Quick Start
How to Place a Document under the Camera
Now Zoom-Ex should be in the standing position. It has two horizontal legs: the longer
leg is 11 ½ inches while the shorter leg is 9 inches long. These two legs create a corner
guide to assist the user in properly aligning documents to be scanned. Zoom-Ex camera
captures and saves the whole page (8 ½ by 11 inches). When you are placing your
document under the camera, try to make it as flat as possible and align it with the legs.
When the camera is turned on, two modes are available:
Scanning
mode and
Live
Magnification (CCTV)
mode.
When Zoom-Office starts up, the camera is turned on and it is in
scanning
mode. A full
image of the page that is placed under the camera appears on the screen. Zoom-Ex is
ready to take an image and read the text. In this mode, magnification is not available.
In Magnification Live (CCTV)
mode: Zoom-Ex displays what is currently placed under
its camera on the computer screen. In this mode, you can fill out forms or look at small
objects or pictures under the camera. You can toggle between scanning and
Magnification
mode by pressing the letter
Y
.
Note:
Please switch slowly from scanning to
Magnification
mode and back again, wait
to hear the announcement: “
Reading
mode”/ “
Magnification
mode”.
Place a document under the Zoom-Ex camera and make sure that the camera is in
scanning
mode:
1.
To have the document under the camera read to you, press
E.
2.
To see your document in
Formatted Text
mode, press
F.
3.
To see your document magnified in
Formatted Text
mode, press
“+”
to increase
the font size.
Do you Want Zoom-Ex to talk to you?
You can customize Zoom-Ex software in many different ways. When you start Zoom-Ex
for the first time, it will work according to the default settings. There are customizable
features that can be changed to your liking. One of these customizable features is
Speech Output
. By default, Zoom-Ex will read menus, dialogs, etc. It will also tell you
when the camera is on or off, or if your document is placed as portrait or landscape, etc.
If you do not want Zoom-Ex to talk to you, and you would rather have a program like
JAWS assist you, go to
Applications
and down to
Settings
.
Under
Speech Output
uncheck
Status
(Zoom-Ex will not inform you about the
camera) and/or uncheck ‗
Menus and dialogs
(it will not read menus and dialogs). Click
OK. (See image below)
NOTE:
Our application speaks menu bars and dialogs just like the program
JAWS, so there is really no need to run JAWS while using Zoom-Ex.
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