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I am in need of a good Mac OCR

Forum Topic by bob jutzi on Saturday, April 26, 2025
… and have just started using a Mac so am in need of a good OCR. For Windows, I have been using ABBYY Adobe; however, the … options are out there? … The built-in Preview app does OCR, it's one of the available options when you scan a …

Issue with removing not needed OCR packages and OneCore voices in windows 11

Forum Topic by Vsevolod Popov on Sunday, July 13, 2025
… I remove keyboard layouts, same thing happens in Windows OCR packages for NVDA. I removed spanish keyboard since I … is no delete button near them. How can I remove not needed OCR packages and OneCore voices then? … Have you checked …

What scanning/OCR apps do we like?

Forum Topic by Khomus on Wednesday, January 22, 2025
… openbook use a combination of finereader and or omnipage ocr. Jaws also have ocr scanning built-in since awhile and I don't know why … You're scanning into something, and something's doing the OCR. I'm not really interested in rants about Openbook, I'm …

Transform PDFs with AI-Powered OCR: Your Guide to PDFgear for Mac

Podcast by AppleVis on Monday, June 2, 2025
… on the Mac App Store — spotlighting its AI-powered OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capabilities. This … on the Mac App Store. * Stands out with its AI-driven OCR functionality. * **Demo Setup:** * Conducted on a MacBook … spots menu and locate pages heavy with images. * **Running OCR:** With VO, select the OCR button and choose ‘Current …

How many cameras do I need?

Forum Topic by Tara on Saturday, February 22, 2025
… identifying mail and food items. I often get really good OCR results through using BeMyAI, and if I were to buy the new iPhone 16e, would that be compromised in any way? OCR is essential for me for work sometimes, and I don't want … the more cameras there are, the better the picture for OCR and other things. Just wondering what people's views and …

VOCR not working in latest MacOS

Forum Topic by Jahmal on Saturday, January 25, 2025
… latest version of MacOs, and I cannot get VOCR 2.0.2 to OCR anything on the screen. I get the sound when I perform … So I switched to Chrome, thinking it ought to be able to OCR plain text. But I didn't even get the happy scanning …

trying out parallels desktop; not impressed thus far... Need a hand

Forum Topic by Igna Triay on Sunday, January 12, 2025
… more like. I got the vertual machine set up via using ocr fine. It starts up, I turn on narrator and get... no … after all, and having to deal with unlabeled buttons, ocr to get things working... Is not a smooth experience, … the VM, but it's essentially a question of making do with OCR to set up and then relying on the Windows audio in future …

Joplin

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by BlindFriend on Monday, March 31, 2025
… search feature enhanced by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Use Joplin to store your bills, lecture …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for June 2025

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, June 30, 2025
… #### Transform PDFs with AI-Powered OCR: Your Guide to PDFgear for Mac > In this episode, Gaurav … on the Mac App Store — spotlighting its AI-powered OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capabilities. This … Mac OS Sonoma. [Listen to "Transform PDFs with AI-Powered OCR: Your Guide to PDFgear for …

meta glasses and be my eyes

Forum Topic by neil foster on Wednesday, March 19, 2025
… capacitors aside, the Meta's are pretty convenient for OCR tasks. Not to say that you can't do the same thing with … they're coming along. When I got mine in Jan. of 24 the OCR was aweful it would make stuff up instead of reading, or … dont have the ai stuff in the uk, ie. look and ask, ocr etc, ho hum. … Which I think is absolutely ridiculous. I …

Windows on Silicon Mac

Forum Topic by Hayden on Monday, March 24, 2025
… is to use at this point. … Given that you need to use OCR with parallels, at least when you’re setting up the VM, … that do to microsoft messing something up, you'll need ocr or a sighted person for vertual machine set up in other …

AppleVis Extra 107: Exploring Apple’s Latest Accessibility Innovations with Sarah Herrlinger

Podcast by AppleVis on Friday, May 30, 2025
… * Includes zoom, color filters, brightness controls, and OCR with text-to-speech via Accessibility Reader. 4. **AI and … but have it be able to read to you. So AI versus, so OCR the screen. So you can get that jotted down to notes … written things are probably going to be easier if it could OCR the screen for you. Is that a possibility or a thought …

CES 2025 and beyond for smart glasses

Forum Topic by Dennis D on Wednesday, January 8, 2025
… is the exception rather than the rule. We still need solid OCR to really make them viable and that's not yet forthcoming … smart glasses have for the blind community. The lack of OCR is not necessarily a show stopper for me. It seems like …

HuggingSnap: On-device Visual Assistant

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Matt M on Wednesday, March 19, 2025
… and even Siri integration, if applicable • Have OCR functionality in multiple languages and scan PDFs • Have …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for January 2025

Blog Post by AppleVis on Friday, January 31, 2025
… * [What scanning/OCR apps do we …

iPhone 16e Review: An Excellent 'Basic' iPhone

Blog Post by Michael Hansen on Thursday, April 17, 2025
… then I won’t exactly need it, seeing as I don’t really use OCR on my phone. … Ultrawideband is for precise item finding, … I subscribed to the theory that I need three cameras for OCR. There is no difference between the 16e and the 15 Pro …

A Look into Alfred for Mac: Part 4 Power User Tips for System Control & Clipboard Magic

Podcast by AppleVis on Tuesday, June 3, 2025
… convert image documents, you can compress files, you can OCR files, you can move files around on your Mac, You can …

ZDSR screen reader: questions

Forum Topic by Tara on Wednesday, January 29, 2025
… quite capable for otherwise inaccessible situations. In OCR mode you can click accurately to the level of characters. … hear "graphic" with no alt text. Just press that combo. OCR works that way too, in fact image descriptions are considered a special mode of OCR. - super simple chat AI dialog with Vivo language model: …

Exchanging Iphone 13 pro max with basic 15, will it worth doing this?

Forum Topic by Ramy on Thursday, January 9, 2025
… Also, I'm not sure how much a single camera will impact OCR/AI field of view. Are all cameras wide angle now? I've … my iPhone once. And I do quite a bit with my iPhone. I use OCR services such as Be My Eyes, and Seeing AI. I listen to a … people saying how the pro model phones have much better OCR capabilities than the single camera devices. I say nay. …

Bookshop.org Ebooks

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Robert Kingett on Tuesday, January 28, 2025
… you will not know what the book is unless VoiceOver OCR reads the cover. Reading a book is impossible. VoiceOver …

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