Hi Sandi and list.
Thank you for your helpful suggestions. Yes, I double-tap on quick
capture to take the picture, and then on take picture. You're probably
correct in that there isn't enough light to take a clear image of what
I'm scanning. I wasn't aware of this behavior of Prizmo, thanks for
pointing it out. I'll also try to close the majority of my apps before
scanning. Julia
On 14/07/2014 4:58 AM, Sandratomkins wrote:
Hi,
Just a thought: you double tap for the quick catcher, yes? Then, you double tap for the
take picture, yes? The picture won't be taken until you have double tapped on "take
picture". You need to hear the tones before it will take the picture. As you are
trying this freehand, are you sure you have adequate lighting? Unfortunately, with
Prizmo, the Flash doesn't come on until the pictures taken, so, if the lighting is
inadequate the autofocusing function can't really kick in. In this regard, TextGrabber
is better because you can turn the flash on and it stays on all the time while the camera
is searching to take a picture. Also, I am finding that both of these OCR apps behave
better when I have less apps open in the app switcher.
Good luck,
Sandy
Sent from my iPhone
On 13 Jul 2014, at 20:22, Eileen Misrahi <eileen.misr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Julia,
I just opened the settings in Prizmo. I will list them here, so you can compare
what you have.
iCloud- Mine is off by choice. This is a toggle button.
General- Under themes, the default is neutral.
OCR- detect text orienntation is on.
Export image quality is high.
Accessibility- Under voice reading, you can change the reading speed, so this
is personal preference.
I also did a quick capture scan with prizmo. It gave the normal up, down, back, away,
right etc. to locate the text. I tapped on the "take picture" button and the
normal chimes were heard. Do you think it's time to contact support with Prizmo? They may
have something that they can suggest. HTH.
Cheers,
Eileen
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 12, 2014, at 9:01 PM, Julia <julia.ku...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi list.
Today I was experimenting with scanning free hand with Prizmo. My first
attempt wasn't very successful, so I changed some settings in the hopes of
better results. I have no idea what I did, but now the app won't work properly
when I use quick capture to try to take a picture of the text. When I double
tap the button, it now says take picture heading, and sits there for a minute
or two, even when I hit cancel, the app still vibrates like it is detecting a
page. It does eventually sometimes take a picture, but not the speedy way it
did before. The settings I changed are, detect text orientation from off to
on,camera flash from auto to on, I set the recognition language to English, and
I changed the paper size to U.S. Letter. I have tried deleting the app and
downloading it again, but it looks like it remembered my previous settings. Is
there perhaps a way to set it back to default? I didn't see any option like
that.
Any suggestions about how to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Julia
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