Magnifying and Speaking
an assistive tool for PC users with low vision

especially designed for camera and scanned documents


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The VIEWdio application can magnify scanned or file documents or camera images and view them in CCTV style. Using OCR processing these documents can be read via speech synthesizer.

Features

  • magnification levels up to 9x: can magnify both images and digitalized text,
  • for better viewing: setting false colors, brightness and contrast, rotating document, smoothing fonts,
  • mouse pointer and color enhancements,
  • clip-area operating,
  • reading by mouse, automatic scrolling, reading in columns, using guiding lines,
  • reading fixated in horizontal lines; readers with hand coordination problems then can read easily,
  • "always on top" window,
  • optimised scanning of books; scanned book can be read continuously page by page,
  • automatic columns definition in a book (only OCR version),
  • printing out document or its part in normal or magnified size,
  • optional length of audio files for MP3 export,
  • wheel mouse support,
  • text recognition (via built-in OCR FineReader engine); recognized text then can be read by SAPI speech output,
  • non-interlaced transformation for camera image,
  • saving camera frames by spacebar,
  • dongle protection support (only OCR version),
  • alternate offer: version VIEWdio Lite without OCR engine.

New features in v2.8

  • advanced document reading allows skipping forward or backward during the reading,
  • improved speech output within the user interface,
  • new hot keys to control speech parameters on the fly.

VIEWdio v2.8 upgrade is downloadable for free.


System requirements

  • PC compatible with Windows XP or higher,
  • Scanner or digital camera or TV tuner with MS DirectShow support,
  • Speech synthesizer compatible with SAPI interface.

VIEWdio © Spektra v.d.n.
ABBYYTM FineReaderTM Engine 7.1 © ABBYY Software House


VIEWdio - magnifying and speaking

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