# Microsoft Office Lens, free alternative to KNFB reader

Category: Cell Phone Talk

## Post 1 by forereel (Just posting.) on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 12:16:12

I got this from flying blind.
I've not tried it, but the page provided gives instructions on how to install, and use it.
Doesn't work on Android yet.
5) Microsoft Office Lens is a free alternative to the KNFB Reader on the iPhone for reading print:
http://www.rsbc.org.uk/blogs/microsoft-office-lens-review-an-accessible-way-to-read-printed-documents/

## Post 2 by Remy (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 12:43:31

Identifi is a pretty fantastic reader as well. It's mostly an object recognizer like tap tap see, but its ocr capabilities are actually very accurate as well. In many situations I find them almost more reliable than the KNFB reader. Only caviot is they just speak everything as a continuous stream, rather than letting you navigate through a document like the KNFB reader does. Performing a three finger quadro tap to copy spoken text to the clipboard, then pasting it in a notes or similar word processing app takes care of that problem though.