Reading snail mail without opening them

It looks like you need an ocr app. I would recomend prismo go or maybe tap tap see or even identify or Seeing Ai or aipoly or even texie. Hope this helps. Note that Seeing Ai may not be available in your country; it is like this in sweden and I just don’t know whhy. Also I would avoid the ones with subscription if you use gift cards.

I hate junk mail! I call the companies that send me catalogues and flyers and tell them I am blind and to take me off their lists. UGH I hope you find an app that works for you. I have a big reader that will tell me what it says on the envelope. But sometimes you have to open the stuff just to make sure.

The biggest problem I had with this are window envelopes that have a piece of clear plastic over the window, the plastic creates enough glare that cameras have a hard time getting the text underneath. I eventually gave up on using cameras for reading mail and use my flat bed scanner, which has no problem reading through the clear plastic. My purpose for reading mail before opening it is to make sure it is addressed to me.

It will work if you are at the right distance from the envelope, if the lighting is right, and you have a steady hand. Use the channel for reading a single line of text and move slowly. For the best result, though, rely on a flat bed scanner and an OCR program on your PC such as OpenBook.

That is exactly what I do, I use a Canon LiDE 200 flat bed scanner and Open Book on my PC, and it works great.

I picked up a Pearl document camera because Freedom Scientific is selling them at 50% off. It's great for scanning books, especially with it motion sensing multi page scanning mode, but for windowed envelopes with clear plastic in the window it doesn't work so well.

And, I love junk mail! Unlike bills, you don't have to send them any money!

This info is good to know for this up-and-coming iPhone user, lol. I'm on a limited income, so I think I'll check out this Seeing AI thing. It sounds pretty awesome, and I definitely get my fair share of junkmail both electronically and through the regular post. Thanks for posting.

Thank you all. And Ekaj, you are welcome and besides Seeing AI is free. And it is worth trying for many other purposes..

Also, I don't use Windows but I guess I can use Docuscan in conjunction with an Eppson flatbed scanner I already have. It sounds a bit painful to scan those letters one after another but I guess we don't have a good choice.

I feel that struggle as well. Getting advertisements from credit card companies is pretty frustrating. Especially after I keep calling and saying I'm not interested, and to take me off of their list.