eemeli said:
When activating the camera OCR, the image is rotated 90 degrees clockwise. If I go to settings and then tap back, the image then looks normal. Character recognition does not work in either case. When focusing on a character, the screen shows the OCR going through a list of character without settling down on one. Sometimes it tries to fit a letter from the roman alphabet. Rotating the phone or the paper does not help. Still image recognition works perfectly with photos taken with the camera.
We've had a few other reports of this, though we haven't yet managed to reproduce this on a phone here - since the Ideos X5 is relatively inexpensive perhaps we should just go out and buy one to test on. Thanks.
blackrook said:
The program works well on my Samsung Galaxy SL i9003, but there are some problems with switching dictionaries while typing in English in Search mode.
Steps to reproduce: type a word in English, then start switching dictionaries. After you switch to the last dictionary in the list and tap the button again it switches to a dictionary from the list of Chinese-English dictionaries.
This is actually by design, it's a feature we specifically added (by popular request) on iOS - since our software comes with two free Chinese-English dictionaries but no free English-Chinese ones, people often started out looking up English words with full-text searches in Chinese-English dictionary, and a lot of our users found that they actually preferred that in some cases (saves the extra step of cross-referencing words in E-C definitions to try to get a better handle on their proper usage), so the idea now is that without having to change languages you can scroll through every entry in any dictionary that matches a particular English word.
However, if you don't like this behavior you can turn it off via Settings / Dictionary / Search Settings / Full-text / Integrate into English - to avoid confusion for users who start out with only C-E dictionaries, buy an E-C one and can't figure out how to go back to full-text searching of their C-E dictionaries, we need to leave this option on by default, but we certainly realize it's not desirable for everyone.
JRyn said:
When I open HWR in Vertical mode then turn the phone to landscape mode, Pleco suddenly doesn't work at all, can't see any line in HWR or even can't go out of HWR mode. I have to quite Pleco and Open again to solve this problem. However, it's not a big deal anyway.
That one's been widely reported, yes.
JRyn said:
In OCR, apart of OCR doesn't work in landscape mode , it sometimes detects wrong language , English instead Chinese. So it would be nice if language can be manually chosen in OCR.
There's no language detection involved in OCR, it always assumes everything is Chinese... try this: put some text in front of the camera, then rotate the text around (so the camera / device stay in the same orientation, but the text is now sideways or upside-down); do the correct characters come up in any of them? Perhaps the image your phone's camera is sending to our OCR engine is upside-down or rotated.
