I agree with Richard. For this being their first installment it is really good. I would consider paying for it yet as it is. I'm really going to be looking forward to upgrades and what they do with it. On Jul 13, 2017, at 10:53 PM, Richard Turner <richardturne...@outlook.com> wrote:
Andy, You should really read all the messages in a thread. He stated later that he had figured out what he was doing wrong, and is much more positive about the app. I would gladly pay for this app just for the document scanning, not to mention the bar code scanning which gives just about as good a results as the ID Mate which costs $1299. Richard (Sent from the iPod Touch 6) On Jul 13, 2017, at 8:33 PM, Andy Baracco <w...@socal.rr.com> wrote: > Well, you get what you pay for! > Andy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Evan Reese > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 1:41 PM > 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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