Thanks for your reply. The OCR engine in TextGrabber and Prizmo is newer and better than the OCR engine in KNFB Reader. When these apps are used in conjunction with a product like the StandScan Pro, their abilities really shine through.
Even the hardware is better with the iPhone 5 verses the Nokia N86. Using my StandScan Pro and TextGrabber, I get OCR times of just a few seconds with quality that is equivalent to a desktop system. I have heard rumours that KNFB Reading Technologies is considering creating a KNFB Reader for the iPhone. Their concern is whether people will pay several hundred dollars for the product. By my calculations, ten StandScan Pro boxes would come to $300, which I suspect would be the minimum asking price from KNFB Reading. I personally would not pay such a high price as it is not worth that kind of money to me considering I get better results with significantly less expensive equipment. If you question my significant price expectations for KNFB Reader on the iPhone, consider the precedence. Sendero Group, the makers of GPS for the blind, announced at CSUN that the GPS app which the Seeing Eye invested in the creation of will probably sell for a subscription fee of $100 per year. With this pricing structure, they are charging $25 more per year than they charged for map updates with Mobile Geo. I learned over a decade ago that it is almost always much more difficult for an adaptive tech company to switch over to a mainstream market. The fact is, there is no way consumers who are not blind will pay anywhere near that kind of money for OCR or GPS when the alternatives are all significantly less than $100 without any sort of subscription models. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 12/05/2013, at 16:58, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hello, > > You’ll probably get a lot of replies and the 2 apps which people will > recommend the most will be Prizmo and Text Grabber. You may also get a few > recommendations for Text Detective and SayText. > > Apps like Prizmo or Text Grabber are probably every bit as good recognizing > stuff as KNFB Reader is. The main cause for poor results are poorly taken > pictures where either the lighting is not good enough, the person who takes > the picture holds the phone too close, too far away or not parallel to the > text etc. People who use the Standscan which is a simple cardboard box where > the phone rests above the page you want to scan and looks down through a hole > in the top pretty much all get excellent results that often rival those of a > flatbed scanner. But it’s just the nature of the beast that a blind person > can’t take a perfect picture, make sure the page is not in shadow and all > that. > > David from New Zealand was a KNFB Reader user before and now uses Prizmo and > Text Grabber and he has several times posted reviews where he explains > exactly why OCR on an iPhone can be just as good or better. It is my > understanding that one of the features which made KNFB Reader relatively easy > to use was the fact that it was quite forgiving with respect to focus and > alignment, but one should also not forget that Prizmo is $9.99 and KNFB > Reader was what, about $1,500? > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Avnish Chopra > Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 9:37 PM > To: ViPhone > Subject: Decent OCR? > > . > I have asked this question before. Is there no good OCR app? I mean some good > app like the Text Scout or the KNFB Reader? > Is it not high time that we IOS users got a decent one? I have tried at least > a dozen applications but none of them are even half as good as the two > mentioned earlier. 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