iPad Pro An app that allows me to use the camera and draw on it in real time

[PruneTracy]

Howdy! I just picked up a new M1 iPad to replace a 2016 iPad Pro. I’m wanting to use this as a document camera with the ability to draw on in real time. Most apps want you to take a picture to mark up.

im a teacher and it would great to display texts, or math on iPad, AirPlay to class screen, and then draw on it as needed.
any recommendations?

 

[Slartibart]

I am not aware of an app that let you annotate live video - but then again I think that you would need same quite stable construct which holds your iPad secure and with minimal movement in place over or before the scene you like to display.

then again you can easily airplay any photo from e.g. Apple Photos and annotate them using a pencil. Everyone in the school I work does that… equally in Notes, Keynote, Pages, or you go with PDFs… project&annotate the hell out of it. 😁

What would be the advantage or the application of annotating a live video? Within a classroom scenario most of of the airplayed content you mention is “still”, isn’t it?

 

[L T]

Is your class screen just a screen? Ours is touchscreen and has it's own OS including an annotate feature that works on top of the content you are displaying.

It sounds like you want to use the iPad as a visualiser, place the paper under the iPad camera, it displays on the screen and you can annotate it. I feel like you have 2 options - take photo on iPad, airplay to screen and mark up on iPad or airplay iPad with camera app open, place paper under iPad camera and then annotate with an actual pen on the actual paper

 

[PruneTracy]

Is your class screen just a screen? Ours is touchscreen and has it's own OS including an annotate feature that works on top of the content you are displaying.

It sounds like you want to use the iPad as a visualiser, place the paper under the iPad camera, it displays on the screen and you can annotate it. I feel like you have 2 options - take photo on iPad, airplay to screen and mark up on iPad or airplay iPad with camera app open, place paper under iPad camera and then annotate with an actual pen on the actual paper

This is exactly correct. But hoping to not have to write in the books each time and erase.

 

[Slartibart]

This is exactly correct. But hoping to not have to write in the books each time and erase.

so take a photo and annotate that. 🤷‍♂️😀

 

[L T]

This is exactly correct. But hoping to not have to write in the books each time and erase.

Ok, looks like your only option is to take the photos and annotate on the iPad that way, unless you can find a PDF file of the book you are using.

Our Maths has the textbooks in PDF format which we display on the board and annotate over. Recently we lost access to the PDF so I had to photograph the pages I needed in the text book and use Preview on Mac to put them into 1 PDF so we could still display and annotate

 

[Slartibart]

Ok, looks like your only option is to take the photos and annotate on the iPad that way, unless you can find a PDF file of the book you are using.

Our Maths has the textbooks in PDF format which we display on the board and annotate over. Recently we lost access to the PDF so I had to photograph the pages I needed in the text book and use Preview on Mac to put them into 1 PDF so we could still display and annotate

Apple’s Files or Notes offers an option to scan documents with multiple pages on iOS and iPadOS.

 

[PruneTracy]

Apple’s Files or Notes offers an option to scan documents with multiple pages on iOS and iPadOS.

Wow. Turns out the updated Notes isn’t 100% what I’m looking for, but it’s 97% there. This is perfect.
Im bummed I haven’t used it in so long and I’ve been missing all this functionality all along…