Many restaurants have web sites I have found and yes, occasionally I have gone there usually before my visit to a restaurant to check it out, also I have looked at prices in a couple of them and decided they are much too rich for my blood.
-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 6:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: About OCR in restaurants or during shopping, was: Initial thoughts on Prizmo 2. Hi Krister, Theoretically maybe one could read a menu with it, but I think it would be inefficient at best and painful at worst. If I am by myself meaning not in the company of a sighted person, I much prefer the interaction with a waiter or waitress to find out what is on the menu. I think I'd feel somewhat awkward standing up and hovering over the table trying to take pictures of the menu to see if I can get some readable text out of it. In many cases the results are probably bad enough so I end up asking anyways. In any case, what's wrong with a bit of human interaction? I at least don't feel it threatens my independence or ability to live my life. I feel the same about shopping. I often shop on my way home from work which means after sometimes a 10 or 12 hour work day. At that point the last thing I want to do is work my way through the isles with my iPhone in hand using apps like Digit-Eyes, Talking Goggles or whatever to find what I want. So I call my local Safeway, I have a little small talk with Scott, Bob, Erin or any of the other people who answer and whom I know, then I tell them I'd like to pick up a few things. I tell them what it is because a lot of times it's easier for them to get the stuff if they have some notice rather than having to find somebody to shop with me if I show up when it happens to be busy, and when I get there an hour or so later all I have to do is pay, load my pack and go home. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 6:14 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Initial thoughts on Prizmo 2. Hi, For me, who never got good results with Prizmo, at least not in the beginning, the voice feedback is a god send. It's very, very sensitive, and i haven't gotten any usefl results out of it, but that may depend on many factors, however i love the voice feedback feature. With this feature, we truely have a portable ocr solution. Standscan may be good, but it is in fact a bit limiting, i mean how many of us take the standscan to a restaurant and try to read the menu? Now with this new voice feedback in Prizmo we can at least theoretically do just this. /Krister 15 maj 2013 kl. 12:46 skrev Sandratomkins <sandratomk...@googlemail.com>: > Hi Fellow OCr Fans! > > Like many of us, I downloaded Prizmo 2 yesterday and have played > with it a little. primarily, I have questions about it and, perhaps, some of you have the answers? > > 1. We do seem to have lost the option to give voice commands to > take picture. Am I wrong? > > 2. Prizmo now gives feed-back as to the positioning of the phone when scanning. Now, if you use a StandScan Pro, this is irrelevant, it works anyway! But, free-hand, how helpful do people find this? perhaps because I have got quite proficient at using this app free-hand, I actually find these suggestions off-putting, but that might just be me, old dogs and new tricks etc. However, after a few attempts at using this new functionality, I find I am told "no page visible" immediately followed by "ready to shoot" or something of the sort. I am wondering, is Prizmo now working in the same way as the KNFB device/software? I like the idea, but am not sure how useful in real terms it is. > > 3. If scanning free-hand, I perfer to use both hands to hold the > phone, I get much better results this way, however, without the speak command, I find I have to try and double tap while holding the position, which, I think, may be a definite downside to the new update. > > 4. It does seem that, especially when using P2 with the StandScan > Pro, the OCR is better and faster, however, it does seem that we must now consider the page size options for best results with the SSP. Prizmo seems to be set to A4, by default, but the base of the StandScan Pro is actually larger, It might be American Letter size, not sure, but I found that I did better positioning my document centrally, in the long axis, it is OK to abut along the back of the box, in order not to lose some of the text in the scan. > > 5. I am delighted to see that we can now add pages to previous > scans, but, thus far, I am finding it to be a rather complex method. Perhaps, it is just me, has anyone found a method to do this in just one step? > > Finally, I would still prefer Text Grabber for my everyday tasks. > The interface is so simple, the OCR equally as good and the speed, comparable. However, Prizmo 2 does offer us some interesting options, perhaps it will be most useful for "Power OCR users" I think it a baluable upgrade, but miss the voice command feature. 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