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on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 20:31:42 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
i'm sure most actual blind people know this, but iphones can describe pictures and read the text in them out loud. the ocr stuff is actually pretty useful even for non-blind people, because you can select text in images and copypaste it. -
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gray (gray@ryona.agency)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 20:37:36 JST gray
@lain it’s really cool when you see memes in another language and you can select the text in the image and translate it on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ likes this. -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 21:22:39 JST billiam :4chan:
@gray @lain someone actually did something similar to this on a mass scale.
He found a lot of memes and then OCRed them using iphones to create a meme search engine
Story: https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-iphone-racks-building-an-internet-scale-meme-search-engine-Qzrz7V6T.html
Search engine: https://findthatmeme.com/on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ likes this. -
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 21:23:50 JST billiam :4chan:
@lain yes, the iphone ocr is very good from what I've heard. Hopefully tesseract (FOSS OCR) gets to that point eventually.
Text to speech is another area where FOSS isn't that great - a pity because I think it would be great to have books read to you.In conversation permalink on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ likes this. -
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on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 21:24:59 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
@billiam i think not many people realize how far FOSS systems lag behind google and apple when it comes to accessibility, and not just in ways that can be solved by everyone putting semantic tags in their html. In conversation permalink -
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~robby (robby@zoinks.one)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 21:26:10 JST ~robby
@lain I used to select text in images on my phone all the time until Google randomly decided to remove the feature ???
I copied it on my desktop so now I can select text in images / videos / broken applications there but like… why remove it
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billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 21:32:37 JST billiam :4chan:
@lain while disabled people (blind, heavily dyslexic, etc) benefit from these techs the most on an individual level, general society can also benefit from the tech significantly.
Being able to have PDFs, emails, etc read to you while you mundane tasks would be a solid benefit for many peopleIn conversation permalink on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ likes this.
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