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1. LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 20:31:37 JST LS
   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.
   • gray (gray@ryona.agency)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 20:37:22 JST gray

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     @lain it’s really cool when you see memes in another language and you can select the text in the image and translate it
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   • billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 21:22:28 JST billiam :4chan:

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     @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/
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   • billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 21:23:41 JST billiam :4chan:

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     @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.
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   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 21:24:52 JST LS

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     @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.
   • billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 21:32:25 JST billiam :4chan:

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     @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 people
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