Martin, I think your best bet here would be with a human reader, either using VisWiz, or TapTapSee. I imagine you would either isolate the wire you want read, or at least put a little clamp onto it for identification. Otherwise, you could use Skype or FaceTime to have a reader help you in the method mentioned. HTH.
Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin G. McCormick" <[email protected]> To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 3:10 PM Subject: Wire Colors One of the more interesting things I have wanted to do with the camera in an iPad/iPhone is using it to read wire colors. The problem is that many wires are not one simple color. In an Ethernet cable, for instance, there are 8 wires that are colored in such a way as to allow a technician to tell which lead belongs with it's mate making for four pairs. As one example, the first pair is called "blue-white" and consists of one lead which is mostly blue with little wite thready spots like dashes printed in the insulation. It's mate is white with little blue markings against the white background. There is another pair that is green and grey and so forth. An OCR program probably couldn't help you much because these are not characters but a pattern-matching program probably could do it if you could show it only one wire at a time. Has anybody done this with any success? By the way, the real monster in this problem is that wires inside of equipment are in all sorts of places and bundled tightly making it hard to isolate one out of, say, 15 or 20 or lots more. I have seen the wire bundle coming out of a relay rack at our local telephone exchange. This bundle was about the size of a pair of legs and probably had 4800 strands in it. The color scheme repeats itself indefinitely and then the whole rainbow goes in to a sheath of some color pattern along with other small bundles in their sheaths of different colors and that's how they do this on a huge scale. The camera on an IOS device would probably be able to see lots of wires at once but the job would be to isolate the one to identify and ignore the rest. Martin <--- 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/> <--- 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/>
