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:
Identifying 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.
