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AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for February 2018

Blog Post by AppleVis on Thursday, March 1, 2018
… #### Prizmo Go - Instant Text OCR (iOS, Free With In-App Purchases) > Aim at text. Shoot. … and a new, more powerful, built-in neural network-based OCR in more languages. [Read Prizmo Go's AppleVis App …

Voice-over having trouble navigating ads in safari in iOS 11 .2

Forum Topic by Ipadman on Wednesday, January 24, 2018
… on the page?! I can think of 1 app that does this & that's OCR. Here's what I do a lot of times. First, I try the scrub …

What phone should I buy? Legally blind

Forum Topic by Emilia on Saturday, September 29, 2018
… certainly important, but so is the camera. I do a lot of OCR in my daily life, both on paper and on screens. I find my … always do a good job with scanning screens, no matter what OCR app I'm using. Some are certainly better than others, and … magnifier apps I have, and that it will do better with OCR. Given that the XS max is $1500 canadian - around the …

Daisy for advanced computer users: What is optimum?

Forum Topic by Free Don on Thursday, December 27, 2018
… not be able to access all of the content unless you used OCR software to attempt to recognize the text in these …

Is HQ Trivia accessible?

Forum Topic by sportsfreak on Saturday, June 16, 2018
… either say button for all 3 choices or it will attempt to OCR the answers. The best way to answer a question is to find … label the buttons with each answer rather than relying on OCR because OCR doesn't pick up the text all the time. Sometimes, you …

Recommendation about buying of new iPhone after the Apple event 2018

Forum Topic by Anders Boholdt-Petersen on Saturday, September 15, 2018

What is Everybody Looking Forward to From Apple's September 12 Event?

Forum Topic by Applerocks on Saturday, September 1, 2018
… said, iOS 12 for me. I'd love to see a greater use for OCR technology with VO, similar to the feature that NVDA can …

Rounding Up the "Gather Round" Keynote

Blog Post by mehgcap on Thursday, September 13, 2018
… magnification apps quite frequently, as well as various OCR apps. I'm wondering if better cameras will make text easier for those OCR apps to recognize. Particularly on screens. … Thanks for …

iOS12 feature request, why not start now

Forum Topic by jprykiel on Thursday, June 7, 2018
… One accessibility-related feature I'd like to see, is for OCR. in the Notes app, similar to what apps like Seeing Ai. do. You can scan docs, but as of right now, Ocr. isn't possible. … Would love to be able to forward an …

Apple Releases iOS 12; Bringing New and Enhanced Features and Performance Improvements

Blog Post by AppleVis on Friday, September 14, 2018
… you can do with apps such as Seeing AI. and other assorted OCR. apps? Thanks in advance! … I’ve just updated my iPhone …

macOS with VoiceOver Versus Windows with JAWS Screen Reader

Forum Topic by Brandon X on Friday, November 9, 2018
… to use them with VoiceOVER this includes productivity to OCR I hope this answers your questions n … As previous …

Thinking about getting an iPhone XR, what are peoples opinions?

Forum Topic by Evermore2020 on Sunday, November 4, 2018
… mixed reviews which camera setup is more effective. For OCR work the depth of a picture the main purpose of the second camera, does not matter. Unless perhaps someday OCR software can use that to read far away things like signs, … I do not think we're there yet so it is not of concern to OCR users. I assume since you're on Applevis you likely don't …

A Virtual Library: The Joys and Frustrations of Reading on iOS

Blog Post by Lysette Chaproniere on Friday, April 13, 2018
… a week: put on the headphones, crank up the music, set the OCR software to auto-scan page after page as I furiously … the books so they'd go through my document feeder. I hated OCR errors, like "modem" instead of "modern", but being able …

AppleVis Unleashed #1: Lots of Apple News to Kick Off our New Podcast

Podcast by AppleVis on Tuesday, January 30, 2018
… I wanted to mention that office lens by microsoft is an OCR app that is free and it can scan multiple page documents. …

Why would you get an iPad?

Forum Topic by Mani on Tuesday, October 9, 2018
… AI will work better for me than my flatbed scanner and OCR. I do sound recordings with Audacity, but I'm not a power …

Reading Bilingual Books on iOS is An Albatross, and Something should be Done about It

Blog Post by Amir Soleimani on Monday, January 29, 2018
… them to readable text via off-the-shelf or specialized OCR apps is a mind-numbing challenge. Of course, the …

The Accessibility Bugs Introduced and Resolved in iOS 12 for Blind and Low Vision Users

Blog Post by AppleVis on Friday, September 14, 2018
… as expected, picking out expressions, objects and doing OCR just like iOS 11 used to. … That’s such a shame, PDF …

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