Typing out a long passage by hand can pull you out of the book. Kiveo can read the page for you, and you choose exactly the words you meant: start mid-sentence, stop mid-sentence, skip what you don’t need.
Scan a passage
- Start a new quote: in the Journal tap + and choose Add Quote, or tap Quote during a reading session.
- Tap Scan beside the quote field.
- Choose Scan from page to use the camera, or Choose photo for a picture you’ve already taken.
- If you’re using the camera, line up the page and tap the shutter.
- Hold a word for a moment, then drag across the words you want to keep.
- Tap Add to quote.
The words land in the quote field, ready to edit. Line breaks from the printed page are joined up, and words split with a hyphen at the end of a line are put back together.
Scanning again adds the new words after what’s already there, so a passage that runs across two pages is simply two scans.
Tip
Pinch to zoom in on small print. Press and hold for the familiar menu if you’d rather copy the text or take the whole page at once.
Good to know
The page is read on your device. The picture is let go once it’s been read: it’s never saved and never leaves your phone.
Heads up
Reading a page needs Apple’s Neural Engine, so on a few older iPads the Scan button isn’t offered. If camera access is off for Kiveo, you’ll see Camera access needed with a way to Open Settings.