ADAPTATIONS USING WYNN OR OPENBOOK WITH A PEARL CAMERA VA AHEAD – Spring Conference March 22, 2013
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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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ADAPTATIONS USING WYNN OR OPENBOOK WITH A PEARL CAMERA
VA AHEAD – Spring Conference
March 22, 2013
Technologies of the Distant Past
Gutenberg and Movable Type Presses…
1439
1650 to 1850
Kevin Eng, Brett Osteen
Current Print Technologies
Source: Virginia Tech Photo Library
Assistive Technologies
Give a person a fish and they will have one meal.
Teach a person to fish and you will feed them for life.
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.
Paraphrased from an old Chinese Proverb ~ Lao Tzu
1978 – OCR, CCD, and TTSIn 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.
Flat Bed OCR, Photo Scanners
Current scanners offer high resolution photo and bundled OCR software.
Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site
Sheet Feed, Portable Scanners
Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site
Flat Bed, Sheet Feed, and Portable Scanners all require book bindings to be guillotined.
Camera Scanners
Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site
Zoom-Ex, Zoom-Twix, and Eye-Pal cameras for people with Visual Disabilities or the Blind.
Camera Scanners
Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site
WYNN and OpenBook camera scanners for people with Print, Learning, Visual Disabilities.
WYNN Custom Toolbar
Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site
Easy to use for scanning, print, copying & importing Web content and various file types. Editing is easy Clean button.
WYNN Custom Toolbar
Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site
New files can be read aloud or magnified. Audio can be exported to MP3 files. Files can also exported to MS Word..
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