Text Detective

Find and read text with your iPhone

Text Detective can detect text and read it aloud--whether it's a nearby sign, a handout, or a document.

Here's what users say about the app:

“It truly is an app among apps. Nothing I've ever used for iOS comes close.” - Andre

“Love it! Love it! Love it. I especially like the way it just keeps scanning until it finds text." - Mark

"I have had success with the app identifying labels at work. Thank you very much!" -Paul

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Smart Magnifier

New ways to find and magnify text

Forget your clunky CCTV - the Smart Magnifier for the iPad or iPad Mini will change the way magnification is done, specifically when you use it for reading text.

The Smart Magnifier will find the text, magnify it and enhance it to suite your visual need - as simple as snap, tap and read.

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Sight On Call

A companion at a press of a button

Blindsight's planned remote assistance service, Sight On Call, enables and enhances an active life, delivering on the promise of location-aware phones and distributed web services.

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Perkolator

Braille Typewriting on a Mac

Blindsight's Perkolator is a six-key braille emulator program that makes it easy to practice Braille typewriting on a Mac.

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Striving to provide information and communication access without barriers.

Technology

An iPhone is pointed at text and the application detects the text We're developing text- and object detection software that provides information about your environment...

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Beta testing out a phone app to detect textWe are always looking for tech savvy individuals. Whether to be the first to use the latest iPhone apps we come up with, try out new interfaces or interactions with mobile...

Blindsight News

News ImageVersion 1.2 of TextDetective Out Now - New feature: recognition and grouping of multiple columns for better reading performance in VoiceOver.  

Who we are

Blindsight Logo For over 10 years, Blindsight has been working on using computer vision to assist the blind, low-vision, and the aging population. A research and development...