Hi Lori, Congratulations on getting started with Prizmo and your stand scan. Now, as regards positioning the phone: did you receive the special stickers that come with the stand Scan pro bundle? If so, the trick is to position the phone perfectly once, either using your own vision or with the help of a friend, then, when the phone is in the optimum position, put the stickers around it so that in future you merely have to drop the phone into place. This will save you a lot of frustration in the future. Assuming you are right handed, your phone should be positioned so that the camera is over the little round hole in the centre of the top of your stand scan. The side of the phone, the one that has the volume controls along it, should run parallel to the front of your stand ScanPro. Perhaps, about three quarter of an inch/2 cm away from the front edge. It is important that your phone is absolutely square with the top of the stand ScanPro. What I think is confusing you are the prompts given by Prizmo. These prompts can be useful when you are using Prizmo in freehand mode. But once you have your phone properly positioned on the top of the stand Scan, you can ignore these prompts entirely. Indeed, what Prizmo tells you it can see is almost irrelevant when you're using the standard scan pro. Now, if you are in "quick Capture" mode, and everything is in place, your phone, your text, Touch the screen just above the home button and you should hear "take picture". Double tap it. Then, all you need to do, is wait! Do not double tap the done button. Leave Prizmo to recognise the text and it will tell you when the text is recognised. Then, a two finger flick up will read you the whole of the screen. If you wish to go back to the camera mode, then you may press the done button. Otherwise, should you choose to save your text, there are various ways to do this, but I suggest you master the capturing of text first.
So, to recapitulate, The most important thing you need to do is position your phone, either independently or with help, stick the stickers in place, and start practising. Happy scanning, Sandy Sent from my iPhone > On 16 Mar 2014, at 02:14, Lori Dent <loriand...@ohiohills.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Yesterday and today I was playing around with Prizmo and my standscan. I got > my standscan all set up and it was easy to unfold and set up. I have the > adapter plugged in to the standscan and into the outlet wall and the light > turned on. > > In my Prizmo app, I either swiped over to quick capture or create new > document. Then I either double tapp on the quick capture which takes me > right to the quick capture camera or I double tapp on create new document > which then gives me three options to choose from 1. text, 2. business card, > and 3. imige . So I tapp on text and then it takes me to another screen > where I have 2 options to select from 1. take picture and 2, photo alblum . > So I tapp on take picture. > > Now I'm at the camera. At the top left corner of the camera is the flash , so > I turned flash mode to on. moving right over from the flash to the middle of > the top of the camera is a option button. I double tapp on the option button > and in that option button their are three options you can choose to turn on > or leave off. The first option is 1. detect page. So I have detect page > turned on. The second option is use stablizer. So I have that turned on. Then > the third and final option is clean upiminge . But I have this one turned > off. > > I have my sheet of paper with Lions )Eye Care Foundation ) informationin the > standscan ready to go. On top of the standscan is a round hole that you > can see through, if you were sighted. Anyhow, Iplaced my I phone camera over > this hole and trying to position my phone just right so the text detector > will detect the text on the sheet. I tried and tried over and over to > position my phone just right and I do have a little sight that Ican tell > that the camera has the entire text in view but it didn't say text detected > and ready to shoot or take a picture. So I went ahead and took the picture > and then swiped left to right to the done button. And it said unable to > process text not detected. > > So I once again tried repeating the process and trying to line up my phone > just right so that the text detector will detect the text. So finally, after > trying and trying it finally detected the text and it said ready to shoot or > take a picture. So I tapped the camera button and took the picture and then > swiped over to done and at the top right corner I think it said results. So I > tapped on results and there was my sheet of paper with the Lions (Eye Care > Foundation ) information I wanted to scan into text.So I was successfull > and was able to read the text. > > But now I can't get my phone positioned just right no matter what I do so I > can take another picture of another sheet of information I want to turn into > text. In fact. it will eventually say text detected and I'm no where near the > text yet or at the top of the standscan. Any help and suggestions to help > me get my phone in the right position on top of the standscan so I can get > the text detector to detect the text so I can take a picture? > > Also, I figured out how to delete a document from Prizmo if I take a picture > and the text isn't there. So I delete that document. > > I'm learning Prizmo on my own but this positioning my phone just right on top > of the standscan has me very frustrated but I'm not giving up. I also would > like to know how to name my document so I can find it for future use? Sorry > for the long and lengthly post but I didn't want to forget anything. Again > any help and suggestions will be very much appreciated. Thanks. > > Lori and the Gipper > -- > 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/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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