OpenBook at a glance

• Converts documents and graphic based text into electronic text that is read aloud by your PC
• Powerful optical character recognition provides the most accurate scans possible
• An array of customisable features enable you to adjust on-screen presentations to best suit your vision
• Versatile document navigation and management tools maximize your productivity
• Supports 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows® 7, Windows Vista® and Windows 2008 Server, 32-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server, and Windows 2000 operating systems

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-to-speech 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.

Customised 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 colours. 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, coworkers, 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 during document 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