Skip to main content
AppleVis

Main navigation

  • Apps
  • Forum
  • Blog
    • Podcast
    • Guides
    • Hardware & Accessory Reviews
    • Bug Tracker
    • Developer Resources
  • Log in

Site Search

Filter by type

  • Forum Topic (445)
  • Blog Post (111)
  • iOS and iPadOS App Directory (35)
  • Podcast (16)
  • Guide (6)
  • Hardware or Accessory Review (2)
  • Mac App Directory (2)

Post Date

  • 2025 (30)
  • 2024 (89)
  • 2023 (53)
  • 2022 (39)
  • 2021 (49)
  • 2020 (43)
  • 2019 (47)
  • 2018 (37)
  • 2017 (51)
  • 2016 (35)
  • 2015 (43)
  • 2014 (45)
  • 2013 (25)
  • 2012 (24)
  • 2011 (5)
  • 2010 (2)

Displaying 401 - 420 of 617

KNFB Reader App For IPAD Air 2 - Your Views Please

Forum Topic by Busy Mummy on Monday, September 26, 2016
… comments about it in my opinion there are no other mobile OCR apps that compare to it. … Hello, KNFB reader is great. …

What phone should I buy? Legally blind

Forum Topic by Emilia on Saturday, September 29, 2018
… certainly important, but so is the camera. I do a lot of OCR in my daily life, both on paper and on screens. I find my … always do a good job with scanning screens, no matter what OCR app I'm using. Some are certainly better than others, and … magnifier apps I have, and that it will do better with OCR. Given that the XS max is $1500 canadian - around the …

question about standscan vs giraffe reader

Forum Topic by alex wallis on Friday, September 19, 2014
… KNFB reader, and didn't have good results with the free OCR apps, at least yet. However, a small caution; it's for … flat in the phone's field of view. If you really need good OCR, you are better off with a scanner, or Perl or similar …

What are your “must have” iOS apps?

Forum Topic by Sunshine on Wednesday, July 8, 2015
… podcasts Dark sky- weather TextGrabber plus translator- OCR documents and translate on the fly Dropbox- cloud storage … information RedLaser- bbar code scanner Taptapsee-identify OCR pictures Rev voice recorder- great recorder that syncs to …

Setting up Be My Eyes for AI?

Forum Topic by Khomus on Saturday, February 17, 2024
… that too. Even for non-critical things i can see checking. OCR stuff often has trouble with numbers for instance, so if …

Win a pair of Envision Glasses

Forum Topic by Ilse at Envision on Thursday, December 17, 2020
… useful new features recently including column detection in OCR, a library to save text, importing ePUB and doc formats. …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for January 2025

Blog Post by AppleVis on Friday, January 31, 2025
… * [What scanning/OCR apps do we …

VeSync

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Troy on Tuesday, May 26, 2020
… you figure out what the unlabeled items do, voiceovers OCR function is also helpful when labeling. Note I don't have …

Suno accessibility is falling apart, piece by piece.

Forum Topic by DMNagel on Tuesday, July 23, 2024
… them again this week. I can't even get it to work using OCR, but I'm using JAWS and not NVDA so I wonder if NVDA does …

Apple Introduces New iPad Mini with A17 Pro chip, Faster Connectivity, an upgraded camera, and More

Blog Post by Tyler on Tuesday, October 15, 2024
… think for me I am going to wait and see how useful screen OCR becomes with Apple intelligence. Jaws and NVDA are ahead …

Extremely confused about why InVisions announcement about their subscription model has been removed. Can Mods help please?

Forum Topic by Andy Lane on Friday, September 29, 2023
… move. One thing for sure, I won’t be using InVision to OCR the text. … If the poster in question works for said …

Passwords and BSI

Forum Topic by Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯 on Monday, September 7, 2020
… can't read. Who knows, maybe it will be able to use OCR in iOS 14 and read it that way, but I still think a …

returning to university and need in depth text editing and PDF reading

Forum Topic by Grant on Tuesday, November 23, 2021
… the recommendation for ABBYY FineReader, as it is an OCR application which can process scanned images of print …

Daisy for advanced computer users: What is optimum?

Forum Topic by Free Don on Thursday, December 27, 2018
… not be able to access all of the content unless you used OCR software to attempt to recognize the text in these …

Will you buy an iPhone 6s if you have an iPhone 6 for 9 months

Forum Topic by Fiona on Friday, September 11, 2015
… are useless. e.g better cam will make no difference to ocr etc there comes a point where apps like knfb reader could … of available cam pixels to deliver speedy accurate ocr results. anything higher would have the reverse effect. … …

Is iCloud accessible with Windows' screen readers?

Forum Topic by Serina Gilbert on Thursday, June 19, 2014
… what a mess! I can do some things using Jaws's Convenient OCR function, but that's about it. Then again, given how fun …

iPhone 16e Review: An Excellent 'Basic' iPhone

Blog Post by Michael Hansen on Thursday, April 17, 2025
… then I won’t exactly need it, seeing as I don’t really use OCR on my phone. … Ultrawideband is for precise item finding, … I subscribed to the theory that I need three cameras for OCR. There is no difference between the 16e and the 15 Pro …

running windows vm on m1 mac

Forum Topic by John Lipsey on Saturday, February 5, 2022
… piece of crap that requires hacky workarounds like OCR. Those developers shouldn't be rewarded for inaccessible … shorter amount of time rather than trying to mess with VO OCR. Regarding, Karabiner, would someone be willing to write … the free trial of Parallels, even with the help of VO OCR and sighted help, it was off of my system within 2 hours. …

what do you use your iPhones for?

Forum Topic by John Holcomb II on Saturday, February 28, 2015
… music, email, games, health, news,weather, GPS, podcast,OCR, Tap tap see, texting, hotspot, and so much more. It is … makes reading articles easier. lol, the last time I used OCR on anything was Kurzwiel 1000 version 7 maybe. I thought … music text and iMessage. I also use for gps navigation OCr. I also use off course the phone app too. … I use my …

Capti Voice

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Unregistered User on Friday, April 6, 2012
… update, you can now: - Add photos and images to Playlist (OCR is available to organizations only) - Export your … lol! I think your best bet with reading PDF files is to OCR them with an app like prismo. It seems to do a decent job of OCR. … I think I'll try out that app then. But it seems …

Pagination

  • Previous page
  • 21
  • Next page

Site Information

  • About AppleVis
  • About Be My Eyes
    • Download Be My Eyes From the App Store
    • Latest News and Updates
  • Newsletter
  • FAQ
  • Contact

Unless stated otherwise, all content is copyright AppleVis. All rights reserved. © 2025 | Accessibility | Terms | Privacy | A Be My Eyes Company