >> Alan Lemly >> >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Marie >> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:01 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Office Lens, New App >> >> I am amazed that three of you say you did not find this app useful. I just >> downloaded it today and am thrilled with what it does and how easy it was to >> get started. Strange that our experience would be so different. >> Marie >> >> >> From: Richard Turner >> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 1:44 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App >> >> I also tried this app and did not find it very good at all. >> For free, the iDentifi app set to Text works great if you don’t mind not be >> able to easily save the file. >> >> Richard >> >> >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Sieghard Weitzel >> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 1:08 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App >> >> I tried it and found it less than intuitive. I heard about it from a Cool >> Blind Tech Podcast after the CSUN where they mentioned how youcould scan a >> business card and it would recognize all the text like names, phone numbers >> and so on and you could easily create a contact entry from that and I could >> not at all figure out how to do this. >> >> >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Mike B. >> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 12:30 PM >> To: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Subject: Office Lens, New App >> >> Hi All, >> >> Got this from Top Tech Tidbits. >> 5. Microsoft Office Lens is a free alternative to the KNFB Reader on the >> iPhone for reading print: >> http://www.rsbc.org.uk/blogs/microsoft-office-lens-review-an-accessible-way-to-read-printed-documents/ >> >> >> Take care. >> Mike >> Sent from my iBarstool. 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