Thanks for those tips. :) Sent from my iPhone
On 20/01/2012, at 3:11 AM, Esther <mori...@mac.com> wrote: > Hello Sadam, > > When LookTel Money Reader starts up, the camera on your iPhone is immediately > activated. There's maybe a 3 or 4 second pause before you hear "Money Reader > Running". Once you get that message, any bills that are placed within view > of your iPhone camera, and in sufficient light, will automatically be > identified. I typically hold my iPhone 4 camera between 4 to 6 inches from > the bills, for all currency (including Australian dollars). On the iPhone 4, > and I believe this is also true for the iPhone 4S, the light on the camera > will automatically come on if there is insufficient light to identify the > bill. (This is not true for the iPhone 3GS -- you must first check that > there is adequate lighting.) > > If you have not had any success with using this app, try the following: Place > your bills in a flat stack in your left hand with the iPhone lying on top of > them. The iPhone is in the normal orientation for use if you picked it up -- > the touch screen is toward you and the home button is at the bottom. The > long direction of the bills lies along the long direction of the iPhone, and > the width of the bills is only slightly wider than the iPhone. You can have > everything centered and lying flat on the palm of your hand. (If you are > left handed you can make the same arrangement with your right hand.) > > Now, simply pick up the iPhone by gripping the sides of the device with your > other hand, and lift it straight up from the palm of your hand about 4 or 5 > inches. You should hear the app announce the amount, e.g., "10 dollars". > VoiceOver will continue to repeat the denomination of the bill in the camera > view. You can also use the app on bills that are on a flat surface, but I > find it is easier to get a sense of the height and position if you first try > this by holding iPhone in one hand and the laying the bills flat in the palm > of your other hand. You can try moving the hand that holds the iPhone to > different heights, and feel what's most comfortable for you, and how quickly > the app responds to identifying the currency. > > OCR apps work best when you hold the camera fairly steady, at whatever height > you raise it to, so when you experiment, first move to a position, then keep > your hand in that position while the app runs. LookTel Money Reader should be > able to identify currency regardless of which side of the bill is facing the > camera, and it works fairly fast (e.g. tenths of seconds), so it will do > pretty well even if you don't hold the iPhone camera steady. (However, you > shouldn't try to deliberately wave the camera around so that it is never able > to focus well on the money.) > > Since the app reads whatever currency is in the camera view, it's best to > have only one bill visible at a time -- e.g. fanning out a number of bills > with different denominations will only confuse things. You could place a > stack of bills under the camera, then remove the top bill one by one, or you > could simply place a sequence single bills under the view of the camera. > > Incidentally, LookTel money reader will read out currencies whether or not > VoiceOver is running. It uses different voices for the different currencies, > and they're just different from the VoiceOver voices. If you want to have > the bills identified by tones instead of announcement (for more privacy), > turn on the mute switch (along the left side of your iPhone, near the top -- > it's the rectangular switch that you activate by pushing down.) You'll hear > tones with different pitches. One dollar will be a single, low tone. Five > dollars will be three low tones. Ten dollars is a single, high tone. Twenty > is two high tones, etc. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > On Jan 19, 2012, at 03:42, Sadam Ahmed wrote: > >> Hi all, today I downloaded the money reader app on my iPhone 4S. >> Unfortunately when I run the app all I'm getting from voice-over is money >> reader running. All efforts to get information by taking a picture of a $20 >> Australian bill have failed. Is there something I'm missing here. Maybe >> someone can give me a hand with this one? Thank you kind regards. >> >> Sent from my iPhone > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>thanks > Esther. 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