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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 ‘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 …

Is it possible to detect alt text in a photo?

Forum Topic by RossMinor on Friday, March 11, 2022
… AI, or move your picture to Dropbox or something and do OCR with an OCR app like OpenBook. … This is in the app development and …

Looking For an app that can read text inside an image

Forum Topic by Khalfan Bin Dhaher on Monday, October 21, 2013
… Prizmo, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prizmo-scanning-ocr-speech/id366791896?mt=8 is one of the best apps I've … found for doing this. You can import images into it, run OCR and get readable text which you can then export as text … often. It is also possible to import scanned pdf's and run OCR on those. Applevis has some great resources on how to use …

Converting my PDF files to word on the Mac

Forum Topic by Tree on Friday, May 26, 2023
… a word document? Using my MacBook Air? … I often use an OCR app called ABBYY FineReader. It has quite a decent … haven't got a chance to try with scanned ones where OCR must be involved. …

SayText

Forum Topic by tay tay on Tuesday, January 29, 2013
… camera will shoot automatically when focused 3. While the OCR is running, tap the screen to hear the progress status 4. When the OCR is ready, swipe right on the screen to listen the … with light, but not the LOTS of light that is better for OCR. You can run this app with the screen curtain on, by the …

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