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Best OCR reader for iPhone?

Forum Topic by mark wright on Tuesday, October 4, 2016
… hi all i am looking to get myself a OCR reader for the i phone i read a lot about KNFB reader … Out of all these, KNFBReader is superior. After using the OCR apps after a while, you get acustom as to how far out you … is $99.99, it has a way better user interface and the OCR technology it has worked better for me. When I have a …

Using OCR for video displays and screens

Forum Topic by Ann on Sunday, January 3, 2016
… may be a crazy question, but has anyone used any kind of OCR or camera app to read a television screen or other … the bios during boot, of course. LOL Getting high quality OCR on a phone has made a huge difference in my life, by the … for, even if I had to save a year for it. One that could OCR a video display/TV screen and tell you what was selected …

Seeking recommendations for a free or low cost OCR app

Forum Topic by natevis21 on Tuesday, December 6, 2016
… just writing this short post to ask if there is any free OCR programs that work with voiceover? I've been struggling … thanks … Try KNFB Reader. Also, you can search for other OCR apps in the app store. … Hi. I'll be blunt here, you'll … a few other things. It all depends on what you want the OCR to do. If you'll be reading mail, or curious how much …

What is your favorite free or low cost OCR solution?

Forum Topic by Larry Thacker Jr. on Tuesday, June 28, 2016
… What would people recommend as an alternative solution for OCR? … I tried several OCR apps, but none of them worked for me. The KNFB Reader is … strange that there is no trial version. … I own various OCR solutions that each have some useful points. Prizmo is …

Comparison of knfbReader, TextGrabber and FineScanner text recognition apps

Forum Topic by Adam Samec on Saturday, December 17, 2016
… what you mostly want to use text recognition for. Because OCR apps differ in price greatly, this comparison might help … help.. Then I loaded the photo to each of these appss, run OCR on the image and compared the results so that the same … Though it's worth noting that FineScanner uses online OCr and the processing takes much longer, about 40 seconds in …

T's, L's, and F's Omitted From PDF's in iBooks?

Forum Topic by Teresa on Thursday, September 1, 2016
… , especially in the middle of words. If I put it through OCR apps, it doesn't happen. Is there any way to adjust this … to export to PDF. Often these defaults do rudimentary OCR on the image, for purposes of indexing. The idea is that … images of the PDF visually. When you run the PDF through OCR, you are using higher quality OCR, such as what's found …

FineScanner PRO - PDF Scanner

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Adam Samec on Saturday, December 17, 2016
… FineScanner, from world-leading OCR software company ABBYY, turns your mobile device into a … electronic copies in PDF and JPG, and apply online OCR to recognize texts from scans for further editing and … the book against the glass of a conventional scanner. * OCR. Recognize text (OCR) on scans in 193 languages …

KNFB Reader and iPhone 7 plus

Forum Topic by charles on Thursday, October 27, 2016
… and reduce the background, be used to produce better OCR? If so, how is it used? Thanks. …

KNFB Reader vs. Prismo

Forum Topic by Crysania on Friday, March 11, 2016
… Hello everyone, Is it just me, or for OCR and file management, is Prismo far superior to KNFB … for KNFB reader, I figured that its file management and OCR capabilities must match the price, so I copied the … weird that There was no share button. Now I have two great OCR options. …

Switching from Windows 10 with Jaws 17 to Mac with Voiceover?

Forum Topic by Pinkcupcake11 on Saturday, September 24, 2016
… and format long documents, read pdfs (including using OCR like Kurzweil 1000 to convert pdf images into text), … each page as a single, huge block of text. There are OCR apps for macOS. DocuScan Plus, Abbyy Fine Reader, and … and save PDF files to RTF or TXT files as well as perform OCR quite well. I used Windows for 25 years before switching …

changes in talking goggles

Forum Topic by Gordon Kent on Saturday, November 19, 2016
… Talking goggles used to be great for doing ocr in realtime. It would speak whenever there were changes …

magnification apps--is there a stand that works?

Forum Topic by Bonnie Vegiard on Wednesday, February 17, 2016
… perhaps tilts the ipad a bit. I know there is a stand for OCR apps, but what about when you are using magnification …

Considering switching to a mac

Forum Topic by Vireak on Thursday, April 7, 2016
… effectively and productively. Moreover, I heard that the OCR app on the Mac platform is lag behind its window … needs just fine. I really haven't played around with any OCR software, but I understand Abbyy FineReader is … without even installing the driver. There are some free OCR apps and I found them quite accessible. For the editing …

Seeking recommendations for a good and accessible wireless printer/scanner

Forum Topic by Faceless1 on Tuesday, February 9, 2016
… price premium to pay for having it. Fast and accurate OCR scanning for use with Prizmo is essential. Also important …

Facebook Now Providing Automatically Generated Photo Descriptions to Blind and Low Vision Users on iOS

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, April 5, 2016
… and laptop browsers, people with the ability to perform OCR on those images could choose to do so. You should know, however, that we want to turn on Facebook OCR for all images that contain text as soon as we have … can tell there is text, then it would be nice to have it OCR'd. I have not found it to be overly specific. For …

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 …

Mac OS App for reading PDF documents

Forum Topic by Chuck Winstead on Sunday, September 11, 2016
… are a couple of apps that I'd recommend. Prismo is an OCR app for the mac that allows you to read PDF files. …

Help, BitTorrent Live Apple TV app not providing any VoiceOver feedback

Forum Topic by Chime on Friday, July 15, 2016
… prompt by pointing my iPhone at my TV screen, and using an OCR app to read that message. I was hoping that the …

Scanning Software Suggestions

Forum Topic by MESample on Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Braigo - New free web app to parse text on images

Forum Topic by IV Productions on Monday, August 22, 2016
… example, KNFBReader for iOS which uses a mobile variant of OCR technology also used in FineReader for the Mac. • The …

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