WHAT’S NEW IN OPENBOOK AND WHAT WILL IT DO FOR ME?
Presenter(s)
Tyler Brown
Freedom Scientific
11800 31st Court North
St. Petersburg FL 33716-1805
Day Phone: 727-803-8000 ext 1160
Email: TylerB@FreedomScientific.com
Presenter #2
Dusty Voorhees
Freedom Scientific
11800 31st Court North
St. Petersburg FL 33716-1805
Day Phone: 727-803-8000 ext 1021
Fax: 727-803-8001
Email: DustyV@FreedomScientific.com
In this presentation, participants will learn about the exciting new
features available in Freedom Scientific’s latest OpenBook release.
What’s New in OpenBook and What Will It Do for Me?
In this presentation, participants will learn about the exciting new
features available in Freedom Scientific’s latest OpenBook release.
First impressions of the new OpenBook will happen at launch with all new
RealSpeak Solo voices. These natural sounding voices provide clear, easy to
understand natural sounding speech.
OpenBook includes a wide variety of features for managing your documents
and utilizing them to their fullest by taking advantage of OpenBook’s
referencing features. With OpenBook, it’s easy to create audio, Braille, or
large print versions of your documents. Transferring them to a PAC Mate or
notetaker allows you to easily to take your documents with you. Use the online
book search for easy access to thousands of books. The fax feature lets you fax
documents, and makes received faxes accessible. You can even make quick copies
using OpenBook’s photocopy feature.
New, in this version the new study or referencing features allowing users
to add annotations to their documents to expand on what is in the document or
to just clarify information. The new highlighting feature allows users to make
highlights in their books similar to what other students do in their print
book. But it doesn’t stop there. Once the users have completed their
highlighting, they can extract their highlights into a separate document for
use in creating study notes.
The presentation will begin with a summary of OpenBook's different optical
character recognition (OCR) engines and scanning modes. In addition, we will
discuss how and when to use the various scanning modes for the most efficient
and effective scanning. Following this summary, participants will learn about
OpenBook's portability features, including how to save a document to or from a
notetaker, save a document as an audio file, create a large print document, or
emboss a document. Afterwards, we will discuss OpenBook's powerful document
management tools. These include the ability to send and receive faxes,
photocopy documents, search for books online, read books in DAISY format, and
export documents to other programs. In addition, we will cover the tools
provided for marking up or referencing documents. Finally, we will address OpenBook's
customization features, which include the ability to adjust a number of speech
options, save settings profiles, and log on multiple users.
At the end of this presentation, participants will understand how OpenBook
can help them with all their scanning and reading needs. OpenBook's flexibility
and performance can help them work with almost any printed document, whether
for home, work, or school. For electronic documents, OpenBook provides
unmatched portability and management tools. In addition, reading and searching
for online books with OpenBook is easy and fun.
OpenBook, along with JAWS and MAGic Screen Magnification, can be part of a
complete accessibility solution for blind and low vision computer users at
home, school, or in the workplace. OpenBook provides access to printed and
graphic-based text and features a wide array of customizable settings, document
management tools, portability options, speech settings, and much more to suit
the needs of any user. OpenBook provides an important link between the world of
the printed page and the world of accessible electronic documents.
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