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Reading Assistance

Various approaches to converting printed text to an understandable form.
A Z-shaped blue document reader above a book, the page of which is projected onto a laptop.

Readers that capture images of materials such as documents, textbooks, artwork, devices, and 3D objects.

A picture of a world map on a phone screen.

An app that allows users to control the camera on an iPhone and turn it into a document camera for large-screen projection.

A gray rectangular device featuring a newspaper magnified on the screen.

Portable handheld and pocket video magnifiers with smart ergonomics for ease of use.

A computer with a desktop mono-pole type standing camera that has a book below its lens. On the computer screen, the words are written with one of them highlighted in yellow and written with red letters.

A portable reading camera that can be combined with a scanning and reading software to give to blind and low vision users instant portable access to printed material with an array of human-sounding voices. 

A small rectangular device with a blue led light shining on its front. This hole is the first in a line of holes going down the front but is not lit. Next to this device is a small c-shaped receptacle with an attached metal loop.

A device that combines OCR with computer vision and artificial intelligence technology to read printed text from any surface and to convert the text to speech.

 

The Voices & Languages page, which features voices such as a British male, a child, a U.S. female, and other voices, with languages below. 

An intelligent text-to-speech audio-reader that turns reading material into interactive audiobooks so that users can save time, retain more information, and stay focused. Speechify can read books, documents, and articles while users cook, work out, commute, or any other activity.

The text Portanum written in two colors and on one and a half lines: Porta is printed in green; then without space, the letters N and u follow and are written in light purple. The final letter m drops down to the next half-line and is written there, in white,  inside a light-purple triangle. Written in small letters on the same line and preceding the triangle-m in French: Software help for vision.

A vision aid software designed to help the reading of distant documents (charts or video projection screen). 

A man is sitting at a desk with his left hand on the bottom edge of a paper and his right on a keyboard that is sitting on top of a braille display. The paper is under a camera for OCR.

A text recognition software that uses a scanner to have text documents read aloud. iRead is optimized for use with screen readers such as ZoomText, SuperNova, Jaws, etc. 

A device that resembles a standard flatbed scanner with large, touch button controls on the inclined, front side.

A portable device that scans, with the camera scanner connected or using the built-in scanner bed for bulkier materials, and then reads the printed texts in a voice and language opted by the user. 

A device that resembles a standard flatbed scanner with large, touch button controls on the front side.

A reading machine capable of recognizing all typed documents that is transportable, and does not need any accessory or peripheral to function. It brings accessibility to users with all types of visual impairment.