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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 …

Seleste glasses.

Forum Topic by Brad on Sunday, February 18, 2024
… I need to go and pulling that from different things like OCR/image scanning/GPS/maps etc then that could get quite …

Thinking about switching to Android

Forum Topic by Levi Gobin on Friday, September 15, 2023
… certainly not live without the image descriptions and OCR features voiceover provides. so i went back to IOS. … Hi … (which is available for both Apple & Android phones). OCR I'm saving thoughts on that for a separate post, as …

Voice Dream Reader for Mac now available: how I think it compares to my app Speech Central

Forum Topic by Labsii on Thursday, April 28, 2022
… called Legere Reader, and there is also Legere Scanner for OCR although no Legere Writer. I am not sure how it compares …

Enabling Look and ask with Meta AI on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses

Forum Topic by kevinchao89 on Tuesday, December 19, 2023
… her for the invoice information. She was correct with some OCR issues. I asked her the amount of the check and who made …

PokΓ©mon GO

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Kristen on Thursday, July 7, 2016
… including most gamebooks. I wish Apple could inclue some OCR tech in the next release of iOS. Imagine its impact on …

Why Not Just Move to Windows? One Perspective

Blog Post by PaulMartz on Tuesday, October 24, 2023
… that machine learning power in Apple Silicon to automate OCR, image recognition and screen recognition to give a more …

Today Be My Eyes launches on Meta smart glasses

Forum Topic by Brian on Wednesday, November 13, 2024
… query AI for descriptions of what is around you, have it OCR text, etc. Are those services free? Also, it sounds like …

Digit-Eyes

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Darrell Hilliker on Sunday, August 1, 2010
… or knob reader as ios likes to correct the spelling is an OCR app for scanning and recognising printed text that is …

Why do blind gamers enjoy simplistic apps like card games over cool audio games?

Forum Topic by brandon armstrong on Saturday, December 5, 2015
… just me. It can be hard work. Also, for now, there is no OCR to help us play. I've tried, and I can't get VoiceOver to …

I've taken the next step and pre-ordered Glydance!

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Monday, May 20, 2024

Introducing New App: Object Voice

Forum Topic by E7 Company on Monday, February 12, 2024
… the same with my previous apps (QR Voice, Color Voice, and OCR Voice), and I greatly value all contributions. Thanks to …

Aira Explorer

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Darrell Hilliker on Thursday, June 1, 2017
… the shot, turns out telephoto with 3x zoom is great for OCR even when my main camera struggles a bit. Similarly I can …

The Accessibility Bugs Introduced and Resolved in iOS 12 for Blind and Low Vision Users

Blog Post by AppleVis on Friday, September 14, 2018
… as expected, picking out expressions, objects and doing OCR just like iOS 11 used to. … That’s such a shame, PDF …

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