Elderly women who is partially blind looking for an app to read bills

Question

does anyone know of an app that runs on an iPad that will read bills etc .... my friend is in her late 70's and can read larger print items but can't read her bills

Answer 1

I had some other things to say in that post above but when I edited it, I think I took too long.  So I'm just going to repost my edits here, and you can get my words twice!  This one here has things like the link to a webpage describing the app, knfbreader.com.
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Cassidhe, and others who have visual limitations, pay attention here:  GET THE "KNFB READER" APP!
If you are looking for an app that can read to you or someone you know, and it's not something that's digital (so like, paper bills or prescription medication bottles or a can of food or what have you):  get the app KNFB Reader.  It will run on an iPad, and it will ALSO run on an iPod, which is SMALL and something someone can CARRY with them very easily. (When in public, bring a little set of headphones for privacy and so you don't bother others!)
The KNFB Reader app has a great history helping totally blind and partially sighted people.  It started about ten years ago as a camera strapped to a PDA device, later it became a phone, and now the software has been put into an app for both Apple and Android devices.  Those other products used to cost over a thousand dollars, this app is $99.  I realize $99 may seem a lot for an app but we are talking independence and freedom here, I cannot stress how this is for a person, they can view these things privately and is way better than that other garbage that's out there and pretends to read stuff and then doesn't.  You might not understand if you're not a blind person.  You need the thing to work as much as possible.  KNFB Reader isn't perfect, nothing is, but I don't think anything can beat it.  And for $99?  You get what you pay for:  I've used it to read everything from canned ingredient lists to menus in restaurants.  It's the real thing.
I do not represent KNFB Reading technologies (but they make VERY helpful software for the blind, like Blio, the eBook app and store packed with blind navigable eBooks, get that thing after getting the KNFB Reader).  What is different about KNFB Reader is that it has gone through far more testing than any reading app you will find, ever.  It's got a huge customer base for reading apps.  And unlike the others it can read things like the label on a bottle of medication because it's designed to read curved items (where letters are different sizes when you take the picture).  It's also nearly instant, and has a button that will tell you how much of a page it currently sees (called field report I think).  It will tell you things like "the top and bottom edges are visible" (of the page), so you know to reposition your device to try taking the picture again. The other button takes the picture and viola!  It's done and it starts speaking right away.
The K in KNFB Reader stands for Kurzweil, as in Ray Kurzweil, the man who made the first reading machine in the 1970s.  It's his project.  The NFB of KNFB stands for the National Federation of the Blind, which doesn't have anything to do with the current company, but it's an organization made up of blind people that do all kinds of things for blind people, in this case, helped get this company off the ground.
So go and get the KNFB READER and start taking some snapshots of the paper bills or ATM screens or whatever and it will read all kinds of things!  Some things it won't with or might have trouble with but keep at it -- and you never know what you could have it read:  television screens, street signs, all kinds of crazy things!
Here's a web page that tells you all about it!
http://knfbreader.com/
-- Mike