Actually once you tap the Take Picture button the app will not take the picture until the highest tone sounds, even if this never happens. So it is possible to position the phone where you need it to be before the phone will then snap the shot.
HTH Cara :) On May 15, 2013, at 5:58 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: Hi Sandy, I haven't had time yet either to try it much, but while I think you are correct with respect to the voice command for taking pictures, there is a delay between when you tap the Take Picture button and when it actually takes the picture. This is indicated by 3 tones, so I find it's not so bad since you can double tap the button and you have enough time to do a last minute adjustment or to make sure you hold the phone nice and still. I think the positioning feedback works, yes, it's sensitive and you are correct, often it does say ready to shoot followed by no page visible, but I still think it's useful. What I want to do is have a sighted person look while I do this to let me know how good the feedback is in directing my movements of the phone. My initial thought on the Standscan and the feedback is that it would appear that according to the feedback one should be higher up meaning further away from the page. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sandratomkins Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Initial thoughts on Prizmo 2. Hi Fellow OCr Fans! Like many of us, I downloaded Prizmo 2 yesterday and have played with it a little. primarily, I have questions about it and, perhaps, some of you have the answers? 1. We do seem to have lost the option to give voice commands to take picture. Am I wrong? 2. Prizmo now gives feed-back as to the positioning of the phone when scanning. Now, if you use a StandScan Pro, this is irrelevant, it works anyway! But, free-hand, how helpful do people find this? perhaps because I have got quite proficient at using this app free-hand, I actually find these suggestions off-putting, but that might just be me, old dogs and new tricks etc. However, after a few attempts at using this new functionality, I find I am told "no page visible" immediately followed by "ready to shoot" or something of the sort. I am wondering, is Prizmo now working in the same way as the KNFB device/software? I like the idea, but am not sure how useful in real terms it is. 3. If scanning free-hand, I perfer to use both hands to hold the phone, I get much better results this way, however, without the speak command, I find I have to try and double tap while holding the position, which, I think, may be a definite downside to the new update. 4. It does seem that, especially when using P2 with the StandScan Pro, the OCR is better and faster, however, it does seem that we must now consider the page size options for best results with the SSP. Prizmo seems to be set to A4, by default, but the base of the StandScan Pro is actually larger, It might be American Letter size, not sure, but I found that I did better positioning my document centrally, in the long axis, it is OK to abut along the back of the box, in order not to lose some of the text in the scan. 5. I am delighted to see that we can now add pages to previous scans, but, thus far, I am finding it to be a rather complex method. Perhaps, it is just me, has anyone found a method to do this in just one step? Finally, I would still prefer Text Grabber for my everyday tasks. The interface is so simple, the OCR equally as good and the speed, comparable. 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