Baked Alaska Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 Which orientation am I to scan my passport? Do I portrait or landscape the picture page? I'm using Android. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRebecca Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 I just went thru this 2 days ago on an Android and did it the way the words on the screen were oriented in relation to reading them- I am pretty sure it was portrait, and I only figured it out by whatever the screen looked like. Sorry that may not be much help but I was able to re-do it a couple times if that's any consolation! ChessE4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 Lay your passport so you can read it. Scan holding your phone normally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baked Alaska Posted December 31, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 Just now, twangster said: Lay your passport so you can read it. Scan holding your phone normally. So it will then get the "We the People" page, plus the pic etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baked Alaska Posted December 31, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 Ohhhhh! It's NOT taking a picture, it truly is scanning it! Figured it out and got it. There is some sort of scanning trajectory that kicks in when it start to scan. PRebecca 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 1 hour ago, Baked Alaska said: Ohhhhh! It's NOT taking a picture, it truly is scanning it! Figured it out and got it. There is some sort of scanning trajectory that kicks in when it start to scan. Yep, it is going for the long strings of digits at the bottom. It does not take a picture of your passport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baked Alaska Posted December 31, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 9 minutes ago, twangster said: Yep, it i going for the long strings of digits at the bottom. It does not take a picture of your passport. It says no sunglasses in the actual picture taking. I had my regular glasses on. Will this work or should I remove those, as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flacruiser99 Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 33 minutes ago, Baked Alaska said: It says no sunglasses in the actual picture taking. I had my regular glasses on. Will this work or should I remove those, as well? Makes no difference if they do not like your picture at check in they will retake it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PG Cruiser Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 4 hours ago, Baked Alaska said: It says no sunglasses in the actual picture taking. I had my regular glasses on. Will this work or should I remove those, as well? I have a good studio quality picture I've used on my first five sailings on Royal, no problem On my sixth on the Empress, an elderly lady agent told me she had to take my picture at the port because I had glasses (regular) on the picture I submitted at online check-in. A "bad" picture of me, hat hair and all, showed up every time my SeaPass card was scanned. LOL Baked Alaska 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PG Cruiser Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 4 hours ago, twangster said: Lay your passport so you can read it. Scan holding your phone normally. Are we scanning passports now? I don't remember doing this before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 17 minutes ago, PG Cruiser said: Are we scanning passports now? I don't remember doing this before Only when checking in on the app. It basically just fills in what you can fill in by hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baked Alaska Posted January 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2020 5 hours ago, Flacruiser99 said: Makes no difference if they do not like your picture at check in they will retake it. Agreed. Just want to give them less of a reason to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jticarruthers Posted January 2, 2020 Report Share Posted January 2, 2020 The key to scanning the passport into the app is to focus your camera on the "string of gobbledygook digits" along the edge. That is what it is scanning. The first couple of times i was going crazy trying to figure out how get to the picture and all the other information in a readable "picture" and then finally realized all it cared about what was the gobbledygook part. WAAAYTOOO, Baked Alaska, 4ensic and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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