What makes Envision's text recognition stand out from the rest?

Since we know that text recognition is the most important function for our users, we have dedicated efforts into building features that make the text reading experience great. We take into account different context, different formats and different types of text that users encounter everyday and provide you with a great toolkit to choose from accordingly. Here's a list of all the text recognition features that come power-packed with the Envision app.

• Instant Text

  Uses the video feed of the camera to constantly speak out the text in front of it. Ideal for quickly reading short pieces of text envelopes, room numbers, street signs and cereal boxes.

• Document Text

  Captures an image of a document and uses our optimisation algorithms to give you accurate output of the text in it. Ideal for dense and complex documents, letters, invoices and menu cards.

• Read Multiple Pages

  If you have text that spans multiple pages, you can scan all of them at once and read them together. Ideal for school assignments, magazines or books.

• Handwriting Recognition

  One of the unique advantage of our text recognition is that it is well-trained in also recognising handwritten text. Ideal for handwritten notes, greeting cards and letters. Not ideal for doctor's prescriptions.

• Available in 60 Languages

  Our increased localisation efforts ensures that our text recognition can recognise over 60 different languages, including languages with different scripts like Japanese, Arabic and Hindi. Find list of all the languages we recognise here.

• Translate Text

  In addition to recognising text in different scripts, you can also translate the recognised text into any of the 60 language that you want.

• Automatic Language Detection

  If you are a multi-lingual user or deal with text in several languages at once, the automatic language detection if your friend. It detects the languages of a piece of text and makes sure it is spoken out with the correct voice.

• Document Edge Detection

  This feature provide audio cue about whether all the edges of a document that you are trying to read are in the frame or not. It offers audio guidance that enables users to position the camera correctly over the document to ensure all of it is captured.

• Column Detection

  This feature is key as it can help you read magazines, newspapers or other columned text in the correct manner, without jumbling up the text.

• Read from Images

  If you come across images, on messaging or social media apps, you can share those images with Envision to get a description of what's in the image as well as recognise what text is on it.

• Import Files

  In addition to images, it is also possible to import files that you get in PDF, Word and ePUB format. Envision makes their content accessible and easy to read.

• Save to Library

  When you want to save a piece of text to read it repeatedly or at a later time, you can save it directly into the Envision Library.

• Export Files

  The text recognised by Envision can also be exported as a .txt file, copied to your clipboard or shared directly into an app of your choice.

• Magnifier

  For users with low-vision, the Envision app also works as a magnifier to enlarge and read a text you wish to read. You can also adjust contrast with Invert Colors.