OpenBook™

Making graphics-based text accessible to the blind and those with low vision

OpenBook converts printed documents or graphic-based text into an electronic text format on your PC, using quality speech and the latest in accurate optical character recognition (OCR). Easy switching between the Nuance OmniPage® and ABBYY FineReader® OCR engines allows you to choose the OCR engine that best suits your scanning needs.

Clear and Understandable Speech

OpenBook provides you with the flexibility to use either of two leading text-tospeech software synthesizers: RealSpeak™ Solo and Eloquence. RealSpeak features a natural, human-sounding voice to enhance your reading experience. Eloquence provides practical and efficient synthesized speech for editing or skimming documents.

Customized Viewing
The many low vision features of OpenBook allow you to tailor the appearance of text on your screen, including font style, size, character spacing, and colors. A Split View option allows for easy comparison of the original document and the results of OCR conversion. Masking and Word Spotlighting features synchronize with the text being read, making it easy to follow the screen position during reading.

Maximize Your Productivity
Share your documents with friends, co-workers, or relatives. A Launch Manager lets you easily export OpenBook documents to other applications like Microsoft ® Word or Notepad. The fax capability of OpenBook lets you send and receive faxes using your PC modem. Use OpenBook to create photocopies of printed documents and import documents from other applications and read and work with them in OpenBook.

Mark Up Your Documents
With the Highlight fearture in OpenBook, mark important passages of a document for later reference and use highlights to quickly navigate within your document. OpenBook also enables you to insert comments in a document, and those comments can be announced duringdocument review or remain hidden. Highlights and Comments also can be exported to new documents for easy review.

Additional Key Features of OpenBook 8.0 Include:

• An array of powerful document navigation tools
• Enhanced ability to search for and download books from the Internet
• Full support for DAISY and other audio files
• Built-in braille support
• Redesigned keyboard layouts that simplify keystrokes
• Multiple SAPI engine use and synthesizer support
• Enhanced document management

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