Hello, Some of the people on here have some great advice.
Must concur that lighting, glare, the level of your shot, the height, and such are at great important. Some things to note are that if you get garble messages. It typically means you are too high when you take your picture. Remember if you are using the 3gs you will have less accuracy. The 4 becomes a bit better because of the higher megapixels in the camera. I find that a phone height is the limit on those. For those on the 4s and the 5 will have even a better camera and you can raise your phone higher. If you go to high the less accuracy you will have. So if you have great lighting. Use a sheet or some sort under the document. Hold the phone not too high. You should have great results. HTH Regards, AnonyMouse AppleVis Editorial Team www.AppleVis.com Twitter: www.twitter.com\thomas_domville -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf of David Chittenden Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 2:50 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Text Detective App Ok, since there are several people who regularly report that they get very useable results from both apps mentioned, the statement that they do not work is clearly false. I have written how to use Prizmo several times on this list. There is a write-up on applevis.com. These apps require lots of practice to learn how to take a clear image for OCR conversion. Steady hands and good lighting are essential. So is lots of patience whilst learning. I use Prizmo every day. It has the best OCR engine. Text Detective is quite good as well. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 27/01/2013, at 20:39, Harmony Neil <harmony.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried using this app a couple of days ago and got it to scan, but could never make any sense out of the results. Prismo is no better to be honest. > > On 27/01/2013, at 2:04, "CD" <cd5...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We are talking about the same thing. Thanks so much! Will try that now. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On >> Behalf Of Anonymouse >> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 6:01 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: RE: Text Detective App >> >> Hello, >> >> That part is rather confusing. If you are talking about the first >> part when you open the app up for the first time? >> >> This is the Tutorial part of where you have to swipe to go on with >> the four pages of it. >> >> The secret is is that flick until you get to the part where it says >> Page 1 of 4. Now realize that we are in the landscape mode with the >> Home button on the left. Once you have the focus on the Page 1 of 4. >> Down do the Three fingers swipe to the left. This will proceed on to >> Page 2. You will need to do this for all four pages of the Tutorial. >> >> Hope this helps you out and that we are talking about the same thing? >> ;) >> >> I found this to be one of my favorite OCR program to date. >> >> Regards, >> AnonyMouse >> AppleVis Editorial Team >> www.AppleVis.com >> Twitter: www.twitter.com\thomas_domville >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On >> Behalf Of CD >> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 7:13 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Text Detective App >> >> Has anyone been able to make the Text Detective App work? I can't >> get past the first page. It says three finger flick left to get to >> next step and I can't get it to do that. 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