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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 …

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 franΓ§ais aussi. :) Adam … Wow, … cases. But if you could further build upon some sort of OCR framework and be able to save custom mouse positions, …

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 …

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 …

Seeking suggestions for handling PDF files on Mac and iPhone

Forum Topic by MarΓ­a 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, …

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