[Reader-users] Credit card question

[Dave Wright]

Hey there,
Indeed the reader will read credit cards depending on how much graphics are 
on the card. I've had total success reading mine as there is not much 
graphics being displayed. Also just for curiosity purposes, you might try 
turning your card over to see if the reader will read the numbers on the 
back side. Believe it or not, I had my reader read my card better from the 
back. I was able to determine the credit card number even though it was 
reversed.

Regards,
Dave Wright
University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC
Email: dwrigh6 at uic.edu
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tammy cantrell" <t.l.cantrell at comcast.net>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
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Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] Credit card question


>I will have to try it again.  The machines that are used to swipe the cards
> are using the magnetic strip on the back of the card not the front. 
> Thanks
> for letting me know.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com>
> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list"
> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] Credit card question
>
>
>> Hi --
>> I just tried it on my credit card and got partial success -- 
>> * it read the name of the card (except for the logo and fancy graphic
>> characters),
>> * then the first 8 numbers (the last 8 numbers were punched over a
>> hologram
>> and I think that reflected crazily when the camera flashed),
>> * then it read the expiration date correctly except that the slash 
>> between
>> the month and year read as a 1 -- not hard to live with that as it is 
>> easy
>> to interpret.
>>
>> I tried it again with the flash turned off and it failed miserably to
>> recognize more than a few letters -- not enough light.
>> Then I tried it again with the flash and got results almost identical to
>> the
>> first try.
>>
>> So it isn't there yet but it is working fine on some of the raised
>> numbers.
>> The trick is that hologram.
>> Oh, and text that is printed is recognized fine.
>>
>> Thinking about the hologram, I wonder if the hologram is there partly to
>> prevent easy copying -- but then the machines that swipe the cards 
>> work...
>> Happy reading!
>> --le
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "tammy cantrell" <t.l.cantrell at comcast.net>
>> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader users list"
>> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:26 PM
>> Subject: [Reader-users] Credit card question
>>
>>
>> Has anybody had luck reading their credit card numbers with the reader? 
>> I
>> tried it and I got the message that it was processing the image.  This
>> message repeated many times and never completed.  Just checking to see if
>> it
>> was me or the cards.  Thanks for the input!
>> Smile! GOD loves you!
>>
>>
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