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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 …

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 …

Ulysses

Mac App Directory by Scott H on Wednesday, August 3, 2016
… navigate page up/down, because imported documents, such as OCR scans, will often have hard page breaks. 7) My favorite …

I switched to Android, but an iPhone 15 is probably in my future

Blog Post by Dave Nason on Tuesday, June 20, 2023
… VoiceOver's screen recognition feature in addition to the OCR/image description feature, none of which are built into … iOS is far better. Better image and screen recognition its OCR can be used on buttons and even in accessible websites. …

A Virtual Library: The Joys and Frustrations of Reading on iOS

Blog Post by Lysette Chaproniere on Friday, April 13, 2018
… a week: put on the headphones, crank up the music, set the OCR software to auto-scan page after page as I furiously … the books so they'd go through my document feeder. I hated OCR errors, like "modem" instead of "modern", but being able …

Are any VoiceOver users using Voice Control?

Forum Topic by Bruce Harrell on Wednesday, October 25, 2023
… to get creative with extracts from Google books search, OCR, dictionaries and online grammar references to check …

[Update: app to continue] Menus4ALL Accessible Restaurant Menus - App Discontinued

Forum Topic by Dennis Long on Tuesday, January 23, 2024
… workarounds like asking sighted people to read it or using OCR, or trying to navigate the web site. Usually I manage to …

iOS versus android, 2023,

Forum Topic by Dominic on Monday, May 8, 2023
… the other post linked above). Virtual screen allows you to OCR the current screen. Then, you can activate, click or just …

AI dungeon

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by The Tetris monster on Wednesday, December 18, 2019
… the restart button at the top right are being read using OCR, and are not labeled. Also, the contents of the menu are …

AppleVis Unleashed #1: Lots of Apple News to Kick Off our New Podcast

Podcast by AppleVis on Tuesday, January 30, 2018
… I wanted to mention that office lens by microsoft is an OCR app that is free and it can scan multiple page documents. …

Hot Pants and the iPhone 11

Blog Post by Morgan Watkins on Friday, September 13, 2019
… I could get the 11. The cameras will be grate for aira and ocr and the battery life will be excellent. In fact if I … pictures... I do believe the camera will vastly improve on OCR, and that’s a huge need for all of us. … The Iphone11 was …

iOS versus Android; why iOS is better

Forum Topic by Dennis Long on Friday, July 2, 2021
… much easier to use for taking calls, sending texts, doing OCR, and generally being a phone than my iPhone ever was. …

Windows and VMWare Fusion

Forum Topic by Christina on Monday, June 9, 2014
… to tell you what's on the screen, or can scan with an OCR application, this would be the best solution. Without …

Describing Photos with Microsoft Bing for iOS

Podcast by AppleVis on Wednesday, August 9, 2023
… struggles: Going back to wine for the moment, it's not an OCR app like Voicedream. The significance of this is I've not …

AppleVis Extra 105: Karthik Kannan from Envision on winning the inaugural David Goodwin award and their upcoming Ally app

Podcast by AppleVis on Tuesday, February 18, 2025
… these models and this model that can do really well at OCR and people are. Sometimes trying to find a nail to hit on …

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