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Another scanner/ocr question

Forum Topic by JimInTexas on Friday, April 14, 2023
… Hello! I'm back with another scanner/ocr question. I registered for a trial 7 day time period for …

OCR software and flat bed scanner recommendations for mac

Forum Topic by JimInTexas on Sunday, April 9, 2023
… drivers and it seems to be working. I am looking for some ocr software that works well with mac and voiceover. … here might have a suggestion. … In my experience, the best OCR software on macOS right now is Prizmo. the basic package … in .jpg The professional package for $100 also includes OCR but since I already owned Prizmo when I bought Vuescan, I …

Issue with VOCR OCR on macOS Sonomo 14.1.1

Forum Topic by SplendidFault on Thursday, November 30, 2023
… … Sometimes the 'Nothing found' message happens when the OCR can't quite catch the text in the image. Make sure your …

Scanning text

Forum Topic by Alana on Sunday, January 8, 2023
… that I wish to scan independently. This is not for OCR scanning that one would do when simply wanting to read … have a sighted reader confirm what has been scanned. With OCR documents cannot be sent as the text is not always …

VueScan

Forum Topic by JimInTexas on Monday, April 10, 2023
… Hi! Another scanner/ocr software question. I just saw VueScan recommended as a …

Accessible Website/App for Photography?

Forum Topic by Ekaj on Saturday, October 28, 2023
… Hi all. We've talked at length on here about all the OCR apps that are available, and I for one am finding them …

Love My Mac

Forum Topic by Wayne A on Thursday, October 19, 2023
… voices, the ability to read image descriptions including OCR for the text in the image, increased customization etc. … … The Mac can generate image, descriptions, including OCR for text, similar to iOS. When focus is on an image, …

NaturalReader - Text to Speech

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by sockhopsinger on Thursday, October 12, 2023
… the ability to convert and download text into MP3 files, OCR text recognition for PDFs and our camera scanner. …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for February 2023

Blog Post by AppleVis on Wednesday, March 1, 2023
… > 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: 3.1.6 (February 24, 2023) ##### … or additional charges. > State-of-the-art A.I. for OCR and text recognition: Fast and accurate, even in poor …

Recapping Apple's September 12 "Wonderlust" Event

Blog Post by mehgcap on Tuesday, September 12, 2023
… instead of twelve. Will any of this improve your OCR or AI image recognition results? Probably not, but you …

Apple Vision Accessibility: the AppleVis Report Card

Blog Post by AppleVis on Wednesday, March 1, 2023
… and Excel on Mac. Also, I can imagine a better support of OCR integrated into VoiceOver on macOS, or better … accessibility in Music, TV and Podcasts, lack of built in OCR, poor support for Terminal, and, in general, an … strip mall in my city. I like how it, people detection and OCR all work together.” Scott Davert wrote: “Very very happy …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for July 2023

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, July 31, 2023
… is the fastest, most reliable and award-winning free OCR app that speaks out the visual world, helping people who … intelligence (AI) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Current Version: 3.2.0 (July 19, 2023) ##### Changes in …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for October 2023

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, October 31, 2023
… > 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: 3.2.5 (October 25, 2023) ##### Changes …

Converting my PDF files to word on the Mac

Forum Topic by Tree on Friday, May 26, 2023
… a word document? Using my MacBook Air? … I often use an OCR app called ABBYY FineReader. It has quite a decent … haven't got a chance to try with scanned ones where OCR must be involved. …

Voiceover add-on to save mouse position

Forum Topic by Adam Yu on Thursday, August 3, 2023
… just like screen recognition on iOS, it can call the OCR API to recognize the elements on the screen and move the … as hot spot so that we can control the app even if the OCR doesn't work. PS: Je parle français aussi. :) Adam … Wow, … cases. But if you could further build upon some sort of OCR framework and be able to save custom mouse positions, …

A scanner app for my phone

Forum Topic by honest nan on Tuesday, July 25, 2023
… … Vo will recognize a PDF picture of text and attempt to OCR it if screen recognition is turned on. I think a PDF can … app that used to be called KNFB Reader, and can save the OCR output as a readable document, but I haven't needed it … AI can do that, but you can save the picture it takes and OCR it later, if I remember correctly. (Someone correct me if …

Live streaming on Mac questions

Forum Topic by Igna Triay on Tuesday, June 20, 2023
… Once you press on the add button, you'll have to use ocr to select your type of source, wet-her this is to capture … as twitch goes is... not accessible, you'll have to use ocr to connect your twitch account. Youtube is accessible, …

antaris has made most of there apps usable

Forum Topic by jim pickens on Monday, April 10, 2023
… to use the new autotune central app with out sited help or ocr, i installed a plugin and logdin to the servis … Does …

If your using vmware fusion on mac, do not upgrade to sonoma, extremely serious bug

Forum Topic by Igna Triay on Thursday, October 26, 2023
… box. With all the above programs, there is no need to use ocr etc, as everything is completely accessible. Parallels, … it is not natively accessible, which means you have to use ocr to set things up. Once you have the vm set up, you don't need ocr, but you'll have to use ocr to get everything sorted …

What is the easiest to learn, fastest to use, A I scanning app for the blind?

Forum Topic by Bruce Harrell on Saturday, December 30, 2023
… Regarding your keys, the Camera app now has a really sweet OCR system now, and could potentially help with finding … with sensitive info like bank account details etc. The OCR options like Short Text in Seeing AI are much more …

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