New Features in OPENBook 6.0
Other reasons to
purchase OpenBook 6.0:
· Your choice of
Fine Reader 6, as well as Caere, and Recognita scanning engines. OCR
Correction stores and uses previously corrected scanning errors to improve
accuracy.
· You can quickly
read documents with automatic page advances, or move by words, line, sentences
or paragraphs. Skim Reading command provides a quick overview of document
content by reading only the first or the first and last sentence of every
paragraph. Rapidly jump to the next reading unit during skim reading or during
Say All.
· Easily move to
preferred locations in the document. Search for additional definitions or
synonyms of the original word or subsequent words. The dictionary includes
phrase definitions.
· Low vision
users can customize Font Style, Size and Color. Find the current cursor
location by dimming the surrounding text and making the current line,
sentence, or paragraph stand out. Follow the reading order while viewing the
original image that was scanned on the screen. Includes a Zoom option and a
Text Window for easier reading.
· Add flexibility
by saving to or opening files from your notetaker. Emboss in Computer and
Grade II Braille without the need for additional software. Print your document
as you have customized the screen display or using your defined default
printer font.
· Convert
OpenBook files to .brf and .brl Grade II Braille formats.
· OpenBook
supports Keyboard Layouts that mimic the popular screen readers, reducing the
need to learn new commands.
· You can simply
save all settings or specific groups of settings. With Multi-user Log-on, set
up groups of settings and instantly have them available at log-in.
· New Help System
provides swift navigation through Contents and Index pages including separate
topic navigation and topic text areas.
· DAISY File
Format is available to open and read files downloaded from Bookshare.org.
· Modify the
layout of a current document to rearrange pertinent information, while hiding
the rest if desired.
· Set and arrange
predefined template fields for documents received on a regular basis such as
bills, or other correspondence with identical formats.
OPENBook Email
OPENBook now has email!
OPENBook's new email system is a full-featured email
package that will allow you to:
- Send and receive email
- Read email and create new messages
- Setup contact names and group distribution lists
- Organize your email by creating new folders to store
your emails
- Sort you messages in a variety of ways for easy
review
- Use the OPENBook editor using the same keystrokes as
in any other document
Note: To use email, you
will need to establish a link to the Internet using an Internet Service
Provider.
Page Layout Description
One new OPENBook feature, Page Layout, answers two very
important needs: the need to have the page described, and the need to navigate
based on the description.
Page Layout provides information on the original printed
page layout. It lists such elements as:
- How many columns there are
- Whether there are headers and footers
- How many pictures there are
- Whether there are captions for the pictures
OPENBook can collect that information and report it to
you when you ask for it. Page layout includes analysis of the following
elements: columns, headings, text blocks, graphics, captions, tables, headers,
and footers. Page layout description tells you how many of each element are on
the page and what order they are in. Page layout navigation allows you to move
from element to element so you can find the items you need more quickly.
Tactile Mouse Support
In addition, you can navigate from element to element.
If you have the Logitech WingManâ Force Feedback Mouse connected, you can
also get tactile feedback about each page element. (Logitech WingMan Force
Feedback Mouse sold separately.
The mouse is integrated with Page Layout description, so
that you can get unique tactile feedback for each element on the page. For
example, as you move through a text block, you will feel a washboard effect,
as though the tactile mouse were bumping over the lines of text. As you move
from one column to another, you will feel resistance at the edge of the
column.
OCR Engine Selection
You can now select from three different OCR engines:
Caere MTX, Recognita, and FineReader. This gives each user more control over
how documents are scanned and recognized.
Save Range of Pages
You can now save just the current page or a range of
pages in your document. If you scan many pages of mail, but only want to keep
one of them, you can use this feature.
Low Vision Menu
We have added a new menu item called Low Vision. Its
selections take you to a Low Vision dialog, a pane at the bottom of the screen
that has buttons to instantly change:
- Size
- Color
- Font
- Spacing in the document
You can cycle through the settings for each item by
clicking the mouse or pressing the spacebar. A Customize button takes you to
the Visual Settings property sheet if you want to fine-tune all of these items
in the Visual Settings Dialog.
Pronunciation Dictionary
Use the Pronunciation Dictionary to change the
pronunciation of any word or combination of letters.
Most speech synthesizers do a very good job of
pronouncing words through a combination of their text-to-speech programming
and their internal dictionaries. However, there will always be words or letter
combinations that a given synthesizer will not pronounce well. These words
vary from synthesizer to synthesizer. Using OPENBook's Pronunciation
Dictionary, you can change the pronunciation of any text string.
- From the Tools menu, select Pronunciation Dictionary
(ALT+T, then N). OPENBook will bring up the Pronunciation
Dictionary dialog box and will place your cursor in the field where you
can enter the word your synthesizer is mispronouncing.
OCR Correction
If the OCR engine doesn't correctly recognize a letter
or word, you can use OPENBook's new OCR correction feature to correct it and
store it for future reference. These corrections will be used in all future
scans. There are hotkeys from the Spell Check and Find/Replace dialogs to
automatically add OCR corrections.
Read Word in Context
This is a new command, available in Spell Check and in
Find and Replace.
For more information, please contact us at
800-317-9611
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