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Issue with VOCR OCR on macOS Sonomo 14.1.1

Forum Topic by SplendidFault on Thursday, November 30, 2023
… … Sometimes the 'Nothing found' message happens when the OCR can't quite catch the text in the image. Make sure your …

Dong an OCR for a scanned text with the Mac

Forum Topic by María on Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Reading with AI glasses, more than OCR!

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Friday, March 29, 2024
… be nice to read with Seleste as opposed to battling with OCR, or having to send every page to ChatGpt. ChatGpt or Be … different parts would have better clarity. Merging those OCR results seems trivial now we have AI. Maybe Seeing AI or … I think AI may be most useful when it's doing more than OCR but bringing in a few things together. Another example - …

Take Command in Using Your Voice: OCR Document Reader for iOS

Podcast by AppleVis on Saturday, June 22, 2019
… In this podcast, Thomas Domville revisit the Voice: OCR Document Reader for iOS. Take a picture of anything that … in a matter of seconds. ‎Voice: OCR Document Reader on the App Store: … Voice has performed better than expected in terms of the OCR accuracy as well as in other parts of the app. …

What scanning/OCR apps do we like?

Forum Topic by Khomus on Wednesday, January 22, 2025
… openbook use a combination of finereader and or omnipage ocr. Jaws also have ocr scanning built-in since awhile and I don't know why … You're scanning into something, and something's doing the OCR. I'm not really interested in rants about Openbook, I'm …

Help! folder naming has gone horribly wrong.

Forum Topic by Lee on Friday, September 7, 2018
… double tap and hold I edited the folder and renamed it to ocr. Now here is where it has got weird. Every folder I now have on my phone now says ocr, and then the name of the folder when I enter the folder. … select that folder and it would say weather. Now it says ocr, weather. I removed the two appps from the new folder and …

Microsoft buys Nuance

Forum Topic by PaulMartz on Monday, April 12, 2021
… to many in the blind community, Nuance is a pioneer in OCR and speech recognition technology. It has produced the OmniPage OCR software and Dragon speech recognition software. Nuance … members of the blind community will recall using Kurzweil OCR machines. Kurzweil is the K in the KNFB reader iOS app. …

VOCR 2.0 released

Forum Topic by Chi Kim on Wednesday, May 22, 2024
… the cutting-edge capabilities of VOCR, your ultimate OCR and AI-powered screen recognition tool designed to … experience. Beyond the simple navigation feature with OCR, VOCR seamlessly integrates with VoiceOver, enabling … and customizable shortcuts. With features like Real-Time OCR, users can continuously monitor and read live content, …

Issues with Prizmo and Fine Reader on the Mac

Forum Topic by Becca on Thursday, December 5, 2019
… and downloaded Prizmo for the Mac because I wanted to use OCR software. I'm confused as to why Fine Reader has you save … exports is blank. Can someone also explain how Prizmo's OCR software works and the steps to start OCR? Thanks. … Hi Becca -- Regarding your blank PDF output in …

Pro Scanner › Prizmo 5

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Snorlax on Tuesday, August 2, 2011
… support TEXT RECOGNITION • Reliable & accurate on-device OCR with machine learning in 28 languages(*) • High-performance Cloud OCR in 26 languages(*) + handwriting recognition (English only) • Fine-grained OCR editing: text & regions, binarization, text polarity • …

Mac compatible image readers

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Saturday, February 15, 2014
… iMac). Distance application of camera is optional, as is OCR. OCR would be greatly helpful. Mahalo for your assistance. … …

Is KNFB reader worth the money?

Forum Topic by Mike Fulton on Wednesday, December 24, 2014
… it is on sale. Is it worth the money? How accurate is the OCR? Thank you! … Get it while it's discounted! I find the … to try the app first. My advice is, if you already use an OCR app on a regular basis, don't get KNFB Reader unless you … functionality is worth the price tag if you already use an OCR app you're reasonably happy with. On the other hand, if …

Comparison of knfbReader, TextGrabber and FineScanner text recognition apps

Forum Topic by Adam Samec on Saturday, December 17, 2016
… what you mostly want to use text recognition for. Because OCR apps differ in price greatly, this comparison might help … help.. Then I loaded the photo to each of these appss, run OCR on the image and compared the results so that the same … Though it's worth noting that FineScanner uses online OCr and the processing takes much longer, about 40 seconds in …

How many cameras do I need?

Forum Topic by Tara on Saturday, February 22, 2025
… identifying mail and food items. I often get really good OCR results through using BeMyAI, and if I were to buy the new iPhone 16e, would that be compromised in any way? OCR is essential for me for work sometimes, and I don't want … the more cameras there are, the better the picture for OCR and other things. Just wondering what people's views and …

T's, L's, and F's Omitted From PDF's in iBooks?

Forum Topic by Teresa on Thursday, September 1, 2016
… , especially in the middle of words. If I put it through OCR apps, it doesn't happen. Is there any way to adjust this … to export to PDF. Often these defaults do rudimentary OCR on the image, for purposes of indexing. The idea is that … images of the PDF visually. When you run the PDF through OCR, you are using higher quality OCR, such as what's found …

FineScanner PRO - PDF Scanner

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Adam Samec on Saturday, December 17, 2016
… FineScanner, from world-leading OCR software company ABBYY, turns your mobile device into a … electronic copies in PDF and JPG, and apply online OCR to recognize texts from scans for further editing and … the book against the glass of a conventional scanner. * OCR. Recognize text (OCR) on scans in 193 languages …

[Announcement] Prizmo Go for iPhone & iPad. Instant Text Capture.

Forum Topic by rsebbe on Thursday, April 27, 2017
… purchase to export text or use the higher accuracy Cloud OCR feature. Below you'll find the app description and links, … correction, dynamic rescale) - Reliable Built-in OCR (works without internet connection), 10 languages (see below) - Accurate Cloud OCR (***) option (Internet connection required), 22 languages …

Seeking beta testers for Voice!

Forum Topic by Shalin Shah on Friday, January 15, 2021
… for Voice! For those of you who don't know, Voice is an OCR application that I've posted here just a few days ago: … https://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ipados/introducing-voice-ocr-60-massive-update-revolutionary-new-features If you're … better to use on iOS on the hole. … Hi Paul, Voice is an OCR app that I had posted about just a few days earlier here: …

Prizmo Go › Grab Text & Share

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Snorlax on Sunday, April 30, 2017
… correction, dynamic rescale) - Reliable Built-in OCR (works without internet connection), 10 languages (see below) - Accurate Cloud OCR (***) option (Internet connection required), 22 languages … input or provided input image (clipboard). AVAILABLE OCR LANGUAGES - Built-in OCR (10): Danish, Dutch, English, …

Prizmo

Forum Topic by Khafsa2015 on Thursday, April 19, 2012
… Prizmo? It's a way of reading text documents. It uses OCR. Or can anyone recommend alternative apps? Thanks … Well, … hopefully somebody would have some suggestions of a good OCR app for you. …

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