[Blind-sysadmins] Poor Man's KNFBReader

I discovered this morning that you can do a poor man's version of the KNFBReader app on a Linux machine. 1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or Ipod to a Linux computer. 2. Mount the device with the ifuse command. mkdir -p /media/john/iphone/ ifuse /media/john/iphone/ 3. Open the camera app and take a picture of your document. 4. Run tesseract to recognize text in the picture. tesseract /media/john/iphone/DCIM/100APPLE/IMG_0001.jpg stdout -- ### John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim@math.wisc.edu