Listen to Captured Text with VDScan
VDScan is a text scanner for iPhones, designed for people with visual impairment and dyslexia. State-of-the-art AI provides human-level text recognition and text-to-speech. Everything runs on-device to protect your privacy.
Key Features
Fast and Accurate
State-of-the-art AI recognizes text accurately even in poor lighting. Recognition is nearly instantaneous. Runs on device to protect your privacy.
Text To Speech
Captured text can be spoken out-loud using text to speech. Word highlighting on the captured image as well as plain text.
Export to PDF
Export scans as accessible PDF documents with text layer.
Beloved By All
Experts and Customers Agree: It's the Best OCR Scanner
Bill Holton, AFB AccessWorld
Thomas Domville, AppleVis Editorial
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Top FAQs
VDScan combines two most powerful text recognition engines in world to create the best text scanner. In our testings, no other scanner performs better. Text recognition and text-to-speech happen on device and they are blazing fast.
1). VDScan plays an audible tone (ScanTone) that gets louder based on how much text is in the camera's field of vision. 2). VDScan automatically detect the orientation of the paper. 3). VDScan can immediately speak the recognized text after capture. 4). VDScan's user interface is optimized for VoiceOver.
1). VDScan automatically detects the page and crops. It's possible to scanned a multi-page document in seconds. 2). VDScan speaks the recognized text while highlighting the spoken word either in the image or in plain text. 3). VDScan can export scanned pages to an accessibility PDF document.
VDScan is currently $9.99. It's an one-time cost; there is no subscription.
You can download it from Apple App Store, or Apple Education Store if you're a school.
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