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Recap and Opinions for Apple's Fall 2014 Announcements

Blog Post by mehgcap on Wednesday, September 10, 2014
… the much-improved camera is very probably going to make OCR apps like Prizmo or KNFB Reader Mobile even better, … the biggest category where the new camera will shine is OCR. That said, I think the iPhone 6 will be able to do the … a faster and smoother camera experience, and, well, see my OCR comments above. Oh, and face detection will be faster, so …

[Closed] Cast your Votes Now for the AppleVis Golden Apples of 2017

Blog Post by AppleVis on Friday, December 15, 2017

The AppleVis Community Inducts Voice Dream Scanner and Microsoft Soundscape into its iOS App Hall of Fame

Blog Post by AppleVis on Sunday, June 30, 2019
… or additional charges. > State-of-the-art A.I. for OCR and text recognition: Fast and accurate, even in poor …

Apple Releases Updated iPod Touch, Shuffle, and Nano Models

Blog Post by mehgcap on Wednesday, July 15, 2015
… iPod Touch 6 is perfect for anyone wanting a way to use OCR apps but who doesn't have an iPhone. Students who need a …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for March 2019

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, April 1, 2019
… or additional charges. > State-of-the-art A.I. for OCR and text recognition: Fast and accurate, even in poor … 2019) ##### Changes in Version 4.8.0 > VOICE DREAM DOES OCR! > OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition, which is the …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for August 2021

Blog Post by AppleVis on Wednesday, September 1, 2021
… the text from the camera or from the scanned PDF using OCR * Export the text to the audio file * The app is … * [My OCR screen reader app FishScreenReader has been updated to 2.0!](https://www.applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-apps/my-ocr-screen-reader-app-fishscreenreader-has-been-updated-20) * …

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 …

The iPhone SE 3: A More Practical Phone for Some Use Cases

Blog Post by Scott Davert on Thursday, March 31, 2022
… a series of cameras will negatively impact the results of OCR. In my testing, where I compared the iPhone 13 Mini with … SE 3 outperforms the SE 2 is the speed at which it gets an OCR result. The SE 3, not surprisingly, produced faster …

Debunking Common Myths about VoiceOver on the Mac

Blog Post by mehgcap on Sunday, March 30, 2014
… ever managed to figure out in those hours with Word. ####OCR #####The Myth If you scan a lot of print material, you … There are several good apps for scanning and doing OCR on the Mac. Abbyy Fine Reader and Prizmo are the two most … o work wwiwth VoiceOver. Another thing is it's you had to OCR a pdf file OCR apps are so good on the Mac that they are …

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 …

Looking at Apple's Peek Performance Event (March 2022)

Blog Post by mehgcap on Tuesday, March 8, 2022
… good, though they should still be more than adequate for OCR work. There are other trade-offs, such as a lack of …

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 …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for December 2021

Blog Post by AppleVis on Saturday, January 1, 2022
… or additional charges. > State-of-the-art A.I. for OCR and text recognition: Fast and accurate, even in poor … correctly. Also, Chinese is now supported for the built-in OCR Scanner. To recognize Chinese, set it explicitly in …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for July 2021

Blog Post by AppleVis on Sunday, August 1, 2021
… * [Most powerful OCR currently available for … e?](https://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ipados/most-powerful-ocr-currently-available-iphone) * [iOS versus Android; why …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for July 2022

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, August 1, 2022
… > 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: 3.0.1 (July 28, 2022) ##### Changes in …

[CLOSED] Vote Now for the 2019 Inductees into the AppleVis iOS App Hall of Fame

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, June 25, 2019
… around you with the help of artificial intelligence and OCR. Envision is carefully designed with the help of the … or additional charges. > State-of-the-art A.I. for OCR and text recognition: Fast and accurate, even in poor …

A Physical Description of the iPhone6

Blog Post by mehgcap on Sunday, September 21, 2014
… Button and with the flash just to its left. This will make OCR and object recognition apps easy to use, as there is no …

QardioArm wireless blood pressure monitor

Hardware or Accessory Review by Elena Brescacin on Wednesday, June 10, 2015
… multi-lingual and can be read with KNFB reader or similar OCR apps quite easily; the entire user manual stands inside …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New in Accessible Apps for August 2015

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, September 1, 2015
… & Have Them Read/Spoken In Many Languages with Fast OCR (Free) > Take a picture of anything that has words on it, … photo library now is compatible with VoiceOver. * Made OCR processing faster. * Better automatic photo capture. * … oice-take-pictures-have-them-readspoken-many-languages-fast-ocr) [Visit Voice's page on the App …

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 …

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