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Apple Releases iOS 11.2; Bringing Many Fixes for Braille and VoiceOver Users

Blog Post by AppleVis on Saturday, December 2, 2017
… an unlabeled button in an app VO will automatically do OCR on it and read out any text it finds. This obviously …

What I miss most about iOS, and why I’m still not going back

Forum Topic by Holy Diver on Thursday, June 1, 2023
… do light and money through Seeing AI, along with all the OCR etc. … So android has way more apps like this than iOS … he's put hours into mastering that app. As far as basic OCR, reading food labels/currency and the like I find google … for reading inaccessible PDF stuff, well as great as any OCR app can be. … I actually just got my hands on a Galaxy …

Ethical questions of Speech Central marketing

Forum Topic by Labsii on Thursday, April 27, 2023
… experience. Supersense and Envision even let you perform OCR. As far as I know, VoiceDream Reader used to perform OCR as well but now it no longer does that either, so you …

Could Apple now be rivalled by Google. Google pixel eight improves updates with seven years of android updates, seven years security updates in seven years of features drops

Forum Topic by Dominic on Wednesday, October 4, 2023
… up the Commentary coverage lately. And if you really want OCR throughout the system for now, well... I don't need to …

Introducing WinManager - Utility for easier windows and applications switching and closing

Forum Topic by Adam Samec on Saturday, May 4, 2024
… key always lands JAWS on silence and performing JAWS OCR detects nothing. The other settings listing when …

Microsoft teams

Forum Topic by Siobhan on Wednesday, September 8, 2021
… image in browser and then I can copy it and throw it at my OCR. And for the link I just copied the whole message and …

Introducing Be My Eyes' Virtual Volunteer: A Demonstration of Some Game Changing Real-World Use Cases

Podcast by AppleVis on Thursday, May 4, 2023
… many years and I think it's a wrong take to have. … Both OCR before passing to Open AI and saving photos are on the … confidence and its a problem Be My Eyes are very aware of. OCR is going to help in the short term but in the longer term … dates and anything else given to us especially in the OCR area. It doesn't seem to be able to read text documents …

Why I don't use an iPhone

Forum Topic by Piotr Machacz on Sunday, November 3, 2013
… a portable device. GPS, podcasts, object identification, OCR, color identification, interfacing with a lot of devices … days - WEChat and Viber or w/e. then again, I have some OCR apps, an app to mesure my heartRate and stress, and …

Why users/posters complain so much

Forum Topic by Enes Deniz on Monday, February 3, 2025
… interact with the device. I also do not have issues using OCR-related tools such as Be My Eyes, Seeing AI, Speakaboo, …

Discussion and ideas, How to tell companies like EnVision to G.T.F.O. here with their predatory pricing models.

Forum Topic by Andy Lane on Saturday, September 30, 2023
… the screen shots if you want them and can be bothered to OCR them. The subscription does offer to repair broken …

Reading Bilingual Books on iOS is An Albatross, and Something should be Done about It

Blog Post by Amir Soleimani on Monday, January 29, 2018
… them to readable text via off-the-shelf or specialized OCR apps is a mind-numbing challenge. Of course, the …

We Deserve Better from Apple: Why I Can No Longer Recommend a Mac to Fellow Blind Computer Users

Blog Post by David Goodwin on Sunday, October 8, 2023
… as they are on mac, so prepare to either use a shit ton of ocr and addons to make stuff accessible... but I digress. I'm … You could try JAWS in its demo mode to see if the OCR works for the programs. Would you be able to try a …

Should I Switch to a MacBook After 10 Years of Using Windows #2?

Forum Topic by Kyrylo on Tuesday, October 22, 2024
… now, and since sequoia we seem to have some automatic ocr but I am struggling to trigger it since yesterday but you …

Getting Words on the Touchscreen: Writing on iOS

Blog Post by Lysette Chaproniere on Wednesday, October 25, 2017
… perspective is that of a college professor reading lots of OCR books, supposedly writing regularly, and definitely …

TapTapSee

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by AnonyMouse on Sunday, January 13, 2013
… yet that will integrate multiple approaches. Including OCR. … First I took a picture of my bird, and it said it was …

Don't cry AI

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Saturday, May 18, 2024
… dream for ai is that someone can develop a reliable ocr+ai, which scribeit from numa solutions is already doing …

Sticking with Mac: What Keeps You Loyal?

Forum Topic by Maldalain on Thursday, January 16, 2025
… I would say 90% of them are fully accessible. No need for ocr, extra addons, installing drivers because you need to … its own ios cousin is known and appreciated for, such as ocr. Text scrolling is a mess by default. Why am I sticking …

VoiceOver Vs. JAWS

Forum Topic by Tyler on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
… "Text Anlyzer" (which someone mentioned above), "built in OCR" (to read items that are not text and screen readers …

VoiceOver vs. Talkback: My Time on the Other Side

Blog Post by mehgcap on Wednesday, November 27, 2019
… iOS, like JIT, you can't play these on iPhone. Except, no OCR, and no screen recognition. On Android, TalkBack has none … also no excuse for TalkBack to not have even a rudamentary OCR system. How is it that a hardware and services company, …

Through the AIs of the Blind

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Saturday, October 28, 2023
… r](https://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ipados/looking-better-ocr-app) before all this generative AI stuff became …

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