Hi Brenda, You might do better looking for a PDF user manual for your device. A lot of these electronic devices use icons instead of text labels for buttons, so an OCR program won't necessarily help you identify the button controls, but a manual description that lists the buttons in order might provide the information you need.
I can't really think of any specific apps to recommend for this. talking Goggles in video mode works fairly well, but it would probably be better at identifying the device, instead of reading individual control labels. Your best shot might be the Text Detective app, if you already have this. That app can be used to identify text on parts of a computer screen, for example. But I doubt it will work as well for reading button labels on an electronic device. The problems are that you won't be able to tell whether lighting is good for your device, or where to point your camera for the buttons, unless you have some usable vision, whereas computer monitors are lit unless your screen curtain is turned on. Also, if the device uses an icon instead of text, the app won't be able to make an identification. At $9.99 for the current price of Text Detective, I'd be reluctant to try this as an experiment. If you bought this app at its introductory price of $1.99 over a year ago, it might be worth trying. Text Detective is an OCR app that works in video mode, like Talking Goggles and LookTel MoneyReader, but it can only read a part of a page. You also have to hold your iPhone in landscape mode, and the text cannot be recognized if the page is upside down or rotated by 90 degrees (which are conditions that both Prizmo and TextGrabber can handle). However, many people find TextDetective easier to use freehand than OCR apps like Prizmo or TextGrabber, even if they cannot get it to read an entire page , or even control well the part of the page that is recognized. HTH. Sorry not to have a more optimistic answer. Cheers, Esther On Dec 30, 2013, at 4:02 PM, "meadowlark77" wrote: > Hello y'all, > > Is there a program that we can use to get our iPhone5 to read butttons > such as on a CD-Writer? I have Prismo, latest version, but cannot get that > to do it. If there's something like that, please let me know. > > Thanks in advance, > > Brenda <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
