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AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for July 2023

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, July 31, 2023
… is the fastest, most reliable and award-winning free OCR app that speaks out the visual world, helping people who … intelligence (AI) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Current Version: 3.2.0 (July 19, 2023) ##### Changes in …

[CLOSED] Vote Now for the 2020 Inductees into the AppleVis iOS App Hall of Fame

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, June 9, 2020
… around you with the help of artificial intelligence and OCR. Envision is carefully designed with the help of the …

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

Blog Post by AppleVis on Thursday, July 31, 2025
… or additional charges. > State-of-the-art A.I. for OCR and text recognition: Fast and accurate, even in poor … - Manual image rotation - Automatic image enhancement > OCR > - Fast: about a second on the latest iPhone - Offline: … - Change speech rate - Option to start reading as soon as OCR is complete - Spoken word is highlighted in the text or …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for October 2023

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, October 31, 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: 3.2.5 (October 25, 2023) ##### Changes …

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 …

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

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, March 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: 2.4.0 (February 16, 2022) ##### …

I used ABBYY's Fine scanner to scan my document. Now what?

Forum Topic by MESample on Tuesday, March 29, 2016
… I sent to ABBYY concerning me not being able to retrieve OCR text and about FineScanner's accessibility. I am using VoiceOver and I am not able to retrieve the OCR result from a scanned document both in Book and Document mode. First, when I press the OCR button, check the settings and press Done, I get no …

help with pdf documents on mac

Forum Topic by Igna Triay on Tuesday, August 1, 2017
… There are a few apps that I can clearly recommend for OCR: Prismo, it's a good app for what you want but it's like … This app is great for scanning PDF files and giving you OCR, but it's $200 if you are not part of serotek's SamNet network. Another good one is ABBY Finereader OCR pro. IT's expensive, but it's a great solution for giving …

Apple Releases iOS 11; Bringing a Range of Enhancements and New Features

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, September 19, 2017
… into the Notes app. This doesn't currently support OCR, but does use some clever technology for automatic …

Scanning with my Macbook air Abby Fine reader or with any other?

Forum Topic by Govind. on Friday, October 25, 2019
… using ABBYY on a 2013 MacBook Air. My personal scanning & OCR workflows are in comment 11 of the AppleVis FineReader … https://applevis.com/apps/mac/productivity/abbyy-finereader-ocr-pro-mac Regarding family sharing, the US Mac App Store … by country. Also note that there are free scanning and OCR solutions accessible from the Mac. As long as the device …

Scanner for iPhone

Forum Topic by Diego on Tuesday, April 7, 2015
… today only. ScanBee is a business scanning app, but has no OCR functionality. http://siteesi.getapp.cc/app/799355420 You might try SayText, if it is OCR you want. Kind regards, Niall … Hello. If looking for a … as well though. … Hello everybody! I wonder scanners with OCR, which is free. … Hello. I think say text might do the …

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 …

pdf question on the mac

Forum Topic by Keenan on Monday, May 21, 2018
… can read image pdf's. … Hi, You'll probably have to get an OCR app like Prismo, or ABBYY finereader OCR. Personally, finereader is great, but it is a little … Most image PDF documents won't read without some form of OCR app. …

Open Book for Apple

Forum Topic by Scott W on Wednesday, May 1, 2013
… the iPhone, I'm not sure how that has anything to do with OCR and TTS software for the Mac... Is it possible to run … around $300 but I hear the pair works grate. … ABBYY is a OCR app for the mac. DevonThink This Mac-only program is well … combines both file organization and databasing as well as OCR. The OCR technology does require you to get the β€˜Pro …

Pdf reader

Forum Topic by Tangela on Wednesday, August 28, 2013
… image, you need to use a program or application that can OCR text from a PDF. If you need to read this on an iOS … under the iOS app deals. Prizmo is unusual among iOS OCR apps because since the May 2013 update to version , it supports OCR from PDFs, while most iOS OCR apps require an input image …

IOS VO Image Recognition Question

Forum Topic by Bellsfurmama on Friday, July 21, 2017
… text is. If you wanna know what the text is, you'd have to OCR on that image. I'm assuming here it'd be like how FB does … read text within an image on FB. I don't know how to use OCR. How do you do that with NVDA or Voice Over? I use NVDA … text inside an image, at least I think it won't. TO do OCR, you need a suitable app, like the recently released …

Tips for Taking Full Advantage of VoiceOver in Your App

Guide by mehgcap on Saturday, February 8, 2014
… uses it to start or pause reading * Prizmo, a scanning/OCR app, uses it to snap a picture of the focused paper …

Even More Formatting Fun with Pages

Guide by Kevin Shaw on Saturday, September 4, 2021
… One problem with ligatures is that they can mess up OCR software and be difficult for people with print …

Summary of the WWDC 2017 Keynote

Blog Post by mehgcap on Tuesday, June 6, 2017
… in Notes, search for written text thanks to background OCR on what you write with the Pencil, pull up screenshots … it back while you save a copy). No mention was made of OCR, or whether this feature is exclusive to iPad Pro. There …

A week with an iPhone. Perspective from a former Android user

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Saturday, October 24, 2020
… and zeros carved onto stone tablets so that the iPhone can OCR them and enter them into memory. Once that was finally …

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