My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

Re:My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Visi... by namuol on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:45PM (#44313144)

Interesting tech but there’s zero explanation of the actual application, so it’s all a little abstract.

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Re:My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Visi... by unangst on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @10:09PM (#44314833)

Agreed. Came to the comments thinking the same thing.

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Re:My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Visi... by nerbert on Thursday June 19, 2025 @03:57AM (#44316460)

A little detail in the otherwise great write up! I'm curious too.

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Re:My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Visi... by novoreorx on Friday June 20, 2025 @10:06AM (#44327867)

the code example of vision framework, and the links in "Software Resources" section are enough I guess, you can feed them to an LLM to get a full application if you are too lazy to figure out by yourself

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Re:My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Visi... by namuol on Friday June 20, 2025 @12:41PM (#44329522)

I meant what is the _author’s specific_ application.

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