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Moving on from My Mini: Deciding Which new iPhone to Get

Blog Post by mehgcap on Wednesday, September 11, 2024
… ###Cameras and LiDAR My use of cameras is mostly for OCR, images that AI describes to me, and the occasional … OIS: if I have it, I might get better pictures and OCR results, but my 13 Mini has done well in that department …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for April 2024

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, April 30, 2024
… > Envision is the fastest, most reliable and award-winning OCR app that speaks out the visual world, helping people who … intelligence (AI) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Current Version: 3.4.0 (April 16, 2024) ##### Changes …

WWDC 2024 Recap: AI, More AI, and Some Not AI

Blog Post by mehgcap on Tuesday, June 11, 2024
… up images you draw yourself on iPad. It can automatically OCR images and PDFs, and save transcriptions of audio from … the AI bits are okay. more than anything i think the OCR stuff if accurate will help blind folks a lot navigating …

Seeking an accessible app to manage my Pdf/image stuff

Forum Topic by Mert Ozer on Friday, October 4, 2024
… of unnecessary stuff? Thank you! … This is a really good OCR app, especially if you use its cloud OCR feature. I don't know if you can include photos though, …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for July-September 2024

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, September 30, 2024
… > Envision is the fastest, most reliable and award-winning OCR app that speaks out the visual world, helping people who … intelligence (AI) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Current Version: 3.4.1 (August 22, 2024) #### Version …

Recognize windows

Forum Topic by Pleaxy_me on Tuesday, February 20, 2024
… basic, but works. Kinda. . . If you want more advanced OCR then you will want to download VOCR. Link with … will require permissions. Just fyi. ## Shortcuts * OCR Frontmost Window: 1. command+shift+control+w. 2. … arrow. 6. Exit navigation: escape. 7. Save the OCR result to file: command+shift+control+s. … Since there …

Apple Vision Accessibility: the 2023 AppleVis Report Card

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, January 15, 2024
… be appreciated. The Oliver Kennett wrote: We need built in OCR on mac. Aside from that, I'd rather not have new … and more efficient. Finally, there's a lot of mentions of OCR within the Blind and Low Vision tech space. It might be … It's difficult and confusing for users to find the right OCR app for them – or at least in my case. If there was one …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for February 2024

Blog Post by AppleVis on Thursday, February 29, 2024
… > 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: 3.3.1 (February 22, 2024) ##### …

VOLlama v0.1.1, an open-source, accessible chat client for OLlama

Forum Topic by Chi Kim on Friday, April 26, 2024
… really want to send over the internet. I tend to use the OCR built into Smultron which is sometimes helpful, but it … the image. Also, it has very limited capability of OCR. It's more for like scene description. If you need OCR, I recommend VOCR, another app I developed specifically …

Scanning a qr code on Mac

Forum Topic by Siobhan on Tuesday, February 6, 2024
… suggest is take a photo and have it decoded by one of the OCR apps, or, get sighted assistance, or, call them to get …

Just a random accessibility comparison - Android vs macOS

Forum Topic by TheBlindGuy07 on Thursday, December 12, 2024
… among said AppleVis Android forum. Now if we're talking OCR with the Mac vs Android, Or really, (Apple VS Android), … definitely between VOCR vs Jieshuo/Commentary's Premium OCR Feature , along with Apple's own VO Screen Recognition. … with the Window-Eyes screen reader when it came to its OCR layout. … I enjoy some of the articles I read on …

AppleVis Extra 101: Future Echoes - In conversation with the team behind Echo Vision smart glasses

Podcast by AppleVis on Wednesday, October 30, 2024
… C-E-A-I, it's the most favorable app for people to do OCR. And in this case, it doesn't make sense for us to develop our own software for OCR. And we would work with C-E-A-I to get this. We're still … are saying, okay, first, want to read text, like doing OCR as is, not doing summary, not doing the high level thing, …

Chatbots, chatbots, everywhere

Forum Topic by mr grieves on Sunday, May 26, 2024
… it works, it really works and you can forget trying to OCR stuff completely. However, when it hallucinates, it … and she/he/it has a chat bot as well. … Hi. GPT-4 cannot OCR pdfs with its image processing capabilities. If you're on … Plus subscription and you upload a PDF, it might try to OCR it using OCR software it has installed in its little …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for March 2024

Blog Post by AppleVis on Sunday, March 31, 2024
… thanks to automatic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) * Built for simplicity. Just scan and send -- no …

Mixed Bag with iOS Seeing AI and a Plat

Forum Topic by OldBear on Monday, December 9, 2024
… work well, my understandingis that the llm is fed the text ocr extracts, not the actual image … That would make sense. I … the formatting information. In my experience, doing an OCR usually doesn't render font and colours etc.. It would be …

App to read printed documents

Forum Topic by Grigg DeWitt on Friday, March 1, 2024
… In that case, I'm not sure. There are lots of other OCR apps - Envision AI is another one. Supersense, etc. … because it reads columns as expected. May not be the best OCR although it isn't bad but for newspapers etc it is good. …

Jaws focus issues when reading a PDF

Forum Topic by Dave Nason on Sunday, April 7, 2024
… to hear what page or line you are on, etc. It also can OCR images within the PDF! If you enjoy NVDA, check out Nao …

Let's Explore How AI Can Make Our Tech More Accessible

Blog Post by Lysette Chaproniere on Wednesday, January 31, 2024
… Before Be My AI, I would have had either to scan this with OCR, or do a google book search for the content on the page, … and finereader on Windows are well and truly gone. Even OCR on Windows 11 doesn't come close. I haven't properly … between me scanning a PDF on Windows with JAWS and NVDA OCR versus Be My Ai is unbelievable. It's like night and day. …

VMWare fusion issue

Forum Topic by JamesPotter on Sunday, May 19, 2024
… it is now trying to use AI to scan the screen instead of OCR. If I press it again it tells me to select a model for … do this on a physical pc and... Good luck. You won't have ocr there. I'm not going to lie, this is laughable. And they … work in the first phaze via changing soundcard etc? Or is ocr the only solution? Not going to lie, part of me wants to …

Curious on peoples experiences with using the envision assistant beta.

Forum Topic by Emily Chia on Thursday, May 2, 2024
… amazing but my aim isn't, lol. I've found with all these OCR apps, that one has to more or less be able to point the …

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