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Braigo Companion

Forum Topic by Jason on Monday, August 5, 2019
… broke it. like what happened with ios 11. for me, I use Ocr. can convert text from photos app I also have Seeing Ai., … VoiceDream scanner If you want something similar to braigo Ocr can convert photos to text is your best bet & it's free I …

Comparing iOS Devices with Braille Notetakers

Blog Post by mehgcap on Friday, April 4, 2014
… however, it also leads to more features, such as OCR. I can scan print with my iPhone to get an idea of what …

VOLlama v0.1.1, an open-source, accessible chat client for OLlama

Forum Topic by Chi Kim on Friday, April 26, 2024
… really want to send over the internet. I tend to use the OCR built into Smultron which is sometimes helpful, but it … the image. Also, it has very limited capability of OCR. It's more for like scene description. If you need OCR, I recommend VOCR, another app I developed specifically …

Live streaming on Mac questions

Forum Topic by Igna Triay on Tuesday, June 20, 2023
… Once you press on the add button, you'll have to use ocr to select your type of source, wet-her this is to capture … as twitch goes is... not accessible, you'll have to use ocr to connect your twitch account. Youtube is accessible, …

Reading appliance and other LCD displays with iPhone

Forum Topic by JP on Friday, February 26, 2021
… I understand that the contrast may not be perfect, but OCR does pretty well with printed text on strange backgrounds. Also it is a lot easier to do OCR on digitally produced text than something like …

Issues with Braigo app

Forum Topic by Shashikala on Monday, May 8, 2017
… can email him there. In the meantime, I'm using another OCR. app. I'll post a link in another post, because it's on … app I'm using. https://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/utilities/ocr-converts-characters-photo Just like Braigo, you can …

How to select all and copy text from image in photos app

Forum Topic by Wenwei on Friday, January 14, 2022
… … Using the sharesheet you can import the image into an ocr app with translate function such as TextGrabber. …

Summer sale for Envision AI - up to 50 Percent off the subscription plans

Forum Topic by Ben Hofer on Sunday, July 12, 2020
… the world of iOS apps. … I've tried a large number of the OCR apps on offer, starting with the KNFB reader which I wish … description or object finding, but I use magnification and OCR and they are great. I got the Lifetime subscription back … "offline text" to off in the help menu. This processes the OCR in the cloud which makes it (at least in my case) a lot …

Scanning a qr code on Mac

Forum Topic by Siobhan on Tuesday, February 6, 2024
… suggest is take a photo and have it decoded by one of the OCR apps, or, get sighted assistance, or, call them to get …

JAWS compatibility with iCloud

Forum Topic by Marty on Friday, February 16, 2018
… Anyone? … I don't remember if Version 15 has Convenient OCR or not. That's how I am navigating the iCloud window …

Mac OS App for reading PDF documents

Forum Topic by Chuck Winstead on Sunday, September 11, 2016
… are a couple of apps that I'd recommend. Prismo is an OCR app for the mac that allows you to read PDF files. …

Advocacy resource request

Forum Topic by Mar on Sunday, November 13, 2022
… I'm guessing your using the app on a iphone? If not ocr on a computer? Atleast for the moment. I'd recommend …

Taking screenshots with VO

Forum Topic by Callum Stoneman on Monday, December 22, 2014
… have taken a picture of. You could probably use another OCR application, but i use this one because i know it works …

Reading snail mail without opening them

Forum Topic by Mani on Saturday, December 9, 2017
… results,. Thanks in advance.. … It looks like you need an ocr app. I would recomend prismo go or maybe tap tap see or … the best result, though, rely on a flat bed scanner and an OCR program on your PC such as OpenBook. … This info is good …

Realtime text recognition

Forum Topic by Sabrina on Saturday, October 21, 2017
… not sure of real-time text apps, but I can tell you some OCR. apps )OCR Converts Photos Into Text, Seeing Ai. etc). They may have …

Picture This, or Maybe Not: a Review of the New Image Description Feature in iOS 11

Blog Post by Serina Gilbert on Tuesday, September 19, 2017
… out the following: The feature does not seem to do direct OCR on the picture. Imagine it more as a combined OCR and descriptions. First I took a screenshot of my … conversation in the messages app. 2. Let VOiceover do some OCR, description or whatever it does. 3. Send the screenshot …

ABBYY FineReader and DocuScan Plus

Forum Topic by Marcos Rodrigues on Sunday, December 23, 2012
… extremely accessible. … They are OSX apps. … It's the best OCR app that you can ever find on windows and mac, if you can …

What's New in iOS 15 Accessibility for Blind and DeafBlind Users

Blog Post by Scott Davert on Sunday, September 19, 2021
… hand. Like Seeing AI and any other app which performs OCR, it can be quite challenging for a braille-only user who …

AppleVis Extra 101: Future Echoes - In conversation with the team behind Echo Vision smart glasses

Podcast by AppleVis on Wednesday, October 30, 2024
… C-E-A-I, it's the most favorable app for people to do OCR. And in this case, it doesn't make sense for us to develop our own software for OCR. And we would work with C-E-A-I to get this. We're still … are saying, okay, first, want to read text, like doing OCR as is, not doing summary, not doing the high level thing, …

Just a random accessibility comparison - Android vs macOS

Forum Topic by TheBlindGuy07 on Thursday, December 12, 2024
… among said AppleVis Android forum. Now if we're talking OCR with the Mac vs Android, Or really, (Apple VS Android), … definitely between VOCR vs Jieshuo/Commentary's Premium OCR Feature , along with Apple's own VO Screen Recognition. … with the Window-Eyes screen reader when it came to its OCR layout. … I enjoy some of the articles I read on …

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