Hi Jodie and Holly, Short of using a web upload service that returns results to you at a later time, and which is easier to use from a desktop computer, my experience is the same as Jodie's. None of the current iOS OCR apps will work with PDF files -- it has to be a jpg or png image files. You have to take a screen capture of the page, and then run an OCR on the image from your camera roll with an app that lets you do this instead of taking a picture with your camera. I've had the best results with Prizmo and TextGrabber. Actually, the results doing it this way have been slightly better and faster with TextGrabber than with Prizmo, provided you turn off the switch for interactive crop in the TextGrabber settings. You do have to make sure that the screen's display brightness is turned up, and that your screen curtain is not on. You also have to process this page by page.
Apart from this, if you have printed output, and are on the same wifi network as a wireless scanner or all-in-one printer with a scanner, the VueScan Mobile app by Hamrick software will let you command a scan in high resolution from your iPhone and save the results to your camera roll. You the have to run a separate OCR app again. but you could distribute the OCR'd text from the printed page(s) you scanned to a number to a number of people. VueScan Mobile also lets you work with wireless or AirPrint scanners with page feeders. I wrote a recent reply to this question in the AppleVis forums that gives details: http://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ios-app-discussion/prizmo-question HTH. Cheers, Esther On Feb 4, 3:34 pm, Jodie Hoger <jodieho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Holly. The only way I have been able to do this with an image of text > emailed to me is to take a screen shot of the page which then saves it to the > last item on my camera role. From here I can open my preferred ocr app - had > best outcomes with prismo, and open the last item on the camera role and it > will perform the ocr for me. it is a bit tricky and time consuming and you > can only do one page at a time however it is the only work around for this > issue for us at this moemnt in time. To take a screen shot of your iphone you > hold the home key and power button at the same time. You will hear the camera > shutter sound so you know you have taken the shot. > Hope this is somewhat useful. > Jo > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 03/02/2013, at 7:34 AM, "Holly" <thistleshamrock2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > Does anyone know of an app that will allow me to import a PDF that is a > > scanned immage and perform OCR on it? Some of my school articles are like > > this, and I'd like a way to access them on my phone. Perhaps I'll send the > > Devs of Text Detective a request to add this feature. Thanks. > > > Holly and Ajax > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
