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Can anybody recommend a virtual mail service with an accessible iOS app or online interface?

Forum Topic by Usef on Tuesday, January 3, 2017
… iPhone or iPad. I understand that KNFB Reader (and other OCR apps) can do a great job reading our mail. However, these …

DevonThink: a document solution I didn't know I needed

Forum Topic by Nuno on Monday, April 1, 2024
… that comes to mind. Another awesome thing is the automatic OCR feature, I have set up a simple smart rule which …

Voiceover recognition is the way of the future!

Forum Topic by DrewWeber on Thursday, September 17, 2020
… take some time and label the apps various controls, using OCR to discover the text which corresponded to each control, … forward. I love your idea of having a screen reader use OCR and machine learning to then label elements. It's such a …

RetroArch 1.8.2 – making games more accessible for blind people

Forum Topic by Libretro on Thursday, December 26, 2019
… menus and selection screens are becoming accessible using OCR, and more will be possible through the hard work of … for the user interface, and an AI service to perform OCR on video games, allowing blind users of all three major … to dream. … I grew up with older games. I didn't have OCR with them when I was growing up, of course, but now that …

Arc for Windows with Swift

Forum Topic by SeasonKing on Tuesday, April 30, 2024
… I managed to push through with the help of NVDA's OCR and bit of just random luck. Further, the buttons on the …

Announcing partnership between Sprint and NFB to offer free copy of KNFB Reader to blind and low vision customers

Forum Topic by maryam at sprint on Monday, December 18, 2017
… need it.” The KNFB Reader Enterprise app features the best OCR (optical character recognition) technology available and …

App for books that allows annotation?

Forum Topic by Voracious P. Brain on Saturday, March 11, 2017

Humanware Products: Are They for AppleVis Users?

Forum Topic by Assistive Intelligence on Monday, July 1, 2024
… The StellarTrek is an advanced AI-powered GPS and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) assistant designed to …

I used ABBYY's Fine scanner to scan my document. Now what?

Forum Topic by MESample on Tuesday, March 29, 2016
… I sent to ABBYY concerning me not being able to retrieve OCR text and about FineScanner's accessibility. I am using VoiceOver and I am not able to retrieve the OCR result from a scanned document both in Book and Document mode. First, when I press the OCR button, check the settings and press Done, I get no …

help with pdf documents on mac

Forum Topic by Igna Triay on Tuesday, August 1, 2017
… There are a few apps that I can clearly recommend for OCR: Prismo, it's a good app for what you want but it's like … This app is great for scanning PDF files and giving you OCR, but it's $200 if you are not part of serotek's SamNet network. Another good one is ABBY Finereader OCR pro. IT's expensive, but it's a great solution for giving …

Scanning with my Macbook air Abby Fine reader or with any other?

Forum Topic by Govind. on Friday, October 25, 2019
… using ABBYY on a 2013 MacBook Air. My personal scanning & OCR workflows are in comment 11 of the AppleVis FineReader … https://applevis.com/apps/mac/productivity/abbyy-finereader-ocr-pro-mac Regarding family sharing, the US Mac App Store … by country. Also note that there are free scanning and OCR solutions accessible from the Mac. As long as the device …

Scanner for iPhone

Forum Topic by Diego on Tuesday, April 7, 2015
… today only. ScanBee is a business scanning app, but has no OCR functionality. http://siteesi.getapp.cc/app/799355420 You might try SayText, if it is OCR you want. Kind regards, Niall … Hello. If looking for a … as well though. … Hello everybody! I wonder scanners with OCR, which is free. … Hello. I think say text might do the …

pdf question on the mac

Forum Topic by Keenan on Monday, May 21, 2018
… can read image pdf's. … Hi, You'll probably have to get an OCR app like Prismo, or ABBYY finereader OCR. Personally, finereader is great, but it is a little … Most image PDF documents won't read without some form of OCR app. …

Open Book for Apple

Forum Topic by Scott W on Wednesday, May 1, 2013
… the iPhone, I'm not sure how that has anything to do with OCR and TTS software for the Mac... Is it possible to run … around $300 but I hear the pair works grate. … ABBYY is a OCR app for the mac. DevonThink This Mac-only program is well … combines both file organization and databasing as well as OCR. The OCR technology does require you to get the β€˜Pro …

Pdf reader

Forum Topic by Tangela on Wednesday, August 28, 2013
… image, you need to use a program or application that can OCR text from a PDF. If you need to read this on an iOS … under the iOS app deals. Prizmo is unusual among iOS OCR apps because since the May 2013 update to version , it supports OCR from PDFs, while most iOS OCR apps require an input image …

IOS VO Image Recognition Question

Forum Topic by Bellsfurmama on Friday, July 21, 2017
… text is. If you wanna know what the text is, you'd have to OCR on that image. I'm assuming here it'd be like how FB does … read text within an image on FB. I don't know how to use OCR. How do you do that with NVDA or Voice Over? I use NVDA … text inside an image, at least I think it won't. TO do OCR, you need a suitable app, like the recently released …

A week with an iPhone. Perspective from a former Android user

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Saturday, October 24, 2020
… and zeros carved onto stone tablets so that the iPhone can OCR them and enter them into memory. Once that was finally …

Is it possible to detect alt text in a photo?

Forum Topic by RossMinor on Friday, March 11, 2022
… AI, or move your picture to Dropbox or something and do OCR with an OCR app like OpenBook. … This is in the app development and …

Looking For an app that can read text inside an image

Forum Topic by Khalfan Bin Dhaher on Monday, October 21, 2013
… Prizmo, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prizmo-scanning-ocr-speech/id366791896?mt=8 is one of the best apps I've … found for doing this. You can import images into it, run OCR and get readable text which you can then export as text … often. It is also possible to import scanned pdf's and run OCR on those. Applevis has some great resources on how to use …

Converting my PDF files to word on the Mac

Forum Topic by Tree on Friday, May 26, 2023
… a word document? Using my MacBook Air? … I often use an OCR app called ABBYY FineReader. It has quite a decent … haven't got a chance to try with scanned ones where OCR must be involved. …

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