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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. …

apple products, considering purchase, need information about accessibility asap

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Thursday, April 21, 2011
… bar code reading, and scanning documents to an ocr, applications for the iphone. How well do these work, … app, money reading app, bar code reading app, print to ocr scanning/editing app, bar code reading app. Please let me …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for March 2021

Blog Post by AppleVis on Thursday, April 1, 2021
… > Envision is the fastest, most reliable and award-winning OCR app that speaks out the visual world, helping blind and … intelligence (AI) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Current Version: 2.3.13 (March 22, 2021) ##### Changes … #### Voice: OCR Document Reader (iOS/iPadOS, Free With In-App Purchases) …

KNFBReader For iOS Now Available For Download From The App Store

Blog Post by AppleVis on Thursday, September 18, 2014
… is already quite clear that  KNFBReader is likely to take OCR on iOS devices somewhere it hasn’t previously been. It is … every penny. I have had vary little success with other ocr apps but I got a full page on my very first attempt with … my first picture, I was impressed with the speed of the OCR processing (I am using the IPhone 5S. I would say that …

Love My Mac

Forum Topic by Wayne A on Thursday, October 19, 2023
… voices, the ability to read image descriptions including OCR for the text in the image, increased customization etc. … … The Mac can generate image, descriptions, including OCR for text, similar to iOS. When focus is on an image, …

Can anybody recommend a virtual mail service with an accessible iOS app or online interface?

Forum Topic by Usef on Tuesday, January 3, 2017
… iPhone or iPad. I understand that KNFB Reader (and other OCR apps) can do a great job reading our mail. However, these …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for January 2021

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, February 1, 2021
… #### Voice: OCR Document Reader (iOS/iPadOS, Free With In-App Purchases) … Here are some features that I hope are helpful. > * OCR: Voice’s OCR engine is perhaps one of the best in the world. You no …

DevonThink: a document solution I didn't know I needed

Forum Topic by Nuno on Monday, April 1, 2024
… that comes to mind. Another awesome thing is the automatic OCR feature, I have set up a simple smart rule which …

[CLOSED] Cast Your Votes Now for the AppleVis Golden Apples of 2020

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, December 7, 2020
… [Voice: OCR Document … eader](https://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/productivity/voice-ocr-document-reader) [Weather …

[CLOSED] Cast Your Vote Now for the AppleVis Golden Apples of 2019

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, December 9, 2019
… * [Voice: OCR Document … eader](https://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/productivity/voice-ocr-document-reader) * [Voice Dream …

Voiceover recognition is the way of the future!

Forum Topic by DrewWeber on Thursday, September 17, 2020
… take some time and label the apps various controls, using OCR to discover the text which corresponded to each control, … forward. I love your idea of having a screen reader use OCR and machine learning to then label elements. It's such a …

RetroArch 1.8.2 – making games more accessible for blind people

Forum Topic by Libretro on Thursday, December 26, 2019
… menus and selection screens are becoming accessible using OCR, and more will be possible through the hard work of … for the user interface, and an AI service to perform OCR on video games, allowing blind users of all three major … to dream. … I grew up with older games. I didn't have OCR with them when I was growing up, of course, but now that …

KNFBReader, Audio Defence, and Month Calendar 2 Chosen as AppleVis Editorial Team App Picks of the Month for October 2014

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, November 3, 2014
… AppleVis Editors: KNFBReader has set a new standard for OCR apps on iOS. While some products are a lot of hype and … iPod Touch Fifth Generation. (And yes, we’ve heard that OCR scans on the iPhone 4S can actually be quite good.) …

vBookz PDF Voice Reader

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Soupy on Saturday, July 20, 2013
… Voice Reader is for you. vBookz read true text PDF files. OCR scanned image PDFs.   © vBookz is enabled by patent …

Ally iOS Updates + What’s Next — We’d Love Your Feedback!

Forum Topic by Karthik Mahadevan on Friday, August 15, 2025
… features and improving the experience: - **Context-aware OCR** — Ally now combines AI with optical character …

Arc for Windows with Swift

Forum Topic by SeasonKing on Tuesday, April 30, 2024
… I managed to push through with the help of NVDA's OCR and bit of just random luck. Further, the buttons on the …

Joplin

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Ayub on Monday, March 31, 2025
… search feature enhanced by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Use Joplin to store your bills, lecture …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for September 2020

Blog Post by AppleVis on Thursday, October 1, 2020
… > Envision is the fastest, most reliable and award-winning OCR app that speaks out the visual world, helping blind and … intelligence (AI) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Current Version: 2.2.9 (September 29, 2020) ##### … #### Voice: OCR Document Reader (iOS/iPadOS, US$4.99) > Take a picture of …

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