Thanks. I'll let you know how it works out if you like. Haya Simkin & guide dog Pammy Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 16, 2014, at 23:19, Eileen Misrahi <eileen.misr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >> <hayasim...@gmail.com> 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 <eileen.misr...@gmail.com> 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 <alex.st...@gmail.com> 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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