Phoenix Birdperson@LiamErven i need to read a printed book but I’m bad at reading because disability. I wish I could use a screen reader type of thing in it. I remember you said a while ago you had an app that could do that to read Xbox menus and stuff. Are there any iPhone apps you recommend for reading printed paper thru camera?
Changeling Mx@phoenix @LiamErven There's Seeing AI, as well as the KNFBReader. They will both do that, and the KNFBReader has multiple page support.
@ChangelingRandy @LiamErven oh thank you! I will try Seeing AI for now :)
@phoenix @LiamErven That one is honestly my go-to for things, unless I need multi-page or to do an export of the scan.
@ChangelingRandy @LiamErven i can’t get the document mode to work. It always just says no text recognised :/
@phoenix @LiamErven are you sure the document is face-up? Also, are you following the guiding prompts? Finally, is your phone in an orientation that corresponds to the layout of the document?
@ChangelingRandy @LiamErven yes. I got it to work once now. It seems difficult. The short text mode works much better except that I can’t hold the phone still long enough to get through the whole page. It times out a lot too like maybe Microsoft server having problem
@phoenix @LiamErven Possibly. The other thing you might try is placing the document on a surface that contrasts with the color of the paper. If you're going to be doing this a lot, you might also look into a stand for your phone.
@ChangelingRandy @LiamErven figured it out. The document has text layed out in columns, and that was confusing it
@phoenix @LiamErven Oh. When you said a book, that never even crossed my mind.
@ChangelingRandy @LiamErven Government's going to buy me KNFB Reader soon! then i can read all the books! I also found Voice Dream Reader that can read ebooks on the apple watch with nice voices. I think i'll be able to use KNFB to scan a book to ebook, then Dream Voice to get it to read on the watch nicely. Excited about books!