Zoomax snow 12 HD TTS video magnifier provides easy reading, writing and object viewing. Featuring a Full HD 12” display with magnification up to 19x magnification capability as well as an easily accessible interface, this product makes life simpler for you.

With its integrated OCR and TTS features, this tool also lets you hear printed text read aloud in over 20 languages.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software converts images of handwritten or typewritten text to machine-editable text data, enabling businesses to digitize documents, conduct analytics and automate workflow processes with greater ease. OCR can also assist those with visual impairments by making printed documents more accessible formats – Gustavus owns limited copies of Omnipage software installed in various labs at Gustavus including Library Lab computers.

OCR involves three steps: scanning, recognition and reading. First, the camera takes a picture of the document; next, OCR software converts this into characters/words that can be read/interpreted on computer; finally, text is saved into editable formats to complete this process.

OCR can speed up and streamline this tedious and time-consuming task to reduce human errors while speeding up processing of vital information.

OCR technology can be used to digitize documents, digitize handwritten notes and even convert subtitle text to speech. OCR applications span multiple industries including:

OCR can help businesses use OCR to electronically scan and enter invoices, surveys or resumes into databases quickly and automatically – eliminating manual data entry while saving valuable time. OCR can also automate check stub and bill entry into banking or financial systems; read license plate numbers or passport data for security or law enforcement applications; convert printed text into synthesized speech or create accessible PDF documents for people with visual impairments.

Synthese Vocale

Speech-to-text systems are invaluable tools for users who struggle to read text or are limited in how much text they can process at one time. By using a computer to convert written text into speech and play back audio of it, speech-to-text systems provide individuals with low vision an effective means of interfacing with computers or mobile devices without needing to read or write out every line manually.

Speech synthesis systems often utilize prerecorded sound units which are then assembled into phrases for speech synthesis. This system is commonly known as concatenated speech or formant speech, and typically requires large databases and high computational power; this may limit both their availability and quality of output speech synthesis output.

Some speech-to-text systems utilize more natural means of producing voice signals by synthesizing individual words or small groups of them. This approach may be more user-friendly and produce speech with more human-sounding tones that make understanding simpler – an example is eSpeak technology which produces speech of excellent quality in English and some other languages.

Text parsers may also include modules to determine correct syllable structures of words, while prosodic text analysis modules can help specify rhythm and intonation of synthetic speech output. These features may prove especially helpful to those with poor reading skills as they increase readability of synthetic speech output; additionally, basic prosody models such as reportorial can be applied so as to produce natural dialogue-style synthetic speech for listeners.

Full-page Content Scanning with OCR Text-to-Speech (TTS)

Full-page content scanning enables you to read documents in various languages using an integrated text-to-speech TTS. Simply select your language of choice either through Capture2Text’s menu or hotkey (Windows Key + W). Capture2Text also supports various capture modes that make reading even simpler: recognize one or multiple lines of text, outline captured text automatically and even capture text contained within comic book speech/thought bubbles provided it is completely enclosed within its surroundings.

Customize Capture2Text settings to improve its performance, for instance by activating deskew capture to try to compensate for slanted text found during OCR captures, specify which color channels should be captured, control which ones shouldn’t, keep line breaks intact, control whether carriage returns and line feeds should be stripped from captured text, as well as specify a Tesseract configuration file in order to increase OCR accuracy, etc.

Optic character recognition (OCR) is an essential feature for anyone needing to edit or repurpose document text, such as when scanning printed documents into PDF or Word files. Unfortunately, simply scanning into a computer does not make this information editable, since images captured through scanning are nothing more than collection of black-and-white or colored dots known as raster images.

For this type of data repurposing, an OCR program that can scan individual letters and combine them into words and sentences before reading aloud is key. Zoomax snow 12 offers such an OCR feature with text-to-speech TTS that does exactly this, turning printed documents, camera images or image-only PDFs into text that can be edited or read aloud for editing and reading aloud purposes – an invaluable asset in helping everyday tasks like notetaking, homework assignments, business meetings or reading become possible.

EasyScan

Zoomax Snow 12 features the EasyScan function which recognizes words printed on documents and converts them to voice output in 20 different languages, helping increase reading speed while maintaining full-page scanning and reading capability. With standard features including 12” full HD display, magnification up to 19x magnification power and user-friendly user interface it makes this video magnifier ideal for many scenarios.

Foldable stand lifts Snow 12 off of the table for comfortable writing experience and leaves plenty of space on screen, making this device suitable for those with visual impairments.