HI Grant and Kimber, Grant, I know you've posted about this before -- that you were not able to get Looktel Money Reader working even with sighted help -- but I'm frankly baffled. As I recall, you now have an iPhone 4S, right? I've tried this app out with an iPhone 4 on US, Australian, and Canadian dollars, and Euros and pounds, and it has picked up all of them. I don't have the newer Canadian bills to test, but I know that other users, including some like Sieghard who had problems using the first international update with these bills, use the current version successfully.
Apart from having your camera lens blocked by the hole in your case, or a dirty lens, the only thing I can think of is having an incompletely downloaded app, which you might try deleting and downloading again. You do know, don't you, that some of the older iPhone 4 cases that can fit the iPhone 4S may have holes for the camera lens that aren't large enough to let all the light through? You can still take pictures, it's just that you're not using the full area of the camera lens, which will cut down on the amount of light and quality of the images. If this is the case, you'll find that the app works when your iPhone is taken out of a problematic case. With the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S, the Looktel money reader app should even try to turn on the flash if there is insufficient light, but with an iPhone 3GS you need to check the light level before you use the app. I usually check light level first with the Light Detector app anyway. Try holding the bills flat in your left hand with the iPhone on top of the stack, and lifting the iPhone directly up about 6 inches from your palm. (If you're left handed, use your right hand for the bills, and lift the iPhone with your left hand.) For a more detailed description of instructions, see my archived post on using the Looktel Money Reader app in the Mail Archive pages for the mac-access list: • Using LookTel Money Reader for the first time [was Re: Strange behaviour with money reader.] http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access%40mac-access.net/msg07238.html HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jun 8, 7:50 am, Kimber Gardner <kimbersinbox1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I haven't had a lot of luck with the looktel money reader either. My > iPhone is less than a month old so I'm sure it's not the camera. I've > had more success with eyenote, which I believe is an app from the > treasury dept. > > As for the other looktel app I don't have it and so can't comment. > > Kimber > > On 6/8/12, Grant Hardy <grantha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > I've posted in the past about the Looktel money recognizer being > > unable to read any of the currency I throw at it. As of yet I've > > never, ever had a bill be spoken. It doesn't matter if I put it on a > > table, hold it in front of the camera, move it around, expose > > different parts of the currency, and so on. > > > The object recognizer also doesn't work particularly accurately and > > often gives unexpected results. A good example is that I've actually > > put, well, bills, into the database, and these are always mixed up. > > > You don't suppose I could have a subtle problem with my camera, do > > you? We don't notice anything when taking photos, but maybe there's a > > subtle scratch on the camera or something? Do you have any ideas why > > the Looktel apps would be behaving so oddly? > > > Best, > > > Grant > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > > Group. > > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > >http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > Kimberly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
