Oh it has been cool getting it to read my computer screen. On 7/13/17, Kay Malmquist <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Richard. For this being their first installment it is really > good. I would consider paying for it yet as it is. I'm really going to be > looking forward to upgrades and what they do with it. > On Jul 13, 2017, at 10:53 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Andy, > You should really read all the messages in a thread. > He stated later that he had figured out what he was doing wrong, and is much > more positive about the app. > I would gladly pay for this app just for the document scanning, not to > mention the bar code scanning which gives just about as good a results as > the ID Mate which costs $1299. > Richard > > > > (Sent from the iPod Touch 6) > > On Jul 13, 2017, at 8:33 PM, Andy Baracco <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, you get what you pay for! >> Andy >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Evan Reese >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 1:41 PM >> Subject: Seeing AI Not Really Overwhelmed >> >> Hi, >> I got the app earlier this afternoon, and tried out most of the functions >> on my iPad Mini 4 with 128GB of memory. I can’t say I’m as impressed as >> some others here. >> I guess I’ll start with the negatives first and end on a positive note. >> First, like so many other people, I tried the Person item at least half a >> dozen times, both with myself and my girlfriend as the person and got the >> No People message. Not being sure which camera was being used, I turned >> the tablet around a few times so that each camera was facing me but with >> no success. >> Second, I tried the bar code reader. I tried at least seven or eight boxes >> and packages on it. It got one item. Some of the rest it didn’t beep at >> all; and a few, it did beep faster and faster as I got closer to the bar >> code, but then it stopped beeping a few inches from the package and said >> nothing. I’d starve if I had to rely on that for my meals! <smile. >> I will mention here that, my still favorite app for looking at things, Tap >> Tap See identified every item of food I put in front of it, including >> those I couldn’t identify with Seeing AI’s Product feature. Definitely not >> starve with that! >> Third, the Scene Beta said something like Seems to be indoor. (Yes, it did >> say indoor. >> Once again, taking a picture in the exact same location with Tap Tap See >> revealed my white kitchen cabinets that I was aiming the camera at. >> Fourth, moderately positive, I tried the Short Text function with pretty >> good results. It read some addresses of paper mail with moderate accuracy. >> It switched me to the Documents function when I tried the back cover of a >> book with it. However, I only got snippets of text, mostly gibberish, when >> I aimed it at my laptop screen. >> Fifth and finally, the really positive. I am impressed with the Document >> function. I like how it guides you until the entire page with all its >> edges is visible. And, as someone else here has shown, the OCR is quite >> good. I tried it with mail and a few back covers of books and got great >> results overall. I tried it with my laptop screen as well but got no >> text. >> I like the context sensitive Quick Help that you can get for each feature >> that tells you briefly how to use it. >> Some of this stuff may just require more practice. I might be able to get >> better results with the Product feature with more of that. I needed a bit >> of that in aiming the camera when I first got Tap Tap See because I kept >> forgetting that the camera is in the upper righthand corner of my iPad >> Mini and not at the center. But some of this is still bugs that need to be >> worked out I think. >> So not really overwhelmed. For a while at least, for looking at stuff, >> except for text, Tap Tap See is still the clearly better app. >> Evan >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone >> list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the >> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: >> [email protected]. 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