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TextGrabber scan and translate

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Travis Roth on Friday, April 5, 2013
… Pointer, 4YourFamilyStory.com Thanks to ABBYY’s Mobile OCR Technology, it only takes TextGrabber + Translator a few … Chinese, Korean and others (an Internet connection for OCR isn’t required). Instant translation from more than 40 … and can be easily found anytime in the “History” folder. OCR HINT: Please select the appropriate language (up to three …

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 …

text in a picture

Forum Topic by honest nan on Thursday, May 9, 2024
… word. jaws will usually say picture, but when I try to do OCR with Jaws, it almost always is blank or meaningless. Does … undergone an update, either to the entire tts, or to the ocr in particular, and depending on the way an image is … are decorative and won't contain any text. Instead of OCR, you could try to recognize them with PictureSmart, after …

Reading a pdf Book On My Phone

Forum Topic by Juju on Friday, November 17, 2017
… read it using Voiceover. This works well. If there isn't OCR in the book, you'll need to run an OCR program on it. I'm on Linux so I use Tessaract but Adobe Acrobat Pro has good OCR. Often you'll need to pay for an OCR program, though, …

Epson printers!

Forum Topic by J.P. on Sunday, December 2, 2012
… compatible with voice over? I'm considering all in 1 with OCR. Their app is remarkably accessible with voice over. This …

[Announcement] Release of Prizmo 5 for iPhone & iPad

Forum Topic by rsebbe on Wednesday, August 28, 2019
… Prizmo comes with two new OCRs, we call them on-device OCR and Cloud OCR, the same as in Prizmo Go. The former runs entirely on … in Prizmo 5 with iOS 13, as we are integrating Apple's new OCR (English only, for now), hopefully on day one. Prizmo's …

Please recommend me a scanner to use with macOS Catalina

Forum Topic by Craig D on Monday, October 28, 2019
… isn’t going to work anymore. I am using docuscan for my ocr. Thanks for any ideas! …

ABBYY FineReader Express for Mac: general question

Forum Topic by Sam Troia on Wednesday, November 20, 2013
… currently using the ABBYY FineReader Express for Mac OCR app and, if so, how is its accessibility; ease of use, … time to time as well as handouts Fine reader is the only OCR app I use. As to the post asking about multiple pages in … scanner for about $80, but was really frustrated as the OCR software that came with it was terrible, and I constantly …

best AI service for RetroArch on Mac

Forum Topic by Tayo on Sunday, June 16, 2024
… Ztranslate.net. If not, how do I improve the legibility of OCR resultsfrom that particular site. I turned the confidence … can think of is if using Open Emu you can use VOCR and do OCR that way. However you could do the same in retro arch. … …

Use apps you can never use before with my app FishScreenReader. [Now with half price]

Forum Topic by Jinyu Meng on Saturday, September 10, 2022
… not made with standard AppKit elements. So I made this OCR screen reader. This app allows you to read most of the … to match your preference. Also, there is an offline OCR engine for people who are concerned about privacy. If you …

VO and capture codes

Forum Topic by Callum Stoneman on Wednesday, June 12, 2013
… bypass capture codes or to get VO to read the code? Some OCR software that I can copy and paste the image into maybe? … CAPTCHA, spelled C, A, P, T, C, H, A, not capture. While OCR software might work on some codes, most are probably deliberately obscured enough to make OCR impossible. After all, if OCR worked on them, that would …

KNFB Reader and iPhone 7 plus

Forum Topic by charles on Thursday, October 27, 2016
… and reduce the background, be used to produce better OCR? If so, how is it used? Thanks. …

Buy a new computer

Forum Topic by Mathieu on Tuesday, March 17, 2020
… when applications are not accessible, for example using OCR ... But I can't tell myself that I will no longer have … do with windows, you'll just have to find work arounds. OCR is done with either Prizmo for mac or ABBY finereader OCR pro. It's not free, but it works 99%. . … Hi! Thank you …

Reading digital screens

Forum Topic by Ken Downey on Thursday, September 25, 2014
… cameras are supposed to be really good now, and so are OCR apps. Yes, I'm running the 4s and don't have the snazzy … In the meantime, I cranked up Text Detective and Photo OCR on my 4s and gave it a try. My conclusions are that since … results with this app and displays, i recommend the "best" OCR reading setting, it's the slowest but i've actually …

Seeking desktop stand to hold iPhone SE

Forum Topic by Catherine on Thursday, September 1, 2022
… to do these tasks with hands free of iPhone. So many nifty ocr apps to try out! Please pass on your evaluation of stands …

Difficulties with VoiceOver and PDFs

Forum Topic by Jeff Anderson on Monday, September 3, 2018
… Reader app; should I just get that? Or should I get an OCR reader? Thank you! … It sounds as if you are creating … were you, I would just use Seeing AI or KNFB Reader to do OCR on the original documents and then save to your iPhone. …

App Suggestion For Making A Scanned Pdf Searchable

Forum Topic by Big D on Sunday, April 15, 2018
… does a great job of making PDF documents. There is not an OCR function built into the scanner function. I have read all …

KNFB Reader vs. Prismo

Forum Topic by Crysania on Friday, March 11, 2016
… Hello everyone, Is it just me, or for OCR and file management, is Prismo far superior to KNFB … for KNFB reader, I figured that its file management and OCR capabilities must match the price, so I copied the … weird that There was no share button. Now I have two great OCR options. …

Love the way that netflix reads text

Forum Topic by Sabrina on Thursday, October 12, 2017
… I can actually hear what is going on. I believe that is OCR but can also be a feature in Netflix. It is very useful …

Switching from Windows 10 with Jaws 17 to Mac with Voiceover?

Forum Topic by Pinkcupcake11 on Saturday, September 24, 2016
… and format long documents, read pdfs (including using OCR like Kurzweil 1000 to convert pdf images into text), … each page as a single, huge block of text. There are OCR apps for macOS. DocuScan Plus, Abbyy Fine Reader, and … and save PDF files to RTF or TXT files as well as perform OCR quite well. I used Windows for 25 years before switching …

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