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Has Text recognition been removed?

Forum Topic by Lee on Friday, June 8, 2018
… broken. I've stopped relying on IOS for that, and turn to ocr on my main computer instead. … I was trying to show a …

TouchTunes

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Carlos Taylor on Friday, January 26, 2018
… to correctly identify those labels by using it's automatic OCR feature and gave descriptions such as "possible text …

CES 2025 and beyond for smart glasses

Forum Topic by Dennis D on Wednesday, January 8, 2025
… is the exception rather than the rule. We still need solid OCR to really make them viable and that's not yet forthcoming … smart glasses have for the blind community. The lack of OCR is not necessarily a show stopper for me. It seems like …

App to read printed documents

Forum Topic by Grigg DeWitt on Friday, March 1, 2024
… In that case, I'm not sure. There are lots of other OCR apps - Envision AI is another one. Supersense, etc. … because it reads columns as expected. May not be the best OCR although it isn't bad but for newspapers etc it is good. …

What tasks do you guys do with your mac and what apps do you use?

Forum Topic by mority on Monday, June 29, 2020
… that it does work. Wondering if there is an up to date OCR tool that works under mac and behaves like or close to the win 10 OCR with NVDA. Greetings Moritz. … Hey there. I suppose I …

What is everyone's favourite scanning app?

Forum Topic by Applerocks on Tuesday, May 21, 2019
… Plus by Serotek. It works on PC or Mac and it scans, OCR's and delivers text perfectly and in super quik times. … my favorite iOS app for scanning things. It's the only OCR app on my iPhone so I guess it'd better be my favorite, …

Jaws focus issues when reading a PDF

Forum Topic by Dave Nason on Sunday, April 7, 2024
… to hear what page or line you are on, etc. It also can OCR images within the PDF! If you enjoy NVDA, check out Nao …

exploring career options related to the use of Apple products

Forum Topic by Daniel Angus MacDonald on Tuesday, August 17, 2021
… as JAWS, NVDA, Talkback, braille displays and more (think OCR apps or devices or other items used for identification). …

reading a normal scale with an Iphone?

Forum Topic by Exodia on Wednesday, June 29, 2022
… uses the phone's camera to capture real time video and OCR any text as you move the camera. Hope that helps. --Pete …

Using Parallels for Mac (2022)

Forum Topic by Matthew Whitaker on Saturday, June 18, 2022
… VM down without VOCR. This shouldn't scare you though, the OCR is really good and not hard to use at all. About 2 screen … MacBook air. Regarding Parallels 18, I did end up using VO OCR to set things up, which works quite well up until you get … have to click accept. Hitting accept with the aid of VO OCR yielded nothing, so I had to have sighted assistance for …

Apple Previews New Accessibility Features Coming This Year, Including Expanded Image Recognition Capabilities for VoiceOver Users

Blog Post by AppleVis on Wednesday, May 19, 2021
… us to use them. … I'm really excited about the ability to OCR a receipt and navigate it as a table. This has been a long-standing OCR issue and I'm glad to see Apple step up and fix this … to be navigated as tables reminds me that we also need OCR enhancements to improve navigation of restaurant menus. …

Using macOS voiceover for academic study

Forum Topic by White Stick Bloke on Saturday, July 3, 2021
… reading. It may also be necessary to invest in a "proper" OCR program like Fine Reader or IRIS Reader, which would … for casual reading. However, I still end up using OCR software like Kurzweil 1000 or Jaws convenient OCR on just about every PDF document, because of the font …

Envision AI is now free!

Forum Topic by KE8UPE on Thursday, July 21, 2022
… kinks. It will get better, be patient. … When it comes to OCR. apps lSeeing AI and Envision, etc, I think it's always … be document scanning or image analysis and description and OCR. I don't think you can have too many OCR. apps on your device. Because some work great with some …

Braigo - New free web app to parse text on images

Forum Topic by IV Productions on Monday, August 22, 2016
… example, KNFBReader for iOS which uses a mobile variant of OCR technology also used in FineReader for the Mac. • The …

HuggingSnap: On-device Visual Assistant

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Matt M on Wednesday, March 19, 2025
… and even Siri integration, if applicable • Have OCR functionality in multiple languages and scan PDFs • Have …

Let's Explore How AI Can Make Our Tech More Accessible

Blog Post by Lysette Chaproniere on Wednesday, January 31, 2024
… Before Be My AI, I would have had either to scan this with OCR, or do a google book search for the content on the page, … and finereader on Windows are well and truly gone. Even OCR on Windows 11 doesn't come close. I haven't properly … between me scanning a PDF on Windows with JAWS and NVDA OCR versus Be My Ai is unbelievable. It's like night and day. …

iPhone SE 2nd Generation

Forum Topic by Tejas V Karanje on Monday, November 8, 2021
… apps like Seeing AI, Voice Dream Reader/Scanner, Voice OCR, Maps for navigation, BARD Mobile, Kindle, an app to … very much, as I don't take photos, I find it works well in OCR apps such as SuperSense and Seeing AI. … so the official …

Accessing what's on a medication label: is there an app for that?

Forum Topic by Brian Giles on Sunday, July 2, 2017
… OTC. or not. I know that I could probably use any OCR. app such as OCR Converts Photo Into Text, or Braigo, or Be My Eyes. But, …

Once again, looking for a game like those in the Legend of Zelda series that's accessible on iOS

Forum Topic by Ashleigh Piccinino on Wednesday, February 10, 2021
… like to see where Nate goes next. … You can use the screen OCR thing on IOS if you have the phone but that still won't …

What is the latest on accessible exercise equipment?

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Wednesday, July 19, 2023
… out, but I'm wondering if Seeing AI or one of the other OCR apps would work on any exercise machines. I've used a few …

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