I just tried this out with my 13 pro and while the camera was scanning the text of my letter, i could make out that the amount of text being detected and transcribed kept changing in a very unstable and confusing way. At first there were perhaps 4 lines of text, then perhaps 12 lines, then suddenly back to 4 lines, tgen 8 lines, then back to 4 lines - all without any audible feedback. There was an “Insert Text” button on the pop-up at the bottom of the screen which i had to double tap at a key moment when i guessed the maximum amount of text had been detected - but quickly, before the text in the text edit field disappeared again! I might stick to using Voice Dream Scanner… Harry
> On 3 Jan 2023, at 06:16, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone, The Next Generation" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone2+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone2/000001d91f3a%24f0e5da60%24d2b18f20%24%40ucla.edu. -- 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: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/04C584FE-E108-4C0D-B1CE-8B3AA5EE6606%40icloud.com.
