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Even More Formatting Fun with Pages

Guide by Kevin Shaw on Saturday, September 4, 2021
… One problem with ligatures is that they can mess up OCR software and be difficult for people with print …

Reading appliance and other LCD displays with iPhone

Forum Topic by JP on Friday, February 26, 2021
… I understand that the contrast may not be perfect, but OCR does pretty well with printed text on strange backgrounds. Also it is a lot easier to do OCR on digitally produced text than something like …

What's New in iOS 15 Accessibility for Blind and DeafBlind Users

Blog Post by Scott Davert on Sunday, September 19, 2021
… hand. Like Seeing AI and any other app which performs OCR, it can be quite challenging for a braille-only user who …

Apps freezing on status bar since installation of iOS 14.6

Forum Topic by Doll on Wednesday, June 30, 2021
… where you can make some apps work with it on, screen OCR? … Hi, This is Screen recognition. Two ways to fix. 1 …

Introducing Find - an app to find text in real life, like Command+F but for anything printed

Forum Topic by Zheng on Thursday, April 8, 2021
… on reading your description of the app, it sounds like an OCR. app. Is this true? Can you use it on say, memes for …

Twitter posts embedded in news articles — navigation strategies?

Forum Topic by Justin_B on Monday, August 30, 2021
… is the accessibility can vary depending on how well VO can OCR them. If the entire Twitter post could be presented in a …

Introducing Navidys and Scandys iOS / macOS; and seeking feedback

Forum Topic by Michaël Dardol on Monday, April 5, 2021
… Voice Over, but when you have a paper document you need an OCR scanner. To be able to use it, Scandys is fully usable …

exploring career options related to the use of Apple products

Forum Topic by Daniel Angus MacDonald on Tuesday, August 17, 2021
… as JAWS, NVDA, Talkback, braille displays and more (think OCR apps or devices or other items used for identification). …

Apple Previews New Accessibility Features Coming This Year, Including Expanded Image Recognition Capabilities for VoiceOver Users

Blog Post by AppleVis on Wednesday, May 19, 2021
… us to use them. … I'm really excited about the ability to OCR a receipt and navigate it as a table. This has been a long-standing OCR issue and I'm glad to see Apple step up and fix this … to be navigated as tables reminds me that we also need OCR enhancements to improve navigation of restaurant menus. …

Using macOS voiceover for academic study

Forum Topic by White Stick Bloke on Saturday, July 3, 2021
… reading. It may also be necessary to invest in a "proper" OCR program like Fine Reader or IRIS Reader, which would … for casual reading. However, I still end up using OCR software like Kurzweil 1000 or Jaws convenient OCR on just about every PDF document, because of the font …

iPhone SE 2nd Generation

Forum Topic by Tejas V Karanje on Monday, November 8, 2021
… apps like Seeing AI, Voice Dream Reader/Scanner, Voice OCR, Maps for navigation, BARD Mobile, Kindle, an app to … very much, as I don't take photos, I find it works well in OCR apps such as SuperSense and Seeing AI. … so the official …

Once again, looking for a game like those in the Legend of Zelda series that's accessible on iOS

Forum Topic by Ashleigh Piccinino on Wednesday, February 10, 2021
… like to see where Nate goes next. … You can use the screen OCR thing on IOS if you have the phone but that still won't …

From an iPhone 6S to an iPhone 12; What Should I Expect?

Forum Topic by tunmi13 on Friday, November 19, 2021
… make inaccessible apps more usable with VoiceOver through OCR and machine learning but I haven't tested it yet so I'm …

switching from SE to SE 2nd generation

Forum Topic by Lou Kolb on Friday, September 3, 2021
… stand which makes positioning the camera easier for OCR is a problem though. Its slot for placing the phone is … turned off the camera is greatly improved great for OCR apps just a few of the updates over the original SE enjoy …

Lidar, is it worth it?

Forum Topic by DPinWI on Friday, July 2, 2021
… own to help with things like focusing on cameras, better OCR for things farther away, etc. It's not gonna replace a …

returning to university and need in depth text editing and PDF reading

Forum Topic by Grant on Tuesday, November 23, 2021
… the recommendation for ABBYY FineReader, as it is an OCR application which can process scanned images of print …

VO reports login screen after 2 minutes

Forum Topic by Voracious P. Brain on Tuesday, August 10, 2021
… not say screen dim or screen lock, it say login panel. i OCR the screen, there is no login panel, but interestingly, …

Seeing AI and photos. Need help please

Forum Topic by TamagotchiTune on Sunday, February 21, 2021
… I never thought of using a gesture in conjunction with an OCR app like this, That's actually a really useful idea. … As …

Reflections on being a blind app developer in 2021

Forum Topic by techluver on Saturday, February 6, 2021
… for some Swift packages to make OCR, manage sounds and more. Please, if you find a project …

CAPTCHA: Telling Computers and Humans Apart

Blog Post by PaulMartz on Thursday, April 29, 2021
… don't recall which) detailed his attempts to develop early OCR. Very enlightening. … It's a very interesting read and a …

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