Hi Sandy & others, I found that 3/8 inch velcro hook portion make good tactile markers to line up the phone on top with aperture of the StandScan Pro. This way the phone stays in place and I have use of 2 hands. I am able to use 1 hand to flatten the written materials and take the picture with other. It was suggested a while back when I reviewing another camera OCR to use small weights at the corners ohr at spine of a book to flatten the pages when scanning 2 pages at once. Just my two sense.
Eileenp Sent from my iPhone On May 18, 2013, at 4:36 AM, Sandratomkins <sandratomk...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hallo, > > i hope I am not boring you all to death! However, with the latest > incarnations of prizmo 2 and Text Grabber, I am looking to find their various > strengths. Without a doubt, I still like the immediacy of the TG interface > and often find it perfectly adequate to the task. However, when I tried a > comparison shot taken from a magazine page, with 2 columns and with the added > difficulty of a headline situated in the centre, displacing the text to > either side, I discovered that Text Grabber got seriously confused and > pplanted a sackfull of carots half way down each column. Whereas, Prizmo 2 > did an excellent job! I can only deduce from this that Prizmo 2 still has the > better, that is, more sophisticated, OCR engine. For letters etc, there is > nothing to choose between them, but when you need more intelegent OCR > functionality, I must say that prizmo 2 is the one to use. > > Happy scanning, and here, as always, is an offering, this time from Prizmo > 2. > > Temping in the city in my college holidays for me means three things: easy > money, a relief from Cambridge stress and jobs which usually involve no more > mental strain than thinking of what to wear the next day. Yet one night, > sitting on the commuter coach, ploughing through the rush hour traffic, out > of London and into > > the suburbs, I began to wonder what temping meant for others. > I had noticed immediately that most of the temping agencies were staffed by > women. These seemed to be wellpresented, attractive girls in their mid > twenties with pleasant manners who dealt with temps as they applied for work. > There were rarely men doing > these jobs; instead, the male > members of staff seemed in > managerial positions or would go > out to companies in which temps > worked, in order to liaise with > clients. The majority of temps, > too, were women. They ranged > from twenty year old secretaries bored with their previous employment to > forty year old mothers returning to work when children were of school age, > but despite this variation they were predominantly assigned to low-scale > clerical and secretarial positions. In most cases this meant that female > temps were either directly or indirectly subordinate to men, thus reinforcing > the "office bimbo" image of working women and the stereotypical image of the > female temp. > What is even more damaging than this image is the reality of the temp's > working situation. In a temporary assignment, unlike a permanent job, there > is little room for promotion, so the women who temp are often left with > little chance to develop their skills, even though these might already be > quite substantial, l also came into contact with women who had excellent > educational qualifications which were not utilised in their temping jobs. One > girl l met, Natalia, temping while travelling, had an excellent university > degree, yet was still placed in a low scale clerical position, subordinate to > male supervisors with half her skill and intelligence. This was not the only > type of discrimination. In one company l was assigned to, working in the > share issues department of a large bank, there was a fairly even mix of male > and female temps, mostly students. > Even "on the job" the male temps were placed in the more prestigious > positions whereas the girls were confined to filing, sorting and > coffee-making. > Thus I became aware that temping, and the practices associated with it, > directly contributed to women's disadvantage in the workplace. Yet l noticed > another side to temping, that is the positive aspects it gave women, which > must not be overlooked. > Feminists have been eager to point out that the breaks women take from work, > to have children disrupt their careers. However, women who temp are able to > take a break from work whenever they feel. One such woman, Karen, was working > for a few weeks while her husband was at home, looking after her baby. Thus, > by temping she was saved from part- time work for little money or home work. > > temptation -a look at office temping > > The skills temps have are not easily devalued and aided by cross-training > schemes at temping agencies women are quickly able to regain their confidence > in the labour market. > This allows women who temp the freedom to work whenever they want, and > although this may raise theoretical problems, in reality temping is ideal for > women who want to work and spend time with their families. > I also noticed that temping is used by younger women to find suitable jobs > for temporary assignments often become permanent. Temps are often freed from > the nightmare of sexual harassment, being able to terminate jobs whenever > they feel. Alternatively, if a temp likes a job she may apply for the > permanent position. One temp I spoke to, Michaela, had left her previous > unsatisfactory job and was one the verge of finding another which she > preferred with the insurance agency for whom she was temping. I felt this > gave women like Michaela more choice, yet, paradoxically, Michaela's job was > one of the least skilled, involving photocopying, filing and coffeemaking for > predominantly male insurance brokers and underwriters. > Another interesting factor about temping is the financial aspect. A competent > temp, skilled in typing or wordprocessing, can earn up to £7 or £8 an hour, > £9 or £10 for legal secretarial. One temp I met did just this. Not only did > she command very high rates, but had all the qualities of a female executive, > exhibiting professionalism in the jobs she chose and the way she carried them > out. She was, however, the exception rather than the rule, and although she > had been temping for over five years, most women are eager to leave the often > unpredictable world of temping. Moreover, temps are often aware that the > agencies earn at least an equal amount from their labour, and while the staff > of such agencies may form an unconscious female support group for women > workers they are effectively paid out of their earnings. > Thus while the glossy advertisements in tube-stations present glamorous > images of the female employee freed from the restraints of long hours, and > two weeks holiday a year, the reality to temping is somewhat different, as I > found out. The small amount of responsibility is traded for the perpetuation > of the "bimbo" image or a more sinister sexual side of temping whereby the > "feminine" temp may unconsciously fuel sexual harassment in the office. Yet > measured against this must be the freedom which temping gives, liberating > women from the claustrophobia of home and children. However, all the thoughts > and opinions expressed here are from my own account. You would be quite right > to see my views as being narrow in perspective in limiting my subject matter > to temporary employment in the city of London. For it is not just the > position of women in one sector of the employment market which is at stake, > it is the occupational structure as a whole, and society's attitudes and > conceptions of women and their working lives which are at the heart of the > issue• > > andrea felsted i corridor 23 > > 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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