Zoom-Ex®

Two leaps in speed:

Instant scanning by photographing.
Fastest OCR (image-to-text) to date.

Features:

• Synthetic voice of your choice.
• While text-to-speech reads text, the screen may differ from the text being read, e.g. you can view the picture whose printed caption is being read.
• Alternatively, the pronounced text can be the same as that shown; and (Yes!!!) the pronounced word is being highlighted. FF and REW are available.
• You can save books as text and/or image on your PC hard drive, a CD, a DVD, or key chain memory.
• Once the texts are saved, you can take them anywhere. Then at any time, without Zoom-Ex, you can view them or listen to them.
• You can print them, making you own “large print books”.
• The camera field of view is easily felt by contact with a right angle edge.
• Voice indicators and instructions assist the blind.

Scanning 20 pages/min while books stay bound

• Instant capture with a still camera (Zoom-Ex).
• Our patented motion detector allows scanning 20 pages per minute without pushing a button, virtualy hands free. All you do is turn pages. Once a flat page, held at 4 corners, is sensed as still, its image gets saved. You turn the next page and hold it flat with both hands. And so on.
• You can scan odd pages separately from even ones (isn’t your life getting easier?), even upside down – the software will order the pages properly. You can even capture both pages at a time.
• Voice indicators and instructions assist the blind.
• Instant OCR and text-to-speech are available.
• The camera field of view is easily felt by contact with edges at a right angle.
• You can save books as text and/or images on your PC hard drive, a CD, a DVD, or key chain memory.
• Once the texts are saved, you can take them anywhere. Then, at any time you can view them, or listen to them without Zoom-Ex.
• You can print them, making your own “large print books”.

• A magnifier with no need for an X-Y table (lines wrap)
• As a magnifier, it first scans a whole page near-instantly, by photographing it. Then it magnifies the captured text and wraps the lines on-screen for easy reading. Just scroll-down, no need for an X-Y table. Lines no longer run off the screen.
• This is not OCR! Any character set will wrap, even curved lines, unavailable for OCR. It works by recognizing spaces between characters treated as images.
• See your text in any color combination, e.g. reverse color, etc.
• Print your own “large print books”, in any language, without lines running off the page.
• Zoom-Ex recognizes multiple columns as such. They are processed correctly.
• Zoom-Ex separates pictures from text and presents them separately, with separate adjustable magnification.
• With the whole page in the memory, you can magnify and view the page “as is”, without any image processing. Unlike a CCTV, which needs an X-Y table, you move around the page using keyboard arrows. In this mode Zoom-Ex is more like a conventional magnifier, but with “no moving parts”.