Envision AI: App that made life easy, especially of "visually impaired"

Nowadays, the world is booming with AI (Artificial Intelligence), from medical science to technology, and it is improving day-by-day. But have you ever thought how AI can prove as a boon for those visually impaired people who have difficulty in recognizing things?

To provide an AI solution for visually impaired people, Envision, based in the Netherlands, developed an app that could do a lot of stuff for solving problems. 

What exactly is Envision AI? 

Envision AI is an app through which you can get information about the surrounding events. If you are facing some problem in reading out a text, this app can scan the text and read out the text for you. 

This app can even maintain a soft copy of the text after scanning a document. 

Even if a person who cannot see which activities are taking place around him/her, that person can just take out the app, capture the surrounding, and then Envision AI will read out the relevant description of the surrounding.

So basically, this app works on scanning a variety of stuff over the camera and reading it out. But apart from these basic features, Envision AI carries a lot of advanced features.

Now let’s learn the key features of Envision AI!

Key Features of Envision AI

• Reads out the text
• Those who face difficulty in reading texts, over the web or on any hard copy of the document, they just need to take the app out, place the camera over text, and relax! The app will instantly read out the text for them. This app can even read out the handwritten text, but this feature is still improving.  

Envision AI captures the image and extracts the text from it

• Envision AI not only reads the text but also maintains a document of the text. One can capture many lines of text, and the app will store those texts in a document that can be saved as a file in the device, or can be shared over web (Email, Social platforms, etc.).

 

• Describes the scene

Envision AI has relevant description for a scene

•  For a visually impaired person, it is impossible to see the happenings around. But it is now possible with Envision AI. 
• This app can observe the environment and detects the actions of the people around, or detects the state of the objects. For example, Envision can judge whether the person around is sitting or standing, the table is occupied with books or cups, and many more scenes.
• Every information is captured and processed, and then the app speaks the result to the user. 

•  Detects a variety of colors
•  A person with color blindness has a hard time judging a color. But Envision AI has a solution to this problem too!
• With the recognition of over 900 colors, this app gives you an accurate name for any shade. Just place the screen over the object, and the app will speak the accurate shade of the object.

• Detects a product with the barcode

Envision AI scans the barcode and returns the product's name

• If a visually impaired person goes out for shopping with nobody for help, then Envision AI is the best assistance to have. 
• Just pick up a product, scan its barcode, and there you get the name of the product! Interesting, isn’t it? 

• Recognizes the people and objects
• Envision AI can help people find their things. There is a database of frequently accessed objects such as a book, cup, bottle, and many more objects. Just scan the place and this app will detect your desired object.  
• You can even teach this app to recognize people. 

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Personal review

I have used this app and came to some conclusions as discussed below:

• The overall performance is good. For iOS, the UI is easy to use. All the features are accessible on a single screen.
• Text detection is the best feature of this app. Even if we want to send a large text to someone, it is possible with Envision AI. Just open the app, capture the text, and send it! 
• While reading a book online, our eyes might get tired and we can face difficulty in reading text on the device. Envision AI helped me to hear the book with no clutter in the sentences. 
• The app recognizes barcodes accurately. 
• The scenes I captured had the perfect description provided to me by the app.  
• I faced an issue in color detection, as the app could not process the color. With further developments, we expect this bug to resolve. 
• The object and face detection feature is still under development stage.

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Download 

Envision AI is really very helpful and once it is well-developed, it will be among the top apps in the market. 

To experiment with Envision AI, get it on your devices now! 

Get Envision AI for Android

Get Envision AI for iOS 

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