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Read packaging, handwriting and photos independently as a blind person with Be My AI

A blind blogger describes how Be My AI (in the Be My Eyes app) and Seeing AI read package instructions, handwritten phone numbers and cards, and check whether a photo is framed well enough to post.

Reported by Notes from the edge of the systemon edgeofthesystem.com

A prompt to try

[Attach photo] Describe this image for a blind user. First tell me if anything important is cut off or blurry and how to move the camera. Then read all the text exactly as printed, including any handwriting, and summarize what it means in one sentence. If it's packaging, list the instructions step by step.

Fill in anything in [brackets] before you send it. Anything that spends money, sends a message or signs something should stay behind your own approval.

How it went, step by step

  1. 01Open Be My AI and take a photo of the label, letter or object. Retake it if the description says part is cut off.
  2. 02Ask follow-up questions about the image, for example "What are the cooking instructions?"
  3. 03Before posting a photo, ask whether everyone is fully in frame.
  4. 04For things like a thermostat, use live camera mode and ask the assistant to guide your aim.
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