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Some questions on ZoomReader

Forum Topic by Shersey on Sunday, February 26, 2012

KNFBReader iOS App Announced for $99

Blog Post by Michael Hansen on Sunday, July 6, 2014
… PowerPoint slides, from up to 25 feet away. - Scanning and OCR for PDF documents. - A "Field of View" report for … demo was impressive...and that's putting it mildly. The OCR was very good, even on the PowerPoint slide scanned at 25 … languages" and translation between them, as well as OCR of PDF documents. … if it was 2010. Things have moved on …

scanning to PDF

Forum Topic by Lola on Wednesday, December 6, 2017
… document scanned and emailed ASAP. I'm not bothered about OCR, just need a PDF. I'm using an epsom scanner with mac …

Talking Camera Pro for visually impaired/blind,

Forum Topic by MarkSarch on Thursday, August 9, 2012
… this new app! I didn't purchase because I do have all of OCR and scanners apps on my iOS device, I couldn't have … that, it looks very similar to what we have scene in other ocr apps and in the camera app. When you are taken into the …

several IPhone questions

Forum Topic by lovable rogue on Monday, December 30, 2013
… only read one line of text. Does anyone know of a better OCR app for a blind user? I am trying to use digit-eyes, …

Announcing our most Predictable Editorial Team Pick of the Month to Date

Blog Post by AppleVis on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
… an honorable mention this month is TextDetective , an OCR scanning application developed specifically for the … users are saying that this is the most usable and accurate OCR app currently available. Again, this will be another app … app went to very inaccessible. And the "most accurate" OCR app is not even talked about anymore. …

Simple Scan • Quick Scanner

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Scruffy Ted 🧸 on Friday, March 22, 2024
… thanks to automatic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) * Built for simplicity. Just scan and send -- no … feature. The app does not allow the user to listen to the OCR version of the scanned image before saving it. Viewing of …

iPhone 7 plus vs. 8 plus

Forum Topic by Owen7668 on Thursday, September 21, 2017
… for the visually impaired including voice dream reader, OCR scanners, and Blindsquare which iPhone do you believe …

Coming to macOS from Windows

Forum Topic by user26335377 on Saturday, September 10, 2022
… user configuration. 4) Is there something like built-in OCR on intel-based models? Something similar to NVDA+R on … on the web. Thanks in advanced. … there is no build-in OCR on macOS. there is VOCR, but i haven’t used it in a while …

[CLOSED] Vote Now for the Next Inductee into the AppleVis iOS App Hall of Fame

Blog Post by AppleVis on Friday, August 8, 2014
… Room MBraille Newsify Papa Sangre II Prizmo - Scanning, OCR, and Speech  Seeing Eye GPS Solara The Inquisitor …

Scanners What to look for when buying one

Forum Topic by blindgator on Friday, February 22, 2013
… have never had a scanner, and don't find any of the Iphone OCR apps work to my liking. I am looking to get a scanner …

Seeking recommendations for a good and accessible wireless printer/scanner

Forum Topic by Faceless1 on Tuesday, February 9, 2016
… price premium to pay for having it. Fast and accurate OCR scanning for use with Prizmo is essential. Also important …

Most suitable Mac Book for no vision/blind user?

Forum Topic by JayBlind on Thursday, December 17, 2015
… P.S. recommendations for any ACCURATE (crescendo) OCR software like Kurzweil will be greatly appreciated!!! …

Be My AI, a scanning app, something else?

Forum Topic by Khomus on Wednesday, March 27, 2024
… so I'm wondering if a scanning app would be better for the OCR part, to deal specifically with the text. So I'm not sure … in a grid and they are so close together I would say any OCR scanning software would have a hard time defining each …

Fast and Accurate Scanning with Voice Dream Scanner for iOS

Podcast by AppleVis on Thursday, April 4, 2019
… a recently released OCR app for iOS from the developer of the popular Voice Dream … or additional charges. > State-of-the-art A.I. for OCR and text recognition: Fast and accurate, even in poor … that, that I haven't paid for, that's my primary use for Ocr. apps. I import my photos from my gallery after saving …

Accessible midi keyboard

Forum Topic by TheBlindGuy07 on Monday, March 4, 2024
… accessibility rating on both windows and mac with any ocr I've tried. I know that daw like GarageBand and reaper …

Returning to an iPhone: need to clarify a few things

Forum Topic by Pranav Lal on Friday, September 17, 2021
… 4. A little face time. 5. Very limited browsing. 6. OCR mainly of sign boards and sometimes of paper stationary. …

Facebook Now Providing Automatically Generated Photo Descriptions to Blind and Low Vision Users on iOS

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, April 5, 2016
… and laptop browsers, people with the ability to perform OCR on those images could choose to do so. You should know, however, that we want to turn on Facebook OCR for all images that contain text as soon as we have … can tell there is text, then it would be nice to have it OCR'd. I have not found it to be overly specific. For …

Apple Reported to be Exploring Ways to Let Developers Provide Custom Text-to-Speech Synthesizers on iOS

Blog Post by AppleVis on Tuesday, March 10, 2020
… * [iOS 14 Features New OCR Capabilities That Will Convert Handwritten Text From … Typed Text](https://www.macrumors.com/2020/03/09/ios-14-ocr-apple-pencil-text-conversion/) * [HomeKit in iOS 14: Face … … I read on Mac rumors, i'll find the link, that possibly OCR will convert handwritten text to typed. Link: …

SE to XR: benefits from a VoiceOver perspective?

Forum Topic by Brian Giles on Thursday, February 21, 2019
… matter to me, unless it would give me better results with OCR apps. Has anyone found that to be the case? My SE and 5S … have to pay a bit for it. I can't speak to the better OCR since I actually haven't used it much, but I will say for … the XR works much better than the 6S Plus. I imagine OCR will work better also. Hopefully someone can confirm. …

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