We at iAccessibility, from time to time, like to compare two products to see which one is more practical, and which one works best. Today, we decided to take a look at Seeing AI and OrCam, as both of these products have similar features, but different form factors. Lets start with going over each product… Continue Reading Product Comparison: OrCam VS Seeing A.I.
This morning, I discovered an app called Texie for iOS. The app claims to be able to perform quick text recognition, kind of like the Short Text mode of Seeing AI. It’s free do download, but, in order to perform scans, you must purchase credits, which start at $0.99 for 100 scans. You get a few extra… Continue Reading Texie for iOS: Does it Work as Advertised?
http://media.blubrry.com/iacast/iaccessibility.net/iacast/DemoCast11ScanningAppThrowdown.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSOn this episode of the iA DemoCast, Aleeha demonstrates the following apps for scanning print to digital text as OCR. Find out which apps work the best on different forms of text. Apps used KNFB Reader Prizmo Go – Instant Text Capture on the App Store – iTunes… Continue Reading #iACast DemoCast 11 – Scanning App Showdown
http://media.blubrry.com/iacast/iaccessibility.net/iacast/DemoCast9-SeeingAI.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSOn this episode of the iA DemoCast, Matt Dierckens demonstrates the new and amazing Seeing AI app from Microsoft. This demos shows how to set up the app and start using it with all of the channels that the app provides. App Features Short text OCR that updates… Continue Reading #iACast DemoCast 9 – Seeing AI: Talking Camera for the Blind.
http://media.blubrry.com/iacast/iaccessibility.net/iacast/DemoCast6-PrizmoGo.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this Demo Cast, Jason demonstrates Prizmo Go, a free app for iOS that allows the user to scan and read text. Download the app by following this link: Prizmo Go – Instant Text Capture on the App Store
One of the first apps that iAccessibility reviewed was an app called Prizmo which would scan an image and convert any text found in that image to digital text that could be copied or opened in another program or that could be read by a screen reader. Now, the makers of Prizmo has released a… Continue Reading Prizmo Go – A free OCR Solution for Everyone