OneStep Reader gives you instant access to print anytime and anywhere. OneStep Reader 3.0 is a rapid and efficient text recognition app. Its text-to-speech, text-to-Braille, and text highlighting tools make it valuable for blind, low-vision, dyslexic, and others with reading differences. Use it to import or take a photo of anything containing text. Take a photo and the app reads text out loud or displays it on a connected refreshable Braille display. Read with more ease thanks to the simultaneous highlighting of the sentence and word that is being read on the picture or in the plain text document. The app helps you get a good photo with special alignment tools, including spoken and vibration guidance. Snap multiple pages, such as a book, for later reading. Winner of the 2014, 2015, and 2016 AppleVis Golden Apple Award for Best Assistive
Technology App. • Reads image-based PDF and JPEG files, and now tagged PDF and ePub files too! • Exports OneStep reader files as HTML or TXT files. • Navigates by line, sentence, word, or character. • Crop, rotate and edit the pictures you take before performing text recognition. • View documents in PDF presentation mode with double highlighting while reading. • View reading order and language-tagged PDF documents. • Add and remove bookmarks in PDF documents. • Switch between PDF view and reflowable text view. • Read documents in the increasingly popular ePub format.
The app also has synchronized text highlighting to help you read along with the spoken text, a benefit for people with dyslexia and other reading difficulties.
Need nutritional information from your breakfast cereal? OneStep reader can read labels. Out shopping and need a price? OneStep Reader can read price tags. Want to know what came in the mail? OneStep Reader captures it all.
OneStep Reader captures print from your computer or tablet screen. Photograph the screen and know exactly what that error message says. Little details abound. We got rid of the fifty-page limit for batch recognition. Everything gets turned on its side with landscape support. Add subfolders to the local folder structure. Use Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, or Google Drive to store and retrieve your documents. You can now make calls, send emails, and open hyperlinks directly from documents; call or email your new contact directly from the text of her business card!
Fully localized versions (user interface, recognition and speech) are available in: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Norwegian (Bokmål), Swedish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish, Danish, Polish, Russian, Japanese, and Czech.
Other languages available for speech and recognition only: Afrikaans, Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Romanian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Ukrainian.
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What’s new? The name for sure. But OneStep Reader, formerly known as KNFB Reader, continues to be your quick, accurate, and efficient access to any printed text through speech or Braille. So a new name, but with the same good functionalities! The transition of the KNFB Reader from the National Federation of the Blind (USA) to Sensotec and the accompanying name change to OneStep Reader (and OneStep Reader Multi) expresses the confidence of the NFB in Sensotec’s ability to provide continued support and upgrades that will benefit existing and future users.
3.3
2021-04-29
Various bugfixes
3.2
2019-11-27
Improve support for iOS 13
3.1
2018-08-30
Improved usability Minor bug fixes and stability improvements
3.0.1
2018-06-06
Minor bug fixes and stability improvements
3.0
2018-05-03
KNFB Reader 3.0 sports a whole new look and feel to help you work faster. •Crop, rotate and edit the pictures you take before performing text recognition. •View documents in PDF presentation mode with double highlighting while reading. •View reading order and language-tagged PDF documents. •Add and remove bookmarks in PDF documents. •Switch between PDF view and reflowable text view. •Read documents in the increasingly popular ePub format.
Little details abound. We got rid of the fifty-page limit for batch recognition. Everything gets turned on its side with landscape support. Add subfolders to the local folder structure. Use Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, or Google Drive to store and retrieve your documents. You can now make calls, send emails, and open hyperlinks directly from documents; call or email your new contact directly from the text of her business card!
2.9.1
2018-01-27
* Emergency fix due to a database issue impacting users.
2.9
2018-01-23
- Japanese UI added; - Stability improvements;
2.8
2017-06-16
* Updates for DropBox and minor bug fixes
* Initial release of Japanese and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
* New recognition languages added: - Afrikaans; - Albanian; - Croatian; - Hungarian; - Icelandic; - Indonesian; - Romanian; - Serbian (latin); - Slovak; - Slovenian
Please note that Voices may not be available for all recognition languages on all devices.
2.7.3
2017-04-20
- New app icon and splash screen added; - Czech user interface language added; - Fixes a crash some users experienced when taking a picture; - The "volume up" button will now take a picture and the "volume down" button will execute field of view; - Fixes some minor issues with voice-over accessibility.
2.7.1
2016-09-07
- Supports iOS10; - Use all available voices on your device in normal and enhanced quality; - Take a picture using the volume up/down buttons of your device; - Minor bug fixes and stability issues solved.
2.7
2016-06-14
The following languages are now supported:
- Russian text recognition and user interface; - Czech text recognition; - Bulgarian text recognition; - Ukrainian text recognition; - Estonian text recognition; - Greek text recognition.
A recognition issue with some PDF documents has been resolved. Minor bug fixes.
2.6.1
2015-11-11
- Fixes a problem with the default reading speed.
2.6
2015-10-08
- iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S plus supported;
2.5
2015-10-06
- Fixed an issue with the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S plus camera. This caused the app to crash when taking pictures with iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S plus; - "Try before you buy" allows you to take 25 free pictures. This allows you to test the accuracy and speed our text recognition.
2.4
2015-09-21
- Speech rate fixed for iOS9 compatibility - "Lens covered" message in automatic mode triggered to fast. This has now been fixed.
2.3
2015-09-10
Bug fixes in FOV and Stand mode
2.2
2015-09-03
- Minor bug fixed when recognising PDF documents;
2.1
2015-09-02
- Minor bug fix when recognising PDF documents;
2.0
2015-08-20
- Stand mode added; - Field of view report improved; - Limit recognition and speech languages in the settings screen; - Voice-over improvements; - Dropbox synchronisation and backup functionality; - General improvements
1.5
2015-05-04
- Added support for iPad Air 2; - Fixed an issue with voice-over using the language picker; - Fixed an issue with voice-over using the Field of View button.
1.4
2015-02-17
* New design for the file explorer, now all files in one table instead of three seperate tables. * Text recognition on images from e-mail or camera roll. * Vertical tilt detection added. * Optimized voice-over and Braille display support. * New import/export user-interface and optimization for import/export functionality.
1.3
2014-11-03
- Added text recognition for Turkish and Polish languages. - Added user interface translations for Turkish, Polish and Danish. - Added "tap and read" function on sentences or words for low-vision and users not using voice-over functions.
1.2
2014-10-15
- Added support for iPhone 4S, iPod Touch 5th generation, iPhone 6 and 6 plus; - Larger fonts now available for low vision users; - Changes and bug fixes to improve performance on all supported devices.