Visual Brailler is the simple braille editor. It’s a braille writer for your iPad, and it has a place in every braille transcriber’s toolbox. Use it for NLS certification exercises or to practice UEB. Show off your mastery of braille!
Download your free APP at the iTunes store:
Chromevox with Chrome for Blind access–sometimes, it is just needed if the district has all their networks going through Chrome
Take those scanned images saved as a PDF that are completely inaccessible and show a person how to write directly on them with text, save it and email to teacher for completed copy.
A great low vision trick with talking software: Geometry talking software Low vision incredible PDF/image trick
This came from an archived webinar through ATIA called “PDF, EPUB, DAISY,
MOBI, TEXT, OCR: How Do You Read All These Fomats on an iPad? It was done
originally by Donna Schnieder in April 2015.
This site offers some really nice tutorials on –connecting to the world.
Google Docs has given OCR a front and center WOW. Take an image document, save to drive, hit your applications key (that key that is between your start menu and ctrl on a desktop) and open with google docs. Wait for Google to take it through the OCR process, do a ctrl a to select all, copy with ctrl c and paste with ctrl v into word. Hit the ctrl key, which takes you into paste options and hit t for keep text only. That is it–that easy. If you can get the document electronically, you can send it through to drive and OCR that image into text.
as we know..problems always come with updates…..sooo