RE: apps for reading grocery packaging

2015-11-10 Thread SSEric 
I have only looked through the site a few times. It did use U.S. weights and
measures, as I recall. There are tons of products listed; not just food
products.

E


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Eric!  Would that be only for goods and products available on the US market?

Jewel

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A good site for complete information is:

www.directionsforme.com

>From the site:

This site provides a consistent, quality source of complete packaging
information for everything from preparation or cooking instructions to
ingredient lists to Nutrition and Drug Facts labels for many common grocery,
health and beauty and general merchandise products. In addition, it also
provides, potentially life-saving, allergy and drug interaction warnings.

They mention a bar code scanner, but I didn't check to see if that is an app
or a device.

Eric


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Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 11:59 AM
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Subject: RE: apps for reading grocery packaging

It depends if you are talking about actually reading all text like
instructions and so on or if you are just interested in apps which recognize
what it is. For recognition apps I'd start with Camfind (free), then Tap Tap
See (you have to buy picture credits) and you could of course try apps like
Be My Eyes or CrowdViz which connect you with a sighted person via Facetime
(CrowdViz gives you some free credits, after that you also have to pay a
small amount).

Then there are actual barcode apps like Red Laser (free) or Digit-Eyes
(paid) where you have to find the barcode, the app scans it and compares it
to a database of barcodes online and hopefully it will come up with a match.

Lastly, you could try something like KNFB Reaer to actually recognize the
text on a package, but it often does not work that great because the text
may be difficult for OCR to recognize because of colours, pictures and other
clutter.

The thing is that once you know exactly what the product is, you can often
find it on the manufacturer's website and get more information such as
ingredients or other instructions.


Regards,
Sieghard

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Suggestions please?


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Re: apps for reading grocery packaging

2015-11-06 Thread Jewel 
Eric!  Would that be only for goods and products available on the US market?

Jewel

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Subject: RE: apps for reading grocery packaging

A good site for complete information is:

www.directionsforme.com

>From the site:

This site provides a consistent, quality source of complete packaging
information for everything from preparation or cooking instructions to
ingredient lists to Nutrition and Drug Facts labels for many common grocery,
health and beauty and general merchandise products. In addition, it also
provides, potentially life-saving, allergy and drug interaction warnings.

They mention a bar code scanner, but I didn't check to see if that is an app
or a device.

Eric


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Subject: RE: apps for reading grocery packaging

It depends if you are talking about actually reading all text like
instructions and so on or if you are just interested in apps which recognize
what it is. For recognition apps I'd start with Camfind (free), then Tap Tap
See (you have to buy picture credits) and you could of course try apps like
Be My Eyes or CrowdViz which connect you with a sighted person via Facetime
(CrowdViz gives you some free credits, after that you also have to pay a
small amount).

Then there are actual barcode apps like Red Laser (free) or Digit-Eyes
(paid) where you have to find the barcode, the app scans it and compares it
to a database of barcodes online and hopefully it will come up with a match.

Lastly, you could try something like KNFB Reaer to actually recognize the
text on a package, but it often does not work that great because the text
may be difficult for OCR to recognize because of colours, pictures and other
clutter.

The thing is that once you know exactly what the product is, you can often
find it on the manufacturer's website and get more information such as
ingredients or other instructions.


Regards,
Sieghard

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RE: apps for reading grocery packaging

2015-11-06 Thread SSEric 
A good site for complete information is:

www.directionsforme.com

>From the site:

This site provides a consistent, quality source of complete packaging
information for everything from preparation or cooking instructions to
ingredient lists to Nutrition and Drug Facts labels for many common grocery,
health and beauty and general merchandise products. In addition, it also
provides, potentially life-saving, allergy and drug interaction warnings.

They mention a bar code scanner, but I didn't check to see if that is an app
or a device.

Eric


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Of Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 11:59 AM
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Subject: RE: apps for reading grocery packaging

It depends if you are talking about actually reading all text like
instructions and so on or if you are just interested in apps which recognize
what it is. For recognition apps I'd start with Camfind (free), then Tap Tap
See (you have to buy picture credits) and you could of course try apps like
Be My Eyes or CrowdViz which connect you with a sighted person via Facetime
(CrowdViz gives you some free credits, after that you also have to pay a
small amount).

Then there are actual barcode apps like Red Laser (free) or Digit-Eyes
(paid) where you have to find the barcode, the app scans it and compares it
to a database of barcodes online and hopefully it will come up with a match.

Lastly, you could try something like KNFB Reaer to actually recognize the
text on a package, but it often does not work that great because the text
may be difficult for OCR to recognize because of colours, pictures and other
clutter.

The thing is that once you know exactly what the product is, you can often
find it on the manufacturer's website and get more information such as
ingredients or other instructions.


Regards,
Sieghard

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Re: apps for reading grocery packaging

2015-11-04 Thread Jewel 
A friend of mine recommends digiteyes or however it is spelled.


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Re: apps for reading grocery packaging

2015-11-04 Thread englishrider91 
They use the back facing camera, since it's the better of the two.


Thanks,
Ari

> On Nov 4, 2015, at 11:45 AM, 'Ray T. Mahorney' via VIPhone 
> <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> 
> which camera do the recognition apps generally use?
> 
> 
> Ray T. Mahorney
> WA4WGA
> 
> 
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> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> Sieghard Weitzel
> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 16:59
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: apps for reading grocery packaging
> 
> It depends if you are talking about actually reading all text like 
> instructions and so on or if you are just interested in apps which recognize 
> what it is. For recognition apps I'd start with Camfind (free), then Tap Tap 
> See (you have to buy picture credits) and you could of course try apps like 
> Be My Eyes or CrowdViz which connect you with a sighted person via Facetime 
> (CrowdViz gives you some free credits, after that you also have to pay a 
> small amount).
> 
> Then there are actual barcode apps like Red Laser (free) or Digit-Eyes (paid) 
> where you have to find the barcode, the app scans it and compares it to a 
> database of barcodes online and hopefully it will come up with a match.
> 
> Lastly, you could try something like KNFB Reaer to actually recognize the 
> text on a package, but it often does not work that great because the text may 
> be difficult for OCR to recognize because of colours, pictures and other 
> clutter.
> 
> The thing is that once you know exactly what the product is, you can often 
> find it on the manufacturer's website and get more information such as 
> ingredients or other instructions.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Sieghard
> 
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> 
> Suggestions please?
> 
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Re: apps for reading grocery packaging

2015-11-04 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli 
TapTapsee!
> On Nov 4, 2015, at 10:46 AM, 'Ray T. Mahorney' via VIPhone 
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RE: apps for reading grocery packaging

2015-11-04 Thread 'Ray T. Mahorney' via VIPhone 
which camera do the recognition apps generally use?


Ray T. Mahorney
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Sieghard Weitzel
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Subject: RE: apps for reading grocery packaging

It depends if you are talking about actually reading all text like instructions 
and so on or if you are just interested in apps which recognize what it is. For 
recognition apps I'd start with Camfind (free), then Tap Tap See (you have to 
buy picture credits) and you could of course try apps like Be My Eyes or 
CrowdViz which connect you with a sighted person via Facetime (CrowdViz gives 
you some free credits, after that you also have to pay a small amount).

Then there are actual barcode apps like Red Laser (free) or Digit-Eyes (paid) 
where you have to find the barcode, the app scans it and compares it to a 
database of barcodes online and hopefully it will come up with a match.

Lastly, you could try something like KNFB Reaer to actually recognize the text 
on a package, but it often does not work that great because the text may be 
difficult for OCR to recognize because of colours, pictures and other clutter.

The thing is that once you know exactly what the product is, you can often find 
it on the manufacturer's website and get more information such as ingredients 
or other instructions.


Regards,
Sieghard

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apps for reading grocery packaging

2015-11-04 Thread 'Ray T. Mahorney' via VIPhone 
Suggestions please?


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RE: apps for reading grocery packaging

2015-11-04 Thread Sieghard Weitzel 
It depends if you are talking about actually reading all text like instructions 
and so on or if you are just interested in apps which recognize what it is. For 
recognition apps I'd start with Camfind (free), then Tap Tap See (you have to 
buy picture credits) and you could of course try apps like Be My Eyes or 
CrowdViz which connect you with a sighted person via Facetime (CrowdViz gives 
you some free credits, after that you also have to pay a small amount).

Then there are actual barcode apps like Red Laser (free) or Digit-Eyes (paid) 
where you have to find the barcode, the app scans it and compares it to a 
database of barcodes online and hopefully it will come up with a match.

Lastly, you could try something like KNFB Reaer to actually recognize the text 
on a package, but it often does not work that great because the text may be 
difficult for OCR to recognize because of colours, pictures and other clutter.

The thing is that once you know exactly what the product is, you can often find 
it on the manufacturer's website and get more information such as ingredients 
or other instructions.


Regards,
Sieghard

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Suggestions please?


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