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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 …

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 …

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