The KNFB app has the field of view report such that it will tell you if it sees 
all four edges of the item being scanned. This is something you can do before 
you actually scan the document or when you scan it will tell you how many edges 
it sees so that if you are missing some you can adjust for another scan.

 

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Teresa Cochran
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 8:32 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Specialty OCR Apps

 

How is OCR from a distance accomplished with the iDevice hardware? I am one of 
those folks who simply can't get the hang of scanning free-hand very well. For 
frozen entrees, I might get one or two words from the box. My accuracy has not 
really improved with practice. If new technology can improve this, I may well 
be in the fronT of the line to purchase apps.

 

Teresa

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On Jul 9, 2014, at 7:20 AM, Feliciano G <theblindman...@hotmail.com> wrote:

OCR from a distance. They demonstrated having OCR from a PowerPoint that  is 25 
feet away. I believe that is the biggest difference at the moment.

          Regards, Feliciano

 

Sent from the Super-iPhone


On Jul 9, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Scott Duck" <l...@csdconsulting.biz> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I have been following the thread about the KNFB app.  I have no problem with 
their pricing.  People will either buy it or they won’t.  So, this is not a 
slam of the company at all.  My question is what is the advantage of a 
specialty OCR app like this?  I frequently use Prizmo and have no problem with 
it.  I occasionally take pictures of documents for OCR and I very frequently 
use it to recognize PDFs that people E-mail to me that have no text.  I even 
once used it to OCR a picture that was sent to me in a text.  What can you do 
with KNFB Reader that you can’t do with something like Prizmo or Text Grabber?  
Like most blind people, I do sometimes have issues when taking pictures free 
hand for OCR because of everything not being lined up quite right but that is 
going to be an issue regardless of the OCR package that is being used.  If you 
only have half the document in the shot then there is nothing that the app can 
do to compensate for that.  Please understand, I am not trying to bad mouth the 
app or the company but I truly don’t understand what the advantage is supposed 
to be.

Thanks,

Scott Duck

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