[blindLaw] reading hand written documents

[Josiah Jackson]

I’ve had good results using the “Seeing AI” app. With hand writing once you have what you want on your screen, you click and then it scans it processes online and tells you what’s on it. I’ve never done anything except an English, so I don’t know if that would be challenging being in a language, other than Americanized English. That said, I use it on a regular basis, and it was a benefit to me daily when my child was still in high school, and I would get notes home from the teachers.


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On Thursday, August 1, 2024, 3:13 PM, Paul Harpur via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:

When I practiced I shared a sighted secretary.  By the time I worked on files the documents were digital and I asked that the secretary would look over the digital version and spot any hand writing on it. if the hand writing was just words, type them into a comment box.  If it was a drawing or something, then I asked another lawyer just in case.          
 


Professor Paul Harpur OAM   
BBus (HRm), LLB (Hons) LLM, PhD, FHEA, solicitor of the High Court of Australia (non-practicing), PLY
The University of Queensland Law School
(TEQSA PRV12080)  

Associate, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
Australian Research Council Future Fellow
Member of the Higher Education Standards Panel 

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In my limited experience, this is one of the greatest access challenges. I suppose AI could read it, but in actual legal practice, there will be understandable limits to using AI due to confidentiality concerns. 

If the document is typed and there is no hand writing on it, you can use OCR software without issues, but if there is hand writing on the document, OCR will usually fail to process it well. For these situations, I have asked for a reader to either read the document to me so I could take my own notes on it or type up the document and send it to me. 

Hope this helps,

Julie


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Hello, I have a question about reading printed materials. If you are handed paper material that is either typed or hand written, Is  there a best way to read  these materials with some kind of scanner or app? I personally have not found an app on the iphone that has really done a good job to the point whre I would trust it without it becoming a battle to make sure it read things correctly. If anyone has any recommendations for apps, other equipment or methods, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Sarah _______________________________________________
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