Does this software work only with iPhones, or can it also be used on an iPod
Touch?

Mary Beth  

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[mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Esther
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 1:47 AM
To: Mac OS X & iOS Accessibility
Subject: TextDetective iPhone OCR app is currently free (13 March 2014)

Hello All,

TextDetective, the iPhone OCR app, is currently free.  It usually lists for
$8.99.  A quick description of how this differs from apps like TextGrabber
and Prizmo is that it works for English only, and you have to hold the
iPhone in landscape mode, so you don't usually get an entire letter- or
A4-sized page OCRed in one shot.  However, it works in video mode (like
Talking Goggles), so it's relatively fast. Before the VoiceOver specific
improvements to TextGrabber and Prizmo, many blind users found it easier to
use TextDetective to get results in freehand use (without a supporting
stand) than to train themselves to use TextGrabber or Prizmo.  And you can
use TextGrabber to read some text off your computer monitor in a pinch.
. TextDetective by Blindsight (currently free for limited time, usually
$8.99) 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textdetective/id541494875?mt=8

Note that this version runs under iOS 7.  If your iPhone is running an older
version of iOS, you can purchase the app under iTunes on your computer, and
then download the latest version of TextDetective that is compatible with
the version of iOS on your iPhone.

HTH.  Cheers,

Esther
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