Hello, I have not used it yet. I listened to a demonstration of this app from the Blind Abilities podcast. The podcast does a good job of showing how to use the OCR functionality.
Regards, Greg Wocher > On Apr 22, 2017, at 4:05 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can you give some concrete examples what you have done with it and how you > did it? > I am still keeping an eye on the app (pun intended) because Microsoft has a > pretty good track record with regards to accessibility of their iOS apps and > I hope they make this app better and even more accessible. > > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>[mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Marie > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 2:01 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Office Lens, New App > > I am amazed that three of you say you did not find this app useful. I just > downloaded it today and am thrilled with what it does and how easy it was to > get started. Strange that our experience would be so different. > Marie > > > From: Richard Turner > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 1:44 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App > > I also tried this app and did not find it very good at all. > For free, the iDentifi app set to Text works great if you don’t mind not be > able to easily save the file. > > Richard > > > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>[mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 1:08 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App > > I tried it and found it less than intuitive. I heard about it from a Cool > Blind Tech Podcast after the CSUN where they mentioned how youcould scan a > business card and it would recognize all the text like names, phone numbers > and so on and you could easily create a contact entry from that and I could > not at all figure out how to do this. > > <> > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>[mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Mike B. > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 12:30 PM > To: VIPhone <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Office Lens, New App > > Hi All, > > Got this from Top Tech Tidbits. > 5. Microsoft Office Lens is a free alternative to the KNFB Reader on the > iPhone for reading print: > http://www.rsbc.org.uk/blogs/microsoft-office-lens-review-an-accessible-way-to-read-printed-documents/ > > <http://www.rsbc.org.uk/blogs/microsoft-office-lens-review-an-accessible-way-to-read-printed-documents/> > > > Take care. > Mike > Sent from my iBarstool. 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