Yes, got it. And OCR results are .. well .... poor enough! Still, an improvement on not being able to get anything at all. Some words break through the fog.
Do you think/find that this technique could be used to render inaccessible screens in some apps in some way readable (or useable?) by us? (App that don’t do quite well with VoiceOver natively.) From: Richard Turner Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 6:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Scanning and OCR of text on iPhone screen with an external scanner? just a second or so. You should hear the camera flash sound. Richard On Jul 18, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Just so you know, sighted people can still see or read what’s on your screen, potentially, if brightness is at zero and screen curtain is off. If you’re not worried about someone reading your stuff over your shoulder, it’s not an issue. Best, Keith From: 'Sandratomkins' via VIPhone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 4:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Scanning and OCR of text on iPhone screen with an external scanner? hi, The jury is out with regard to screen curtain and battery saving. The official position is: it doesn't save battery. my observation is: it probably does because when screen curtain is off and brightness is up the phone gets hotter! as heat is an expression of energy, this, probably, means that the phone is using more battery life. however, turning the brightness down as far as you comfortably can, definitely does save battery. these days, now that I can't see the screen at all, I have the brightness down to 0 and don't bother with the screen curtain. just my thoughts, Sandy sent from the dark side of the moon On 18 Jul 2017, at 09:59, Shaf Patel <[email protected]> wrote: Doesn't Screen Curtain being turned on save battery, regardless of what the brightness level is set to? On 7/18/2017 4:56 AM, 'Sandratomkins' via VIPhone wrote: just add to what Richard said, remember to up your brightness if, like me, you keep it at zero for battery saving reasons. Sandy sent from the dark side of the moon On 18 Jul 2017, at 02:50, Richard Turner <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Make sure the screen curtain is turned off. Then, do a screen shot with the home and power buttons pressed together. Then, share that screen shot with an app like KNFB Reader, Seeing AI, Prizmo Go, and they should be able to get some of the text. The issue you will have is how clear and crisp the text is. Digital newspapers are not known for being terribly clear. HTH, Richard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 2:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Scanning and OCR of text on iPhone screen with an external scanner? With VoiceOver off, sighties can zoom in and enlarge or decrease the text size. With VO on, this option apparently disappears. I tried scanning such a screen on my PC, and got a blank page. Speak Screen doesn’t work either, either with or without VoiceOver on. (Siri says, “sorry, there is nothing to read here”. Well there is, Siri girl. From: Flor Lynch Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 5:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Scanning and OCR of text on iPhone screen with an external scanner? Hi, Has anyone ever tried doing OCR from an external scanner where text of an article onscreen on the iPhone (or iDevice) cannot be read by VoiceOver. I’m thinking of digital newspaper text on the iPhone screen that is not/cannot be read by VoiceOver. Would scanning it on a CanoScan scanner – used by Kurzweil 1000 attached to a PC - potentially do any damage to an iPhone screen? (Of course, would or could one get any satisfactory results thereby?) My newspaper app can’t be transferred between devices, and I can’t export stuff from it to DropBox – there being no facility provided for it (and/or I can’t read it. The search boxes read fine, and do the page numbers. If I type text into the search box, I’ll get results back, which are read by VoiceOver. 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