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Read the pump, dash or receipt with the camera
In the phone app, tap Pump screen, Odometer or Receipt, then Scan with the camera. You see what was read and how it checks out, and nothing goes in the form until you tap Use these numbers.
From a photo
In the phone app, tap Pump screen, Odometer or Receipt, then Scan with the camera: a frame shows where to aim. It reads on its own, about every second, until two reads agree and hold together, then takes the photo (or tap the round button to take it now). Choose from photos reads one you took before.
Either way you see what was read and how it checks out, and nothing goes in the form until you tap Use these numbers.
On a new fill-up that includes when the photo was taken and the station there (from the photo, or where you are); a fill-up you’re editing keeps its date, time and station unless you use a receipt’s. The photos stay with the entry: the pump’s screen as the receipt’s photo when there’s no receipt photo yet.
The pump’s screen
From the pump’s screen it reads the sale, the gallons and the price per gallon, by their labels or by the order pumps stack them in.
It reads pence or cents a liter too, and a price as pumps show it in their currency, or in yours as well when the pump shows none (620 forints a liter). A pump in gallons or dollars is read as a US one, whatever you count in.
A lit display’s misread figure (an O for a 0, a B for an 8) is put right, and a decimal point the camera missed is put back only where one place makes it add up.
The dash
From the dash: the odometer, the trip meter and the dash’s MPG (never its average speed), in miles or kilometers as it shows them (a dash in the other unit is converted into yours).
It finds the odometer by its ODO label, else the longest number (at least four digits for a car’s first reading), never the trip meter, the range, the time or the temperature.
The receipt
From the receipt: the amount in gallons or liters (the pump switches to what it says), the price per gallon or liter and the total, the station, the date and the time.
It reads the currency it prints too: €, £, ¥, ₩, MXN, or dollars beside Canada’s HST, TPS or TVQ, Australia’s ABN, a GST or Mexico’s IVA.
Dollars beside an ABN are Australia’s; beside GST alone, Australia’s or New Zealand’s when the entry is paid in it (or, paid in neither those nor Canada’s, when you count in it), else Canada’s.
Its labels and amounts are matched across even when printed in two columns. Receipts in English, French, Spanish and German.
What isn’t used
What doesn’t hold together isn’t used. The pump’s amount × price has to make its sale: when it doesn’t, the price is left out and the amount and sale stand, as when you type all three.
An odometer below your last fill-up (the trip meter?), or further past it than a car drives in the days since, is shown but not used, and so is a dash MPG this car can’t get. A price far from what you usually pay is pointed out.
Tips
- Tips: hold the phone square to what you’re reading and fill the frame.
- On a pump’s or a dash’s screen, glare is the usual trouble: tilt the phone a little.
- At night, or in a dim garage, turn on the light (top right).
- If it won’t settle, take it with the round button: you still check what it read.
With app version 1.0.5, the first time, an Android phone may still be getting its text reader from Google Play (it says so): try again in a minute. If it still hasn’t after a few minutes, the phone may not have Google Play services (it says that too): type the numbers in. Later versions carry the reader.
Reading happens on your phone: the photos and what’s in them never leave it.