Thanks Pam. Since I got it to work on only one item so far, and the More
Info button didn't appear, I had forgotten about that.
That does make it worth the time and effort to keep playing with it though.
Evan
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From: Ekstrand, Pamela A. -ND
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 5:35 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Seeing AI Not Really Overwhelmed
Evan,
This app will read the instructions if they are available. After it tells
you what the product is, there will be a "more info" button if instructions
are available.
Pam
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [viphone@googlegroups.com] on behalf of Evan
Reese [ment...@dslextreme.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 5:32 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<mailto: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
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