One technique that might help you is to put the phone flat on the page you want to scan with the back facing camera in the center of the page. Then grasp the phone with your thumbs and little fingers on the four corners of the phone and raise the phone up trying to keep it flat and the camera still centered on the page. For a 8.5 by 11 inch page, you want to raise the phone about 12 inches above the page. Then, the field of view report should tell you that all four corners of the page are in view. Then take the picture. With practice, you will be able to estimate the distance above the page and getting the camera centered over the page. This is how I got good scans with Prizmo before getting the standscan pro and then the Giraffe Reader. I still have not purchased KNFB Reader, but with all the rave reviews, I may decide it is worth it. HTH, Richard
"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education." - Victor Hugo Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 19, 2014, at 4:09 AM, Kerri Kosten <kerrik2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Everyone: > > I excitedly purchased the KNFB reader app yesterday. > However, I seem to be having a lot of trouble with it. > I have tried to do several scans but can't seem to get good results. > I tried holding the camera sideways. > I tried holding it straight up and down. > I tried holding it with the camera lens facing down towards the page. > I have the tilted guidance setting on. > Every once in a while, it will stop vibrating and I will try to take a > picture, and sometimes it will kind of read some text but it's very > jumbled and while it gets some words it often doesn't make sense. > However, I keep reading how so many others are getting great results. > Just last week, I was able to witness a demonstration of this app, and > it worked great. > I don't have much printed material around at the moment, so have been > trying to scan a random page from a paperback book. > Does lighting make a difference? > How do you hold the phone to get the best results? > For those who got great results on their first try, what did you do > and how did you hold the phone? > I even listened to the Applevis podcast. > I was just initially so excited about this app when I heard the > demonstrations of how well it worked and it's not seeming to work very > well for me. > What am I doing wrong? > Thanks, > Kerri > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
