Is it Possible to use Microsoft's Seeing AI App
to Identify Photos already Present on YourPhone &
Provide you a Description of ThePhoto? Just Wondering
At 03:19 PM 7/13/2017, you wrote:
Thanks Ed, it sounds like I was definitely
holding it too close then for most of these.
Apparently I got lucky once but not again so
far. Clearly, more practice is required.
Evan
From: <mailto:pink...@abe.midco.net>Mr. Ed
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 5:41 PM
To: <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Seeing AI Not Really Overwhelmed
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
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[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: <mailto:pink...@abe.midco.net>Mr. Ed
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 5:22 PM
To: <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>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
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[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 3:42 PM
To: <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>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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