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camera detection broken in latest seeing AI update

Forum Topic by Troy on Sunday, March 24, 2019
… is completely broken, but has a very difficult time with OCR. I hope to see an update to the app soon that fixes some …

meta glasses and be my eyes

Forum Topic by neil foster on Wednesday, March 19, 2025
… capacitors aside, the Meta's are pretty convenient for OCR tasks. Not to say that you can't do the same thing with … they're coming along. When I got mine in Jan. of 24 the OCR was aweful it would make stuff up instead of reading, or … dont have the ai stuff in the uk, ie. look and ask, ocr etc, ho hum. … Which I think is absolutely ridiculous. I …

Talking goggles

Forum Topic by Mitch on Thursday, July 11, 2013
… camera I tried putting a printed packet down for it to OCR got nothing. With the still camera mode I tried taking a …

voice dream scanner

Forum Topic by natalija Lambert on Friday, January 28, 2022
… to act as the scanner? Personally, I have moved away from OCR on the Mac as tools such as VDS on the iPhone offer a …

Help, BitTorrent Live Apple TV app not providing any VoiceOver feedback

Forum Topic by Chime on Friday, July 15, 2016
… prompt by pointing my iPhone at my TV screen, and using an OCR app to read that message. I was hoping that the …

KNFB Reader dilemma

Forum Topic by AliceP104 on Wednesday, August 5, 2015
… the fact that you already have Prizmo (which is a decent OCR app btw), I would suggest not buying KNFB Reader unless … That $99 can buy more enjoyable and useful things than an OCR app that probably won't work much better for me than … you can successfully use Prizmo for the majority of your OCR tasks, and $99 would be a significant expense for you …

Windows on Silicon Mac

Forum Topic by Hayden on Monday, March 24, 2025
… is to use at this point. … Given that you need to use OCR with parallels, at least when you’re setting up the VM, … that do to microsoft messing something up, you'll need ocr or a sighted person for vertual machine set up in other …

Accessing pdf image files with speech output using VoiceOver or Zoomtext for Mac?

Forum Topic by Eckhardia on Saturday, October 3, 2015

Recap of Apple's 'Hey Siri' Event (September 2015)

Blog Post by mehgcap on Thursday, September 10, 2015
… what I have. … This is either going to improve or ruin OCR. Some background: I used to be lead tech support for OmniPage, a commercial OCR package, whose engine is still used in both OpenBook and Kurzweil. One important thing I learned about OCR is character recognition is based on how the characters …

How does KNFBReader perform with things such as packaging and labels?

Forum Topic by Mr Potato Head on Tuesday, November 4, 2014
… than optimal. You would find the same to be true for any OCR app. The user manual is very frank and honest about items …

Chatbots, chatbots, everywhere

Forum Topic by mr grieves on Sunday, May 26, 2024
… it works, it really works and you can forget trying to OCR stuff completely. However, when it hallucinates, it … and she/he/it has a chat bot as well. … Hi. GPT-4 cannot OCR pdfs with its image processing capabilities. If you're on … Plus subscription and you upload a PDF, it might try to OCR it using OCR software it has installed in its little …

It's alive!!! KNFB Reader lives! But now as OneStep Reader

Forum Topic by Pilgrim Pete on Monday, February 7, 2022
… name, I reinstalled it simply to have another choice of OCR app, but I probably wouldn't have bothered if I'd had to …

Is there an app to read charts? Is that even possible?

Forum Topic by Lysette Chaproniere on Monday, June 25, 2018
… does this, I’d love to hear about it. … Maybe 1 of the Ocr. apps such as Seeing Ai. do it? I've never thought about …

antaris has made most of there apps usable

Forum Topic by jim pickens on Monday, April 10, 2023
… to use the new autotune central app with out sited help or ocr, i installed a plugin and logdin to the servis … Does …

Who still uses Sero to listen to blindness radio stations?

Forum Topic by Applerocks on Sunday, January 12, 2020
… even worth the $5/mo anymore as I think about it, as free OCR services are more and more abundant and as various …

2 Mac questions want to come over from pc to Mac?

Forum Topic by daytona-mike on Wednesday, July 9, 2014
… for you? Thats normally how I deal with them. As far as OCR I use fine reader. Its a hundred bucks and it does …

Questions for choosing my first Iphone

Forum Topic by Ben on Wednesday, November 18, 2015
… kind regards Ben … In my view, better camera equals better OCR, etc. I've got the 5S, have had it for 2 years now, and …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for August 2019

Blog Post by AppleVis on Sunday, September 1, 2019
… and much more reliably. > Create reports, transform text, OCR images, download files, expand text snippets, perform … Dark Mode (requires 10.14+) * Added JSON support * Added OCR support * Added extended Regex support * Added support …

Envision AI has a holiday sale! 30% off all plans!

Forum Topic by Karthik Mahadevan on Friday, November 30, 2018
… … This is an app I use daily, and except for insidental OCR with Voice Dream Scanner has become my go-to for all …

Forza Street released on iOS, possible accessibility request?

Forum Topic by mority on Saturday, December 28, 2019
… a little more accessible, although you might have to use OCR with a screen reader to get at the menues. To me, that …

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