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Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world and describe nearby people, text, and objects.
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Productivity Free Microsoft Corporation iPhone, iPad, iPod

Optimized for use with VoiceOver, the app enables you to recognize:
• Short Text - Speaks text as soon as it appears in front of the camera.
• Documents - Provides audio guidance to capture a printed page, and recognizes the text, along with its original formatting.
• Products - Scans barcodes, using audio beeps to guide you; hear the name, and package information when available. (works with iPhone 6 and later)
• People - Saves people’s faces so you can recognize them, and get an estimate of their age, gender, and emotions.
• Scenes (early preview) - Hear an overall description of the scene captured.
• Images in other apps - Just tap “Share” and “Recognize with Seeing AI” to describe images from Mail, Photos, Twitter, and more.

Seeing AI is built to help you achieve more by leveraging the power of the cloud and artificial intelligence. As the research progresses, more channels may be added.

Check out tutorials with this YouTube playlist: http://aka.ms/SeeingAIPlaylist

Visit http://SeeingAI.com for more details

Available in the U.S., Canada, India, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore. Coming soon to more countries.
Languages supported – English
Supported on iPhone 5C, 5S and later; best performance with iPhone 6S and later models.

Questions, feedback or feature requests? Email us at seeingai @ microsoft.com.

Reviews

Love it already
A daughter of a major general

Woow I wish I had this 2 years ago I scanned my son and it said his age we were amazed I got this because it’s hard for me to see specially in the store great app you must get


A very powerful tool
Icicle Salad

I can scan my mail and identify money with this easily, which makes it a cut above the rest of these sorts of apps. It's sometimes not the best for reading a very long document, but I can at least tell if my mail is junk or if I need to hold onto it. Moreover, the barcode reader is a nice touch. Its not the fastest thing ever to find that pesky UPC but you can do it. Overall this is highly recommended for most quick OCR and scanning uses. Download it and give it a whirl, I think you'll be impressed!


Must have for blind iPhone users.
Die lois

I use this app daily to get around and interpret my surroundings. It’s the biggest reason I’ve stuck with iPhones because it’s exclusive to iPhone.


more features
youWink

could we have the light detection area detect light in 3D so we can know where we are by measuring depth with loudness and contrast difference with pitch change


Multi page documents
Wade horton

Nice if we had N instead of One page at a time. Page document take multi The ability It would be very


Love this app. It is a life changer!!!
Nellow123

I am a person with a visual impairment and sometimes struggle to see faces or read text. I tried the “person” feature on my parents and it was pretty close in age and facial expression. Highly recommend this app to any people with a visual impairment!!!


Wonderful App!!
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My brother is blind and has been living independently for a few years now. Occasionally I'll head over and get a few questions -- maybe which flavor of a product is which. Maybe he received a few dollars back and he didn't know which was the 5 and which was the 1. This app is able to help him with almost all of those questions, help make his life a little easier, and move him closer towards independence. It's very generous of Microsoft to offer this app for free to help the blind!


almost perfect.
HoliSaGE

this app is great. uf i could have one feature it would be object identification, real time would be even better. till then keep up the great work.


DOES NOT recognize Wingdings
Teckmarkram

And I mean what is even the point of this app if you can’t point it at your computer screen where someone has put a secret message in Wingdings and have that secret message read aloud? Great app, Microsoft! But please add support for Wingdings!


languages
Vbvvnh

please make a Arabic language with a language of this app


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