In attendance (11 participants): Jackie McBrearty, Derry Walsh, Ken Walsh,
Cearbhall O'Meadhra, Dominique Farrell, Martha Parkinson, Gavin Allman, Chris
Egan, Noreen, Meagher, Elaine O'Neill, John Chambers.
Derry sent congratulations on behalf of the cork Exchange club to Declan on his
recent appointment to Dublin city council.
Jackie told how much the Apple Watch helps her to access the fitness app and
the timer. The watch acts as a remote device and allows her to answer calls
without taking her iPhone out of her pocket.
Gavin reported a solution that he found during the week to get access to
handwritten text using the Seeing AI app on the iPhone. He received an
attachment that was an image of a handwritten file. He displayed the image file
on screen and made a screen capture of it. The image was automatically saved
into his Photos app. He opened the screen image from Photos and selected Share
in the hope of finding some way to get Seeing AI to OCR the file. There was
nothing in the immediate menu of sharing choices but after selecting "More" he
found a further list, at the end of which was an option to "Recognise with
Seeing AI". This opened the image in the Seeing AI app which successfully read
it with 99% accuracy.
Jackie pointed out that she had a similar experience but could reach this link
directly from the Screen capture image without going into Photos. After an
intense examination by a number of attendees, it became clear that the same
link to Seeing AI is readily available in a brief menu that appears for no more
than one minute immediately after the screen is captured. After a slight delay,
this menu disappears and the image is automatically saved into the Photos app.
To access the link to Seeing AI from the Photo app, involves a long search from
Share, through "More", and on to almost the last item on the extended list.
Ken attempted to use Seeing AI to interpret an image on his photos app that
contained both objects and text. The app successfully read the text and
described the objects.
Martha had only experienced the ability of recognising photos without going to
the Photos app. in Facebook. Martha, Ken and Jackie agreed to explore this
further and report next week.
Martha noted that only KNFB was able to read a columnised document. Seeing AI
was not able to read it column by column. The group agreed that KNFB is
acknowledged to be the only app that can provide this service.
John Asked if Seeing AI is available on Android. Cearbhall made a Google search
and found that it is not available. sorry, John!
People, generally, are reporting that KNFB is better than Seeing AI, Someone
asked how Voice Dream scanner might compare. As there was no immediate answer,
some of us undertook to explore this and report at the next meeting.
Jackie reported an unusual but very useful tool for video recording the screen
under IOS. The recording is a live video that is taken internally in the iPhone
or iPad and so does not show the fingers of the operator. Jackie found this
extremely helpful when asking an online adviser how to solve her problem with
an app. Ken and Jackie described the precise steps to turn on this feature in
settings as follows:
1. Open settings;
2. Open Control centre
3. Open "Customise controls"
4. Tap on "Insert Screen Recording".
The utility is accessed from the control Panel at the top of each IOS screen.
Noreen found it difficult to join the meeting fully. She was able to connect to
the meeting with zoom on her laptop but could not find a way to enable her
microphone. This may require further work with Noreen to enable her to join in
fully.
The group discussed the effectiveness and failures of various WIFI systems with
no conclusive result. The competitive nature of mobile and WIFI marketing means
that each provider is willing to reduce fees to secure a sale so perhaps the
best advice is to shop around and try to beat down the offered service charge.
This led to a discussion of the effectiveness of using WIFI or data when WIFI
is poor. It appears that An Post will send out a second modem if the customer
reports a poor service in their home. Ken reported that Virgin boosted their
signal when he reported initial difficulties and the service has never dropped
since.
Martha reported an update to last week's discussion when she had a problem
editing a WordPad file. She has now subscribed to office 365, and downloaded
the Word app to her iPhone where it is working well. She is running the 365
suite on her laptop.
Martha found that dictation worked very well in Pages on her iPhone. She found
that reading continuously was good. However, she could not read line by line.
Cearbhall suggested that she try setting the rotor to read by line and then
stroke down with one finger to read each line. This gesture operates the
focussed rotor item whereas swiping from left to right invokes the standard
line reading response that Martha found to be ineffective.
The meeting concluded
All the best,
Cearbhall
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