Hi Evan, The bar codes will give you what the item is. The nice thing about the Seeing AI app is that it helps you find the bar code. When you press the product button and then put the camera on the product and as soon as it sees the bar code it will start beeping then as you turn the product or move your iPhone the beeps will beep faster and faster when you are right on the bar code. Then just hold the iPhone still for just a second or so until you hear it say processing. Then it will announce and tell you what the product is. It is quite fast. I tested it last night on cans, jars, and boxes and it worked quite well on my iPhone 6s plus.
Just remember to keep it about 10 to 15 inches away from the prodict. Mr. Ed From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Evan Reese Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 4:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Seeing AI Not Really Overwhelmed Thanks Ed, Kay said much the same. I’ll keep playing with it; although, I can’t help thinking that if all Seeing AI’s Product feature does is give you the name of the product, then Tap Tap See is still easier and very reliable. Now if it gives you more info than that, say cooking directions or something, that would be great and more worth the effort than doing something I can already do easily with another app. Don’t those bar codes, at least some of them anyway, contain microwave cooking directions or am I thinking of something else? Evan From: Mr. Ed <mailto:pink...@abe.midco.net> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 5:22 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Seeing AI Not Really Overwhelmed Hi Evan, When you are scanning products you have to hold the camera away from the product about 10 to 15 inches. It depends on how big the product is. Then go sideways until the beeps get real fast then hold the camera still and you should hear processing then it should tell you the product. Like I said you are probably holding the camera to close to the product. Mr. Ed From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Evan Reese Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 3:42 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Seeing AI Not Really Overwhelmed Hi, I got the app earlier this afternoon, and tried out most of the functions on my iPad Mini 4 with 128GB of memory. I can’t say I’m as impressed as some others here. I guess I’ll start with the negatives first and end on a positive note. First, like so many other people, I tried the Person item at least half a dozen times, both with myself and my girlfriend as the person and got the No People message. Not being sure which camera was being used, I turned the tablet around a few times so that each camera was facing me but with no success. Second, I tried the bar code reader. I tried at least seven or eight boxes and packages on it. It got one item. Some of the rest it didn’t beep at all; and a few, it did beep faster and faster as I got closer to the bar code, but then it stopped beeping a few inches from the package and said nothing. I’d starve if I had to rely on that for my meals! <smile. I will mention here that, my still favorite app for looking at things, Tap Tap See identified every item of food I put in front of it, including those I couldn’t identify with Seeing AI’s Product feature. Definitely not starve with that! Third, the Scene Beta said something like Seems to be indoor. (Yes, it did say indoor. Once again, taking a picture in the exact same location with Tap Tap See revealed my white kitchen cabinets that I was aiming the camera at. Fourth, moderately positive, I tried the Short Text function with pretty good results. It read some addresses of paper mail with moderate accuracy. It switched me to the Documents function when I tried the back cover of a book with it. However, I only got snippets of text, mostly gibberish, when I aimed it at my laptop screen. Fifth and finally, the really positive. I am impressed with the Document function. I like how it guides you until the entire page with all its edges is visible. And, as someone else here has shown, the OCR is quite good. I tried it with mail and a few back covers of books and got great results overall. I tried it with my laptop screen as well but got no text. I like the context sensitive Quick Help that you can get for each feature that tells you briefly how to use it. Some of this stuff may just require more practice. I might be able to get better results with the Product feature with more of that. I needed a bit of that in aiming the camera when I first got Tap Tap See because I kept forgetting that the camera is in the upper righthand corner of my iPad Mini and not at the center. But some of this is still bugs that need to be worked out I think. So not really overwhelmed. For a while at least, for looking at stuff, except for text, Tap Tap See is still the clearly better app. Evan -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. 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