Live Text on iOS 15 and the history of OCR

[kestrell]

This is a great little article on the history of optical chracter recognition (OCR) for the blind, including how it took forty years for it to be anything close to affordable, which many contend it still isn't for many visually impaired people
https://accessibility-insights.com/2021/11/06/live-text-new-in-ios-15-is-amazing-but-it-took-us-45-years-of-technical-advancements-to-get-there/

Comments

[bibliofile]

That is awesome news. OCR on streaming video, yes!