Summary: In this podcast, AnonyMouse gives us a walk-through and demonstration of TextDetective, a new iOS OCR application that has been developed specifically for the sight-impaired. TextDetective finds and reads text in printed documents within seconds using your iPhone’s camera. The detected text can easily be read, edited, copied and pasted into documents, emails or other apps. It even stores all the scanned text in a history, which allows you to refer to it later. Every step is accessible. TextDetective works best with the clean and crisp text you find in documents, and at a distance of about the length of a forearm. You can use it wherever you go, and you don’t need to worry about network coverage. The app is optimized for iPhone 4S, but can be used with iPhone 4 and iPod touch. If you want to use Text Detective on an iPad, please be aware that the camera position is different to the one on the iPhone / iPod, which might require additional practice to align the camera lens and align the text. You can read the early impressions of several other TextDetective users on the AppleVis website. TextDetective is available for $1.99 from the iTunes App Store.
