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OCR for voice Over on Mac?

Forum Topic by Datawolf on Tuesday, October 20, 2020
… 10 and NVDA know that when you hit NVDA plus R, you can OCR the current window with the help of the windows 10 OCR feature. If I remember right, there once was a VO Ohr … down the page. HTH … I wish Nuance OmniPage (Kurzweil's OCR software) was available on the Mac. This is one of the …

Best OCR program for Mac?

Forum Topic by Prince on Tuesday, May 19, 2020
… Does anyone know what the best OCR program is for Mac? I really don't want to spend a lot of money. I mainly need it to OCR images. I know there is FineReader and Prizmo 4, but I …

Introducing Voice OCR 5.0 – Crafted from scratch with cutting-edge technology

Forum Topic by Shalin Shah on Friday, September 4, 2020
… UC Berkeley. I am the developer of the application Voice OCR Document Reader on the iOS App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voice-ocr-document-reader/id903772588). My journey with the … of Voice. At the time, Voice was the only 100% free OCR application built with VoiceOver. However, I was just …

Testing new object recognition app that uses iOS built in OCR functionality

Forum Topic by Michael Doise on Monday, June 1, 2020
… called Perspective AI. This app will use Apple's built in OCR functions to detect objects and read text. The app is in … given some of the best results that I have ever seen in an OCR app. The app is completely offline, and does not require …

Major update to Voice: OCR Document Reader in the works; any other accessibility app requests?

Forum Topic by Shalin Shah on Tuesday, May 5, 2020
… Hey guys, I'm Shalin, the creator of the app Voice–OCR Document Reader on the iOS App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voice-ocr-document-reader/id903772588). The point of Voice was … it a few months back (https://www.applevis.com/forum/free-ocr-app-voice-massive-update-after-2-years). Quarantine has …

Just made an OCR screen reader app making it possible for you to use apps can’t be used before.

Forum Topic by Jinyu Meng on Thursday, August 20, 2020
… read any text from it. Therefore I made this app using OCR to identify texts on the screen and point your mouse to … of the whole screen or the top window, and send it to the OCR service you choose. It will generate a text grid from the … use with voiceover. He asked me if I can make an app using OCR to recognize the text from these apps. He had already …

How to read PDFs with texts as images?

Forum Topic by shanti on Friday, March 6, 2020
… any app or software or solution that reads that has a good OCR that can read those documents? … The only app besides The … you can save it to camera role and then there are several ocr apps that will work. … Thank you Christopher. I have …

Buy a new computer

Forum Topic by Mathieu on Tuesday, March 17, 2020
… when applications are not accessible, for example using OCR ... But I can't tell myself that I will no longer have … do with windows, you'll just have to find work arounds. OCR is done with either Prizmo for mac or ABBY finereader OCR pro. It's not free, but it works 99%. . … Hi! Thank you …

having issues with the invision AI update

Forum Topic by Troy on Saturday, June 20, 2020
… double tapping on enter does not work. It figures, another OCR app that's starting to go down hill just like all of … have turned to crap. I guess it's time we get rid of all OCR apps and go to aira or be my eyes. If they can't fix the …

Introducing Tactile Sense Camera App

Forum Topic by hassaku on Tuesday, September 29, 2020
… use of various image recognition applications such as OCR applications. To find PenTapTrace in the App Store, … it's for those who want to take pictures but, the OCR function you mention on your website doesn't sound that … reply, thank you very much. I have actually released an OCR app before. (Unfortunately, it's only available in …

is face/text recognition broke for anyone else?

Forum Topic by Troy on Tuesday, July 21, 2020
… to read text from a photo like on facebook if facebooks OCR doesn't pick it up it doesn't tell me the text even if I …

New app for vocalizing text in images

Forum Topic by Nick B on Wednesday, July 15, 2020
… you copy to your clipboard will be scanned via the new OCR on macOS and any text will be read aloud. I think VO does … as a lot of the user interfaces are not text based. With OCR you could navigate around and as long as there is text, …

does the latest version of windows work well with bootcamp?

Forum Topic by The Evil Chocolate Cookie on Wednesday, September 9, 2020
… do. I already dread installing an OS with a camera and an OCR app because my camera skills are the absolute worst, but …

Apple Reported to be Exploring Ways to Let Developers Provide Custom Text-to-Speech Synthesizers on iOS

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, March 10, 2020
… * [iOS 14 Features New OCR Capabilities That Will Convert Handwritten Text From … Typed Text](https://www.macrumors.com/2020/03/09/ios-14-ocr-apple-pencil-text-conversion/) * [HomeKit in iOS 14: Face … … I read on Mac rumors, i'll find the link, that possibly OCR will convert handwritten text to typed. Link: …

[CLOSED] Cast Your Votes Now for the AppleVis Golden Apples of 2020

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, December 7, 2020
… [Voice: OCR Document … eader](https://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/productivity/voice-ocr-document-reader) [Weather …

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 …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for September 2020

Blog Post by AppleVis on Thursday, October 1, 2020
… > Envision is the fastest, most reliable and award-winning OCR app that speaks out the visual world, helping blind and … intelligence (AI) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Current Version: 2.2.9 (September 29, 2020) ##### … #### Voice: OCR Document Reader (iOS/iPadOS, US$4.99) > Take a picture of …

The iPhone SE 2020: A Review From A VoiceOver and Braille User's Perspective

Blog Post by Scott Davert on Saturday, July 11, 2020
… seemed to perform evenly with one exception. When I did OCR in a darker environment, the iPhone 11 seemed to make … seconds on both devices. My informal conclusion is that OCR doesn't seem to work too much better on the iPhone 11 compared to the iPhone SE 2020. Unlike OCR with documents, the currency recognition still seemed …

The AppleVis Community Inducts Aira and Envision AI into its iOS App Hall of Fame

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, June 15, 2020
… around you with the help of artificial intelligence and OCR. Envision is carefully designed with the help of the … on the interface are not translated correctly.In terms of OCR recognition, app recognition rate for text containing …

[CLOSED] Vote Now for the 2020 Inductees into the AppleVis iOS App Hall of Fame

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, June 9, 2020
… around you with the help of artificial intelligence and OCR. Envision is carefully designed with the help of the …

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