[nabs-l] FW: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Launches EyeNote™App to Help the Blind and Visually Impaired Denominate US Currency

[Kirt Manwaring]

Sean,
  There is one that just reads out currency-it's called LookTell Money
Reader.  It costs a couple dollars, and it doesnt have the vibrating
feature that some people like.  I say good for them-diversity's never
a bad thing.
  Best,
Kirt

On 5/17/11, Sean Whalen <smwhalenpsp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aren’t there already iPhone apps that do this?
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> From: White House Disability Group <disability at messages.whitehouse.gov>
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> Date: May 17, 2011 3:45:19 PM EDT
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> To: cmacdonald at linchpinstrategies.com
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> Subject: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Launches EyeNote™App to Help the
> Blind and Visually Impaired Denominate US Currency
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> Reply-To: White House Disability Group <disability at messages.whitehouse.gov>
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> Bureau of Engraving and Printing Launches EyeNote™App
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> to Help the Blind and Visually Impaired Denominate US Currency
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> The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) has developed a free downloadable
> application (app) to assist the blind and visually impaired denominate US
> currency.  The app is called EyeNote™.  EyeNote™ is a mobile device app
> designed for Apple iPhone (3G, 3Gs, 4), and the 4th Generation iPod Touch
> and iPad2 platforms, and is available through the Apple iTunes App Store.
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> EyeNote™ uses image recognition technology to determine a note’s
> denomination.  The mobile device’s camera requires 51 percent of a note’s
> scanned image, front or back, to process.  In a matter of seconds, EyeNote™
> can provide an audible or vibrating response, and can denominate all Federal
> Reserve notes issued since 1996.  Free downloads will be available whenever
> new US currency designs are introduced.  Research indicates that more than
> 100,000 blind and visually impaired individuals could currently own an Apple
> iPhone.
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> The EyeNoteTM app is one of a variety of measures the government is working
> to deploy to assist the visually impaired community to denominate currency,
> as proposed in a recent Federal Register notice.  These measures include
> implementing a Currency Reader Program whereby a United States resident, who
> is blind or visually impaired, may obtain a coupon that can be applied
> toward the purchase of a device to denominate United States currency;
> continuing to add large high contrast numerals and different background
> colors to redesigned currency; and, raised tactile features may be added to
> redesigned currency, which would provide users with a means of identifying
> each denomination via touch.
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> More information is available at http://www.eyenote.gov/ or through email at
> eyenote at bep.gov.
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> More information can be found also at:
> http://www.bep.treas.gov/uscurrency/meaningfulaccess
> <http://www.bep.treas.gov/uscurrency/meaningfulaccess>
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