Carol,
All OCR apps use the backfacing camera because the front
camera is strictly meant for Skye or Facetime video and
its resolution is way too low for OCR, I believe it's
like the camera on the iPod Touch which is 1 MP whereas
the iPhone 4 backfacing camera is 5 MP and the 4S is 8
MP.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com
[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Carol
Pearson
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 11:51 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: A Saytext question.
Does it use the front or back-facing camera?
Carol P
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From: "Sandy Tomkins" <sandratomk...@googlemail.com>
To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: A Saytext question.
Hallo Veronica,
Don't change anything in the settings of Saytext.
Just try the following:
place the phone so that it is central and square with
the paper (if you have difficulty with this, i can make
a suggestion as to how to do this)
Doubletap the "Take Picture" button and lift the
phone. I always suggest using both hands as this is the
best way of keeping the phone completely flat and make
sure you don't cover the camera on the back of the phone.
If you are scanning a piece of foolscap, lift the
phone at least a foot high. Then stop for a second or
two to see if the beeps start. if not, lift a little
higher and wait again, repeat until you hear them, but
you
should never need to go more than 18 inches high.
Once the beeps and the shutter have gone off, just
wait. you can move the phone now, as the app is no
longer using the camera. You may have to wait from 1 to
2 minutes, but normally not that long and you should
hear "OCR finished" or something like that. then you can
just do a two finger flick down to hear your results.
Let me know if this works for you.
Sandy.
Sent from my iPhone
On 17 Jul 2012, at 02:11, Veronica Elsea
<veron...@laurelcreekmusic.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> Okay, as I seem to have accumulated quite a number of
> possible OCR apps, I decided to play with SayText
> again tonight. But my experience using this app
> doesn't seem to match the tutorial's description. So
> I'm wondering
> what I'm missing.
> First, I have the piece of paper on the table. I found
> the "take picture" button and double-tapped it. In a
> few seconds I heard the sound that says something
> changed on the screen. I seem to be placed on
> something that just says button. If I swipe to the
> right, I find camera and cancel. If I double-tap on
> camera, it actually seems to take a picture, although
> I haven't gotten a good scan yet. But I keep hearing
> about everything happening automatically and haven't
> seen this extra step of finding the camera button
> mentioned.
> I don't notice anything in the app settings that would
> seem to affect this. Just curious. Thanks.
>
> Veronica
>
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