Hi Godwin, You wrote: > Hi, > Can lookTel identify other currency? I want to know if I can use it for my > local currency ( Ghana Cedis ). > Thanks, > Godwin
I don't think your question was answered earlier. LookTel Money Reader works with U.S. dollars, Euros, British pounds, Canadian dollars, and Australian dollars, and currently has language support with VoiceOver for English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Polish, Russian, Korean, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Japanese, Greek, Hungarian, and Mandarin. In order to add currencies to the application, the developer would have to have copies of the bills currently in circulation to use as a training set, and also keep track of new currency issues. However, I've been told that people have successfully used the LookTel Recognizer app as a money identifier. This is the second app issued under the LookTel name, and instead of identifying money it is designed to let you customize the recognition of other items using your iPhone camera. For best results, you would get sighted help to take the first set of pictures that get used as a training set. That's because the better the images that are used for training the app to identify items, the better the success rate in item recognition. So if you had sighted assistance in taking images that you identify as different denominations of Ghana Cedis (one, five, ten, twenty, etc.), when you use the Look Tel Recognizer app and hold those bills in front of the camera, they should be identified. Some users who have the LookTel Recognizer app say they have also used it to recognize currency bills. I read through the information about these products at the LookTel support page at: http://www.looktel.com/support Then I would contact the support team either using their email contact at: [email protected] or through twitter at: @LookTel You can ask them about the possibility of adding your currency to the LookTel Money Reader or the feasibility of using LookTel Recognizer to identify currency. They might have some tips about the best way to do this. You probably need to take several different images of both the front and back sides of bills. Again, sighted assistance in taking those pictures will probably help ensure you get the best recognition results. Based on the set of images that you take and label as specific currency denominations, the LookTel Recognizer app should be able to identify the bills you've shown it when they are in the view of the camera and the application is launched. However, it will not be able to identify a bill that you have not already taken a picture of. I did check, and both the LookTel Money Reader and LookTel Recognizer apps are in the App Store for Ghana. Here's the link to the LookTel Recognizer app. (Both these apps are just under $10 in the U.S. App Store): • LookTel Recognizer by IPPLEX ($9.99 in the U.S. App Store) http://itunes.apple.com/gh/app/looktel-recognizer/id501088555?mt=8 HTH. Cheers, Esther -- 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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
