ScribeMe

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Description of App

Empowering Accessibility with AI. ScribeMe makes the world more accessible for blind and visually impaired individuals. Extract text from PDFs and PowerPoint presentations, generate automatic alt text for images, and capture or upload pictures for AI-powered image descriptions. Designed with simplicity in mind, ScribeMe is your essential tool for making documents and visuals accessible anytime, anywhere.
Version 1.6.2 Added the German and Hindi language App for describing images by default.

Version

1.7

Free or Paid

Free With In-App Purchase

Apple Watch Support

Not Known

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

16.4.1

Accessibility Comments

App is accessible.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.

Other Comments

This is the utility I have been waiting for to combine extracted text with image descriptions. It inserts the images for each page at the end of the text.
It requires a subscription of 250 or 500 images a month. I think it has potential, but needs to expand more before it's ready for prime time. For example, you can browse your file history, and read your already generated files, but there is no way to directly export them. Having the share sheet so that I could export the file to, for example, Dropbox for use elsewhere would be helpful. Good idea, but it needs a bit more development.

Recommendations

2 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by allabtech 4 weeks 1 day ago

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Comments

By Bishoy on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 00:18

I tried the app and I have to admit, it’s impressive. I have been looking for something to make documents accessible for a long time

By Scott Davert on Saturday, April 26, 2025 - 00:18

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

Version 1.6.2 Added the German and Hindi language App for describing images.

By Scott Davert on Monday, May 5, 2025 - 00:18

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

The latest update adds the ability to ask questions about the uploaded documents. I noticed it is no longer possible to turn the sound off when scanning a file, I hope they will bring that back as I would strongly prefer the ability to turn it off.