A few weeks ago, I posted on here asking if anyone would find a certain app idea I have useful. https://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ipados/would-be-helpful
In particular, I was thought that people with low vision would find it useful.
Well, I got just enough response that I decided that it would be worth opening up a beta for it.
If you're interested in helping out and having a look, I'd appreciate any feedback you would be willing to provide. The TestFlight link is https://testflight.apple.com/join/Zmcwk3fW..
About the app: OCRator lets you easily access the text in an image. If you encounter an image with text in it, you can access OCRator from the share sheet and ask it to find the text in the image.
It offers the ability to view the text at whatever font size you'd like, to read the text back to you, to translate the text, or to share it with others.
The app is currently free, as in it costs nothing at all.
If there's enough interest in it, I may be able to invest the time into it to make it more useful to more people.
This is the first version that's going out to the public, so please try everything.
There are known limitations, but I'd appreciate you telling me anything that doesn't work or anything that could make this better.
I'm looking for feedback to know if this is something that people can really use of if it's something just for me.
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Could you please make of it…
Could you please make of it a catalist app also available for mac? Just keep the app 100% the same, this will be even more useful on the mac and I'd completely pay for it if necessary. Great idea in any case though. Thanks a lot! It's nice to see someone actually taking the time to gather and listen user feedbacks rather than doing like he knows what we need, it's rare and even more appreciated because of that.
I just put up a Mac version.
I just put up a Mac version. at the same link as the iOS version: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Zmcwk3fW . Just open the link from a Mac and you SHOULD be able to join the beta.
Admittedly, there have been a lot of hiccups in getting it up on TestFlight. So if you can't get it to work, please let me know.
This is a VERY preliminary version. There's no share extension yet. Also, on a Mac this really should be a document-based app, which it's not. And the UX is very wonky for a macOS app. Still, it can read an image from your photos library and it can extract the text and give you all the features that the iOS app can give you.
It's not catalyst, it's a pure AppKit app written in SwiftUI, just a port from the iOS version.
Please have a look and tell me if there's anything that needs changing.
Thank you, I'll try that…
Thank you, I'll try that when I can. :)