I never found Tesseract to be that good to be honest.
All the best
Steve
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-----Original Message-----
From: John G. Heim via Blind-sysadmins
I don't even bother with the iPhone these days and use the web camera on my desktop. Hold the paper up near the camera and take a picture and it usually works fine.
Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Turner via Blind-sysadmins
Sent: 07 September 2021 20:15 To: John G. Heim via Blind-sysadmins Cc: Chris Turner Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Poor Man's KNFBReader Ha, neat.
Thanks for this. Have saved in my notes.
Chris
On 07/09/21 15:27, John G. Heim via Blind-sysadmins wrote:
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
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