VScan

A visual perception layer for the blind
AppID:com.rastislavkish.vscan
Author:Rastislav Kish
License:GPL-3.0-only
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InRepoSince:2025-10-18
LastRepoUpdate:2025-10-18
LastAppUpdate:Unknown
LastVersion:0.2.3
Categories:AI Chat, Multimedia
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This is a little project of mine aiming to research how vision LLMs could help out blind people on travel and in their every-day life by substituting eyesight for various visual tasks. VScan turns your smartphone's camera into a device for visual perception. You can define various optical cognitive functions, like looking for objects, signs, evaluating a scene or simply mediating visual impressions. You can afterwards use these functions on the camera view, just like a sighted person would use their eyes to achieve a specific goal in the physical world.



Each cognitive tool consists of two major parts:


Camera input in combination with an LLM processing prompt forms a cognitive function, which can be used to serve various visual tasks.


VScan is open-source software. Visit the project's official repository to learn more about its background, motivation, specific usage examples and setup instructions.


WhatsNew:

- There is now a standalone editor for entering the system prompt and user prompt. This editor has a large text field, which should make it easy to work with long and complex prompts.
- Various UI improvements and bug fixes.

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Version 0.2.3 (2025-10-18) no RB details available help icon

Android Versions:
  • Target: 16.0
  • MinVer: 7.0
  • ABIs: arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64
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