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**Join the Apple Accessibility Feedback Team: Your Voice Matters!

Forum Topic by Matthew Whitaker on Monday, July 15, 2024
… yeah, it makes sense for sure. … Thank you for the using OCR for the stars, I managed to submit the form. … But … for updates. … For those who got past the rating, glad OCR works out for that. Sorry I wasn't aware of this. Also, …

Ideas on home screen layout, various tips and tricks, etc?

Forum Topic by shakyJake213 on Monday, December 9, 2024
… shortcut is the new Quick Describe with Speakaboo, and OCR type of application similar to Be My AI. The latest …

Apple Disappoints, As Do Other Companies..

Forum Topic by Siobhan on Thursday, March 28, 2024
… trouble pointing a camera just the right way to get good OCR or AI. I’ve gotten a lot better but I’m still not great. …

Meta's Smart Glasses Gain Live AI and Live Translation

Forum Topic by Oliver on Tuesday, December 17, 2024
… to use the video function? … One more question… has the OCR functionality improved with the video? … Hello guys! So I … for me. And they may just be for you too! Regarding OCR, I find it can indeed detect and speak text. It's tricky …

Should I Switch to a MacBook After 10 Years of Using Windows?

Forum Topic by Kyrylo on Wednesday, October 9, 2024
… If you can find some way of doing that, or create an OCR program kind of like VOCR, which I still have issues … papers. So do keep this in mind. Also there are more OCR tools on Windows, including Be My Eyes for PC as well as …

Introducing Envision Assistant Beta

Forum Topic by Karthik Mahadevan on Wednesday, April 17, 2024
… the Envision AI app can be technically be defined as an OCR wrapper. However, the interaction and application around … answers. So when you need to read a text, we call upon our OCR model, when you need to recognise a person, we call our …

iPhone 16 pro camera features: any benefits for blind users?

Forum Topic by Alana on Sunday, September 15, 2024
… with other features like those built into the phone or OCR in other apps I don't know. Also, I wonder how much …

No sound when attempting to install Windows 11, VMware Fusion-13.5.0

Forum Topic by overflowed buffer on Sunday, February 25, 2024
… Windows 11 on his M1 MacBook Pro. If you don't want to use OCR, try connecting a USB audio device directly to the …

Apple possibly considering Meta Ray-Ban like glasses

Forum Topic by inforover on Friday, September 13, 2024
… for ChatGPT then maybe, but they would have to be able to OCR pages from documents and recognise street signs. Built-in …

Modeler and profiler for blind guitarists

Forum Topic by vainer on Wednesday, November 13, 2024
… be better by far but if you know how to get around with OCR, it's not terrible, there's no IPhone or IPad app for …

Call to action! What do you want from Meta Ray Bans to make the ideal device?

Forum Topic by Andy Lane on Wednesday, May 1, 2024
… I was using before. I think it would be good if it could OCR text as well as using AI. For example, I asked it to read …

Coffee!!! Coffee!!! Coffee!!! Looking for kitchen scales for coffee with accessible app?

Forum Topic by Oliver on Saturday, July 6, 2024
… age4, so I don't know exactly what this looks like. But OCR functionality works better with regular printed numbers … numbers. if you want to use a scale with an app's instant OCR function for more than measuring the beans, you should … any 0.1 gram accuracy and also 3D buttons. I do hope the OCR concept can become viable and comfortable soon so we …

One Week with Windows: A Mac User's Adventure

Forum Topic by Maldalain on Monday, April 22, 2024
… https://convertio.co/document-converter/ There is NAO for OCR as Brian said above, but for OCr accuracy I prefer Prizmo for iOS. I pay Β£4.99 a month for the pro plan I think and it's worth it for me since I OCR a lot of stuff Edit forgot about audiobooks. I use VLC …

Essential apps for Mac, beyond the standard ones.

Forum Topic by Khomus on Friday, December 6, 2024
… Its my SIP client. Transmit: SFTP client VOCR: An OCR plugin for VoiceOver. … Wow that is an interesting list. … that it's quite lightweight and simple. It has a built-in OCR text scanner which is handy. I like how it names the …

Sight as a service

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Wednesday, April 24, 2024
… now digitised, and the biggest problem is deciphering the OCR results yielded from those images. The other massive …

Apple Documents Apple Vision Pro Accessibility Features: Including VoiceOver and Zoom Guides

Blog Post by AppleVis on Friday, February 2, 2024
… person detection etc. Or maps/gps/voice vista stuff. Or OCR/Seeing AI functionality. Not to mention Be My Eyes etc. …

How to make apple indicate if an app is VO compatible on the App Store, my stupid idea

Forum Topic by Panais on Tuesday, November 26, 2024
… into VoiceOver and enhance the screen recognition/OCR/image description capabilities? I am also wondering why …

[Update: app to continue] Menus4ALL Accessible Restaurant Menus - App Discontinued

Forum Topic by Dennis Long on Tuesday, January 23, 2024
… workarounds like asking sighted people to read it or using OCR, or trying to navigate the web site. Usually I manage to …

AI-powered Screen Reader for Mac

Forum Topic by kchro3 on Wednesday, January 3, 2024
… they are dreadful for us. This would go far beyond OCR, it would be able to create objects we can interact with … used on NVDA to see if you can get more info, there's also OCR for both platforms I believe but NVDA's is better as you … screen and update it if it got clicked, like how NVDAs' OCR does it but better. No we'd not be able to play games …

Giving accurate opinions when A.I. is involved

Forum Topic by Siobhan on Monday, June 17, 2024
… I would say it is comparable to some of the more advanced OCR add-ons for Nvda or what is included with Jaws. I would …

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