Re: reading numbers in pictures

[Alex Stone]

You  can find the imei number and the serial number in settings general about. Written in Braille on Alex's  Iphone On 23 Jul 2025, at 06:03, vcollins5...@gmail.com wrote:  When I give an unopened iPhone to a family member, rather than having them read me the IMEI and serial number and the like on the back of the iPhone box, I just ask them to take a picture of the back of the box for me, and then I’ll copy the appropriate information from the picture to a file for my records later on. When I do this, however, since I like to check with one of the online IMEI checker sites first to make sure I’m reading the picture correctly, it sometimes takes a while as I have a hard time getting one of my iPhone apps to correctly read the pertinent information from the pictures. When I was doing this yesterday, though, since the pictures are of course on my iPhone, I decided to just try the detect text in the photos app. And surprisingly, it read the IMEI numbers and the serial number correctly on the first attempt in just about every case, while Seeing AI and Be My Eyes never did get a correct IMEI, although they may have gotten a serial number correct once or twice. Oh, and who knows which ones of these are safe or not, but the free IMEI checker I use is: https://imeicheck.com/iphone-imei-check Vicky Collins USA -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.   If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.   Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com   The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/076701dbfb8f%241e6433a0%245b2c9ae0%24%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.   If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.   Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com   The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/48CD261A-4EDF-413D-A2DC-5EB932402935%40gmail.com.