You did not say which app gave you that very good result, or did miss something?
Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On Mar 25, 2013, at 5:20 AM, Sandratomkins <sandratomk...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have just been playing with Text Grabber and Prizmo in conjunction with > my StandScan Pro. I decided to try them with a book that I attempted to scan > many years ago using a flat-bed scanner and Kurtzweil. My results, possibly, > ten or more years ago, were less than satisfactory. In fact, you couldn't > follow the recipes because the quantities were illegible. Now, in many ways, > the apps we have available to us on the iPhone, are in their infancy. > obviously, they are a fraction of the size of, say, Kurtzweil and, also > obviously, a fraction of the price. plus, now we are dealing with a portable > solution. When you want to read a letter, something simple with no columns > etc, both Prizmo and Text Grabber will do the job, especially when using the > StandScan Pro. However, imbedded columns and symbols for > grammes/ounces/fractions etc can prove daunting for these pocket sized OCR > packages. Now that we have a way to position the phone exactly, and we can > ensure perfect lighting conditions, when things go wrong it is more to do > with the scanning/OCR capability of a given app rather than the physicality > of scanning. Also, there is one other variable: to wit, when we use a > flat-bed scanner, the book we are scanning is facing down onto a flat surface > and gravity alone will heple with ensuring the flatness of the text. Now and > again, we may use pressure on that book to make sure that the text nearest to > the spine is readable. This we cannot do when the book is facing up toward > the phone. So, until apps such as Prizmo or Text Grabber get really clever > and learn to deal with distorted text, we aill always have trouble scanning > two pages of a book, apart from when we are scanning roughly half way > through, because only half way through will allow you to hold the pages > equally flat. > > With all this in mind, I tried both Text Grabber and prizmo on my "The Big > Book of Tomatoes". I wanted results that would mean I could follow the > recipes with ease. In the end, for good enough results, I had to use only > single page shots. These pages all have paragraphs of text plus columns of > ingredients. Below is my best result, there are two significant mistakes, > where you will hear 'tilda" it should read "half" (so half a lemon). Also, > when it says "s minutes" it should read 5. > > The rest is perfect, it starts wheE. half way through a sentence and > finishes at the bottom, half way through a sentence. > > We are getting there, these results are much, much better than those > obtained by me and my expensive Kurtzweil and flat-bed scanner all those > years ago. I do know that kurtzwiel ahs improved since then, but our phones > and OCR apps are catching up fast. The point of all this is to draw people's > attention to the fact that not everything is about the right position of the > phone and the lighting, it is also about software. > > So, here it is! > > "f Tomato Soups ~ in the yoghurt. Taste and adjust the seasoning with salt, > Tabasco, lemon juice and possibly, depending on the ripeness of the fruit, a > little sugar. > Pick the mint leaves from the stalks and chop very finely. Stir into the > soup. Serve very cold. > HOT SOUPS BLACK BEAN SOUP WITH TOMATO AND > Serves 6-8 AVOCADO RELISH > Black beans, not to be confused with black-eyed beans, are small, shiny and > kidney-shaped. Their slightly sweet flavour is complemented by onions and > garlic, goes well with coriander, cumin and tomatoes, and needs to be pepped > up with chilli. This soup combines all those flavours and the result is an > intriguingly aromatic, thick and chunky soup, freshened with a 'salad' of raw > tomato and avocado seasoned with lemon juice. > 4 tbsp vegetable oil > 2 large onions, diced 4 garlic c(oves, chopped 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp > ground coriander 1 tsp dried oregano 1 bay leaf > 250 g dried black beans, soaked in water for at least 4 hours and drained > 2 x 400 g tins italian tomatoes for ~he garnish > 1 firm but ripe avocado, diced 1 tbsp lemon juice > 2 plum tomatoes, cored, peeled, 1 tbsp tomato purde > 1 scant tsp Tabasco a large bunch coriander (approximately 75 g), leaves > only, chopped > 1.75 litres hot water or vegetable stock > salt and freshly ground black pepper > ~,~ lemon > seeded and diced 100 g soured cream > a few coriander leaves Heat the oil in a large pan and saut6 the onion and > garlic for several minutes until slippery but not coloured. Stir in the > cumin, ground coriander, oregano and bay leaf, then add the beans. Cook, > stirring constantly, for S minutes. > Run a sharp knife through the tomatoes a few times while still in the tin and > add them, with their liquid, the tomato pur~e, Tabasco and chopped coriander > and the hot water or stock. Bring to the boil, turn down immediately and > simmer very gently for 3 hours. > Discard the bay leaf. Put& half the soup in a food-processor or > mouli-legumes. Pass the soup through a sieve, pressing down hard, into > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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