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Just wanted to know what your opinions are on goggles as a business card reading tool. I have read some great reviews about it yet i have tried at least 6-7 different cards and not once has it picked up all of the contact details on it. Has anyone got any advice or tips that might help with the accuracy?
Also, does anyone know how to add a contact field to someone for their personal website address? All i can do so far is put it in the notes section
Thanks in advance guys
For your second question, it looks like you have to do it from a computer. I've added contacts' home pages, and for those I have the option to edit it. For contacts with no website, there is no option using the phone to add or edit one. Looks like you have to do it when logged in to Gmail on your desktop.
Your first question surprised me. Every day I learn something new that I can do with the phone, and that's another one. I knew that I could scan stuff with Goggles, but it never occurred to me to scan a business card. Cool. I use QR codes on the back of mine to make it easier. They work perfectly, but most people I meet don't have them or know what they are. There are a bunch of (paid) business card readers in the market but I bet they do no better than the free Goggles app. All I can suggest is get good lighting for the picture, and if that fails snap a photo to enter it in manually later. OCR still has a long way to go.
that makes complete sense and thanks for taking the time to produce such a comprehensive answer.
Well, I ran several (~30) read tests with the Goggles. I use business card reading quite frequently, both using an OCR program on my PC and using BCR on WinMo phone. Both these solutions do infinitely better than Goggles. Google's product would frequently fail in the OCR process (which can be due to the phone's camera or the business card quality) but it really pisses you off when it recognizes all the words correctly including weird names (I work in the far east sometimes and there are names you can't read in my phonebook) but has no idea that email:[email protected] should go in the "mail" field, and it misses most if not all of the fields in all the cards I used it on. bottom line: useless.
Google Googles vs specialized card scanner
I can't speak on behalf of Google but I believe their intention with Goggles is not necessarily to invest heavily in deep functionality around business cards but rather to provide broad, generally useful analysis of images and as they often do, leave it to others in the ecosystem to provide more elaborate apps.
We are the authors of one such scanning app - scanbizcards - and I can attest that there is a ton of code besides just recognize the characters, to correct OCR mistakes using the business context. Don't forget that a great business card scanner should do more than just scan & add to the address book. We certainly try to do that, providing 27 different features ...
Our app runs only on the iPhone right now, sorry - BUT we have started its port to Android so stay tuned ...
Hey what is a good app to use so I can print pictures and webpages from my phone to a printer?
Printershare works well. You basically long click the url, select share-> printer share and you can send it to a wifi printer.
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One of the things that all android applications (and the system itself) lacks, is the ability to print. As mentioned, there are some weird HACKS that you can do to make this functionality a reality (hackishly), but what would be REALLY cool would be native network printer support. There is NO reason why this hardware can't handle CUPS.
Note that you CAN install CUPS on the phone and it WILL work, which would give you the ability to print from the terminal... and this is relatively easy... but due to application limitations, you wouldn't be able to print from any android applications that I am aware of.... the actual functionality on the application side would NOT even be difficult.
Thought I'd revive this thread rather than create a new one...
Has anyone tried one of the new HP printers with "eprint"?
or Google Cloud Printing?
or some other way to print from your phone?
What I need is a way to print mainly emails, and some documents.
Hi all,
i just release the Free version of my app called "Lends Manager (Free)".
"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calsoft.LendsManagerFree&hl=en"
Here a short description:
Never forget the products you lended!!!
This application allows you to manage your products library (Movies, Pc & Console Games, Books,...) and to lend to a person in your contacts list, keeping trace of all active lends.
A Barcode reader (using your device's camera) can be used to insert and in future research of your products. If you add a product using the barcode reader, the application tries to find the product name automatically on internet (if an internet connection is active).
The lend and return process can be done using the barcode reader too, to simplify the product research in the library.
The free version allows you to manage 10 products
Let me know what do you think about it
The video review has a terrible video quality and has an amaturish feel, I would go without it.
I haven't tried the actual app though.
calavera69 said:
Hi all,
i just release the Free version of my app called "Lends Manager (Free)".
Here a short description:
Never forget the products you lended!!!
This application allows you to manage your products library (Movies, Pc & Console Games, Books,...) and to lend to a person in your contacts list, keeping trace of all active lends.
A Barcode reader (using your device's camera) can be used to insert and in future research of your products. If you add a product using the barcode reader, the application tries to find the product name automatically on internet (if an internet connection is active).
The lend and return process can be done using the barcode reader too, to simplify the product research in the library.
The free version allows you to manage 10 products
Let me know what do you think about it
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Can anyone recommend a good Android OCR app that will turn PDF scans into editable text reliably? I use CamScanner to scan documents, but I wasn't able to find an OCR ability (surprisingly). Also although Evernote does scan my pictures for text, it will not let you copy and paste that text, making it not useful for my purposes. I note that Google goggles will do ocr'ing of a pic for search purposes, but nt ideal for a whole doc. I'm looking for something that does the equivalent of what omnipro. Thanks in advance for your thoughts and suggestions.
Jordan
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jframe7 said:
Can anyone recommend a good Android OCR app that will turn PDF scans into editable text reliably? I use CamScanner to scan documents, but I wasn't able to find an OCR ability (surprisingly). Also although Evernote does scan my pictures for text, it will not let you copy and paste that text, making it not useful for my purposes. I note that Google goggles will do ocr'ing of a pic for search purposes, but nt ideal for a whole doc. I'm looking for something that does the equivalent of what omnipro. Thanks in advance for your thoughts and suggestions.
Jordan
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A few months ago I tried couple of ocr apps and I liked two of them:
OCR Instantly (works offline, so the speed depends on your phone scecs, free version)
ABBYY text grabber (needs internet connection but in my opinion gives better results, 5.99$)
Make sure that you have enough light when taking photos, and that they are not blurry. In OCR instantly, you can change brightness/contrast of the photo before recognition. The point is to make it look like black font with smooth edges on white background as much as you can.
I see you're looking for a good OCR app, so I hope this helps.
I've recently made a quick OCR app that relies on Google's servers for accuracy. It does require an internet connection, but the whole process take less than 30 seconds. You can either take a picture of the document or select an image from your gallery and it'll extract the text from it. Please note that it has to be an image (eg .jpg .png, etc) not a PDF/Word Document.
You can check it out here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=website.olivermillers.visionocr
It's free BTW
Thanks,
Oliver Miller
[email protected]
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He was looking, 3 years ago.
I'm from Malaysia. During payment, merchant will scan my phone's ewallet QR code but failed. Tried in different shops, same issue. So i remove the screen protector which came with the phone, still having the same issue.
Do u guys face any issue when someone try to scan QR codes on your screen using barcode scanner?
jyaki2 said:
I'm from Malaysia. During payment, merchant will scan my phone's ewallet QR code but failed. Tried in different shops, same issue. So i remove the screen protector which came with the phone, still having the same issue.
Do u guys face any issue when someone try to scan QR codes on your screen using barcode scanner?
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I am also in Malaysia using TNG ewallet, but I don't have any problem during QR payments.
cbw said:
I am also in Malaysia using TNG ewallet, but I don't have any problem during QR payments.
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I only use TNG at ecoshop and tesco.i don't have boost or grabpay. I reinstalled tng and try again
@cbw, which rom are you running now?
@jyaki2 I am using the Global ROM 12.0.4.0(QJFMIXM), debloated with XiaomiADBFastbootTools.
Every time I use TNG ewallet, the payment is always successful, but once you open the QR code for payment in TNG ewallet, you need to pay within 60 seconds, or you will need to start again, you also need to make sure you have Internet connection when you open it.
To test the phone's display, you can try these steps.
1. Use an online QR generator, for example, https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/ to generate a QR code with some text and display it on your M3.
2. Use another phone or laptop to scan this QR code, using the above website or a QR scanner app, to see if you can get the original text.
If it does not work, you can try to adjust (increase) the phone's brightness, or try to move the phone closer or further to the camera.