As mentioned in the description, the camera's lack of resolution is to put it mildly, a drag.
But using something like LookTel money reader gives me hope. I am amazed at how quickly and easily this works when compared to Noogle Noggles, oMoby, and even EyeNote. It's fast and accurate.
I haven't found any OCR that even gets close, unless all I want to know is if it's a bill or a credit card come on. It takes a whole lot of inference to get anything useful.
iOS and iPadOS
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Hey guys–awesome announcement! I've received a lot of messages noting all the different bugs and issues with the current version of Voice. Thanks for finding and reporting them all to me, it makes it a lot easier to correct them and build a better version for you guys. Version 4.1 just went live on the App Store and I just wanted to post some of the really awesome stuff that I added into Voice.
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I've tried without great success to use OCR apps like Prizmo, but I just realized you can use them without the camera to scan and read .pdf documents. Can't believe it took me so long to figure that out. If you double tap and hold on a pdf document, iOS gives you the option to open it in Prizmo and it's ready to scan.
Anyone have any similar tips for using OCR apps that don't require using the camera?
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Hi, I need some advice. I bought an iTunes gift card today. I'm supposed to be able to peal off the strip, and redeem the code with my iPhones camera. I have scanned my card successfully less than a few times. However, I could not get the card to scan at all today. I don't want to keep asking someone every time I get a new card. Is there a app that will let me take a picture of the code, so I can copy and paste it in the redeem text field? Any advice is helpful, thanks.
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Hi, all!
I'm beginning to wonder if this exists - but I figure it doesn't hurt to ask. I'm looking for something that can perform OCR on pre-scanned .pdf files. Adobe Acrobat can do this, I believe, and allegedly Google Docs does as well (but we all know how consistent Google's accessibility is...) I'm hoping there's an iOS app that can do the trick as well.
To be clear: I'm not looking for an app that will scann a document or take a picture and perform OCR. I'm looking for something that I could import a .pdf into and have the app perform OCR on the scanned document in the .pdf file.
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On an iPad Mini, retina display. Using Safari with Voiceover on. Ios 9.1. This happens A LOT in different places but just one example is this - on the Apple Vis website, I tap forums and instead of going to forums Voiceover says f, try again and Voiceover says o, try again and Voiceover says r, and so on. I have to turn off Voiceover, tap the forums link, then it works.
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I am getting an odd beeping sound each time I enter a letter in the message app. Sometimes it just plays the normal click sound, but most of the time it makes this annoying beep really loud. Any suggestions as to how to get rid of this annoying behavior? Thanks much.
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Hello, everyone.
When I open Lire, it automatically performs a feed refresh an then caches new articles. If I immediately go to "Settings -> Caching Options" and activate the "Cache All Uncached"button, Lire once more performs an article cache even when I am certain no new articles have arrived in the time between the first and second cache. There should be no need to cache articles this second time since the auto-refresh and cache took place only seconds before when Lire was opened. I can reproduce this scenario whenever I open Lire. Has anyone else noticed this behavior?
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I am having an odd thing happen with safari. If I use siri to do a search from my homescreen and it finds a search hit with amazon and I open that link it only takes me to the amazon home page in the amazon app and not the link I've searched for.. If I use other browsers I do not have this problem. Hope this is clear. I've looked at all my setting and I can't find anything set incorrectly that I can tell.
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Hello..
Hope all’s well. Wondering if anyone has experienced this and if so, know how to rectify.
On occasion, I need to hand my iphone 6s to a fully sighted person for one reason or another. I triple click the home button and voiceover disables. That’s all fine…. But when the fully sighted person types in Safari, Whatsapp and Facebook, a voice echo speeks whatever is being typed. Even though voiceover has been switched off. I’m using iOS10.2.
Any ideas?
Many thanks
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I use screen time, more importantly the vulgar language filter within screen time. This has been working very well for me until tonight. I have just found out as of about five minutes ago, that if I am typing using BSI, and I happen to type a vulgar word, the chat filter will ignore it, and it will get posted just as if I turned that feature off.
Has anybody else noticed this? Is there any way to add BSI, or braille in general, to the screen time language filter?
TIA.
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About a month ago, downcast began exhibiting odd behavior: it quit whenever you attempted to stream a podcast episode. this bug is still present, although somewhat better with latest release of iOS.
However, there is another oddness: the app now displays itself on the home screen as "mail". In settings under "storage and iCloud" it is still listed as "downcast". When you start the app, VoiceOver announces it as "mail". When you bring up the app chooser it is listed as "mail".
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Is anyone else noticing the following issues with facebook?
I notice when after voiceover speaks the privacy of a post there's a slite pause and then the content of the post is spoken. I also notice that there's no longer a react button when swiping down. I have to actually go into the post itself to choose a reaction other than like. This just started one day out of the blue without performing any types of updates to ios and the app itself.
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My fairly new IPhone 6S Plus (just bought it in early July) has begun doing something odd recently. I'll turn my phone off at night, and when I go to turn it on in the morning, nothing will happen. The only way I can get it to actually turn on is to plug in the power adapter then hold down the power button, and it'll fire right off. Once it's powered on, I can then unplug the adapter and it continues to run perfectly fine, and the battery shows 94% remaining, so it's not like the battery was dead.
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Hi all!
I hope you are all having a good day.
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Hi Folks.
i hope someone can help me with this?
since i upgraded to IOS15 i noticed voiceover calling out "camera" whenever i navigated to the home selection element above the dock.
i tried to relabel the element and noted the text "camera" was present but i cannot change it.
i reset my phone without logging into icloud and the issue was gone.
however, once i logged into iCloud i got the issue again.
i am at a loss.
Hopefully someone has an idea?
Kind Regards.
Tom
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Hi all. About half an hour ago, I opened the youtube app on my phone, which is running the latest IOS. Right after I opened it, I got a message saying that the iTunes store is unable to process purcheases at this time. The only button that came up was an ok button and after I double tapped it, the youtube app worked as it always does. Is this a message that I should be worried about? Have I harmed my phone by hitting the button after this dialog?
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Earlier on my iPad I used to be able to use predictive on my hardware keyboard and then go right or left to see emoji like I have been able to do for a long time. Now, however, I just cannot. Nothing shows up at all. I changed my iPad from Swedish to English, deleted both keyboards and then readded the english and it does not want to work.
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Running IOS 7.01 on a 5S. When I type a text message with the onscreen keyboard or using dictation, three odd things occur.
1. My message is not read back to me when touching the text box as it did before in IOS 6.
2. My message is read back to me twice, even though it is only there once.
3. there is often a letter G spoken either before or after my message, even though I did not enter that character.
Apologies if these peculiar things have been mentioned before.