Another excellent applet for your smart phone to use for slabbed coins

coinsarefun

Just messing around today with the new Google voice and camera search applet for smart phones

After I downloaded it I went around the house taking pictures and letting Google do its search.........not to bad at all

Then I thought............Hmmm, wonder what it would do if I took a picture of the slab certificate number and bar code????



BAM....there it is!!!!!!.....


It scanned it and up pops the cert number and description of the coin.

Examples below, all images (screenshot) were on my Iphone 3G
and uploaded to Photobucket.


I think this can be another very useful tool when looking at slabs.......yes it works for ATS too



First step





Second Step......that's it!!





Here is what the image I took looks like











Here are a few more, just the results......now these are just screenshots of my Iphone

erickso1

What would be fun is to write some code into that app so that it recognizes NGC and PCGS certs and automatically feeds them through the cert lookups on their websites. Much like the barcode scanners. Or tweak the bar code scanner to read the bar code on the labels and do the same cert verification.

coinsarefun

<< <i>What would be fun is to write some code into that app so that it recognizes NGC and PCGS certs and automatically feeds them through the cert lookups on their websites. Much like the barcode scanners. Or tweak the bar code scanner to read the bar code on the labels and do the same cert verification. >>




Yes it would, for now you have to press copy and go to the cert verification and enter it.
Hey.....maybe something for PCGS to think about

MidLifeCrisis

Good stuff. I just downloaded it to my iPhone. Now I'll play around a bit.

coinsarefun

<< <i>Good stuff. I just downloaded it to my iPhone. Now I'll play around a bit. >>






You can scan just about anything and. Price shop