Demo: VOCR 2.0 for Mac w/Chi Kim
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- In this video, Chi Kim (the creator of VOCR) and myself will take you through key functions within VOCR, VoiceOver OCR for Mac.
In my opinion, VOCR is one of those utilities that should be in everybody's box of tools, if they are a VoiceOver user specifically.
Since VOCR is free, it's a worthwhile utility to have for those times when you may come across an inaccessible piece of software, or a video with music and no dialogue that you just know has the most interesting subtitles imaginable.
Got that picture your family member sent you with important information about an upcoming event? No problem.
Want to know what that funny thing on social media is trying to tell you but it's inaccessible? That's doable too.
Here's some blurb about what VOCR can do from the website.
Discover the cutting-edge capabilities of VOCR, your ultimate OCR and AI-powered screen recognition tool designed to enhance your digital accessibility experience. Beyond the simple navigation feature with OCR, VOCR seamlessly integrates with VoiceOver, enabling users to effortlessly capture and recognize screen content with intuitive and customizable shortcuts. With features like Real-Time OCR, users can continuously monitor and read live content, such as subtitles. The ASK AI functionality allows you to leverage advanced AI models, including OpenAI GPT to ask detailed questions about images and receive insightful answers. It also supports local vision language models via Ollama for your privacy. Explore with AI takes it a step further by analyzing images, identifying different areas, and providing comprehensive descriptions.
Thanks to Chi Kim for being a part of this demonstration and explaining some key points that I know I'd have gotten wrong without him.
If you have any questions that we didn't cover here, or if parts of the readme don't make sense, please leave a comment below.
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Thenks very much for the great demonstration!
Just go to this guys, love it! Have already set up my API key as well. Gonna play around with this soon! :)
This is a great news. Thanks a lot Chi and Andre, of course.
Another banger Andre..
I've got a version of VOCR I installed when I upgraded to OS14 a couple weeks ago, but I'm definitely getting this. I'll be insisting the studio puts it on their mac as well
There are just some things in life that have to happen. For me, a system without VOCR is not a true system, so I make it happen whenever I can.
I also include it in my teaching for Logic students, as it’s so useful when you come across that annoying, inaccessible app that doesn’t have to be inaccessible, but it is anyway, just to be contrary.
This update brings some major new features that the old one didn’t have, and will be a huge box of added tools to anyone’s collection.
thanks. I'd never updated vocr since I got it. was still on v1.0 hehehe.
Hmm, if I sneak into the professor’s office, swap his Mac out for a Surface and block the Apple Store, do you reckon he’d make this for Windows?
I’ve wondered that myself, but with windows 11 becoming an AI-infested pile, I’d be more worried about ‘all your data are belong to Recall’ than anything else.
It’s also possible on a more serious note, that Be My AI may get such features in a future update.
They released heir app a day before this went live, so Tuesday May 21, and it’s quite rudimentary at the moment but I’m sure that’s just a matter of time.
Whether it can act as a windows-style VOCR replacement remains to be seen.
@@TheOnjLouis Fair points. Ok, he gets to keep his Mac. There's still something in the way of me switching though. How about if I make his Command and F5 keys so sticky he never wants to press them, do you think he'd port NVDA?
@@ScottChesworth You know what? I double-dare you to do it. Just make sure to record the reaction lol
You cover travel and one of those Zoom Essential doodahs, I'll make mischief.
Is there an IOS app for this? Would be amazing to have one.
@@orangegoose1150 Hi. No there isn't, but VoiceOver already has something called 'Screen Recognition' built-in which you can enable from VoiceOver settings, and add to the rotor. It's worth investigating.
You only enable it when you come across an app that has many unlabeled buttons or other elements. It does on-the-fly OCR and tries to give sensible labels to things that need them.
Hello, I cannot click with VOCR 2, what could be the reason?
No idea, if you could click with the previous version. Since VoiceOver is responsible for allowing you to do VO Shift Space, it sounds like a VoiceOver issue, not a VOCR issue.
For some reason when I tried to pull up them and you, nothing happens, I’m assuming because the last step in the set up says I will be prompted to allow screenshots the first time I use VOCR, but that never happened. How do I go about fixing this issue?