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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, …

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 …

Chime - Mobile Banking

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Faerie on Saturday, August 29, 2020
… both consistently given labels through Apple's in built OCR. The first of these is settings, while the second is a …

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

Exploring 50 Notable New Features and Changes in iOS 15

Podcast by AppleVis on Tuesday, September 14, 2021
… podcast.. I'm particularly looking forward to the flick up ocr for getting details within photos. My friends send lots …

Android is not like iOS. Don't expect it to be

Forum Topic by Clayton Jacobs, A.K.A. Blind Guerrilla on Tuesday, February 11, 2025
… of this but I'm not finding it offhand, so maybe I ran OCR on it. Be brave. Join me in using the abacus! … I know …

Buying a Mac

Forum Topic by Janet Ingber on Sunday, December 23, 2012
… have to rely on the review cursor, virtualizing screens, OCR, scripts etc. So perfect accessibility is not there, …

Apple Releases Software Updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and HomePod

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, February 13, 2023
… another bug, voiceover tends to randomly analyze and do ocr on screen element in an app where the interface is …

Thinking about getting an iPhone XR, what are peoples opinions?

Forum Topic by Evermore2020 on Sunday, November 4, 2018
… mixed reviews which camera setup is more effective. For OCR work the depth of a picture the main purpose of the second camera, does not matter. Unless perhaps someday OCR software can use that to read far away things like signs, … I do not think we're there yet so it is not of concern to OCR users. I assume since you're on Applevis you likely don't …

How to make apple indicate if an app is VO compatible on the App Store, my stupid idea

Forum Topic by Panais on Tuesday, November 26, 2024
… into VoiceOver and enhance the screen recognition/OCR/image description capabilities? I am also wondering why …

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