Hello All, So, a few moments ago, on my 14, with iOS 16.2 I decided to give the Scan Text feature a whirl while composing a text message in 16.2.
While I do not have enough vision to read the text of the display, letter for letter, I do see well enough to detect objects in a camera's field of view, recognize that text has been entered in to edit fields, etc. So, I got a recent hardcopy letter, that I had received in the mail, and placed it on a flat surface. When I initiated the feature from within the text message edit field, the back camera was immediately activated on the lower portion of the display. VoiceOver instructed me to move the camera lower so that the letter was in the camera's field of view. When the text was detected, I could see that it popped up in the edit field near the top of the display. This was not a photo of the text but, rather, an OCR version that VoiceOver could read as if I had typed it into the edit field, manually. All I had to do in order to save the text to the text message edit field was to single-finger, double-tap the insert button located near the bottom of the display. Most impressive, at least to a low vision VoiceOver user. The OCR feature, as described above, also works in the Notes app. What I find most astonishing is that text recognition is virtually instantaneous; I could not detect any lag time between when the text on a piece of paper, in the Camera's field of view, appeared, and when that same text popped up in the edit field into which it could be saved. Apple is clearly onto something wonderful hear. If only Apple's OCR would read out the text in the camera's field of view, automatically, there would be virtually no need for any third-party OCR apps. I realize that a totally blind VoiceOver user requires more specific instructions, than, "Scroll down," in order to use OCR but, if any company can make OCR, even after all these years, appear magical, it is Apple. In the meantime, for those who can use the Scan Text feature, I urge you to do so and pass your findings on to Apple. Mark -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/000001d91f3a%24f0e5da60%24d2b18f20%24%40ucla.edu.
