Free OCR App Voice Major Update

I like your app, and I'm wondering if you could create an OCR-BASED screen reader that could tell us through OCR what we're on? There are many apps that just can't be read with VO, and something like this would augment VO a lot in some apps.

Hi there, Would it at all be possible to add a video mode to Voice, rather like Goggles? This mode would be used to read displays on modern devices such as coffee machines, washing machines, midi keyboards etc in real time so that we could work with those? That would be a killer feature in my opinion.

Great work on this app. Very useful for many people.

One suggestion, although the search engine on your server might give superior results, one intesting idea is to have the Tesseract engine available off-line to process the material on the phone itself for folks who either don't have immediate access to WiFi or those who are still concerned about privacy. This could be a user setting and at least give users a fall back in case your server is down or WiFi is not available.

I don't know how hard that would be to implement as an option.

Anyway, keep up the good work.

--Pete

Hello, Shalin! First of all thank you too much for your great job! And I have one question. How can I force Voice to detect non-English language (in my case it's russian). I see in languages section of settings russian, check it by double tapping but when I try to recognize any russian text, even in screenshots, the app tells nothing or just slashs, asterisks and so on. And when i go to settings again russian is not checked. Perhaps I do something wrong?

Is it going to work if I install it on an iPad running the beta version of ios 9? Or maybe this is a question you would like answered too.

Hello, I congratulate your for your choise in this app. How ever, when I run the app, after the tutorial, I see an empty screen. The phone acts like it is freezing and I can't do anything excep getting out of the app via app switcher.

Hi there.
I tried Voice a couple days ago with my iPhone 6+ but i am running into problems. When i have taken a photo of some mail i want to scan and read, even though Voice claims that 4 corners are detected either nothing gets read at all or there's a message saying something like "No words are detected on this page, i'm moving on". That message is ok, but as i said sometimes Voice won't speak at all. How should i be holding the phone in order for text to be detected. I think and this is my opinion and it can very well be wrong so please correct me if it is, but one reason KNFB reader gets rave reviews is that it actually seems to be very forgiving when you try taking an image. I so want this app to work well for me so any tips on how best to use it is welcome.

hi. congratulations. let me ask you a question.
this app works on the iPad?
you need flash for this app work on the iPad?
only works on the iPhone or supports iPad ?
thanks.

cheers.

Hi. I actually got Voice to speak and i noticed that if you hold the phone too high, you won't get anything that Voice can recognize. Now centimeters, millimeters, inches and stuff is something i'm worthless at translating, so i can't give you a hint on how high you should hold the phone, but it seems to work well if you hold it quite low. One thing i also noticed during my experiments today is that if you have a paper that has been folded and the line or edge or what we might call it is sharp or maybe even not so sharp, Voice will identify it as a corner, thus a big document that once had been folded could end up becoming 2 documents. I hope this at all made sense despite my not so good English.:-)

I just updated to the new version of Voice.

I am using an iPhone 6 with the latest iOS release.

Problem: When I double tap to start the Voice app, the app does not seem to open, but I am left on the home screen. Interestingly, the Voice app does appear in my list of running apps.

this did not happen in the last version of Voice - When I double tapped, the app opened as it should.

I deleted the Voice app, re-installed from the App Store, but I stil get the same result - i.e., the app does not open but appears to be running in the list of running apps.

I finally re-booted the phone, but that did not help either.

Has anyone else seen this problem? Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks.

--Pete

I have the exact same problem on an iPhone 4s.

Hello.

I'm not sure if Voice already does this or not, but I think Voice needs a field of view report similar to KNFB Reader. This would tell you if the page was correctly aligned to take the best possible picture. The four corners feature is nice, but what about telling if the page is properly oriented and whether all of the page will be taken with the picture. I think page orientation detection would be great since I do not always know if I'm placing the page in the correct orientation. I really commend you on your efforts and hope this improves as I don't feel like shelling out $100 just to read printed material. It comes back to the idea that I shouldn't have to pay extra to access the same material that you or other sighted people can access. Keep up the great work.

I'm wondering how many other folks are experiencing the problem of Voice starting and appearing in the app switcher but not actually opening so that it can be used. I deleted the app again and re-installed on my iPhone 6 running iOS 8.4.1 and still, each time I double tab the Voice icon, rather than opening, VoiceOver says "Voice -double tap to open". But the app is running in the app switcher. I never saw this type of behavior before with any other app.

Any update on this problem, if others are seeing it too, and if the developer is aware of the problem and able to reproduce it?

Thanks.

=--Pete

Hello,

Is there any way of making the device work without internet connection. Let's say maybe for use at a grocery store?

Also are there any alternatives on Google Play?