First, start the app and get to the point where you are ready to double tap the take picture button, and plan to ignore what it says about positioning the camera. Scanning free-hand is tricky at best. You want to use the back camera. I'd recommend placing the phone flat on the page with the back camera roughly in the middle of the page with the home button pointing to the bottom of the page and the power button pointing to the top. Grab the phone with your thumbs and little finger holding each side near the top and bottom. I have my left thumb over the mute switch if that helps explain the location. Then, lift the phone about 10 to 12 inches above the page, assuming an 8.5 by 11 page. Try and keep the phone as steady and level as you can. Then, using your right middle or index finger, double tap the take picture button. You should hear the rising tones before the picture snaps. After you have gotten used to hovering the phone over the page this all gets easier. HTH, Richard
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." - Aristotle > On Feb 21, 2014, at 11:25 AM, Andrew Lamanche <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear Listers, > > I've purchased the latest Prizmo 3.1.4 and installed it onto my iPhone 5C. I > thought it would be a useful application to have in order to scan and have it > read to me an occasional page of text such as a letter or a business card or > a short text that one might be given by a friend, without having to go to > one's scanner and do all the things that need to be done via the conventional > scanner route. > > I've done some research on the web and through the group archive to get an > idea of how Prizmo works. Some of the official documentation is very sight > oriented so I found it useless. > > I've tried to scan and recognise a page of text today and failed miserably. I > really struggle to understand how Prizmo works. I'd appreciate your help. > I've decided to use Voiceover as the voice reading the application controls > and text once it's recognised. I hold my phone over a page of text and I get > some directions from Voiceover and my phone keeps vibrating but these > directions don't make sense. At some point Voiceover said something about a > text page being detected but immediately afterwards it said that there was no > page located. I'm also confused which way to hold my iPhone as it has two > cameras: back and front. I instinctively tried to use the back camera so that > I could have the display point upwards as that's where the buttons are which > I need to tap. It all feels rather awkward to hold. > > I'd appreciate any suggestions and hopefully step by step notes on how to go > about getting a result from a page of text or a business card. > > Thanks in advance > > Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
