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AI Palm Reading: Overview

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The AI Palm Reading step takes a scan of a guest's palm and generates a personalised palm reading in text. It is the engine behind the Fortuna AI experience: the guest places a hand on the scanner, and a few seconds later the booth delivers a fortune written for the lines in their hand.

Unlike the image-generating AI steps, this one produces text, not a picture. That changes how you build around it: the output goes into a layout, a printout, or an on-screen reveal rather than replacing the guest's photo.

It is a Windows step, and it is hidden from the Steps Library on iPad builds.

What Is the AI Palm Reading Step?

From the workflow's point of view, the step:

  • Sends the scanned palm image to Foto Master Cloud
  • Generates a written reading based on what it can identify in the image
  • Returns the text as session data, available to layouts and sharing steps
  • Fires the AI Processed trigger when it completes, like every other cloud AI step

From the guest's point of view:

  • They place a hand on the scanner
  • A processing screen plays while the reading generates
  • Their fortune appears on screen, and on the print if the layout includes it

Settings

Content length controls how much text is generated:

  • Short — a couple of sentences. Best for a small printed card or a quick screen reveal
  • Mid — a paragraph
  • Long — a full reading. The default, and what suits a dedicated fortune-teller booth with a full-page printout

Match this to the space available in your layout. A Long reading in a layout designed for two lines will be cut off.

Language style sets the register:

  • High Level — elevated, mystical, formal
  • Normal — plain and readable. The default
  • Broken — deliberately fragmented and cryptic, for an oracle effect

Language is the output language, English by default. Set it to the language of the event audience.

Imagine when not recognizable decides what happens when the scan is unusable. When on, the AI generates a plausible reading anyway. When off, an unrecognizable scan follows the AI failure behavior: configure an AI Error route to show a rescan message instead of depending on a generated result.

When Should You Use AI Palm Reading?

Use it in Fortuna AI and fortune-telling experiences, and anywhere a personalised text output adds more than another filtered photo.

Typical reasons:

  • The Fortuna AI hologram booth, which the step was designed for
  • Themed events: Halloween, carnivals, mystic and tarot activations, festival fringe stalls
  • Brand activations that want a personalised takeaway with the client's messaging around it
  • Adding a second output to a photo booth, so guests leave with a photo and a fortune

You do not need it if:

  • The event has no palm scanner
  • You are running on iPad, where the step is unavailable
  • The workflow needs an image output, in which case use one of the image AI steps

How AI Palm Reading Fits in the Workflow

The step needs a palm image before it can do anything, which comes from the Scan step:

  1. Touch-to-start animation
  2. Instruction animation: "place your hand on the scanner"
  3. Scan, advanced by the Scan Done trigger
  4. AI Palm Reading
  5. A processing animation with the AI Processed trigger
  6. Save Final Photo, with a layout that includes the reading text
  7. Preview, Print Copies, and sharing steps
  8. End Session

Two points make or break this flow:

  • The processing animation needs the AI Processed trigger, not a Time trigger. Generation time varies; a fixed wait either cuts the reading off or leaves guests staring at a finished screen
  • The layout must have somewhere to put the text. Design the layout around the content length you chose, not the other way round

See How to Use the Scanner for Palm Reading in Fortuna AI for positioning the hand and getting clean scans.

Credits and connectivity

AI Palm Reading consumes AI credits per reading like any other cloud AI step, and it requires a working internet connection. There is no offline fallback: if the booth is offline when the step runs, it fails and routes down the AI Error branch if you have configured one. At venues with unreliable connectivity, configure that error branch and give it a graceful message.

Why AI Palm Reading Is Useful

For event operators:

  • A genuinely different experience in a market where most booths do the same three things
  • The text output is easy to brand: the client's message can sit alongside the reading
  • Pairs naturally with a printed keepsake that guests are far more likely to keep than a strip

For guests:

  • Something personal to them, not a filter applied to everyone
  • A talking point, and a reason to bring friends over

Common Mistakes

No Scan step before it. There is no palm image to read. Scan must come first, with the Scan Done trigger.

A Time trigger on the processing screen. Readings take a variable amount of time. Use AI Processed.

Content length mismatched to the layout. A Long reading in a small text box is truncated; a Short reading in a full-page layout looks empty.

Wrong output language. The setting defaults to English. Set it for the audience, not for you.

No AI Error branch at a low-connectivity venue. A failed reading leaves guests with nothing and no explanation.

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