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Prizmo question

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Friday, December 7, 2012
… bring in a .pdf file from Dropbox into Prizmo to turn into OCR format? Please advise. Thank you. … So far as I can tell, … that will do this? … Hi, It is not currently possible to OCR from PDF files with any of the iOS apps that I know of. … capture of the displayed PDF images, and then use an OCR app to process the screen image from the camera roll. …

Scanning Accessory for Smartphones

Forum Topic by Zivan Krisher on Wednesday, June 13, 2012
… This accessory could really help the blind with OCR Apps. This little box turns your smartphone into a … battery of some kind. You also still need third party OCR apps, I did notice a mention of an app I have never heard of called camscanner which it said can OCR documents, has anyone tried this app? I haven't scene it …

VDScan

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by turner42 on Sunday, March 31, 2019
… or additional charges. State-of-the-art A.I. for OCR and text recognition: Fast and accurate, even in poor … - Manual image rotation - Automatic image enhancement OCR - Fast: about a second on the latest iPhone - Offline: … - Change speech rate - Option to start reading as soon as OCR is complete - Spoken word is highlighted in the text or …

Introducing three new apps to support individuals with visual disabilities

Forum Topic by E7 Company on Thursday, January 25, 2024
… https://apps.apple.com/us/app/qr-voice/id6475089346 'OCR Voice' for converting and reading any text document using text-to-speech. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ocr-voice/id6475119287 'Color Voice' to assist individuals … You should at least add something like offline accurate OCR for imported text files and even PDF's as well as written …

Scanning on the Mac with the PEARL camera.

Forum Topic by Khomus on Friday, November 8, 2024
… I figured I'd ask here, since I haven't grabbed a scanning/OCR program yet. I have a PEARL. Does any scanning app on the … the other. Assuming it can be used, is there a preferred OCR program? I own what used to be KNFB Reader for Windows, … over Openbook. Thanks in advance for any info on PEARL, OCR programs, or both. …

Prizmo versus Docuscan

Forum Topic by Skyhook on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
… Hello: I am wanting to purchase good ocr software to enable me to read from scanned pages and from … To scan with your iPhone, you will specifically need an OCR app. These do a fair job, but depend mostly on the camera … I have an HP scanner that works with several other OCR solutions, but DocuScan doesn't seem to recognize it. …

Reading LCD Screens

Forum Topic by The Piano Geek on Thursday, March 2, 2017
… an LCD display that I would like to see with the use of an OCR app. Is there a good one available? … Hi! The best app …

New VOCR Released For Catalina

Forum Topic by Chi Kim on Tuesday, October 8, 2019
… that lets you take screenshot of your mac screen, apply OCR, navigate the result, and move the mouse. It's similar to … on JAWS and NVDA. MacOS Catalina finally included the OCR capability in their VisionKit that take advantage of … recommendation about VOCR installation. I want to install OCR on High-Sierra. I try to read through your manual but I …

Scanning Apps recomendations

Forum Topic by splyt on Monday, December 15, 2014
… screen read. I suspect that I could use the iphone and a OCR to help me to recognize the menus options (the selected … As the font and lightning are standard, I think that ocr's would not have trouble at all recognizing such kind of …

I just scanned a book. On a flatbed scanner. Into my IPhone.

Forum Topic by DrewWeber on Saturday, November 26, 2022
… once. I then through the 4 pdfs on my NAS, and used JAWS OCR to Word. Holy goodness it was quick! I used to let … 50 pages for at least an hour. It’s amazing to see how the OCR technology has come along too,as the scanns have much less error in the OCR than they used to, and that’s, a book in the flatbed, not …

Prizmo App can not exit screen

Forum Topic by Peter Verhoeven on Thursday, December 10, 2015
… Hi, I installed Prizmo to OCR pictures I made wiht the iPhone camera. I continue come … Appstore https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/prizmo-scanning-ocr-speech/id366791896?mt=8 … I have had this problem too. In …

Iphone 7 camera

Forum Topic by Jason on Monday, December 10, 2018
… with Apps like KNFB Reader, Seeing Ai thand any other OCR apps. I'm just wondering if the camera performance makes … look less shaky. From what I’ve heard, it makes these OCR and object recognition apps work a little better. If you …

[CLOSED] AppleVis Birthday Giveaway: Prizmo for iOS

Blog Post by AppleVis on Wednesday, July 29, 2015
… one of 5 promo codes for the iOS app [Prizmo - Scanning, OCR, and … (http://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/lifestyle/prizmo-scanning-ocr-and-speech). This app usually sells for US$9.99. ###About Prizmo - Scanning, OCR, and Speech > Prizmo 4 for iOS is now available with …

Will VoiceOver be Getting Any Major Enhancements in iOS 11?

Forum Topic by Bellsfurmama on Tuesday, May 16, 2017
… It would be amazing if Voice Over could have some kind of OCR reginition that would allow us to access more of them, … Word and (if you're lucky and it works, line). Some OCR functionality would be a cool idea though. A nice OCR roter selection would be a great thing let me tell you. …

Angling camera for Seeing AI and similar apps

Forum Topic by PinkCupcake5 on Friday, November 4, 2022
… So, has anyone been able to read something with an OCR app on the first or second try? If so, what is your … grill. I hope this helps. … I've used some of these OCR apps on my iPhone 7, and my experience has been … I think it's a clever idea and hope to do a lot more with OCR in the near future. The suggestion of propping an elbow …

MicroSoft Lens

Forum Topic by Cordelia on Saturday, May 18, 2024
… Hi, Is anybody using MicroSoft Lens, an OCR scanning app? Would it let me save PDFs or DOCXs to be …

How to read PDFs with texts as images?

Forum Topic by shanti on Friday, March 6, 2020
… any app or software or solution that reads that has a good OCR that can read those documents? … The only app besides The … you can save it to camera role and then there are several ocr apps that will work. … Thank you Christopher. I have …

VOCR not working in latest MacOS

Forum Topic by Jahmal on Saturday, January 25, 2025
… latest version of MacOs, and I cannot get VOCR 2.0.2 to OCR anything on the screen. I get the sound when I perform … So I switched to Chrome, thinking it ought to be able to OCR plain text. But I didn't even get the happy scanning …

New Voice Update! Version 6.2, available on the App Store.

Forum Topic by Shalin Shah on Monday, January 25, 2021
… Just wanted to share a quick update with you guys. Voice OCR Version 6.2 was just approved for the App Store! Here are … to close out of pages. - Option in settings for making OCR recognition either really fast or really accurate. - … on the sign-up screen, and made it a lot simpler. - Voice OCR's audio cues like "4 corners detected" have been …

Scanning text

Forum Topic by Alana on Sunday, January 8, 2023
… that I wish to scan independently. This is not for OCR scanning that one would do when simply wanting to read … have a sighted reader confirm what has been scanned. With OCR documents cannot be sent as the text is not always …

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