Hello Sieghard,
Yes, I do believe that my camera lens is clean. And no, I've never gotten Seeing AI to work. However, I have a money reader App on my phone. It seems to work just fine. I had a little bit of a problem the other day. But I was able to work it out. Terri On 4/3/2018 4:25 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: > Have you made sure your camera lens is clean? I mostly use the short tex > function since it provides such good ands immediate results. But just out of > curiocity I grabbed a print out of a report for my retail business which > happened to be on my desk. I put the phone down on it so the camera lens was > about in the middle of the page which on my 6S Plus means I line it up so > there is about an inch of paper sticking out at the bottom of the phone and > the same on the left side of the phone. I then opened Seeing AI, switched to > the document channel and then raised the phone up about a foot above the > document. Seeing AI immediately told me to hold still, the picture was taken > automatically and I had an almost perfect scan. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Kelby > Carlson > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 1:48 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com; Tom Rash <dadnthed...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Seeing AI help > > Let me add that many, many times this is what will happen: I will hold the > phone a foot above a document on the "document" channel (with proper > lighting); Seeing AI will take a picture immediately; and come back with "no > text recognized". There are normal documents I have tried this on ten times > in succession with no luck. > > > On 4/3/2018 10:21 AM, Tom Rash wrote: >> If you want to read mail or some printed info, use the quick text mode. >> Raise your phone up slowly from the printed text and it will start reading. >> This is a live reading, no processing, so when it starts reading you can >> pull the phone away, and it will continue reading what it saw. >> To read bar codes go to product mode, and it will beep faster as it begins >> to see the bar code. Try those two out for now. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of >> Terri Stimmel >> Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 7:12 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Seeing AI help >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> >> Could someone please give me some tips on how to possibly use Seeing AI? >> >> >> I've tried to get it to work a couple of times now, with absolutely no luck! >> I think it's human error. I really don't know for sure though. >> >> >> I tried to read a can yesterday. It wouldn't do anything. So I >> switched channels and tried to read a piece of mail. Again, nothing happened. >> >> >> I am holding the camera above the item, and moving the phone slowly >> back and forth. >> >> Is this how I should do it? >> >> >> Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated. >> >> >> Thank you, >> >> >> Terri >> > -- > 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. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.