yes you do unfortuantly need to ree purtches it for iphone as the one you have is a mac version only its different its design for the mac only sorry about that i had to do the same thing with bento smiles On 20/01/2012, at 11:14 PM, Michael Busboom wrote:
> Hello Esther and others, > > Esther, your explanation was super, but I am having a totally different issue: > > While on my Mac, I went to the MacStore and purchased the aforementioned > Money Reader. It works great on my Mac. Do I need to purchase the money > Reader a second time if I want a copy for my iPhone 4? If not, how do I get > the app onto my iPhone? Although I have synchronized my iPhone with my Mac, > the app is not on my iPhone. > > Many thanks, > > Mike > > On 19,Jan,2012, at 5:11 PM, Esther 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? 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