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Adaptations using WYNN or Openbook with a pearl camera

VA AHEAD – Spring Conference March 22, 2013. Adaptations using WYNN or Openbook with a pearl camera. Technologies of the Distant Past. Gutenberg and Movable Type Presses… 1439 1650 to 1850. Kevin Eng , Brett Osteen. Current Print Technologies.

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Adaptations using WYNN or Openbook with a pearl camera

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  1. VA AHEAD – Spring Conference March 22, 2013 Adaptations using WYNN orOpenbookwitha pearl camera

  2. Technologies of the Distant Past • Gutenberg and Movable Type Presses… • 1439 • 1650 to • 1850 Kevin Eng, Brett Osteen

  3. Current Print Technologies Source: Virginia Tech Photo Library

  4. Assistive Technologies • Enable students and employees with disabilities to read only when assisted by a service group that converts all print media to accessible formats. • Enable students and employees to read independently by helping them convert their own print media to electronic formats and to use AT for a lifetime of learning. Give a person a fish and they will have one meal. Teach a person to fish and you will feed them for life. Paraphrased from an old Chinese Proverb ~ Lao Tzu

  5. 1978 – OCR, CCD, and TTS • In 1978 Ray Kurzweil invents first omni font (any font-recognition software) OCR, • CCD flat bed scanner, and • TTS Text-to-Speech • voice synthesizer. Excerpt from The Age of Spiritual Machines (Viking, 1999), Ray Kurzweil.

  6. Flat Bed OCR, Photo Scanners • Current scanners offer high resolution photo and bundled OCR software. Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site

  7. Sheet Feed, Portable Scanners • Flat Bed, Sheet Feed, and Portable Scanners all require book bindings to be guillotined. Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site

  8. Camera Scanners • Zoom-Ex, Zoom-Twix, and Eye-Pal cameras for people with Visual Disabilities or the Blind. Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site

  9. Camera Scanners • WYNN and OpenBookcamera scanners for people with Print, Learning, Visual Disabilities. Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site

  10. WYNN Custom Toolbar • Easy to use for scanning, • print, copying& importing • Web content and various • file types. Editing is easy • Clean button. Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site

  11. WYNN Custom Toolbar • New files can be read • aloud or magnified. • Audio can be exported to • MP3 files. Files can also • exported to MS Word. • . Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site

  12. Questions?

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