TapTapSee

I've read the description, and saw no mention of crowd sourcing. Does anyone no for sure that this app does or, does not use people to identify the objects in the pictures users of the app take? I'd also like to know, why does it ask for access to your location.

Pretty sure it uses IQ engines. Anyway I had quite a lot of luck with it. If you take the picture well does seem to make a difference EG I took a picture of my apple keybord and it just tolld me it's a computer keyboard. But when I later took a picture of my gamepad, which happened to be standing on that same keyboard it not only identified it as a playstation joystick, but also it said apple wireless keyboard." It seems to do a good job with clothing as well (it even tolld me that my Sweter had white and brown stripes). The only thing I wish it did was have a history of the results, and displaying them somewhere so you could reread them.

Holy! sh**! I took a pic of my Keurig coffee maker to try to stump this thing. Not only! did it identify that it was a coffee maker, and not only! did it identify that it was a Keurig, it even told me the exact model number, the B60! Now that's! insane! Bye? bye, Vizwiz!

It's definitely a crowd-sourcing effort. Don't know if a "location request" is triggered accidentally by the app but it may be that it is used to pick the closest agent. I certainly support any app that can make someone's life easier but a bit more transparency would be great as well. Also, don't know if it's VoiceOver, but the "About" screen seems to be empty.

I just tried this app on my 4th Generation iPod Touch, and it failed miserably as far as describing what I took a picture of. It either said it was blurry, dark, or "null" for the most part, or else got it wrong. (The Screen Curtain was off when I tested it.) To be fair, I'm not sure where the camera is on the device, so that might be the problem.

I love this app! It's absolutely taken the place of vizwiz for me. Also the fact that its geared for the blind, works awesomely well and it's free is great! It would be great to be able to replay or reread what it says but I'm not going to complain about that since the app is amazingly wonderful as it is. Thanks for doing such a great job!

At first, I was totally unimpressed. I'd show it a box or a can, and it would say, "Box," or, "Can." Yeah yeah... Remember though that I'm a newbee to the Ipod, and now that I've gotten better at using the camera, I can't believe the results I'm starting to get. It does recognize currency, and when I take pics of cans and boxes, I can usually get really nice info. I took a pic of a pouch of betty Crocker Peanut Butter cookie mix and it told me exactly what it was. I took a pic of a generic hamburger helper, and it said, "Skillet Master Cheeseburger Macaroni." It even identified a can of mustard greens.

I think this app is a lot of fun. It gets similar results to oMoby but faster and with color. So, for example, oMoby said dog while TapTapSee said black and tan dog. However, for practical purposes, it's not as useful. In oMoby your results are saved and you can check spelling and go directly to the Internet to look up products. Yesterday I needed to know the values of some postage stamps. This app only said postage stamp, oMoby identified one as a three cent stamp and the other I was only able to get using Vis Wiz. For that sort of practical purpose, right now, I think the best thing we can do is have a folder fool of tools and keep trying them all. Some will improve and our chances of getting useful info, but it's too soon to know which will get us there first. Perhaps one that doesn't exist yet that will integrate multiple approaches. Including OCR.

TapTapSee, as some have said in various posts, is beyond amazing and I cannot believe there is no human intervention. While so far, amazingly excellent, there seems very little info on the afterscan; like, Is there a Human involved any time at all. I actually scanned myself (did not break the camera) and I got the response man sitting in broun leather chair; that must be the ghost I guess!

This comment is long. Just to warn you. OK, so I really am not one to get recognition apps, I figure I can do just fine on my own. I got vizwiz just because it gives you the ability to record a question about a picture before you send it, but apparently that has gone to crap. My friends told me about taptapsee, and I just got it to see what it was about, figured I could delete it if I decided I didn't like it. Well, I love it. And here's why. This thing, is the most accurate I've ever seen. Even more accurate than vizwiz ever was, in some cases. I figured I'd just list a few of the things I took pictures of, and what it said they were. Jar of peanutbutter Honey jar Cinnamon toast crunch Swissmiss cocoa recipes Took a picture of a box, and on one sied, nutrition facts. On the other side, poptarts. Gummy vitamins. Clear cococola glass. I took a picture of myself laying in bed, the lights were off. It said, girl sleeping. I just randomly held my camera above and at an angle to my table thing nest to my bed. It said, laptops, speakers, CD holders, and router on wooden table. It said I had a white shaggy dog. It said the wals were wood panneling. It also said the walls were a wooden floor, sometimes. It had lots of things to say about my friend's skeleton pumpkin halloween decorations on her table, it said halloween decor, skeleton decoration, and when I got up close to it it said punpkin decoration. I flipped the camera off just to see what it would say, and it said the picture was offensive. Finally I took another picture and it said middle finger. LOL! I took a picture of my foot, and it said woman's right foot. I took a picture of my mouth really close up and it said, lady shouting. I took a picture really close to my eyes, and it said blue eyes. I haven't tried it on currency yet but I trust it. The main thing I'm really excited about is that it can tell you, if you have boxes of food or whatever that feel just alike, what they actually are before you open them. Oh yeah, and one last thing. I had a prescription medication bottle on the counter, and I wanted to know if it would tell me what kind of medicine was in the bottle. I took many pictures and got a bunch of different things. I was at my parents house and they live in a city called Marshfield. This will be important later. Here are the things it said: medicine bottle, medication, etc. But the most amazing things were, on one side, it said, Marshfield Clinic Pharmacy bottle. And on the other side it said, may cause dizziness. I'm sure nobody is as interested as I am about this, but I had to post it anyway just to give people an idea. Here is an important thing to remember. You get different results with different pictures. So make sure, if a result isn't clear enough, such as box of food, take another picture and you may get a much more specific result. I really do think this is amazing and I would have bought it if it did have a price. It really is worth it.

I just got the app and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. I really appreciate that developers are creating cool and practical things like this. But once the picture’s taken, where does it end up? Is it stored somewhere on the phone? Is it lost in cyberworld forever? Am I just being dumb and missing something extremely obvious? Like the previous poster, I’d love to have access to my pics once all’s literally said and done. I’d like to be able to upload cute ones of our Chihuahua being hilarious to Facebook if I so desire. Definitely not a complaint, but a possible direction the app could go in? Again, thanks for the app!

I think this app has great potential (brushing privacy issues aside for a moment). However, why is there no basic VoiceOver support for reviewing answers? Why do we even need the "repeat" button with the word "repeating" before the text is spoken? I don't quite understand this... The text is already available to VoiceOver, so just put it on the screen!

I tried OMoby. I tried DigitEyes. I worked really hard to get the best results from them, and got very little, if anything by way of identification. I took my first picture with Tap Tap See, and got, "Fancy Feast Chunky Chicken in Gravy," so that I could finally identify the specific food my cat loves. This app is unbelievable. I never thought any of these identification apps would work for me, because I believed myself to be completely inept at taking pictures. But I get clear results every time with Tap Tap See. It's especially helpful to me now, because a head injury last year has cost me my taste and smell senses, so now i use this app to identify perfumes, spices, even Scentsy bars so I can make my home smell nice when i have company. It's almost eeriely accurate. One day, I tried to take a picture of my cat, to see what it would say. I guess I didn't get the picture I meant to get, but I got these results, "Cat feet with state ID pet collar,", and it identified the state! I am amazed at the accuracy of this app, humbled that such a beneficial app is free, and so grateful to the developers for creating it!

This app is a must have if you're blind or visually impaired. Let me tell you how much I love this app. I switched from an iPhone to a galaxy s4 as my main phone back in may of this year. I missed taptapsee. So today, i went out and bought an ipod touch 5 32 gb just so I can have taptapsee again. This app has helped me countless times. Now I don't have to wait for it to come to android. :) This app is a 10 out of 10. I can tell you that I would recommend the iPod touch 5 or iPhone 5 for taptapsee. It did not work very well on the ipod touch 4. I'd recommend a 5 mp camera or higher with this app. Thank you taptapsee team. :)

After updating to IOS7 and downloading the update to TapTapSee, the app no longer works. You can take one picture, then it freezes and nothing happens.

I've got iOS 7 and the latest version of TapTapSee. The first time I ran it, it timed out. Then I was able to take 2 or 3 successful pictures. And then, when I would double-tap the "Take Picture" button, nothing happened, the camera wouldn't engage, and it would just repeat, "Take Picture." I closed the app with the app switcher, restarted the phone, and the same thing happened. I opened CamFind, took 2 successful pictures, and then tried TapTapSee again. This time, it worked, and I got 2 more pictures out of it.

I tried the latest version before updating to iOS 7 and I found a bug. There're some extra words following the description, such as "on iTunes (null)", when copying to the clipboard. And, after updating iOS, I cannot repeat the results.

Updated Oct. 28/ 2013 version 2.1.1 Personally I haven't seen any change since last version this app completly accessible using voiceOver still I'm having issues using the app to read photos or pictures using the Camera roll into the app using the library button. What's New in Version 2.1.1 * Fixed some localizations