Hi all. Has anyone compared scanning results between voice dream scanner and Freedom Sscientific Pearl Kamra? Someone wanted help with scanning a book that would not fit on her flat bed scanner because of a slightly bigger size. I believe the reach of a camera-based scanning device would be A little more than a standard flatbed scanner. i assume as far as recognition of the text is concerned, A computer-based app would give better results because of better processing speed. Any advice is appreciated
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 23, 2020, at 6:46 PM, Richard Turner <richardturne...@outlook.com> > wrote: > > Simon, > if you have trouble holding the phone over a document, no app is going to > give great resullts. I do not like KNFB Reader. You may want to consider > getting a scanning stand. I love Voice Dream Scanner, but its way of letting > you know if you have text in view is a tone that plays. The louder the tone, > the more text. If you have it on auto-capture, once you are steady at the > loudest tone for 2 or 3 seconds, it will take the picture. > You want to be 10 to 12 inches above a full 8.5 by 11 document to get the > best results. > Supersense, tells you in words to move farther away, or 1 inch to the left, > etc. Supersense has a free trial, and if you are convinced by it, right now > it is haf price for a lifetime subscription for $49.99. Or there are monthly > or yearly plans. > Voice Dream Scanner on the other hand, is $5.99 one time purchase. > They both have great points about them and Supersense is designed to deal > with more objects than just text. > You could also use the free Seeing AI app to scan a single page. > Good luck. > > > Richard > > "You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a > Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in > deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I > was young." > "Why, what did she tell you?" > "I don't know, I didn't listen." > -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy > >>> On Dec 23, 2020, at 3:29 PM, 'Simon Wong' via VIPhone >>> <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>> >> >> Yeah I would someday like to try I think it’s called voice dream scanner, I >> tried the knfb reader. I didn’t find it very user-friendly, as it was hard >> to get All of the page in the camera and it was kind of hard to keep the >> phone in one position all the time. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> -- >> 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 owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: >> mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at >> caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ >> --- >> 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. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/AF216386CDDC4855A957DC96585457D5%40ComputerPC. > > -- > 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 owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/MWHPR17MB1981FF863B7C95C68F171326B7DE0%40MWHPR17MB1981.namprd17.prod.outlook.com. -- 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 owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/1E091A97-0ECF-4EA6-A8E1-8747F9272145%40gmail.com.
