Hi, i just listened to the Podcast on AppleVis introducing the StandScan Pro and some OCR Apps. I have to admit that if I were new to either the StandScan Pro or prizmo/Text Grabber/et al, I would not be tempted to try to use my phone for my scanning needs. At the end, the Presenter (Sorry I didn't catch his name, but a very nice guy!) did mention that the samples of text he was trying to OCR were not just plain black text on a white background. Now, as things stand, I have not found an OCR App that will get usable text from coloured/white on black/or text printed over images. I would have liked it if the Presenter had shown us some successful, straight forward examples first, just to allay people's fears that the system does, indeed, work in everyday, simple tasks. I know he did say, at the end, that this sort of scanning is very doable, but the terrible results obtained from the Cookie-Box etc tended to stick in the mind.
The long and the short of it is this, we do now, with either Prizmo or Text Grabber and the StandScan Pro have a usable solution for scanning with the phone, but perhaps, we should start to Loby the developers of these and other apps to upgrade their algorythems (I don't know how to spell that and I am not sure I even know what it means!!!) so that we can start to get info from packaging/leaflets etc. Thoughtful Tomkins. 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.