[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>
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)"
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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>
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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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