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Looking for an iOS app that can read "real" text (not books etc.) (self.Blind)
submitted by asking_for_my_dad
Hi,
I am looking for an app, kinda like AipPoly but instead it should read "real" text. For example the number of the bus or it's destination. Just text you see in real life, that might be shacky/not with a clean font/displayed on a screen etc. - so by no means a normal OCR. Anybody has any good experience? The easier the app the better. Ideally also available in German.
I am looking for an app, kinda like AipPoly but instead it should read "real" text. For example the number of the bus or it's destination. Just text you see in real life, that might be shacky/not with a clean font/displayed on a screen etc. - so by no means a normal OCR. Anybody has any good experience? The easier the app the better. Ideally also available in German.
SideshowKaz 3 points 6y ago
Just a little odd complaint, apps for the blind tend to have really odd names that are hard to pronounce and search. No wonder not many blind people get them.
ataulm 1 points 6y ago
On Android, Google translate has a translate live text option, but I've only seen it used with 1) translation and 2) it replaces the text in the live camera preview. It may be that it's possible on iOS
Marconius 1 points 6y ago
There are applications that are in the works for this very thing, just pulling out a phone and using its camera to do live OCR of signs and things around you, but they are very very much in the Alpha design stage.
You can try I of Providence, but I'm not sure if the text is localized for other languages. KNFB Reader is localized for other languages, and is accurate enough and sensitive enough to pick up text when I took a random picture across the room and it happened to see a poster on the wall, but I have never actively tried to use it to read signs went out and about and it is quite an expensive app.
You can try I of Providence, but I'm not sure if the text is localized for other languages. KNFB Reader is localized for other languages, and is accurate enough and sensitive enough to pick up text when I took a random picture across the room and it happened to see a poster on the wall, but I have never actively tried to use it to read signs went out and about and it is quite an expensive app.
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