Re: Playing with the camera app

[Margaret Thomas]

Yes, this is my first time with the camera app itself.

I tried the Seeing AI app for the first time the other day when I had a 
bill that Open Book did not read well and I thought might be mainly 
handwritten.  I was able to get the total amount of the bill from it, 
but only got 1 column out of 5 that a friend said were there after my 
initial attempt.  I'm going to work more with Seeing AI and it could 
well just be my inexperience that didn't give me more of the bill.


Do you have any idea what the drag the shutter to the left for (word I 
couldn't make out) might be about?


Thanks for telling me how to shut it up.

Margaret


On 7/31/2022 4:11 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:

Hmm, sounds like it might have been the first time you used the camera app and 
you had to get past some initial screens, like tips and such.

To shut it up I usually just move focus off the view finder, but it'll still 
let you know if there's a person in the camera view or not. To shut it up for 
good, I just close the camera app in the App Switcher.

--
Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Margaret 
Thomas
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2022 1:02 PM
To: vip >> V iPhone list 
Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app

I initially still had no luck.  I slid my finger around the screen and
only heard the thing about quick video  ; Drag the shutter to the left
for something that sounds like burst; and 0 people.  There is no focus or view 
finder.
   There was a continue button that I finally found and double tapped on and 
then I could follow your instructions.

It was interesting and needs some work.  It liked to call things musical 
instrument and there isn't a musical instrument in the house.  It got some 
things right.

A friend came when I was going around downstairs with it and I finally got it 
to say face.

How do you get it to shut up?  I tried the magic tap and that didn't work.  I 
was hurrying to be able to pay attention to my friend and lost speech, but was 
able to get it back.

Thanks,

Margaret


On 7/30/2022 4:45 PM, Richard Turner wrote:

Try to focus on the upper left portion of the screen and you should
find the view finder.
Double tap on it and then do not touch the screen again until you wan
to change something and just point the camera around at things and
wait a few seconds for it to say something.
HTH,





Richard
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of
little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~
John Ruskin My web site:
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.
turner42.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cbfe879ba32ab4c14f83d08da731ecea6
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On Jul 30, 2022, at 11:42 AM, Margaret Thomas
 wrote:

I'm new to the Camera app on my SE 2020 and can't get this to work.
  It says New Quick Take Video and tap and hold the shutter to record
a quick video and something  about dragging the shutter to the left.
It also says 0 people.  I'm sliding my finger around the screen and
not hearing anything about view finder.  I've pointed the lens at my
refrigerator and my computer keyboard and sometimes it says 0 people.
It keeps repeating 0 people the way it does when the last thing I
check on the home screen is the charge level when I'm charging the phone.

I think I need Camera 101!

Any help continuing my iPhone education is much appreciated.

Margaret



On 7/26/2022 8:10 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:

This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across
something, and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless
I am, but I was looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and
not knowing where else to look, I brought up the camera app. While I
was exploring the camera app, I heard it announcing things like no
people, keyboard, … I realized it was telling me what was on my desk!
After playing around, I found out that if you move focus to the top
to the view finder, the camera app will read text to you and
identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it
say “cat on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a
beverage”. I was pointing it at my kitchen table which had our cat
on it, waiting to be fed, my wife’s laptop and her glass of
sparkling water! It’s not going to replace the Seeing AI app for me
yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!
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Chaltain at Outlook
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Re: Playing with the camera app

[Richard Turner]

Also Margaret, if you can master the single finger flick left or right, you 
will save yourself a bucket of headaches over the sliding your finger around 
the screen method.
Flicking your finger jumps from item to item; while sliding your finger can mis 
an item if it is small.
HTH,





Richard
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little 
consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin
My web site: https://www.turner42.com


> On Jul 31, 2022, at 1:11 PM, Christopher Chaltain  
> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, sounds like it might have been the first time you used the camera app 
> and you had to get past some initial screens, like tips and such.
> 
> To shut it up I usually just move focus off the view finder, but it'll still 
> let you know if there's a person in the camera view or not. To shut it up for 
> good, I just close the camera app in the App Switcher.
> 
> --
> Christopher (AKA CJ)
> Chaltain at Outlook
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Margaret Thomas
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2022 1:02 PM
> To: vip >> V iPhone list 
> Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app
> 
> I initially still had no luck.  I slid my finger around the screen and 
> only heard the thing about quick video; Drag the shutter to the left 
> for something that sounds like burst; and 0 people.  There is no focus or 
> view finder.
>  There was a continue button that I finally found and double tapped on and 
> then I could follow your instructions.
> 
> It was interesting and needs some work.  It liked to call things musical 
> instrument and there isn't a musical instrument in the house.  It got some 
> things right.
> 
> A friend came when I was going around downstairs with it and I finally got it 
> to say face.
> 
> How do you get it to shut up?  I tried the magic tap and that didn't work.  I 
> was hurrying to be able to pay attention to my friend and lost speech, but 
> was able to get it back.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Margaret
> 
> 
>> On 7/30/2022 4:45 PM, Richard Turner wrote:
>> Try to focus on the upper left portion of the screen and you should 
>> find the view finder.
>> Double tap on it and then do not touch the screen again until you wan 
>> to change something and just point the camera around at things and 
>> wait a few seconds for it to say something.
>> HTH,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Richard
>> “What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of 
>> little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ 
>> John Ruskin My web site: 
>> https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.
>> turner42.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cbfe879ba32ab4c14f83d08da731ecea6
>> %7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637948873406864953%7CUnk
>> nown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWw
>> iLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ZwHdowAtI%2BeZGyYExKGs%2Bj1%
>> 2Fmjs77ADNV2LF47ts%2BO0%3D&reserved=0
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 30, 2022, at 11:42 AM, Margaret Thomas 
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm new to the Camera app on my SE 2020 and can't get this to work. 
>>>  It says New Quick Take Video and tap and hold the shutter to record 
>>> a quick video and something  about dragging the shutter to the left. 
>>> It also says 0 people.  I'm sliding my finger around the screen and 
>>> not hearing anything about view finder.  I've pointed the lens at my 
>>> refrigerator and my computer keyboard and sometimes it says 0 people.
>>> It keeps repeating 0 people the way it does when the last thing I 
>>> check on the home screen is the charge level when I'm charging the phone.
>>> 
>>> I think I need Camera 101!
>>> 
>>> Any help continuing my iPhone education is much appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Margaret
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 7/26/2022 8:10 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
>>>> This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across 
>>>> something, and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless 
>>>> I am, but I was looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and 
>>>> not knowing where else to look, I brought up the camera app. While I 
>>>> was exploring the camera app, I heard it announcing things like no 
>>>> people, keyboard, … I realized it was telling me what was on my desk!
>>>> After playing around, I found out that if you move focus to the top 
>>>> to the 

RE: Playing with the camera app

[Christopher Chaltain]

Hmm, sounds like it might have been the first time you used the camera app and 
you had to get past some initial screens, like tips and such.

To shut it up I usually just move focus off the view finder, but it'll still 
let you know if there's a person in the camera view or not. To shut it up for 
good, I just close the camera app in the App Switcher.

--
Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Margaret 
Thomas
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2022 1:02 PM
To: vip >> V iPhone list 
Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app

I initially still had no luck.  I slid my finger around the screen and 
only heard the thing about quick video  ; Drag the shutter to the left 
for something that sounds like burst; and 0 people.  There is no focus or view 
finder.
  There was a continue button that I finally found and double tapped on and 
then I could follow your instructions.

It was interesting and needs some work.  It liked to call things musical 
instrument and there isn't a musical instrument in the house.  It got some 
things right.

A friend came when I was going around downstairs with it and I finally got it 
to say face.

How do you get it to shut up?  I tried the magic tap and that didn't work.  I 
was hurrying to be able to pay attention to my friend and lost speech, but was 
able to get it back.

Thanks,

Margaret


On 7/30/2022 4:45 PM, Richard Turner wrote:
> Try to focus on the upper left portion of the screen and you should 
> find the view finder.
> Double tap on it and then do not touch the screen again until you wan 
> to change something and just point the camera around at things and 
> wait a few seconds for it to say something.
> HTH,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Richard
> “What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of 
> little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ 
> John Ruskin My web site: 
> https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.
> turner42.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cbfe879ba32ab4c14f83d08da731ecea6
> %7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637948873406864953%7CUnk
> nown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWw
> iLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ZwHdowAtI%2BeZGyYExKGs%2Bj1%
> 2Fmjs77ADNV2LF47ts%2BO0%3D&reserved=0
> 
> 
>> On Jul 30, 2022, at 11:42 AM, Margaret Thomas 
>>  wrote:
>>
>> I'm new to the Camera app on my SE 2020 and can't get this to work. 
>>  It says New Quick Take Video and tap and hold the shutter to record 
>> a quick video and something  about dragging the shutter to the left. 
>> It also says 0 people.  I'm sliding my finger around the screen and 
>> not hearing anything about view finder.  I've pointed the lens at my 
>> refrigerator and my computer keyboard and sometimes it says 0 people.
>> It keeps repeating 0 people the way it does when the last thing I 
>> check on the home screen is the charge level when I'm charging the phone.
>>
>> I think I need Camera 101!
>>
>> Any help continuing my iPhone education is much appreciated.
>>
>> Margaret
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/26/2022 8:10 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
>>> This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across 
>>> something, and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless 
>>> I am, but I was looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and 
>>> not knowing where else to look, I brought up the camera app. While I 
>>> was exploring the camera app, I heard it announcing things like no 
>>> people, keyboard, … I realized it was telling me what was on my desk!
>>> After playing around, I found out that if you move focus to the top 
>>> to the view finder, the camera app will read text to you and 
>>> identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it 
>>> say “cat on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a 
>>> beverage”. I was pointing it at my kitchen table which had our cat 
>>> on it, waiting to be fed, my wife’s laptop and her glass of 
>>> sparkling water! It’s not going to replace the Seeing AI app for me 
>>> yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!
>>> --
>>> Christopher (AKA CJ)
>>> Chaltain at Outlook
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Re: Playing with the camera app

[Margaret Thomas]

I initially still had no luck.  I slid my finger around the screen and 
only heard the thing about quick video	; Drag the shutter to the left 
for something that sounds like burst; and 0 people.  There is no focus 
or view finder.
 There was a continue button that I finally found and double tapped on 
and then I could follow your instructions.


It was interesting and needs some work.  It liked to call things musical 
instrument and there isn't a musical instrument in the house.  It got 
some things right.


A friend came when I was going around downstairs with it and I finally 
got it to say face.


How do you get it to shut up?  I tried the magic tap and that didn't 
work.  I was hurrying to be able to pay attention to my friend and lost 
speech, but was able to get it back.


Thanks,

Margaret


On 7/30/2022 4:45 PM, Richard Turner wrote:
Try to focus on the upper left portion of the screen and you should find 
the view finder.
Double tap on it and then do not touch the screen again until you wan to 
change something and just point the camera around at things and wait a 
few seconds for it to say something.

HTH,





Richard
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of 
little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John 
Ruskin

My web site: https://www.turner42.com


On Jul 30, 2022, at 11:42 AM, Margaret Thomas 
 wrote:


I'm new to the Camera app on my SE 2020 and can't get this to work. 
 It says New Quick Take Video and tap and hold the shutter to record a 
quick video and something  about dragging the shutter to the left. It 
also says 0 people.  I'm sliding my finger around the screen and not 
hearing anything about view finder.  I've pointed the lens at my 
refrigerator and my computer keyboard and sometimes it says 0 people. 
It keeps repeating 0 people the way it does when the last thing I 
check on the home screen is the charge level when I'm charging the phone.


I think I need Camera 101!

Any help continuing my iPhone education is much appreciated.

Margaret



On 7/26/2022 8:10 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across 
something, and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless 
I am, but I was looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not 
knowing where else to look, I brought up the camera app. While I was 
exploring the camera app, I heard it announcing things like no 
people, keyboard, … I realized it was telling me what was on my desk! 
After playing around, I found out that if you move focus to the top 
to the view finder, the camera app will read text to you and identify 
objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it say “cat on 
a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was 
pointing it at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to 
be fed, my wife’s laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not 
going to replace the Seeing AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully 
fast and accurate!

--
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Chaltain at Outlook
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Re: Playing with the camera app

[Richard Turner]

Try to focus on the upper left portion of the screen and you should find the 
view finder.
Double tap on it and then do not touch the screen again until you wan to change 
something and just point the camera around at things and wait a few seconds for 
it to say something.
HTH,





Richard
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little 
consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin
My web site: https://www.turner42.com


> On Jul 30, 2022, at 11:42 AM, Margaret Thomas  wrote:
> 
> I'm new to the Camera app on my SE 2020 and can't get this to work.  It says 
> New Quick Take Video and tap and hold the shutter to record a quick video and 
> something  about dragging the shutter to the left. It also says 0 people.  
> I'm sliding my finger around the screen and not hearing anything about view 
> finder.  I've pointed the lens at my refrigerator and my computer keyboard 
> and sometimes it says 0 people. It keeps repeating 0 people the way it does 
> when the last thing I check on the home screen is the charge level when I'm 
> charging the phone.
> 
> I think I need Camera 101!
> 
> Any help continuing my iPhone education is much appreciated.
> 
> Margaret
> 
> 
> 
>> On 7/26/2022 8:10 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
>> This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, 
>> and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was 
>> looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to 
>> look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
>> heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
>> telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if 
>> you move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text 
>> to you and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard 
>> it say “cat on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I 
>> was pointing it at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be 
>> fed, my wife’s laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to 
>> replace the Seeing AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and 
>> accurate!
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Re: Playing with the camera app

[Margaret Thomas]

I'm new to the Camera app on my SE 2020 and can't get this to work.  It 
says New Quick Take Video and tap and hold the shutter to record a quick 
video and something  about dragging the shutter to the left. It also 
says 0 people.  I'm sliding my finger around the screen and not hearing 
anything about view finder.  I've pointed the lens at my refrigerator 
and my computer keyboard and sometimes it says 0 people. It keeps 
repeating 0 people the way it does when the last thing I check on the 
home screen is the charge level when I'm charging the phone.


I think I need Camera 101!

Any help continuing my iPhone education is much appreciated.

Margaret



On 7/26/2022 8:10 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across 
something, and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I 
am, but I was looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not 
knowing where else to look, I brought up the camera app. While I was 
exploring the camera app, I heard it announcing things like no people, 
keyboard, … I realized it was telling me what was on my desk! After 
playing around, I found out that if you move focus to the top to the 
view finder, the camera app will read text to you and identify objects. 
I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it say “cat on a flat 
surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was pointing it at 
my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, my wife’s 
laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace the 
Seeing AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!


--

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Chaltain at Outlook

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RE: Playing with the camera app

[Richard Turner]

Well, I am fortunate that in retirement, my wife and I are very comfortable and 
I decided I could afford, finally, to spend the money for a pro model phone.

 

And, my wife was happy to take my SE 2020 and retire her SE first gen.

 

 

 

 

Richard

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought 
which they seldom use.” - Søren Kierkegaard

 

My web site:  <https://www.turner42.com/> https://www.turner42.com

🦅

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of CHELA 
Robles
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 5:20 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app

 

Oh Richard I’m so jealous of you and all of you who on later models. I have the 
iPhone 8 plus. I’ve had it since 2018 and the first time I had to have a 
replacement iPhone 8 Plus was this year in January. The reason was because the 
battery was significantly degraded like it does over time of use. since it was 
under warranty, they were able to find a replacement iPhone 8 Plus for me. It 
was what my father could afford. now that I know that the Lions vision resource 
network has grants every year, maybe next time, I can apply to get the later 
iPhone. I already applied to get a braille display.

Sent from my iPhone





On Jul 28, 2022, at 5:06 PM, Christopher Chaltain mailto:chalt...@outlook.com> > wrote:

 

I’d bet that since you’re using a 13 Pro, you’re also getting the advantage of 
LiDAR.

 

--

Christopher (AKA CJ)

Chaltain at Outlook

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>  
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
Richard Turner
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 7:02 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app

 

I had not messed with this for identifying things for a while.

So, I open the camera, double tapped on view finder.

I pointed the camera in front of myself, and it was talking about a person 
standing in front of a fireplace in a room.

I mentioned that to my sighted wife and she said, yes, it's Tom.

There is a piccture of my late brother in a nice shadow box on our mantle.

It is appoximately 12 feet from me. The picture is a 4 by 6 photo.

The picture is indeed of him standing in front of their fireplace.

 

 

That is better than any of the apps I've tried.

There are no overhead lights on at the moment.

I scanned around the room and it did a good job of identifying chairs, tables, 
TV, etc.

This is the 13 pro.

I'm impressed.

 

 

 

 

 

Richard

“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little 
consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin

My web site: https://www.turner42.com

 






On Jul 28, 2022, at 4:31 PM, Paula Jordan mailto:pau...@roadrunner.com> > wrote:

This really sounds cool, but I'm having a hard time getting it to work.  I 
flick to view finder and it occasionally will say what is near, but, for 
example, if I hold a dollar bill up it may say "currency" after a bit.   As I 
walk around the room it may say "curtain and glass door"  but I can't figure 
out how to hold or point it to make it more consistent.  Any thoughts.
Thanks.
God bless!
Paula and the pups
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>  
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 2:29 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app

You open the camera app and then you move VoiceOver focus to the view finder, 
which is at the top of the screen. As long as the view finder has VoiceOver's 
focus, you'll hear descriptions of whatever's in the view finder, such as 
object recognition, text and apparently currency identification as well. 

--
Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>  
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
Carolyn
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 1:05 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app

So, do you just open Camera? Then what, to read a bill? 

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>  
[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 10:24 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app

Wow cool! I love the Microsoft Seeing AI app, but the cool thing about the 
Camera app is that it does all of this without having to switch between 
channels!



--

Christopher (AKA CJ)

Chaltain at Outlook



From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>

Re: Playing with the camera app

[CHELA Robles]

Oh Richard I’m so jealous of you and all of you who on later models. I have the 
iPhone 8 plus. I’ve had it since 2018 and the first time I had to have a 
replacement iPhone 8 Plus was this year in January. The reason was because the 
battery was significantly degraded like it does over time of use. since it was 
under warranty, they were able to find a replacement iPhone 8 Plus for me. It 
was what my father could afford. now that I know that the Lions vision resource 
network has grants every year, maybe next time, I can apply to get the later 
iPhone. I already applied to get a braille display.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 28, 2022, at 5:06 PM, Christopher Chaltain  
> wrote:
> 
> 
> I’d bet that since you’re using a 13 Pro, you’re also getting the advantage 
> of LiDAR.
>  
> --
> Christopher (AKA CJ)
> Chaltain at Outlook
>  
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Richard Turner
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 7:02 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app
>  
> I had not messed with this for identifying things for a while.
> So, I open the camera, double tapped on view finder.
> I pointed the camera in front of myself, and it was talking about a person 
> standing in front of a fireplace in a room.
> I mentioned that to my sighted wife and she said, yes, it's Tom.
> There is a piccture of my late brother in a nice shadow box on our mantle.
> It is appoximately 12 feet from me. The picture is a 4 by 6 photo.
> The picture is indeed of him standing in front of their fireplace.
>  
>  
> That is better than any of the apps I've tried.
> There are no overhead lights on at the moment.
> I scanned around the room and it did a good job of identifying chairs, 
> tables, TV, etc.
> This is the 13 pro.
> I'm impressed.
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> Richard
> “What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little 
> consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin
> My web site: https://www.turner42.com
>  
> 
> 
> On Jul 28, 2022, at 4:31 PM, Paula Jordan  wrote:
> 
> This really sounds cool, but I'm having a hard time getting it to work.  I 
> flick to view finder and it occasionally will say what is near, but, for 
> example, if I hold a dollar bill up it may say "currency" after a bit.   As I 
> walk around the room it may say "curtain and glass door"  but I can't figure 
> out how to hold or point it to make it more consistent.  Any thoughts.
> Thanks.
> God bless!
> Paula and the pups
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Christopher Chaltain
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 2:29 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app
> 
> You open the camera app and then you move VoiceOver focus to the view finder, 
> which is at the top of the screen. As long as the view finder has VoiceOver's 
> focus, you'll hear descriptions of whatever's in the view finder, such as 
> object recognition, text and apparently currency identification as well. 
> 
> --
> Christopher (AKA CJ)
> Chaltain at Outlook
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Carolyn
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 1:05 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app
> 
> So, do you just open Camera? Then what, to read a bill? 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> Christopher Chaltain
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 10:24 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app
> 
> Wow cool! I love the Microsoft Seeing AI app, but the cool thing about the 
> Camera app is that it does all of this without having to switch between 
> channels!
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Christopher (AKA CJ)
> 
> Chaltain at Outlook
> 
> 
> 
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Donna 
> Casteen
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 8:47 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app
> 
> 
> 
> Chris, The camera can also identify U.S paper currency, just point the camera 
> at the paper bill. Have no idea if it can identify any other countr's paper 
> currency.
> 
> 
> 
> Donna
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across 
> something, and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, 
> but I was looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where 
> else to look, I brought up the camera app. While I wa

RE: Playing with the camera app

[Christopher Chaltain]

I’d bet that since you’re using a 13 Pro, you’re also getting the advantage of 
LiDAR.

--
Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 7:02 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app

I had not messed with this for identifying things for a while.
So, I open the camera, double tapped on view finder.
I pointed the camera in front of myself, and it was talking about a person 
standing in front of a fireplace in a room.
I mentioned that to my sighted wife and she said, yes, it's Tom.
There is a piccture of my late brother in a nice shadow box on our mantle.
It is appoximately 12 feet from me. The picture is a 4 by 6 photo.
The picture is indeed of him standing in front of their fireplace.


That is better than any of the apps I've tried.
There are no overhead lights on at the moment.
I scanned around the room and it did a good job of identifying chairs, tables, 
TV, etc.
This is the 13 pro.
I'm impressed.





Richard
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little 
consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin
My web site: https://www.turner42.com



On Jul 28, 2022, at 4:31 PM, Paula Jordan 
mailto:pau...@roadrunner.com>> wrote:
This really sounds cool, but I'm having a hard time getting it to work.  I 
flick to view finder and it occasionally will say what is near, but, for 
example, if I hold a dollar bill up it may say "currency" after a bit.   As I 
walk around the room it may say "curtain and glass door"  but I can't figure 
out how to hold or point it to make it more consistent.  Any thoughts.
Thanks.
God bless!
Paula and the pups
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of 
Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 2:29 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app

You open the camera app and then you move VoiceOver focus to the view finder, 
which is at the top of the screen. As long as the view finder has VoiceOver's 
focus, you'll hear descriptions of whatever's in the view finder, such as 
object recognition, text and apparently currency identification as well.

--
Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Carolyn
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 1:05 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app

So, do you just open Camera? Then what, to read a bill?

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 10:24 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app

Wow cool! I love the Microsoft Seeing AI app, but the cool thing about the 
Camera app is that it does all of this without having to switch between 
channels!



--

Christopher (AKA CJ)

Chaltain at Outlook



From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Donna 
Casteen
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 8:47 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app



Chris, The camera can also identify U.S paper currency, just point the camera 
at the paper bill. Have no idea if it can identify any other countr's paper 
currency.



Donna





   

   This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, 
and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was 
looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to 
look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to you 
and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it say “cat 
on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was pointing it 
at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, my wife’s 
laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace the Seeing 
AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!



   --

   Christopher (AKA CJ)

   Chaltain at Outlook



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Re: Playing with the camera app

[Richard Turner]

I had not messed with this for identifying things for a while.
So, I open the camera, double tapped on view finder.
I pointed the camera in front of myself, and it was talking about a person 
standing in front of a fireplace in a room.
I mentioned that to my sighted wife and she said, yes, it's Tom.
There is a piccture of my late brother in a nice shadow box on our mantle.
It is appoximately 12 feet from me. The picture is a 4 by 6 photo.
The picture is indeed of him standing in front of their fireplace.


That is better than any of the apps I've tried.
There are no overhead lights on at the moment.
I scanned around the room and it did a good job of identifying chairs, tables, 
TV, etc.
This is the 13 pro.
I'm impressed.





Richard
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little 
consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin
My web site: https://www.turner42.com


> On Jul 28, 2022, at 4:31 PM, Paula Jordan  wrote:
> 
> This really sounds cool, but I'm having a hard time getting it to work.  I 
> flick to view finder and it occasionally will say what is near, but, for 
> example, if I hold a dollar bill up it may say "currency" after a bit.   As I 
> walk around the room it may say "curtain and glass door"  but I can't figure 
> out how to hold or point it to make it more consistent.  Any thoughts.
> Thanks.
> God bless!
> Paula and the pups
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Christopher Chaltain
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 2:29 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app
> 
> You open the camera app and then you move VoiceOver focus to the view finder, 
> which is at the top of the screen. As long as the view finder has VoiceOver's 
> focus, you'll hear descriptions of whatever's in the view finder, such as 
> object recognition, text and apparently currency identification as well. 
> 
> --
> Christopher (AKA CJ)
> Chaltain at Outlook
> 
> -Original Message-----
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Carolyn
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 1:05 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app
> 
> So, do you just open Camera? Then what, to read a bill? 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> Christopher Chaltain
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 10:24 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app
> 
> Wow cool! I love the Microsoft Seeing AI app, but the cool thing about the 
> Camera app is that it does all of this without having to switch between 
> channels!
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Christopher (AKA CJ)
> 
> Chaltain at Outlook
> 
> 
> 
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Donna 
> Casteen
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 8:47 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app
> 
> 
> 
> Chris, The camera can also identify U.S paper currency, just point the camera 
> at the paper bill. Have no idea if it can identify any other countr's paper 
> currency.
> 
> 
> 
> Donna
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across 
> something, and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, 
> but I was looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where 
> else to look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera 
> app, I heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it 
> was telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if 
> you move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text 
> to you and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it 
> say “cat on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was 
> pointing it at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, 
> my wife’s laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace 
> the Seeing AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!
> 
> 
> 
>--
> 
>Christopher (AKA CJ)
> 
>Chaltain at Outlook
> 
> 
> 
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RE: Playing with the camera app

[Paula Jordan]

This really sounds cool, but I'm having a hard time getting it to work.  I 
flick to view finder and it occasionally will say what is near, but, for 
example, if I hold a dollar bill up it may say "currency" after a bit.   As I 
walk around the room it may say "curtain and glass door"  but I can't figure 
out how to hold or point it to make it more consistent.  Any thoughts.
Thanks.
God bless!
Paula and the pups
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 2:29 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app

You open the camera app and then you move VoiceOver focus to the view finder, 
which is at the top of the screen. As long as the view finder has VoiceOver's 
focus, you'll hear descriptions of whatever's in the view finder, such as 
object recognition, text and apparently currency identification as well. 

--
Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Carolyn
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 1:05 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app

So, do you just open Camera? Then what, to read a bill? 

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 10:24 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app

Wow cool! I love the Microsoft Seeing AI app, but the cool thing about the 
Camera app is that it does all of this without having to switch between 
channels!

 

--

Christopher (AKA CJ)

Chaltain at Outlook

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Donna 
Casteen
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 8:47 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app

 

Chris, The camera can also identify U.S paper currency, just point the camera 
at the paper bill. Have no idea if it can identify any other countr's paper 
currency.

 

Donna

 

 

 

This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across 
something, and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but 
I was looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else 
to look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to you 
and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it say “cat 
on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was pointing it 
at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, my wife’s 
laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace the Seeing 
AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!

 

--

Christopher (AKA CJ)

Chaltain at Outlook

 

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RE: Playing with the camera app

[Christopher Chaltain]

You open the camera app and then you move VoiceOver focus to the view finder, 
which is at the top of the screen. As long as the view finder has VoiceOver's 
focus, you'll hear descriptions of whatever's in the view finder, such as 
object recognition, text and apparently currency identification as well. 

--
Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Carolyn
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 1:05 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app

So, do you just open Camera? Then what, to read a bill? 

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 10:24 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app

Wow cool! I love the Microsoft Seeing AI app, but the cool thing about the 
Camera app is that it does all of this without having to switch between 
channels!

 

--

Christopher (AKA CJ)

Chaltain at Outlook

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Donna 
Casteen
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 8:47 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app

 

Chris, The camera can also identify U.S paper currency, just point the camera 
at the paper bill. Have no idea if it can identify any other countr's paper 
currency.

 

Donna

 

 

 

This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across 
something, and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but 
I was looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else 
to look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to you 
and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it say “cat 
on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was pointing it 
at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, my wife’s 
laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace the Seeing 
AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!

 

--

Christopher (AKA CJ)

Chaltain at Outlook

 

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RE: Playing with the camera app

[Carolyn]

So, do you just open Camera? Then what, to read a bill? 

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 10:24 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Playing with the camera app

Wow cool! I love the Microsoft Seeing AI app, but the cool thing about the 
Camera app is that it does all of this without having to switch between 
channels!

 

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Donna 
Casteen
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 8:47 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app

 

Chris, The camera can also identify U.S paper currency, just point the camera 
at the paper bill. Have no idea if it can identify any other countr's paper 
currency.

 

Donna

 

 

 

This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across 
something, and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but 
I was looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else 
to look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to you 
and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it say “cat 
on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was pointing it 
at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, my wife’s 
laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace the Seeing 
AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!

 

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Re: Playing with the camera app

[CHELA Robles]

Makes me wish I could have one of the newer models I have an iPhone 8 +256 GB 
space gray. At least the InVision app works very well too. I found that seeing 
AI was a bit buggy on my phone but I like envision AI as well.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 27, 2022, at 7:24 PM, Christopher Chaltain  
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Wow cool! I love the Microsoft Seeing AI app, but the cool thing about the 
> Camera app is that it does all of this without having to switch between 
> channels!
>  
> --
> Christopher (AKA CJ)
> Chaltain at Outlook
>  
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Donna 
> Casteen
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 8:47 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app
>  
> Chris, The camera can also identify U.S paper currency, just point the camera 
> at the paper bill. Have no idea if it can identify any other countr's paper 
> currency.
>  
> Donna
>  
>  
> 
> This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, 
> and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was 
> looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to 
> look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
> heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
> telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
> move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to 
> you and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it 
> say “cat on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was 
> pointing it at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, 
> my wife’s laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace 
> the Seeing AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!
>  
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RE: Playing with the camera app

[Christopher Chaltain]

Wow cool! I love the Microsoft Seeing AI app, but the cool thing about the 
Camera app is that it does all of this without having to switch between 
channels!

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Chaltain at Outlook

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Donna 
Casteen
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 8:47 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app

Chris, The camera can also identify U.S paper currency, just point the camera 
at the paper bill. Have no idea if it can identify any other countr's paper 
currency.

Donna



This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, 
and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was 
looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to 
look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to you 
and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it say “cat 
on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was pointing it 
at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, my wife’s 
laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace the Seeing 
AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!

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Re: Playing with the camera app

[Donna Casteen]

Chris, The camera can also identify U.S paper currency, just point the camera 
at the paper bill. Have no idea if it can identify any other countr's paper 
currency.

Donna

> 
> 
> This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, 
> and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was 
> looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to 
> look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
> heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
> telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
> move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to 
> you and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it 
> say “cat on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was 
> pointing it at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, 
> my wife’s laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace 
> the Seeing AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!
>  
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Re: Playing with the camera app

['Sandy Tomkins' via VIPhone]

thank you! That's has saved me a lot of time with trial and error…
I am decided now, it is the iPhone 14 for me! With Lidar!
Sandy and Z

Sent from The dark side of the moon

> On 27 Jul 2022, at 14:28, CHELA Robles  wrote:
> 
> Those features do not work on iPhone 8 models and under. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jul 27, 2022, at 6:12 AM, Christopher Chaltain  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> True, but when I read that post and other articles on the web, it sounded 
>> like the live text feature was just for OCR on text and the image 
>> recognition feature only worked on photos. Obviously, I could have read 
>> things wrong, but I was still surprised when placing VoiceOver focus in the 
>> view finder of my camera app instantly recognized object and did OCR on any 
>> text it came across all at the same time.
>>  
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>> Chaltain at Outlook
>>  
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
>> Richard Turner
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 7:41 AM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app
>>  
>> This is why I always read the Applevis.com blog upon each release of iOS, 
>> iPadOS, or WatchOS.
>> The live text feature came in iOS 15 last September.
>> There is also a podcast by Thomas Donnville on the live text feature.
>> You can read that blog post here:
>> https://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-releases-ios-15-ipados-15-bringing-focus-modes-live-text-enhancements-multitasking
>>  
>> I do not recall if older phones cannot perform the live text do to their 
>> chip limitation; but a call to Apple Accessibility would answer that. 
>> 1-877-204-3930
>> HTH,
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> Richard
>> “What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little 
>> consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin
>> My web site: https://www.turner42.com
>>  
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 27, 2022, at 4:43 AM, Christopher Chaltain  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I’m running the latest IOS on an iPhone 11.
>>  
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>> Chaltain at Outlook
>>  
>> From: 'Sandy Tomkins' via VIPhone  
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 3:01 AM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app
>>  
>> Chris,
>> I just tried this on my iPhone 8 running the latest iOS, and all I was told 
>> about was faces. What phone and which iOS are you running?
>> Thanks, looks very interesting, Sandy
>>  
>> Sent from The dark side of the moon
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 27 Jul 2022, at 01:10, Christopher Chaltain  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, 
>> and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was 
>> looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to 
>> look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
>> heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
>> telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if 
>> you move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text 
>> to you and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard 
>> it say “cat on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I 
>> was pointing it at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be 
>> fed, my wife’s laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to 
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Re: Playing with the camera app

[CHELA Robles]

Those features do not work on iPhone 8 models and under. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 27, 2022, at 6:12 AM, Christopher Chaltain  
> wrote:
> 
> 
> True, but when I read that post and other articles on the web, it sounded 
> like the live text feature was just for OCR on text and the image recognition 
> feature only worked on photos. Obviously, I could have read things wrong, but 
> I was still surprised when placing VoiceOver focus in the view finder of my 
> camera app instantly recognized object and did OCR on any text it came across 
> all at the same time.
>  
> --
> Christopher (AKA CJ)
> Chaltain at Outlook
>  
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Richard Turner
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 7:41 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app
>  
> This is why I always read the Applevis.com blog upon each release of iOS, 
> iPadOS, or WatchOS.
> The live text feature came in iOS 15 last September.
> There is also a podcast by Thomas Donnville on the live text feature.
> You can read that blog post here:
> https://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-releases-ios-15-ipados-15-bringing-focus-modes-live-text-enhancements-multitasking
>  
> I do not recall if older phones cannot perform the live text do to their chip 
> limitation; but a call to Apple Accessibility would answer that. 
> 1-877-204-3930
> HTH,
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> Richard
> “What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little 
> consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin
> My web site: https://www.turner42.com
>  
> 
> 
> On Jul 27, 2022, at 4:43 AM, Christopher Chaltain  
> wrote:
> 
> 
> I’m running the latest IOS on an iPhone 11.
>  
> --
> Christopher (AKA CJ)
> Chaltain at Outlook
>  
> From: 'Sandy Tomkins' via VIPhone  
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 3:01 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app
>  
> Chris,
> I just tried this on my iPhone 8 running the latest iOS, and all I was told 
> about was faces. What phone and which iOS are you running?
> Thanks, looks very interesting, Sandy
>  
> Sent from The dark side of the moon
> 
> 
> 
> On 27 Jul 2022, at 01:10, Christopher Chaltain  wrote:
> 
> 
> This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, 
> and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was 
> looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to 
> look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
> heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
> telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
> move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to 
> you and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it 
> say “cat on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was 
> pointing it at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, 
> my wife’s laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace 
> the Seeing AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!
>  
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RE: Playing with the camera app

[Christopher Chaltain]

True, but when I read that post and other articles on the web, it sounded like 
the live text feature was just for OCR on text and the image recognition 
feature only worked on photos. Obviously, I could have read things wrong, but I 
was still surprised when placing VoiceOver focus in the view finder of my 
camera app instantly recognized object and did OCR on any text it came across 
all at the same time.

--
Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 7:41 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app

This is why I always read the Applevis.com blog upon each release of iOS, 
iPadOS, or WatchOS.
The live text feature came in iOS 15 last September.
There is also a podcast by Thomas Donnville on the live text feature.
You can read that blog post here:
https://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-releases-ios-15-ipados-15-bringing-focus-modes-live-text-enhancements-multitasking

I do not recall if older phones cannot perform the live text do to their chip 
limitation; but a call to Apple Accessibility would answer that. 1-877-204-3930
HTH,





Richard
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little 
consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin
My web site: https://www.turner42.com



On Jul 27, 2022, at 4:43 AM, Christopher Chaltain 
mailto:chalt...@outlook.com>> wrote:

I’m running the latest IOS on an iPhone 11.

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From: 'Sandy Tomkins' via VIPhone 
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 3:01 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app

Chris,
I just tried this on my iPhone 8 running the latest iOS, and all I was told 
about was faces. What phone and which iOS are you running?
Thanks, looks very interesting, Sandy

Sent from The dark side of the moon



On 27 Jul 2022, at 01:10, Christopher Chaltain 
mailto:chalt...@outlook.com>> wrote:

This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, 
and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was 
looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to 
look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to you 
and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it say “cat 
on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was pointing it 
at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, my wife’s 
laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace the Seeing 
AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!

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Re: Playing with the camera app

[Richard Turner]

This is why I always read the Applevis.com blog upon each release of iOS, 
iPadOS, or WatchOS.
The live text feature came in iOS 15 last September.
There is also a podcast by Thomas Donnville on the live text feature.
You can read that blog post here:
https://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-releases-ios-15-ipados-15-bringing-focus-modes-live-text-enhancements-multitasking

I do not recall if older phones cannot perform the live text do to their chip 
limitation; but a call to Apple Accessibility would answer that. 1-877-204-3930
HTH,





Richard
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little 
consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin
My web site: https://www.turner42.com


> On Jul 27, 2022, at 4:43 AM, Christopher Chaltain  
> wrote:
> 
> 
> I’m running the latest IOS on an iPhone 11.
>  
> --
> Christopher (AKA CJ)
> Chaltain at Outlook
>  
> From: 'Sandy Tomkins' via VIPhone  
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 3:01 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app
>  
> Chris,
> I just tried this on my iPhone 8 running the latest iOS, and all I was told 
> about was faces. What phone and which iOS are you running?
> Thanks, looks very interesting, Sandy
>  
> Sent from The dark side of the moon
> 
> 
> On 27 Jul 2022, at 01:10, Christopher Chaltain  wrote:
> 
> 
> This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, 
> and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was 
> looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to 
> look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
> heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
> telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
> move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to 
> you and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it 
> say “cat on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was 
> pointing it at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, 
> my wife’s laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace 
> the Seeing AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!
>  
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RE: Playing with the camera app

[Christopher Chaltain]

I’m running the latest IOS on an iPhone 11.

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From: 'Sandy Tomkins' via VIPhone 
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 3:01 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app

Chris,
I just tried this on my iPhone 8 running the latest iOS, and all I was told 
about was faces. What phone and which iOS are you running?
Thanks, looks very interesting, Sandy

Sent from The dark side of the moon


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This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, 
and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was 
looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to 
look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to you 
and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it say “cat 
on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was pointing it 
at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, my wife’s 
laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace the Seeing 
AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!

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Re: Playing with the camera app

['Sandy Tomkins' via VIPhone]

Chris,
I just tried this on my iPhone 8 running the latest iOS, and all I was told 
about was faces. What phone and which iOS are you running?
Thanks, looks very interesting, Sandy

Sent from The dark side of the moon

> On 27 Jul 2022, at 01:10, Christopher Chaltain  wrote:
> 
> 
> This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, 
> and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was 
> looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to 
> look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
> heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
> telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
> move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to 
> you and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it 
> say “cat on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was 
> pointing it at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, 
> my wife’s laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace 
> the Seeing AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!
>  
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RE: Playing with the camera app

[Sieghard Weitzel]

I would have been more excited although it would have been in a negative way 
had I discovered a cat on my kitchen table!


From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 5:11 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Playing with the camera app

This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, 
and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was 
looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to 
look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to you 
and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it say “cat 
on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was pointing it 
at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, my wife’s 
laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace the Seeing 
AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!

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Re: Playing with the camera app

[Esther Levegnale]

wow, Christopher, thank you for sharing this. I can't wait to try it. Esther

Sent From Esther's Amazing and Awesome iPhone 13 Pro Max!

> On Jul 26, 2022, at 8:10 PM, Christopher Chaltain  
> wrote:
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> 
> This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, 
> and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was 
> looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to 
> look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I 
> heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was 
> telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you 
> move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to 
> you and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it 
> say “cat on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. I was 
> pointing it at my kitchen table which had our cat on it, waiting to be fed, 
> my wife’s laptop and her glass of sparkling water! It’s not going to replace 
> the Seeing AI app for me yet, but it seemed awfully fast and accurate!
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