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OCR APp on the Mac?

Forum Topic by Maldalain on Thursday, October 3, 2024
… Hi all I am looking for an OCR mac app. I have Envision but since it is a Rosetta thing … … If you use VoiceOver, there is some OCR built in. You turn it on in VO Utility (VO+F8) then … £6 or something). It has a text scanner in it that will OCR some text. I use that as a text editor anyway so find it …

An incredible experience with Preview, Voiceover and OCR

Forum Topic by TheBlindGuy07 on Monday, September 16, 2024
… jpeg. I just download them, thinking that I will do proper OCR on my windows laptop because it's just easier there. To … I was then so shocked to discover that not only it'd done OCR, so each pages had text readable with Voiceover, but it … VO+Shift+L which is occasionally handy for simple OCR but that's the only way I know how to get it to do …

Cannot download additional OCR languages on Windows 11 Single-Language Edition

Forum Topic by Enes Deniz on Monday, December 2, 2024
… I use NVDA and need OCR functionality but I can't even select that one single …

Dong an OCR for a scanned text with the Mac

Forum Topic by María on Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Reading with AI glasses, more than OCR!

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Friday, March 29, 2024
… be nice to read with Seleste as opposed to battling with OCR, or having to send every page to ChatGpt. ChatGpt or Be … different parts would have better clarity. Merging those OCR results seems trivial now we have AI. Maybe Seeing AI or … I think AI may be most useful when it's doing more than OCR but bringing in a few things together. Another example - …

VOCR 2.0 released

Forum Topic by Chi Kim on Wednesday, May 22, 2024
… the cutting-edge capabilities of VOCR, your ultimate OCR and AI-powered screen recognition tool designed to … experience. Beyond the simple navigation feature with OCR, VOCR seamlessly integrates with VoiceOver, enabling … and customizable shortcuts. With features like Real-Time OCR, users can continuously monitor and read live content, …

Introducing three new apps to support individuals with visual disabilities

Forum Topic by E7 Company on Thursday, January 25, 2024
… https://apps.apple.com/us/app/qr-voice/id6475089346 'OCR Voice' for converting and reading any text document using text-to-speech. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ocr-voice/id6475119287 'Color Voice' to assist individuals … You should at least add something like offline accurate OCR for imported text files and even PDF's as well as written …

Scanning on the Mac with the PEARL camera.

Forum Topic by Khomus on Friday, November 8, 2024
… I figured I'd ask here, since I haven't grabbed a scanning/OCR program yet. I have a PEARL. Does any scanning app on the … the other. Assuming it can be used, is there a preferred OCR program? I own what used to be KNFB Reader for Windows, … over Openbook. Thanks in advance for any info on PEARL, OCR programs, or both. …

MicroSoft Lens

Forum Topic by Cordelia on Saturday, May 18, 2024
… Hi, Is anybody using MicroSoft Lens, an OCR scanning app? Would it let me save PDFs or DOCXs to be …

text in a picture

Forum Topic by honest nan on Thursday, May 9, 2024
… word. jaws will usually say picture, but when I try to do OCR with Jaws, it almost always is blank or meaningless. Does … undergone an update, either to the entire tts, or to the ocr in particular, and depending on the way an image is … are decorative and won't contain any text. Instead of OCR, you could try to recognize them with PictureSmart, after …

best AI service for RetroArch on Mac

Forum Topic by Tayo on Sunday, June 16, 2024
… Ztranslate.net. If not, how do I improve the legibility of OCR resultsfrom that particular site. I turned the confidence … can think of is if using Open Emu you can use VOCR and do OCR that way. However you could do the same in retro arch. … …

Recognize with VoiceOver the text from an object

Forum Topic by Kostadin Kolev on Friday, October 11, 2024
… object. Is there a way to force VoiceOver to do an OCR on such inaccessible objects? Is it possible to do it? …

LAPS - Local Administrator Password Solution: Screen reader do not talk

Forum Topic by Elena Brescacin on Thursday, March 21, 2024
… readers do not talk any longer. JAWS, NVDA, Narrator. JAWS OCR helps a little then, but no feedback is available if …

A more positive spin on things

Forum Topic by Brad on Thursday, March 14, 2024
… their research first and don't just rehash the same old OCR app. SO we have new apps with AI functions, awesome! What … a fansy smartboard connection to that device. A local ai/ocr do the text transcription as needed but this will mainly …

Simple Scan • Quick Scanner

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Scruffy Ted 🧸 on Friday, March 22, 2024
… thanks to automatic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) * Built for simplicity. Just scan and send -- no … feature. The app does not allow the user to listen to the OCR version of the scanned image before saving it. Viewing of …

Be My AI, a scanning app, something else?

Forum Topic by Khomus on Wednesday, March 27, 2024
… so I'm wondering if a scanning app would be better for the OCR part, to deal specifically with the text. So I'm not sure … in a grid and they are so close together I would say any OCR scanning software would have a hard time defining each …

Accessible midi keyboard

Forum Topic by TheBlindGuy07 on Monday, March 4, 2024
… accessibility rating on both windows and mac with any ocr I've tried. I know that daw like GarageBand and reaper …

DevonThink: a document solution I didn't know I needed

Forum Topic by Nuno on Monday, April 1, 2024
… that comes to mind. Another awesome thing is the automatic OCR feature, I have set up a simple smart rule which …

Arc for Windows with Swift

Forum Topic by SeasonKing on Tuesday, April 30, 2024
… I managed to push through with the help of NVDA's OCR and bit of just random luck. Further, the buttons on the …

Humanware Products: Are They for AppleVis Users?

Forum Topic by Assistive Intelligence on Monday, July 1, 2024
… The StellarTrek is an advanced AI-powered GPS and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) assistant designed to …

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