What are Zoom-Ex and Zoom-Office?
Zoom-Ex is an electronic scanner-reader-magnifier that aids visually impaired persons in
reading printed material, and writing in real-time. Zoom-Ex camera is connected to your
laptop through a USB 2.0 port.
Zoom-Ex weight about 1 pound making it easy to bring to and from the classroom.
Zoom-Office is a software program that runs on your computer controlling Zoom-Ex
camera.
Together, Zoom-Ex and Zoom-Office make reading easy for anyone who has to strain to
see small print. Zoom-Ex can be used to read books, magazines, newspapers,
documents, medicine bottle labels, and any printed text. You can also listen to the voice
of your choice reading the text.
For simplicity, we will use the name Zoom-Ex to describe features of both the device
and the software.
Zoom-Ex is very easy to use. Place a printed document under Zoom-Ex camera and
Zoom-Ex displays it on a computer screen instantaneously. There are no buttons on the
device; everything can be done using either a keyboard or a mouse.
Zoom-Ex allows navigating the text for reading off the screen without moving the page,
responds to commands instantly, and supports text formatting for easy reading.
Zoom-Ex reads text, in your choice of language, aloud with sophisticated, natural
language speech synthesizers. No third party software installation required—it‘s
included.
Zoom-Ex allows you to create books by capturing multiple pages under one name.
One
more very important feature:
Zoom-Ex can convert the entire book into an Audio –
MP3 file.
Setting up Zoom-Ex
Setting up Zoom-Ex is very easy. Simply plug the USB cable directly in USB2 port on
your Mac.
Select Zoom-Ex from the
Applications
directory or from the
Tool bar
. Once Zoom-
Office opens it will announce “Camera Started”. This indicates that the camera is ready
to start scanning. Zoom-Ex runs off your computer‘s power, so there is no need for an
additional power source.
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