Updated as of May 18, 2024.
About Voice Dream Scanner
With the Voice Dream Scanner app, you can transform your SmartPhone or tablet into an on-demand scanning tool.
Using Voice Dream Scanner
Non-visually accessible
In addition to controls that are accessible without the use of vision, Voice Dream Scanner utilizes a tool called ScanTone. ScanTone is a sound that represents the amount of recognizable text in the camera’s field of view in real-time. It uses artificial intelligence to analyze the live feed from the camera for text, angle, rotation, and document edges. Louder is better.
Ease of use
Voice Dream Scanner quickly scans documents with high accuracy, even in sub-optimal lighting conditions, Additionally, the Voice Dream Scanner operates offline. Thus, it is available whenever your device is, and scans remain on your device unless you send them to external sources.
Purchasing Voice Dream Scanner
Apple App Store
- Called VDScan
- Available for the iPhone, and the iPad
- Cost: $14.99
Google Play Store
- Called Legere Scanner
- Cost: $4.99
Detailed Feature List from VoiceDream Scanner
Scanning
- ScanTone: ScanTone is a sound that represents the amount of recognizable text in the camera’s field of view in real time. It uses artificial intelligence to analyze the live feed from the camera for text, angle, rotation, and document edges. Louder is better.
- Live edges/crop detection
- Flashlight
- Batch mode for scanning multiple pages quickly
- Intelligent auto capture
Image
- Automatic edge detection for stretching and cropping
- Manually cropping
- Automatic orientation detection and rotation
- Manual image rotation
- Automatic image enhancement
OCR
- Fast: a couple of seconds on the latest iPhone
- Offline: does not require Internet connection
- Private: image and text stay on device
- Automatic language detection
- Option to see image or recognized text
Text To Speech
- Choose from 61 voices
- Premium voices in Voice Dream Reader available
- Change speech rate
- Option to start reading as soon as OCR is complete
- Spoken word is highlighted in the text or the image
- Rewind and fast forward by text section (VoiceOver users only)
- Double tap on text to start reading from there
Import and Export
- Load from photo library
- Share extension for sending images to Scanner from another app
- Export plain text
- Export PDF with text layer under the image so that it’s accessible, searchable and selectable
- Export to Voice Dream Reader as PDF
Limitations
- Only languages using Latin alphabets are supported. It works all language supported by Voice Dream Reader except: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean and Russian
- Sometimes reads multi-column text layout out of sequence
Contact the Bridges Helpdesk for More Information
- Our Accessible web form
- Email: Helpdesk@imagemd.org
- Text: Send to: (410) 357-1546
- Voice mail: Call (410) 357-1546, leave a voice mail message, and we will return your call
This unique project is being coordinated through The IMAGE Center of Maryland, a center for independent living in Towson, and it is funded by a grant from the Maryland Department of Education Division of Special Education/Early Intervention Services.