For people who are blind or visually impaired, it is important to safely and quickly recognize their currency. Both when paying, and when receiving change. Depending on the currency, there are different solutions available. Let’s examine a few ways of how blind people can safely recognize their paper currency.
Tag Archives: Identification
Recognizing Coins with Seeing AI
The constant struggle of a blind coin collector is how to identify a coin. The easy way is, ask somebody what it is. But it is not all that simple. It is not other people’s hobby after all, and I can’t expect to have somebody around to help me all the time. Over the years …
Collecting in Mexico, braille coins and currencies
It’s been my dream to go to Mexico for almost 20 years. I went to California to a conference almost every year, and for some reason I was never able to go over to Mexico. Either no time, no money, or both.
Currency Recognition for the Visually Impaired
Ever since there is paper currency in the US, visually impaired people have come up with solutions to recognize their money, I recently wrote about how Blind people recognize currency when I discussed collecting paper currency. There is also a more thorough description on how blind people identify paper money. This week there was some …
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Collecting Paper Currency
When I started collecting, I have collected bank notes, among many other things. The better question was, what didn’t I collect? It is a very interesting subject that I still follow today, but I stopped collecting notes.