Category: Cell Phone Talk
Has anyone found an ocr app that is accessible and works most if not all of the time? I have an iphone 4s, so can use the powerful camera.
There are two possibillities. prizmo and Text Grabber. Text grabber is easeier to use. Both do fairly well. Unfortunately, the only way to find out more about them is to try them.
Text Grabber does not appear to show up in the app store on my iPod Touch. I have gotten quite a few different OCR apps including the one from Zoomtext and none have been that good with the iPod. Admittedly haven't tried it with iOS5 yet but now you have me curious again.
Do let us know Lio, i'm very interested with OCR on the phone. Is one of the thing that Apple hasn't achieve.
The iPod's camera is very inferior to the iPhone. I won't be paying for my own data plan for awhile. Just got the daughter on it.
Have a look at this link. It should be there: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textgrabber-translator/id438475005?mt=8
You got that to work on your iPod Touch? I doubt it. I got the Your Request could not be completed message.
That means the device is incompatible with the app.
If I'm wrong and you have an iPod Touch that works I'd love to know about how.
Leo, no. iPhone 4.
i am very interested in OCR on iphone too. i have a 3gs and heard about prizmo and image to text, that one doesn't sound too interesting prizmo sounds like the best but before i buy it i wanted to see if there was any other choice. i read another board i don't remember who posted it, where they said they had an app to read various things including restaurants menues etc, not just small papers but didn't mention what it was. that's what i'd really like to have, i want to be able to read things like price tags, labels on boxes etc but possibly books too, at least small enough ones. that would be really amazing
Hoping in a few months to get me and the wife iPhones. I think she's ready for the plunge, and plunge it's gonna be for the wallet if I'm not careful. Just the way it is: get the kiddos squared away then look after yourselves.
But I'm really hoping and looking forward to it. I've invested a lot of time and effort on the iOS apps thus far and so want to stick with those.
I just got a 4s, and have been testing the ocr capabilities using saytext.
I've had some wildly varied results.
First off, it's a hell of a lot better than the 3gs.
It was able to get a lot of the text from a newspaper, ocring about 80 percent of the text. Unfortunately, the text was written in columns, so it was reading 2 stories at once. No fault of the phone there.
I didn't have such a good time with reading a brochure from the credit card company that I had just happened to get in the mail. The brochure was glossy, so that might have been a problem for the ocr.
Also, it didn't want to read a paperback book. I don't know if maybe the other pages were in the way, or if something else was in the image, but it had practically no luck with a standard sized paperback.
What really blue my mind was how well it did with newsprint.
I have a feeling that with the other stuff, especially the book, I might have had some other shit in the frame. I'll be testing this out more, and trying a couple other ocr program. So far I've only used saytext.
I know it's not going to be like having a portable scanner that gets all text all the time.
I've heard good things about the knfb reader, and I don't expect it to be that. I'll just be happy if I can use it to sort mail and read stuff in a pinch.I'll post the results of the other apps I test as I get time.