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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) ##### …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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