Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Mobile OCR(also: Smartphone OCR, Camera-based OCR)
- Optical character recognition performed using a smartphone or tablet camera rather than a traditional flatbed scanner. Mobile OCR apps like KNFB Reader, Prizmo, and Text Detective enable blind and visually impaired users to capture and read printed text on the go, including…
- Text Spotting(also: Scene Text Detection)
- A computer vision technique that detects and localizes text within images in real time, without actually performing OCR recognition. Text spotting algorithms identify where text appears in a camera frame, its boundaries, and orientation. In accessibility applications, text…
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