OCR Everywhere Its easier than you think Yurika

OCR Everywhere! It’s easier than you think Yurika Vu & Vanessa Herndon * California School for the Blind

What is OCR? Optical Character Recognition (OCR) OCR technology recognizes text within images such as scanned documents, photos of text, and PDFs. OCR converts this kind of text into digital text data. Once a scanned paper document, image, or PDF goes through OCR processing, the text of the document can be read aloud, edited with word processors like Microsoft Word or Google Docs.

OCR workflow Obtain an image Recognition Read!

When could you use OCR? ● ● ● ● Print paper forms Signage Menu Bus and transportation schedules Nutrition information and labeling Street and building signs PDFs

We will be demonstrating the use of OCR With documents ● Google Drive on a computer ● Scanner pro ● KNFB Reader (Braille. Note Touch and Polaris) Documents and more ● Seeing AI ● AIRA

Making Documents Accessible

Google Drive

Scanner Pro Demo $3. 99 IOS only

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OCR on Note Takers- Braille. Note Touch Built in on the Touch! https: //drive. google. com/open? id=1 A 9 KAXh 4 AW 8 xze. Aw. Gap. FHppl. Jr. UH 0 oug-

$99 OCR on Note Takers- Polaris

OCR and BEYOND!

Seeing AI

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When should you use these devices? ● Documents/text ○ ○ ○ Plain text Text with images Tables Math Curved surfaces (jars, prescription bottles) Signs ● Other ○ ○ Description of pictures or environment Navigating an unfamiliar environment

AIRA Do we have any volunteers?

Test it out! Download the Aira app, Scanner Pro ($3. 99) and/or the Seeing. AI (i. OS only) app and test them out for yourselves! Come and get hands on practice on the Polaris or Touch