[Reader-users] Credit card question

[tammy cantrell]

Well, that is a smart idea.  I do like that one.  Thanks!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Evans" <drevans at bellsouth.net>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
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Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] Credit card question


>
> Dear Tammy,
>
> You might try to take the picture from a flatter angle so as to minimize 
> the
> flash reflection back at the camera.
> You can also take a piece of paper and lay it over the card and use a 
> pencil
> to scribble  back and forth over the raise numbers and then take a picture
> of the piece of paper and compare that to what you got from your picture 
> of
> the card the first time.
> Hopefully this will identify all of the numbers for you.
> There are also a pin code set of numbers on the back of the card as an 
> added
> security step that you might be asked for if ordering something over the
> phone.
>
> David Evans
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com>
> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list"
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> 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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