Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Phone OCR for computer monitors

Hi, I've got some usable output in the past with Google Gogles on my 4s, but being able to tell which boot option is highlighted will never / probably never be possible. This is part of the reason why I'm such a strong advicate of just deleting the partitions on any hard drives that are installed in a system. No worrying about having to select a boot device, no worrying about if the device you want to boot from is in the boot order or not and no worrying about the partitions screen during Windows installs. 9 times out of 10 the bios will try and boot from devices like cd drives and usb drives automatically if it doesn't see any partitions, so all you have to do is "press any key" *mashes every key on keyboard*. Cheers, Ben. On 9/29/13, John G. Heim wrote:

My understanding is that for IOS, the best OCR program is textDetective. I tried it on a monitor to read boot messages with very limited success. I've gotten a few words at timesbut that is about it.I think if you work at it hard enough it might work. I have an iPod Touch and the camera probably isn't as good as that in more expensive IOS devices.

On Sep 29, 2013, at 12:05 AM, Jackie McBride wrote:

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Yeah--good luck w/that.

On 9/28/13, David Mehler wrote:

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Hello,

I'm looking for a phone based solution, preferably free or low cost, that'll do OCR on a computer screen? My issue would be to use it to obtain information on boot up errors, selecting items in a boot list, for example newer boards the f12 options?

Thanks. Dave.

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