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iPhone X users: Thoughts on the dual cameras in relation to accessible apps?

Forum Topic by Rob on Wednesday, September 19, 2018
… my own. Is there any increase of accuracy in relation to OCR apps with the better cameras. I have a 6S Plus and an … 10R is identical to the primary one on the 10S. All the OCR apps just use the main camera, I’m pretty sure. And Apple … with less interference then it stands to reason that the OCR and Recognition Apps will perform better. Two major …

Seeking an accessible app to manage my Pdf/image stuff

Forum Topic by Mert Ozer on Friday, October 4, 2024
… of unnecessary stuff? Thank you! … This is a really good OCR app, especially if you use its cloud OCR feature. I don't know if you can include photos though, …

automatic labeling of buttons is this possible with SE 2020

Forum Topic by Dennis Long on Saturday, December 19, 2020
… which is available on SE2, and which is more like OCR. When you enable it in voiceover preferences/voiceover … to turn it on/off for an app, it basically performs an OCR scan of the window, and lets you interact with the result …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for July-September 2024

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, September 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: 3.4.1 (August 22, 2024) #### Version …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for November 2020

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, December 1, 2020
… > 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: 2.3.5 (November 30, 2020) ##### …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for June 2020

Blog Post by AppleVis on Wednesday, July 1, 2020
… > 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: 2.2.3 (June 16, 2020) ##### Changes in …

Voiceover add-on to save mouse position

Forum Topic by Adam Yu on Thursday, August 3, 2023
… just like screen recognition on iOS, it can call the OCR API to recognize the elements on the screen and move the … as hot spot so that we can control the app even if the OCR doesn't work. PS: Je parle français aussi. :) Adam … Wow, … cases. But if you could further build upon some sort of OCR framework and be able to save custom mouse positions, …

Recognize windows

Forum Topic by Pleaxy_me on Tuesday, February 20, 2024
… basic, but works. Kinda. . . If you want more advanced OCR then you will want to download VOCR. Link with … will require permissions. Just fyi. ## Shortcuts * OCR Frontmost Window: 1. command+shift+control+w. 2. … arrow. 6. Exit navigation: escape. 7. Save the OCR result to file: command+shift+control+s. … Since there …

Apple Vision Accessibility: the 2023 AppleVis Report Card

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, January 15, 2024
… be appreciated. The Oliver Kennett wrote: We need built in OCR on mac. Aside from that, I'd rather not have new … and more efficient. Finally, there's a lot of mentions of OCR within the Blind and Low Vision tech space. It might be … It's difficult and confusing for users to find the right OCR app for them – or at least in my case. If there was one …

Seeking suggestions for handling PDF files on Mac and iPhone

Forum Topic by María on Tuesday, March 24, 2020
… Hope this helps! … Hi, DEVONthink have a feature, OCR which can convert files to searchable format. But OCR feature is available on PRO version which cost 200 $. … … Voice dream reader for this task. Easily some of the best OCR and importing with a bunch of high quality voices to read …

Kurzweil on the mac

Forum Topic by Keenan on Tuesday, July 4, 2017
… and it works for me! … Hi, yeah, docuscan plus is a great OCR app for mac. Also, too, is fine reader OCR pro. One question for those docuscan users out there, is there a way to open/ocr multiple files at the same time? i've asked on here …

iPad stand and light for use with iOS apps?

Forum Topic by alx on Tuesday, February 11, 2014
… into a stand 24 inches high. It is supposed to be for OCR but I would think it would work for magnifying. You put … great I think for someone who wants to scan a page and run OCR on it. We are hoping to have something that will work … and reading directly on the iPad, so the scanning and then OCR is not for us. On the other hand, the product makes me …

A scanner app for my phone

Forum Topic by honest nan on Tuesday, July 25, 2023
… … Vo will recognize a PDF picture of text and attempt to OCR it if screen recognition is turned on. I think a PDF can … app that used to be called KNFB Reader, and can save the OCR output as a readable document, but I haven't needed it … AI can do that, but you can save the picture it takes and OCR it later, if I remember correctly. (Someone correct me if …

Any free applications for reading screenshots?

Forum Topic by Queenofeagles07 on Monday, October 9, 2017
… is that it preserves much of the original formatting. 3. OCR Converts Photos To Text This app is kind of knew but it's … wonderful apps. For being free, they work very well for OCR. I hope this helps you! Good luck! … Thank you so much! I … Braigo is great and deserves to be found when one types OCR in to the search. … Thank you so much for telling me …

PS Remote Play

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Orlando on Monday, June 29, 2020
… you could use Remote Play on that and use NVDA (or JAWS) OCR capabilities to read any in-game text. If you have no … you want to read, then Share the image with which ever OCR app you're using, whether it be Envision, Seeing AI etc, …

Best App or programme to scan using a Mac

Forum Topic by John newton on Monday, March 17, 2014
… any responses. … There is find reader express and prizmo OCR scanning software. …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for February 2024

Blog Post by AppleVis on Thursday, February 29, 2024
… > 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: 3.3.1 (February 22, 2024) ##### …

Can a text reading app be much simpler than the existing options?

Forum Topic by Emre on Tuesday, October 1, 2019
… don't get desired results however efficient the AI or OCR of such apps. So hope to see this developing further! … … apps rely on you to take a good picture and then use AI or OCR to read that picture. They take a standard picture for … Scanner and Seeing AI are truly excellent for reading with OCR in my opinion. I haven't done much processing of …

iOS application that reads text in Facebook photos

Forum Topic by kelsey carter on Wednesday, May 10, 2017
… misrememberances as the name is quite long). It's called: OCR. can take text from a photo. You'll need to save the … this helps! https://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/utilities/ocr-converts-characters-photo …

anyone else having issues with Braigo?

Forum Topic by Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯 on Thursday, January 11, 2018
… out of my doc. until it's fixed & am currently using OCR., & AM WAITING ON THE DEVS TO GET BACK WITH ME. i'll post … with exactly the same message and am also now using OCR I hope you get positive answers from the help desk ASAP …

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