OpenBook converts printed documents or graphic-based text into an electronic text format on your PC, using high-quality speech and the latest optical character recognition (OCR) technology. OpenBook is innovative software designed to enhance success for people who are blind or have low vision who need access to printed and electronic materials. OpenBook is a software program that transforms your personal computer and scanner into a full-featured reading machine.
Use any of today's popular scanners or the PEARL portable reading camera from Freedom Scientific, to acquire the text of your favorite magazine, book, or newspaper article, and let OpenBook immediately read that page aloud to you. Or open an electronic file from any of today's most popular applications and edit at will. With OpenBook, nothing is left inaccessible, and even better, you are in control of how a page is read and presented on your computer screen.

Features:

• Fast optical character recognition (OCR).
• Pearl portable reading camera.
• Use pearl as a video magnifier.
• Enhanced customization using workflows.
• Recognition strategies.
• RealSpeak solo direct synthesizers.
• Split facing pages.
• Table reading order.
• Preserving line breaks in recognized documents.
• Extra pause at line breaks.