Hi Richard, Actually, they are not on the same pricing structure. I use motion X GPS Drive and it cost $10 per year. So even if they go at hundred dollars for three years, that is pricier.d
Sent from my iPhone On May 12, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Richard Turner <richard.turne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > I of course agree with most of what you said. However, to be fair to > Sendero, the announcement at CSUN said that it will probably cost $100 for > one to three years, they had not settled on exactly how the pricing structure > would work. > If it would be for three years, then you are in the same ball park as > something like Motion X gps for their turn-by-turn text to speech. > If it is $100 per year, I am not sure they will get enough takers to make it > worth while. > > But, that is straying off the topic of this thread a bit. > > As for the scanning, using the StandScan Pro gets better results for me than > the KNFB Reader on a regular basis. > > When Prizmo 2 comes out this week, it will be interesting to see how it > compares to the last TextGrabber for speed as well as other features. I have > to say, at this point, I'm a TextGrabber convert. > > Later, > Richard > > > Richard > (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) > > On May 12, 2013, at 8:15 AM, David Chittenden <dchitten...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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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