LookTel Products

LookTel Money Reader

Available now for iPhone (4, 3GS), iPod Touch (4th Generation), and Mac OS X

LookTel Money Reader instantly recognizes currency and speaks the denomination, enabling people with visual impairments or blindness to quickly and easily identify and count bills. Simply point your device's camera at a bill and the application will tell you the denomination in real-time. Several currencies are supported including the US Dollar, Euro, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, and Australian Dollar.

Featuring LookTel's patented and proprietary object recognition technology, LookTel Money Reader makes it as easy to recognize bills as possible. There's no need to hold the camera still or capture a photo and wait for a result – recognition happens instantly, and in real-time. Additionally, the app does not require any internet connection, which means it can read money quickly at any location, anytime.

LookTel Money Reader is a helpful mobile assistant that's simple and easy to use. While shopping, use the application to verify money while checking out or to ensure you are getting the right amount of change back. It can also be used to quickly and easily sort money with total independence from virtually anywhere.

LookTel Money Reader provides Voice Over support for several languages including English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Polish, Russian, Korean, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Japanese.

Additionally, the tone mode allows users to recognize currency with added privacy.

LookTel Money Reader for Mac is the first currency identifier available for Apple computers. Offering the same excellent performance as the original Money Reader for iPhone, the app allows users to count and organize bills in the comfort of their home using their Mac laptop or desktop computer.

LookTel Money Reader is available in the iTunes App Store and Mac App Store.

Demo Video
LookTel Money Reader running on an iPhone 4:

Solutions Under Development

We are currently developing a full suite of assistive solutions for persons with visual impairments or blindness. Here's a look at some of the projects we are working on:

Image of LookTel identifying an objectIdentifying objects
Recognize packaged goods such as items in your kitchen or grocery store, organize money, quickly identify a medication bottle, easily find a CD in your music collection, and more!

For objects that cannot be recognized using their packaging images, LookTel provides a set of printed and pre-trained image tags that can be applied to virtually any object in your home such as clothing, Tupperware with frozen food or a glass jar. Simply peel and attach the tag to an object, point your mobile phone at it, and record an audible description of the item.

Identifying landmarks
Increase your personal mobility and have confidence in your orientation by training the system to recognize destinations such as a home or building entrance. Simply take a photo and label it by speaking into the phone’s microphone. Later, you can use LookTel to confirm that you have reached your own home, friend's apartment, or as many other destinations as you desire.

Personalized image databases
Customize LookTel by teaching it to recognize other items of importance to you. Capture photos of the items and label them with your own speech tags. Then, when LookTel "sees" them again, you will hear your own message about the items you taught it to recognize.
This can become a family activity, and with each tag, you gain control over the visual world around you.

Remote sighted assistance
LookTel provides additional state-of-the-art tools for remotely connecting to another person that can provide a wide range of assistive services to make day-to-day activities easier. Through a combination of live video, hi-resolution photos and GPS tracking data sent from your cell phone, remote assistants can help read signs on street corners and buildings, provide turn-by-turn directions, and use integrated resources such as Google Maps to identify nearby points of interest and help you learn a new neighborhood. With LookTel, the help of a sighted assistant is within pocket reach at all times.

Text Reader
Use your mobile phone to take a photo of any printed text and the system will read it back to you. As LookTel sends these images to a server running a full-featured optical character recognition engine, this solution offers a more robust mobile text reader that can handle complex pages of text and skewed or rotated images.

Support
If you have any questions or want to contact support, please email us at info@looktel.com.