Hi Richard, Thanks for checking on TextGrabber and reporting back. You're correct that you don't have to change the language setting for TextGrabber before each use, but you should set it up before first use.
I don't have any particular reason for promoting TextGrabber over Prizmo, since I have both apps. I also don't have a StandScan Pro yet. My hypothesis that TextGrabber might work better in this setting is based on tests that I've done with various OCR apps on screen capture images. These take the question of alignment out of the picture. If text that is printed on a page or scanned is not aligned with the edges of the page, then Prizmo will do a better job. However, if you are within the alignment tolerances of TextGrabber, it will do a better job and work faster. As both you and Sandy have said, it's good to have options. The other thing is that I do read/speak languages that Prizmo doesn't support, but which are options for TextGrabber, so I'll use both. Also, as a side note to Sandy, who asked about the translation option, in addition to using Google translation, which is also an option for Prizmo, and which requires an internet connection to work, TextGrabber can do local word-by-word translation using the Lingvo dictionaries that are another ABBYY product. I would wait until this app is discounted to $0.99, which is when I bought it. (Right now it's up at $5.99, but it was $4.99 a few days earlier) Basically this is a set of dictionary languages that can be used either separately or together with the translation part of TextGrabber. The basic app comes with a set of 10 dictionaries for English that work to translate between English and German, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and Portugese; along with German, Spanish, Chinese, and Italian to English. You can buy additional dictionary packs for other languages or specialized subjects like Business Management, Law, or Medical usage, via in-app purchases. I haven't really played with this, but this is set up by buying the ABBYY Lingvo Dictionary app, and then turning on the switch for "Dictionary" under the "Linked App" heading of the Settings menu. You can read more about the TextGrabber feature options from the app's support pages at: http://www.abbyy.com/textgrabber_ios/features/ HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 19, 10:40 am, Richard Turner <richard.turne...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, I thought from Esther and Sandy's comments about the language that I > would have to select the language each time. > I just checked my settings and English was selected. > So, the test I did with Prizmo and TextGrabber that showed Prizmo being more > accurate was done with TextGrabber already set to English. > > I'm glad others have different apps they like, but for my use, I'm sticking > with Prizmo. For me, I get the best results with it. > Happy scanning, > > Richard > (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) -- 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.
