[blindkid] EyeNote App

Sally Thomas seacknit at gmail.com
Fri Dec 9 05:35:42 UTC 2011


My son is using Look Tel in Australia.  It is reading the Aussie dollars 
too!

Sally Thomas
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From: "d p" <dpkdkd at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 3:46 AM
Subject: Re: [blindkid] EyeNote App


Look Tel Money Reader is free as well and we have it on the iTouch - it does 
use the camera but the nice thing is that you do not have to actually take a 
picture - you simply hover the camera over the bill and it will identify 
what it is



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 From: Richard Holloway <rholloway at gopbc.org>
To: (for parents of blind children) NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List 
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Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:11 AM
Subject: [blindkid] EyeNote App

This is cool-- I may have overlooked some discussion about it as the app is 
a good six months old or more, but there is an iOS App (iPhone, iPad, etc.) 
that is FREE and announces currency values. Seems like the stand alone 
device for this a while back was hundreds of dollars, right?

The app is actually from the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing. There is a 
similar app called "Identify Money" but it won't load under iOS 5 for me so 
I can't tell you much about that. "EyeNote" seems to work quite well with 
either the front or back of money. The only problem I see at this point is 
aiming the camera correctly as missing just tells you there is an error, not 
how to correct your aim, but I think with a bit of practice it would be 
handy.

There are also some color apps targeted for the color blind which I suspect 
may be useful for the blind as well, though I have not explored them a lot. 
The really cool thing is that if these work for a particular need, you can 
often buy an iPad with the app for no more than the cost of the specialized 
device from a few years ago and then you have an iPad, or if you already 
have an iPad (iPhone, etc.) clearly you can save hundreds of dollars over 
buying dedicated devices and you can potentially haul around many solutions 
in one compact device.

I even see a mobile OCR app or two, I'm sure they are not knfb reader grade 
items, but they may have some uses. The thing that excites me most about 
this is there may be a good chance some of these can be refined for use by 
the blind with a few interface tweaks.

I'm wondering, are there any apps others on the list are finding useful?
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