OneStep Reader app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 9520 ratings )

Productivity Photo & Video Utilities
Developer: Sensotec nv

99.99 USD

Current version: 3.5, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 18 Sep 2014
App size: 307.6 Mb

OneStep Reader gives you instant access to print anytime and anywhere.
OneStep Reader 3.0 is a rapid and efficient text recognition app. Its text-to-speech, text-to-Braille, and text highlighting tools make it valuable for blind, low-vision, dyslexic, and others with reading differences.
Use it to import or take a photo of anything containing text. Take a photo and the app reads text out loud or displays it on a connected refreshable Braille display. Read with more ease thanks to the simultaneous highlighting of the sentence and word that is being read on the picture or in the plain text document. The app helps you get a good photo with special alignment tools, including spoken and vibration guidance. Snap multiple pages, such as a book, for later reading.
Winner of the 2014, 2015, and 2016 AppleVis Golden Apple Award for Best Assistive

Technology App.
• Reads image-based PDF and JPEG files, and now tagged PDF and ePub files too!
• Exports OneStep reader files as HTML or TXT files.
• Navigates by line, sentence, word, or character.
• Crop, rotate and edit the pictures you take before performing text recognition.
• View documents in PDF presentation mode with double highlighting while reading.
• View reading order and language-tagged PDF documents.
• Add and remove bookmarks in PDF documents.
• Switch between PDF view and reflowable text view.
• Read documents in the increasingly popular ePub format.

The app also has synchronized text highlighting to help you read along with the spoken text, a benefit for people with dyslexia and other reading difficulties.

Need nutritional information from your breakfast cereal? OneStep reader can read labels. Out shopping and need a price? OneStep Reader can read price tags. Want to know what came in the mail? OneStep Reader captures it all.

OneStep Reader captures print from your computer or tablet screen. Photograph the screen and know exactly what that error message says.
Little details abound. We got rid of the fifty-page limit for batch recognition. Everything gets turned on its side with landscape support. Add subfolders to the local folder structure. Use Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, or Google Drive to store and retrieve your documents. You can now make calls, send emails, and open hyperlinks directly from documents; call or email your new contact directly from the text of her business card!

Fully localized versions (user interface, recognition and speech) are available in: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Norwegian (Bokmål), Swedish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish, Danish, Polish, Russian, Japanese, and Czech.

Other languages available for speech and recognition only: Afrikaans, Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Romanian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Ukrainian.

Supported devices: iPhone X, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPadPro, iPad Pro 12.9-inch, iPad Pro 9.7-inch, iPad Air 2, iPad Air, iPod touch 6th Generation, iPod 5th Generation.

Visit our website at: www.OneStepreader.com

Pros and cons of OneStep Reader app for iPhone and iPad

OneStep Reader app good for

This is a great app for the visually and pay her. My only issue with this app right now, is that when you select Martha page document it does not let you type multiple pages only the first page. Please fix this problem. Will write a five when you fix them up to page document selection. Thanks.

an excellent app. Does exactly what it says it will. four stars only because there is no trial and because of a few minor bugs which should have been found before release.

This is currently ny number one app and i would encourage ecery blind person who wants access to printed material to purchase and downloadit. It will take time and patience to learn but it will be well worth it. It is also worth ecery penny. Dont let dollars be a stumbling vlock for you to purchase this app.

I am a blind person for the first time ever I was able to open mail and have it read to me I am so thankful to have this app

Some bad moments

The user interface for KNFBReader Great compared to Prizmo. When comparing theKNFBReader app with other apps for more complicated documents it is superior. If youre scanning regular letters, thePrizmo App or TextGrabber plus translator will suffice. The advantage is thatKNFBReader Will also OCR text from the computer screen. Definitely worth the money even if you dont have any discounts by using gift cards are waiting for it to be on sale. This is not a biased opinion, it is based on comparison and experience. @TheBlindMan12v

wow. This single app is a life changer for blind people. it recognizes text extremely accurately and quickly. its far faster than using my flatbed scanner with kurzweil and as fast or faster than open book with the pearl doc camera. I have taken twenty or so pictures since downloading, even of my computer screen, and have been continuously amazed with the results. if u are debating getting it, dont. Its the real thing. Its what we have been waiting for! nfb and good old ray have done it again.

I have used several OCR applications on different platforms. Some of them worked well but on iOS, I have generally had very poor results with them until KNFB Reader came along. I stuck a regular office memo under the phone and gave this app a try and it read the memo almost perfectly on my first attempt. My camera technique isnt all that good either. So I must say that these guys hit one out of the park with this one.

I have tested this on multiple documents with amazing accuracy. Works great on 5C running 7.1.2. However not good on iPod 5 gen. on iOS 8. I think its the fault of iOS 8, not the app!

Fast, accurate, good feedback about what the camera can see, great braille support. Faster multipage scanning than the competition. The elegance of the interface and quality of results may justify the price tag if you have to deal with a lot of print. Ill give it five stars when I can pan the camera and it will alert me to text in my environment in realtime.

I bought it, used it, and love it. Talk about a product that is simply amazing. Its everything it was promised to be.

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