Seeing AI vs SMART InkScan

Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you. Designed with and for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world by describing nearby people, text and objects. Seeing AI provides tools to assist with a variety of daily tasks: • Read - Hear text as soon as it appears in front of the camera. Document alignment provides audio cues to capture a printed page and recognize the text along with its original formatting. Ask Seeing AI about the contents to easily find the information you need. • Describe - Take photos to hear a rich description. Ask questions to focus on the information you care about. Explore photos by moving your finger over the screen to hear the location of different objects. • Products - Scan barcodes and Accessible QR codes using audio beeps to guide you; hear the product name and package information when available. • People - Save photos of friends and coworkers so you can recognize them later. Get an estimate of their age, gender, and expression. • Currency - Recognize currency notes. • Find My Things - Teach Seeing AI to recognize your personal objects and follow the audio cues to find them later. • World - An Audio Augmented Reality experience to explore an unfamiliar environment, including hearing objects announced around you with Spatial Audio (requires a device with a LiDAR, and iOS 14+). • Colors - Identify colors. • Light - Hear an audible tone corresponding to the brightness of your surroundings. • Photos and Videos in other apps - Just tap “Share” and “Recognize with Seeing AI” to describe media from Mail, Photos, WhatsApp, and more. • Browse Photos - Hear descriptions of photos and videos saved on your device. Seeing AI continues to evolve as we hear from the community, and AI research advances. Visit http://SeeingAI.com for more details. Questions, feedback or feature requests? Email us at SeeingAI@Microsoft.com.

For those who love the immediacy and expression of pen and paper, SMART InkScan converts handwritten artifacts into digital SMART ink™. Users can begin brainstorming on the back of a napkin and seamlessly continue working from their mobile device, bridging the gap between the physical and digital domains. InkScan also offers the most useful features of other mobile scanner apps such as perspective correction, multi-image capture, numerous annotation options, and export as image or pdf. For users with access to a SMART Board with iQ, SMART InkScan offers a smooth transition from dry-erase whiteboards to SMART Ink with just a snap. InkScan converts your photos into digital ink and sends them directly to a SMART Board with iQ allowing teachers and students to continue working interactively with content. Here are some delightful examples of how SMART InkScan can improve your workflow: - Snap a pic of your next great concept sketch and convert it to digital ink. Continue fine-tuning your work within the app or use the large canvas on a SMART Board with iQ - Use the new Files app in iOS to import PDFs. Add a signature to important documents and share via email. You can even save your signature for next time - Enhance the quality of those whiteboard pics on your camera roll. Use the inking tools to markup and distribute to your team as a PDF or image - Combine notes taken from multiple team members, highlight the important items share them with your study group - Compile receipts for your next expense report, add notes and export as a multi-page PDF