[Electronics-talk] Apps for IOS device

[David Andrews]

Some people are also successfully using the iOS app Text Grabber for OCR.

Dave

At 11:13 AM 3/22/2013, you wrote:
>Kendra,
>
>Some of what you say is simply not true.
>
>There are many blind people who are successfully 
>using their iPhone for OCR, color 
>identification, and scanning bar codes. Apps 
>being used by blind folks for OCR include Say 
>text, Text Detective, and Prizmo. There is an 
>app called Color Visor that does a fair job of 
>color identification, and an app called 
>Digit-Eyes that will read bar code info. Using 
>the iPhone for tasks like OCR presents some of 
>the same issues that are presented by using the 
>KNFB Reader, namely, holding the device at the 
>precise distance and angle required to get a 
>good picture. There is a new product called the 
>Standscan that has been designed to address this 
>problem. It is basically a box with one side 
>open. You place your iPhone or whichever device 
>that you use for this purpose on the top. There 
>is a hole that lines up with the camera lens on 
>the device. The device sits about 12 inches 
>above the bottom of the box. You slide the 
>reading material into the bottom of the box. The 
>Pro model has built in LED lights that are 
>powered by either batteries or a AC adapter is 
>included. After placing the device and the 
>reading material in their places, you launch the 
>OCR app and follow its instructions to take the 
>picture. The Standscan Pro costs about $30. I 
>have both an iPhone 5 and a KNFB reader, and 
>find the results of scans to be about equal.
>As for GPS, at this time there is no accessible 
>solution that gives you all of the capabilities 
>of a product like Sendero for the Braillenote, 
>but this will soon change, as Sendero will soon 
>be releasing a product for the iPhone. But if 
>all you need is information about where you are 
>and what is around you, there is a plethora of 
>free or very inexpensive apps that provide this info.
>
>Kendra, I am curious as to whether or not your 
>comments come from your own experience, or what 
>someone told you.  In any event, the information 
>you imparted in your post is wrong, and could 
>give someone the wrong idea about the capabilities of the iPhone.
>
>Andy
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Electronics-talk 
>[mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kendra Schaber
>Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:10 PM
>To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
>Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device
>
>There are no accessable scanning apps for blind 
>people that I know of. The best GPS app is 
>called GPS Drive. There are no good bar coad 
>reading apps that I know of. I also don't know 
>of a good color app. I do know of a good object 
>identafier app called Tap Tap See which if you 
>take a picture, it tells you what you got for a 
>picture. The object of this app is to help you 
>find objects around the house or while you are 
>in a place that doesn't allow you to explore in other ways besides site.
>Kendra
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
>To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
><electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 6:23 PM
>Subject: [Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > For those of you using an I device, which free aps do you find helpful?
> > Are there aps for scanning, bar code recognition, and color
> > identification?
> > How about GPS aps?
> >
> > I’m asking because I intern in a section 508 office and they want to
> > do an outreach session on accessible aps for disabled people. This
> > includes blindness and two other disabilities.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Ashley