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12 of my top-10 gripes with Windows

Forum Topic by Voracious P. Brain on Sunday, July 18, 2021
… for turning PDFs into txt (not as good as Jaws Convenient OCR, but I also have Fine Reader Pro for Mac, which is), …

The iPhone Has Really Changed My Life

Forum Topic by molly on Friday, March 4, 2016
… versatility of having calls, messaging, Facetime, GPS, ocr to name but a few things in my pocket that has become an …

The Move to Mac - Convince Me

Forum Topic by Joseph Westhouse on Sunday, March 1, 2015
… absolute joke. I do not want to purchase a very expensive OCr app just so I can read journal articles. for someone that … use it for every thing. From word processing to performing OCR to accessing my online classes to submitting course work …

Modeler and profiler for blind guitarists

Forum Topic by vainer on Wednesday, November 13, 2024
… be better by far but if you know how to get around with OCR, it's not terrible, there's no IPhone or IPad app for …

Call to action! What do you want from Meta Ray Bans to make the ideal device?

Forum Topic by Andy Lane on Wednesday, May 1, 2024
… I was using before. I think it would be good if it could OCR text as well as using AI. For example, I asked it to read …

I switched to a Google pixel. However, I could be back iOS.

Forum Topic by Dominic on Tuesday, August 29, 2023
… and apple over Talkback and android because of the OCR stuff apple does. The latest google pixel in a couple …

iphone verses ipad, advantages and disadvantages to having both devices

Forum Topic by Andrew90 on Thursday, May 18, 2017
… at least "easier". Also works better for me when using OCR apps like Prismo Go, Identifi and *shudder* KNFB reader. …

Introducing Toolwiz Eyes; an object recognition app for the blind and vision impaired

Forum Topic by Toolwiz Eyes on Wednesday, February 22, 2017
… text using a standard font type which is what most of the OCR apps are only optimized for. However, if you want to be …

What's Going on with Digit-Eyes?

Forum Topic by Maria on Friday, March 10, 2017
… I believe that Digit Eyes is the only available IOS OCR scanner for us Brit's who are blind and I thank her for …

Favorite iPhone apps

Forum Topic by Holly on Monday, November 14, 2011

Requesting opinions from blind students

Forum Topic by Deborah Armstrong on Thursday, March 3, 2016
… with the publisher, or have them scan the book and use an OCR app to read that book, you might be in better shape. As I …

ally - accessible ai assistant

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Emre TEO on Sunday, March 9, 2025
… too. It's cool to have so many choices now in the field of OCR alone. My father built me an iPhone stand for Christmas, …

Apple possibly considering Meta Ray-Ban like glasses

Forum Topic by InfoRover on Friday, September 13, 2024
… for ChatGPT then maybe, but they would have to be able to OCR pages from documents and recognise street signs. Built-in …

Coffee!!! Coffee!!! Coffee!!! Looking for kitchen scales for coffee with accessible app?

Forum Topic by Oliver on Saturday, July 6, 2024
… age4, so I don't know exactly what this looks like. But OCR functionality works better with regular printed numbers … numbers. if you want to use a scale with an app's instant OCR function for more than measuring the beans, you should … any 0.1 gram accuracy and also 3D buttons. I do hope the OCR concept can become viable and comfortable soon so we …

One Week with Windows: A Mac User's Adventure

Forum Topic by Maldalain on Monday, April 22, 2024
… https://convertio.co/document-converter/ There is NAO for OCR as Brian said above, but for OCr accuracy I prefer Prizmo for iOS. I pay £4.99 a month for the pro plan I think and it's worth it for me since I OCR a lot of stuff Edit forgot about audiobooks. I use VLC …

Essential apps for Mac, beyond the standard ones.

Forum Topic by Khomus on Friday, December 6, 2024
… Its my SIP client. Transmit: SFTP client VOCR: An OCR plugin for VoiceOver. … Wow that is an interesting list. … that it's quite lightweight and simple. It has a built-in OCR text scanner which is handy. I like how it names the …

Sight as a service

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Wednesday, April 24, 2024
… now digitised, and the biggest problem is deciphering the OCR results yielded from those images. The other massive …

Apple Documents Apple Vision Pro Accessibility Features: Including VoiceOver and Zoom Guides

Blog Post by AppleVis on Friday, February 2, 2024
… person detection etc. Or maps/gps/voice vista stuff. Or OCR/Seeing AI functionality. Not to mention Be My Eyes etc. …

Do you feel that apple stifles the advancement and innovation of apps?

Forum Topic by techluver on Thursday, January 31, 2019
… example on the other hand has server side expenses for the ocr that make a subscription make sense. I will have my …

OS X and Windows?

Forum Topic by Jalys Ortiz on Tuesday, October 28, 2014

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