ZoomEx
Three tools in a single 1 lb. USB device
1.
Instant
book-to-speech tool
2.
Fast, 20 page per
minute scanner + OCR
3.
Magnifier with no
need for an X-Y table (lines wrap)
The
durable but lightweight design of the Zoomex Portable
Scanner consists of a 2 1/2 inch digital camera on a
specially designed stand, which also serves as a guide
for lining up the book or document to be scanned.
Because of the unique camera and stand design, the
camera is always at the exact distance needed to create
a clear image, and a blind user will always know exactly
where to place the material to be scanned.
Two leaps in speed:
Instant scanning by photographing.
Fastest OCR (image-to-text) to date.
Features:
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”.
Zoom-Ex® as a Magnifier
- 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”.
|
Key
|
Function
|
|---|---|
|
E
|
Read
entire
document
Push one button, and zoom-Ex will start reading within five seconds |
|
[CTRL] -
E
|
Hear a
brief
description
of the
page
|
|
+ / -
|
Zoom in
/ out
|
|
Arrow
keys
(up,
down,
left,
right)
|
Move
magnified
portion
of the
image.
Instead of moving an X-Y table, just push arrow keys |
|
F2
|
Switch
between
Formatted
and
Magnification
modes
One button will re-format and line-wrap the text for easy reading |
|
Space
|
Freeze /
restart
camera
With one button Zoom-Ex will snapshot and memorize the whole letter sized page MAGNIFIED |
|
Page
up/down
|
Go one
screen
up/down
in
formatted
mode
In formatted text mode, you can scroll up and down the document screen-by screen or line-by-line. No need to scroll left-right |
|
F3
|
Toggle
color
A number of different background-forefround color combinations is available |
|
F4
|
Toggle
sharpness
Several sharpness levels are available |
|
F5
|
Show/hide
preview
panel in
magnified
mode
As Zoom-Ex sees the whole letter sized page magnified, what's on the screen is just a part of what is actually captured. A rough preview for fast guidance is available. |
|
F6
|
Rotate
image 90
degrees
No need to rotate the page if it is landscape or portrait. Zoom-Ex will do it for you. |
|
F7
|
Toggle
between
Zoom-Ex
and
Zoom-Frog
cameras.
There is
no need
to
re-point
your
camera
from the
blackboard
to the
notebook.
One push
of a
button
will do
it for
you
|
|
< and >
|
Brightness
adjustment
|
|
[CTRL]-L
|
Turn LED
on / off
If there is not enough illumination in the room, Zoom-Ex has built in LEDs |
|
Home key
|
Go to
the
first
line of
the page
in
formatted
mode
Zoom-Office will automatically find the first sentence of the page |
|
End key
|
Go to
the last
line of
the page
in
formatted
mode
|
