VDScan

Name: VDScan
Rating: 4.51321 (530 reviews)

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VDScan

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User Reviews for VDScan

Easy, straight forward. Sometimes choppy.

As an auditory learner, and a very slow reader, this app is helping me get my college degree. The only issues I’ve had are choppy reading when a word is split between two lines and occasionally it will read a word from a different line first, but I think the latter might be my photography and complicated page layouts (I’m ready a modern physics book). The voices are computerized, so it takes time to adapt to, but it really helps if you follow along in the text a few times to recognize it’s reading patterns. I really love this app, it’s easy to take pictures and there is a batch setting that allows you to take a series of pictures for the same file. Super fast way to get an audio book.

bamcc35, Oct 01, 2020

Just what I needed, but glitchy af

So this is a great companion app to Voice Dream that needs some improvement: Often when I am taking photos of pages, the app crashes and I lose a lot of my progress. This happens with regular capture mode at times, but always in auto capture, crashes every time and I lose like 10 page photos... Also, it's been fine for detecting text on my laptop but I tried to take a picture of a print book and the text detection was really wonky no matter how many times I tried to retake the picture, flatten/straighten it out, etc.I've been relying on this app because it makes my life with ADHD so much easier but I would love to see fixes for these issues. Thank you for making this app suite, I appreciate it.

CelestialPanda14, Oct 06, 2020

Best scanning app I have ever used, and I have used them all

I have tried pretty much all of the blind friendly scanning apps that have been available since 2012–including the famous one from that well-known blindness organization that doesn’t work nearly as well as its proponents claim it does. Out of all of them, I have found this one to have the best method of indicating the location of text for proper orientation of the device, and it also has very rapid recognition. Additionally, it uses local recognition and does not use the cloud, which is great for privacy. One strange and unusual problem I have just discovered with it, though most people won’t experience this, is that if you reset all settings on an iPhone, this app no longer seems able to generate the scan tone, or use the camera flash. The app must be deleted and reinstalled, which isn’t really a problem once you figure out what you have to do. That little oddity aside, this is truly a great app, and is worth 10 times the price. I know, Because I have paid 10 times the price for other scanning apps for the blind which were not nearly as good.

DarkSquared42, Mar 31, 2022

Voice Dream equals Phenomenal as Always

As happens every time, I am once again blown away by this developer/s. For three years, Voice Dream Reader has remained the only tts app I continue to use every day.I have been waiting for a good affordable scanner app for the blind, and at last it has arrived. I am more greatful than I can say, and would have paid three times the price for this amazing app.I will be going to college later this year, and I am now feeling more confident about being able to access my future materials.Thanks so much Voice Dream Team!

Heavenwarrior, Apr 02, 2019

A surprising wonderful app!

This app is useful in more ways than one. To be completely honest, I was a bit skeptical at first. I have poor eyesight and to be able to simply take a picture of any words and have it read back to me is marvelous! If there is one tiny trick I’d add to this application, it’d be to have the ability of “ctrl F” the document and searching up a specific word. It clearly has the artificial technology to figure out all the words! This would make it even easier for those with poor eyesight, disabilities, or even students to aid in their studies when needing to find a specific word section or paragraph! Great app all around!

Jstauff16, Apr 26, 2021

Definitely worth the investment.

Thanks to the Voice Dream Scanner, sorting thru mail and other paperwork is a breeze! I just purchased this app and put it thru its paces organizing the desk. I especially appreciate the variety of options for saving scan results for further reference, and found this app much more enhanced with features than other options currently available. If I could add one feature, it would be a button for checking page orientation. Even though the app automatically corrects this, sometimes it is really important to know the physical orientation of the page. Still, definitely worth the investment, and I look forward to using the Voice Dream Scanner for many years to come.

laurelj73, Jun 26, 2020

Love it!

I just downloaded it and ran a couple of tests, and it works amazingly well. It’s especially great when used (as designed) in conjunction with the Boice Dream app. My only suggestions for improvement are 1) Allow it I just downloaded it and ran a couple of tests, and it works amazingly well. It’s especially great when used (as designed) in conjunction with the Boice Dream app. My only suggestions for improvement are 1) Allow it to work on photographs previously on my device; and 2) The optional tone that can be played when an edge is detected could be a lot more quiet and subtle and pleasant and still be equally effective. It would be much more effective, actually, because I wouldn’t feel compelled to turn off that option. Let me suggest two tones: one quick, short (and pleasant) one for when an edge is first detected, and then another for when an edge is no longer detected—and silence the rest of the time.

NewYorkDavid, Mar 31, 2019

Help please

Hello everyone, my name is Faith Switzer. I depend on these apps to complete my schoolwork and for much more. The Voice Dream Pack, Reader, and Writer work very well for me, however, I have been having a problem and I was wondering if anyone else has been having the same problem and how they felt with it. My problem is that my Scanner app deletes important documents all on its own. I clear nonessential documents before taking pictures of new ones and it picks random times to delete my whole library of scanned pages. If anyone is having this problem or has had it in the past, will you please let me know how you fixed. This would be greatly appreciated. Faith Switzer

Omakayas 2007, Nov 06, 2020

Helpful in hundreds of ways

This is One of a few apps I use daily. Why? I like things that just work simply and reliably. voice Dream Scanner has a simple but powerful interface that makes reading things, all kinds of things, very fast and easy. Today, I have used it to read a piece of mail I received, identify a bottle of lotion I was given as a gift, identify several cans of fruit to find pineapple for a fruit salad, and read several pages from a magazine, an article that was suggested by a friend. I also used it to read the directions on the package of frozen food where the barcode scanner in Seeing AI failed to recognize the product. I own several scanning apps including the very expensive one put out by NFB. This is the scanning app that does the job for me nearly every time with no fuss and no friction. It's funny to me that this app costs a little over five dollars while the NFB app cost $100. This app works, without crashing, and without breaking the bank.

plumlipstick, Jan 01, 2020

What Exciting News

I have used Voice Dream Reader for years and have hoped for a scanning app. I haven’t used it yet and will update accordingly when I do. In the meantime, I hope support for exporting to Voice Dream Writer will be included. I do not see this in the description, so forgive me if it is there and I missed it. The reason I mention this specifically, is that it is my experience that even the best scanned documents need a little bit of editing. This could also be because I am still figuring out which scanning program I like the best though.

stefmagura, Mar 31, 2019

Description

Scan paper documents, labels, signs with the camera and recognize text. Listen using built-in text-to-speech. Save and export.

Unlimited use: no subscriptions or additional charges. State-of-the-art A.I. for OCR and text recognition: Fast and accurate, even in poor lighting conditions. Works entirely on device: No need for internet and your data stays private. Recognizes text in the following languages: Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. ScanTone, a sound that represents the amount of recognizable text in the camera's field of view in real time. It uses artificial intelligence to analyze the live feed from the camera for text, angle, rotation, and document edges. Exports scans as plain text or accessible PDF with embedded text. Works with Voice Dream Reader, our full-featured text-to-speech reader. Sends scanned documents directly to Reader. Detailed Feature List Scanning - ScanTone - Live edges/crop detection - Flashlight - Batch mode for scanning multiple pages quickly - Intelligent auto capture Image - Automatic edge detection for stretching and cropping - Manually cropping - Automatic orientation detection and rotation - Manual image rotation - Automatic image enhancement OCR - Fast: about a second on the latest iPhone - Offline: does not require Internet connection - Private: image and text stay on device - Automatic language detection - Option to see image or recognized text Text To Speech - Choose from 61 voices - Premium voices in Voice Dream Reader available - Change speech rate - Option to start reading as soon as OCR is complete - Spoken word is highlighted in the text or the image - Rewind and fast forward by text section (VoiceOver users only) - Double tap on text to start reading from there Import and Export - Load from Photo Library - Share extension for sending images to Scanner from another app - Export plain text - Export PDF with text layer under the image so that it's accessible, searchable and selectable - Export to Voice Dream Reader