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Looking for a better OCR app

Forum Topic by PaulMartz on Friday, March 18, 2022
… I’m looking for an OCR app that lets me read printed material more like I used … information. And, in all these examples, existing OCR apps completely fail to detect and preserve that … feature. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining. These OCR apps are great. I just expect that artificial …

VO OCR, is it possible to change the keyboard shortcut?

Forum Topic by Igna Triay on Friday, October 21, 2022
… So i've been using VO ocr for years now, but I'm kind of running into a bit of a … When your on a laptop, the keyboard command's for vo ocr are... hard to do. I mean control, command shift w to … possible to change th,e hot key to scan the screen with VO ocr? Or if not, is there an app that behaves like vo ocr but …

I just scanned a book. On a flatbed scanner. Into my IPhone.

Forum Topic by DrewWeber on Saturday, November 26, 2022
… once. I then through the 4 pdfs on my NAS, and used JAWS OCR to Word. Holy goodness it was quick! I used to let … 50 pages for at least an hour. It’s amazing to see how the OCR technology has come along too,as the scanns have much less error in the OCR than they used to, and that’s, a book in the flatbed, not …

Angling camera for Seeing AI and similar apps

Forum Topic by PinkCupcake5 on Friday, November 4, 2022
… So, has anyone been able to read something with an OCR app on the first or second try? If so, what is your … grill. I hope this helps. … I've used some of these OCR apps on my iPhone 7, and my experience has been … I think it's a clever idea and hope to do a lot more with OCR in the near future. The suggestion of propping an elbow …

Use apps you can never use before with my app FishScreenReader. [Now with half price]

Forum Topic by Jinyu Meng on Saturday, September 10, 2022
… not made with standard AppKit elements. So I made this OCR screen reader. This app allows you to read most of the … to match your preference. Also, there is an offline OCR engine for people who are concerned about privacy. If you …

Seeking desktop stand to hold iPhone SE

Forum Topic by Catherine on Thursday, September 1, 2022
… to do these tasks with hands free of iPhone. So many nifty ocr apps to try out! Please pass on your evaluation of stands …

How to scan the documents into PDF using Iphone?

Forum Topic by Prashanth M N on Monday, May 30, 2022
… language, I need to scan them into pdf indipendently to do OCR later. So, what are the apps/ technique I can use to scan …

48 mp camera usable for applications blind people use? and other considerations when considering upgrading

Forum Topic by Karok on Saturday, September 17, 2022
… is if the 14 Pro cameras would do a better job of OCR when we, you know, forget to turn the lights on in a room … developers and we should have access to killer-app-level OCR, even for handwritten text in various light conditions. … now), but will likely be upgrading to the 14 Pro. … The OCR app won't receive 48 MP, but that is completely …

iOS 16.0.2 Text recognition error in screenshot

Forum Topic by Hüseyin on Sunday, September 25, 2022
… and makes text recognition very difficult without using ocr. I am using iPhone 13. … The process for recognizing text …

ABBYY FineReader automatically convert files

Forum Topic by Dennis Westphal on Monday, August 22, 2022
… to be converted into another file format and performed OCR on. The files should be saved under the same name into …

Coming to macOS from Windows

Forum Topic by user26335377 on Saturday, September 10, 2022
… user configuration. 4) Is there something like built-in OCR on intel-based models? Something similar to NVDA+R on … on the web. Thanks in advanced. … there is no build-in OCR on macOS. there is VOCR, but i haven’t used it in a while …

The AppleVis Community Names Envision AI and Evidence 111 Its Golden Apples of 2022

Blog Post by AppleVis on Sunday, December 11, 2022
… > 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). > With full VoiceOver support, Envision enables you to: …

The iPhone SE 3: A More Practical Phone for Some Use Cases

Blog Post by Scott Davert on Thursday, March 31, 2022
… a series of cameras will negatively impact the results of OCR. In my testing, where I compared the iPhone 13 Mini with … SE 3 outperforms the SE 2 is the speed at which it gets an OCR result. The SE 3, not surprisingly, produced faster …

Looking at Apple's Peek Performance Event (March 2022)

Blog Post by mehgcap on Tuesday, March 8, 2022
… good, though they should still be more than adequate for OCR work. There are other trade-offs, such as a lack of …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for December 2021

Blog Post by AppleVis on Saturday, January 1, 2022
… or additional charges. > State-of-the-art A.I. for OCR and text recognition: Fast and accurate, even in poor … correctly. Also, Chinese is now supported for the built-in OCR Scanner. To recognize Chinese, set it explicitly in …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for July 2022

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, August 1, 2022
… > 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: 3.0.1 (July 28, 2022) ##### Changes in …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for February 2022

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, March 1, 2022
… > 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: 2.4.0 (February 16, 2022) ##### …

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 …

How to select all and copy text from image in photos app

Forum Topic by Wenwei on Friday, January 14, 2022
… … Using the sharesheet you can import the image into an ocr app with translate function such as TextGrabber. …

Advocacy resource request

Forum Topic by Mar on Sunday, November 13, 2022
… I'm guessing your using the app on a iphone? If not ocr on a computer? Atleast for the moment. I'd recommend …

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