Hi Haya, let's start with the basic requirement of good lighting. If the restaurant is dark and there are no lamps or enough illumination, then you may have some difficulty in getting Text Detector, TapTapSee, or any other object recognition app to work.
The back facing camera needs to be place approximately in the center of the written materials. this is where the horizontal and verticle lines will meet. When first emerging myself into the OCR scanning tasks on the phone, I printed out a short paragraph from the computer and then folded it both lengthwise and in half. this gave me creases for where I should place the phone and I began to practice this way. Now, I don't think about it and just estimate the center point. I also place the bottom edge of the written material perpendicular to the edge of the table to keep it straight. Text Detector scanning is done in landscape mode. I place the back facing camera in the center point flat on the paper and tap the "Take Picture" button. I use 2 hands on the phone's case and lift straight up until I hear VO announce "Detecting best picture." It will scan the image, indicate if there's any text or not. If text is detected, then you will hear a percentage of the OCR recognition. The scan button is located in the lower left portion of the phone in landscape mode. I HTH. Eileen On Mar 16, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Haya Simkin & guide dog Pammy <[email protected]> wrote: > I have another question about text detective. I just got it when it was free > and tomorrow I'm hoping to use it for the first time to read a restaurant > menu. How would I position my phone and the menu to get it to scan a whole > page if possible? What else do I need to know my first scan? How do the same > thing with TapTapSee? > > Haya Simkin & guide dog Pammy > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 16, 2014, at 17:44, Eileen Misrahi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Sent from my iPhoneHi Alex, >> >> I haven't ran the tutorial in aeav long time. In general, when VO conflicts >> an app is to turn off VO do a 3 finger flick from right to left and turn VO >> back on. This may do the trick when I get stuck in an app and there are only >> images on the screen. HTH. >> >> Best, >> Eileen >> >> On Mar 16, 2014, at 7:30 AM, Alex Stone <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> This is obviously me being stupid, but I can't work out how to advance >>> through the text detective tutorial, or get out of it, so I can't use the >>> app, but only the tutorial. 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