Hi,

Ok finally got it to work.  lol.  Scott was right.  You got to raise the phone 
pretty high.  I got about 3 or 4 words I could understand in every sentence.  
I'm using the iPhone 4 with the 5mp camera.  I could fill-in the blanks and 
figure out what the document was about but that was it.     
On Jun 29, 2010, at 7:33 AM, Earle wrote:

> Like I said on the viphone list, I did get saytext to work on a 32 gb 3gs.  
> My results were far from perfect, but I was 
> able to get the basics of the document.  I don't know what phone the guy in 
> the video was using, but I didn't get the 
> kind of results he did.  It also took me a lot longer to bring the page in 
> focus.  The app does beep and take the 
> picture automatically though, and you need lots of light.
> 
> Earle
> 
> Msn:  peterson...@sympatico.ca
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Krister Ekstrom" <kris...@kristersplace.com>
> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 7:24 AM
> Subject: Re: saytext is available
> 
> 
> Hi, Have you actually managed to make the app beep on an Iphone 3gs? I tried 
> and tried and tried, lifting my arms until 
> they almost reached the seiling and not a sound came out of the thing.
> /Krister
> 
> 29 jun 2010 kl. 12.55 skrev Scott Howell:
> 
>> It will beep and you do not need to hit the camera button. You will find 
>> that raising it about 1 to 1.5 feet is 
>> necessary before it will begin to beep. The iPhone 4 may be different do to 
>> the camera, but I do not know for sure 
>> since I do not have one yet.
>> On Jun 29, 2010, at 2:48 AM, Cody Hurst wrote:
>> 
>>> it is free but when I click the camera button it doesn't seem to beep when 
>>> anything is in focus
>>> On Jun 29, 2010, at 2:37 AM, Simon F wrote:
>>> 
>>>> What is the price on this app?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>>>> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of clarence griffin
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, 29 June 2010 3:21 p.m.
>>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>>>> Subject: Re: saytext is available
>>>> 
>>>> is it really the finished one? I thought it was due to come out Thursday?
>>>> 
>>>> GF
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jun 28, 2010, at 10:19 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I'm not sure it will work on the iphone though yet the iphone 3 anyways.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Take care.
>>>>> 
>>>>> S
>>>>> On Jun 28, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Buddy Brannan wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hey, the price is right :-) I just got it. Now to try it.
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
>>>>>> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jun 28, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I don't have saytext but it will go on my wishlist as I'm exchnging my
>>>> phone in a few dys.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> S
>>>>>>> On Jun 28, 2010, at 6:29 PM, joseph wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> hi listers, finally, saytext is there.  head to the app store and
>>>>>>>> put in the surch box, "saytext doc scanner".  I tested it with
>>>>>>>> iphone 3gs but found that OCR results are bad.  Also, the phone
>>>>>>>> would not beep to tell me that the document is in focus as
>>>>>>>> explained in the youtube demo.  I hope someone els can try it and
>>>>>>>> perhaps you would have better luck than me.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> regards.
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