Seeing AI

The fact that one can read a print book live is quite impressive, but that's not everything. This application is truly amazing.

I just got it. And wow! Very, very nice. This one and taptapsee are probably gonna be my go-to things.

This is great wow! I'm impressed!

I hate to rain on everyone's parade here but so far, I ain't impressed. I tried, for about 15 minutes to get it to recognize different bar codes, and after following the instructions in the help, my phone beeped just as the instructions said it would, but that's all it did, and it heated up my phone to the point where I thought it was going to shut off but luckily, it didn't. Then again I am not very good with using my camera so it could certainly be operator error. To all of you having good luck with the app, yay! But for me, it's about as useless as a paperweight, at this point anyways.

This is excellent! I played around with it for a few minutes and I'm very impressed. I especially like making funny faces at the camera and getting it to recognize me. Only thing is it ages me around 10 years, LOL.

I'd update the AppleVis app listing to include the full description from the appstore.

How close are you holding the phone? When I got it to read the barcode I held it about a half a foot or a foot away from the object. Then I turned the object slowly in 1 direction.

Hi! I downloaded this as soon as I heard about it! I really love it! I can't wait to play with it and try it in different circumstances! That being said, I do have a couple questions.

1. How do you change the camera from back to front facing in the app? Is that even something you can do in the Seeing AI. app, or do you have to go to the camera app and change it?

2. I'm having an issue with the product channel. I select it, but then I can't take a pic and scan the barcode. Any help would be appreciated! I can't wait until someone does a podcast on this app! I listened to the tutorial videos and found them helpful but I couldn't find the solutions to the issues I'm having.

Thans for any help in advance! Also, many thanks for sharing this app! I'm glad Microsoft made this, and I'm looking forward to the updates to this app and what knew channels that are added!

Hello,
When you are scanning barcodes there is not a take picture button or scan button. All you need to do is move the product under the camera and it starts scanning automatically. The app will start beeping when you get close to the barcode. I believe the faster the beep the closer to the barcode you are. I really am liking this app. It is working much better for me than digit eyes does.

Regards,
Greg Wocher

Okay, maybe not, but this thing is all sorts of amazing so far. So far I've only used facial recognition and the live text reader. I'm extremely impressed with the live text reader. Obviously no private documents unfortunately, but wow, everything else! It's not super accurate all the time yet, but I think a part of that is because you need to hold the camera very still. I could even read bits of a computer screen with it, as well as random notes and pieces of paper around the office. Considering this is 1.0, I am highly impressed.

I watched a video that said you can find out what pictures are from Facebook and other things like that. However I did not see Scan with Seeing AI when I picked a photo from messages. Has anyone had any luck doing this? If not I guess its something coming soon.

I can't find that option either in the photos app.

Hello all!!!

I am really loving this app so far however it really heats up my phone and it gets really hot and the battery drains fast!!! However overall I really love it!!! I really love the short text mode I really love when it reads live instead of me having to take a picture!!! So far it is really great and I'm looking forward to it getting better and better!!!

I've just installed this app, but when I try to take a picture of myself using the frontfacing camera the app never sees my face when I snap the picture. Where is the camera on the front of an iPhone 7?

Hi,

I can't find the product category. When I swipe up on the slider, I have short text, document, person and scene. Why isn't the product category showing up? I'm using an iPhone 5S running iOS 10.3.2.

I also cannot find the extension for this app in the share sheet. I'm on an iPhone 6 running 10.3.1. But I do have the product channel.

As instructed earlier, open the Photos app, select a photo, select the Share option near the bottom, but in order to have it appear, go at the bottom of the list, select the More option. From here, find the option to Open in SeeingAI, and turn it on. It seems to be turned off by default. You can even reorder the list of options on the Share Sheet this way. I've positioned it higher on the list of options. I'm guessing that this may be the same in other apps, you may have to enable it in other Share Sheets. HTH!

I found it thanks for the help!

Yes, I do know how to use the more menu in the share sheet. It is not there.

Please will be nice if someone did a podcast. For a strange reason I can not get the idea of taking a picture. Back and front camera. I am good with technology but taking photos is hard to get for me.

so what is your favorite channel? mine is facial recognition. it seems to work pretty good, it can also recognize face in a photo. right now it only works with physical photos, i.e. paper photos, and not pictures on your phone.

Who is to blame when an app is not in all countries? Is it Apple or is it The developer?

If some are looking for a podcast that talks about this app, Cool Blind Tech has just released an episode this week with Jessica Rickers going through how to use the app. As for availability, it appears to be available in North America as here in Canada, we had it.

I read in the description that the app can identify currency. I assume this would be in the Product channel, but had no luck. I tried the Short Text, and i could read some words, but still no luck with identifying the bill. I tried Canadian and American bills.

Anyone else?

I used it successfully at first and had a great time snapping pics of my team at work. But then, I tried it later that evening and/or yesterday. The app would say the verbiage about one face and where it was in the frame, but then when I snapped a pic it came back and said no people were detected. I'm baffled by that, as it said it saw a face but then when the pic is snapped nothing? Nonetheless, I do think this app has great potential, and I am looking forward to doing more with it!

On some of the screens, I hear reference to a help video. While the app is simple and easy to navigate, I am interested in the video. however, I have yet to get it to play. Has anyone had success?

I wondered about this too the other day, and tried the various channels. I learned via Twitter that currency identification isn't yet in the current build but coming soon.

Hello!

I have successfully watched all of the videos! Most of the time it does work when I push the link for play video but if not if you have a 3D Touch capable iPhone I would 3D Touch on the link and push start playback or sometimes it will just start playing on its own unfortunately I have no experiences with non 3D Touch iPhones I hope this helps!

Hi,
I've successfully gotten all the vids to play on my end. You select the category you want, find the help button, then there should be a button for playing the vid. Hit that, then your default video controls should appear, hit start playback and the video should automatically start playback.

Thanks for the ideas about the videos. I have an iPhone 7, but did not try 3d touch. I will give that a go. All other forms of tapping, split tapping, and pass through tapping did not work for me.

Here's exactly how to access the video tutorials, no 3d touch required. 1. With seeing AI open, double tap on the menu button. 2. Next, double tap on the help icon. 3. on the next screen, there'll be some text describing what Seeing AI is, and if you keep swiping you'll find a link that says "play the video tutorial. This launches the one that gives an overview of the entire app. Double tap on that link, and next, double-tap on the start playback button. You can do this for each editional video tutorial in the app. Just remember that there's a play video tutorial link for each video. I hope this helps!

I haven't tried much with this app yet, but I did try to take a picture of my surroundings while outdoors earlier and it told me it looked like a flock of birds sitting on something wood. Well it was half right because it was a wooden deck, but the flock of birds was actually a bunch of flowers.

I may not use that part of the app a lot, but I do think it'll be a great addition to the other apps on my phone.

That is one feature I wish readers like this would be able to get better about. I can't tell you how many times I want to read a block of text on my 32 inch HDTV only and end up having various degrees of success. This one sort of does it, but even still, not very well.

Hi all, i am sure it will come to the uk but we won't know when and it is a bit strange that it's not world-wide you would have thought a company like microsoft could handle requests. also i hope it comes to android to

This app is great! I was able to read my computer screen and the description was pretty accurate. Great app!

I just went to the product channel in seeing AI and scanned the side of a can that I knew had cashew nuts in it and I found the bar code easily and the app identified the product, but then I got a box of rice and although the bar code was detected and I believe that the code was in good focus given how fast the app was beeping the product was never identified. Is this just due to the work that still needs to be done with the app?

I will say that I've tried 2 or 3 different bar code readers in the past, both on the iPhone and otherwise, and given how easily I just found the bar codes on these 2 products I just tried seeing AI is by far the easiest thing I've used for finding bar codes and I'm very excited to test the app further.

Does anyone know if bar codes are universal or have any overlap? When I scanned the bar code on a spray can of sunscreen it seemed to think it was Bunratty Botcheen which turns out to be a type of Irish moonshine. I did submit this under feedback but was just wondering if there could be some overlap when it came to bar codes?

It would be nice if somebody could do a walk-through podcast on this site for seeing AI. Somebody did a podcast on CoolBlindTech, but I've listened to it and didn't get much out of it because the person is talking as she's flicking through the different areas on her phone so it's hard to hear what's going on.

Hi all, I just spoke with one of the app developers on Twitter. They said that a fix for iOS 11 beta will be coming soon. I also suggested a nice feature that would really help out. What do you think about this! A prescription barcode reader! There are a few of these, but I think it would be very useful for this app and especially iOS to have something like this!

Hi,
Here is the link to the podcast of this app.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cool-blind-tech/id618708871?mt=2&i=1000389833294

Thanks,
JoAnn