Text Cloner Pro, Version 10.1

Overview

Advanced scanning for power users of screen readers

Text Cloner Pro is a scanning package designed to work with your screen reader's own voice capabilities (e.g., JAWS, Window-Eyes). It features a high-performance Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine, as well as a built-in spell checker. One-touch functionality means all important tasks can be accomplished with a single keystroke.

Text Cloner Pro handles multiple columns automatically. It also recognizes and adjusts for pages inserted at an angle. Once your documents are scanned, Text Cloner Pro works to retain their original appearance. If words are bold, italicized, or different font formats are used, those formatting features will be retained. You can also change formatting and colors.

Some of the newest advances in photocopy technology are available with Text Cloner Pro. This includes an "image cleaner", which "cleans up" defects in the image prior to text recognition, increasing OCR accuracy to nearly 100%. It supports multiple languages such as English, French, Spanish, and German.

Text Cloner Pro is specially designed to work with your existing screen reader, so you won't have to spend lots of time learning new commands or features. You'll be up and reading within minutes!

How Does Text Cloner Pro Differ From Other Scanning Packages For Blind Computer Users?

It is a common complaint among blind computer users that they must spend approximately $1,000 for a screen reader to access their computer. Then, the same company that sold them the screen reader would try to sell them a scanning and reading package that required the users to turn off their expensive screen reader?in essence, blind computer users paid twice for a reading product. As individuals who require a screen reader to read, blind computer users don?t need another reading product; they just need a tool that can get their information into the computer so their screen reader can read it. Text Cloner Pro is that tool. By default, its output is an industry standard file like MS Word or RTF document that can be read by your screen reader in Text Cloner Pro. Alternatively, you could also save it, open it, and read it in your favorite word processor.

Features

Two different scanning methods

A screenshot of the Text Cloner interface

Text Cloner Pro now has two different scanning methods: high-speed and high-detailed scanning. Text Cloner Pro can make even the inexpensive scanner three times faster.

Switching between the two scanning modes is just a matter of which key to press?F5 or F6. Now your low-cost scanner can be fast. Text Cloner Pro was tested with a portable Canon LIDE 20 scanner, and the low-end $600 Dell laptop, running Window-Eyes. Text Cloner Pro was able to scan and recognize five pages a minute with 99-percent accuracy. For professional or academic requirements, getting information into the computer so that it can read it in an expedient fashion is critical for success. The two different default-scanning modes make it so you rarely have to make menu changes while scanning ? and less time scanning means more time reading.

When using high-speed mode, Text Cloner Pro is only looking for text. If there are images or tables, it will ignore them. The high-speed mode has three different scanning methods; these methods tell the computer what kind of document you are scanning. By providing this information up front, the process for loading and scanning is faster. For the high-detailed scanning, the computer looks at every part of the document and will try to reproduce the tables and include the graphics found in the original. This takes time, so if you don't need to have images or tables scanned, you will find that you can reduce the time waiting for text to appear on your screen by 66 percent by choosing the high-speed mode. Spend less time waiting and more time reading!

Feature Highlights

High-speed scanning
Automatically detects orientation of the document and rotates it 90, 180 or 270 degrees. It can also automatically remove columns and put the text in continuous reading format. It will automatically de-hyphenate words to ensure smooth reading by screen readers. Retains font type and size. It will, however, ignore pictures and will not reproduce tables.
High-detailed scanning 
Automatically detects orientation of the document and rotates it 90, 180 or 270 degrees. It can also automatically remove columns and put the text in continuous reading format. It will automatically de-hyphenate words to ensure smooth reading by screen readers. Retains font type and size. Includes the images in the final document and reproduce tables. It is recommended that you use high-detailed scanning for documents with watermarks, colored backgrounds, or very complicated layouts.
Colored Backgrounds
Text is often printed on different colored backgrounds. This is not a problem for Text Cloner Pro. You can now read text printed on virtually any color background including dark green and blue.
Table, Image and Paragraph retention
Text Cloner Pro will recognize tables and reconstruct them in a screen reader accessible format. Users have the choice of three different output types: Text Only, Text and Images, and Text Tables and Images.
Copy Utility
Text Cloner Pro now has a built-in copy utility. This is an easy-to-use copy utility that treats your scanner and printer as a copy machine.
Import Images
You can import images that have been previously scanned. Many people receive faxes as images via email. Use Text Cloner Pro to import those faxes and automatically convert them to accessible text.
Daisy Format Support
Text Cloner Pro can open up Daisy Formatted Text Documents. You can open up a Daisy Formatted document and convert it to one of 6 different file types. Convert a Daisy Format to a MS WORD document that you can edit.

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