AOpen AXPS PLUS-U User Manual

Welcome to ClaroRead Welcome to ClaroRead. ClaroRead is designed to make it easier for you to do things with your computer by making it speak and mak

When moving using the up or down arrows, ClaroRead will speak the full line of text. In this way, you can have a document spoken to you line by line,

Making Web Pages Speak ClaroRead allows most web pages to be spoken back easily. Pointing the mouse You can make hyperlinks and object and pictures an

Making PDF Files Speak PDF files in Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat work like Microsoft Word documents. You can select text to hear a particular passage

Making Other Programs Speak ClaroRead makes almost every program speak. Use one of the following techniques. Speak when Mouse Selects ClaroRead will s

Font Features When working in Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer, ClaroRead allows you to modify the font size. Within Microsoft Word, ClaroRead can

Spacing Features Changing character, line and paragraph spacing in Microsoft Word requires some detailed knowledge and quite a few key actions if you

Homophone Features Clicking the Homophone button when you are working in Microsoft Word produces a pull down menu selection. Click the mouse pointer

Check Features ClaroRead provides a single Check button which will check text for spelling, offer meanings, dictionary definitions, alternatives and i

1. The word currently being corrected is shown in the "Word" box. 2. Suggested alternative spellings are given in the "Suggestions&q

Clicking Change will change the word in your selection and go on to the next misspelled word. When you have gone through all the misspellings then the

ClaroRead Overview ClaroRead provides an easily-readable floating toolbar that will lock onto any Windows software application you have open and activ

Homophone Check by clicking the Next button and you will step through all the identified homophones. This is useful if you know homophones are a probl

Dictionary Tooltip ClaroRead provides you with a speaking dictionary tooltip that gives you a spoken definition for any word in any program. Hold down

Word Prediction Feature ClaroRead contains a powerful word prediction feature. ClaroRead uses a base prediction dictionary (which can be changed) cons

To select one of the predicted words in the Prediction List, press the relevant key. F1 is the first predicted word, and F5 is the fifth and last pre

Save Feature Normally ClaroRead simply speaks. But you can also choose to save the speech instead for listening to later. Click the Save button on the

You can then open this file with your PC Media Player or transfer it to a portable audio player, using your player's software or suitable other

Once you have set the video output to what you require, click on the Create button and the following Save File dialog box will appear. Please give th

Send Text to Apple iTunes You need to have iTunes installed and working on your machine. If it is, then the Save button gives you a Send to iTunes opt

ClaroRead Extras The Extras button provides a handy link to selected other software programs. If you have any of the following programs installed, the

ScreenRuler ScreenRuler is a piece of software which allows you place a 'ruler' across the computer screen and tint the computer screen to m

ClaroRead Toolbar Buttons The ClaroRead Toolbar lets you use ClaroRead's powerful features at any time without getting in your way. You can make

Scanning Feature (Plus and Pro Editions) About scanning ClaroRead Plus and Pro include the option to scan documents into Microsoft Word or Adobe Reade

Plus and Pro ClaroRead Plus has a convenient and fast scanning process. If you start it when you are in Microsoft Word then what you scan will be inse

If you are done adding pages then click "Stop Loading Pages." If you want to add more pages then put the new page(s) in the scanner and clic

Preview (Plus and Pro Editions) By default ClaroRead will scan straight into Word or save to a file so you can get on and work with the text. If you w

The main Preview area The main Preview area in the centre of the Preview window shows each page and what will be scanned (OCR) on each page. These are

 Rotate the page 180 degrees. Useful if your scanner has presented the page upside down and ClaroRead has not managed to reverse it.  Print this w

Click on Delete Zone to remove the zone. It will no longer appear in the output document:

Click on Create a Text Zone, then select the area containing the text you want to scan and OCR. This text ("Get help now!") will now appear

Setting the reading order Reading order is very important if you are producing PDF files. You can set it by clicking the Zone Order button, then clic

Deleting pages from an input document You can remove pages from an input document. For example, you may only want to scan one chapter from a PDF file

You can change the spacing between text characters, lines and paragraphs easily with the Spacing button. This function can be used in Microsoft Word a

Proofing (ClaroRead Pro only) The optional Proofing step in scanning lets you spell check and correct any errors the program made in converting the or

The Proofing spellcheck lets to jump from error to error in the document. You can close this at any time and restart it from the Tools menu. See Proo

 Next to this is an icon showing the state of the page: o A page that has not yet been OCR'd. You see this on all the pages in the Preview wi

confused ClaroRead. It might be hard to correct the text in the Proofing view if you don't have sight of the original image. The Verifier provid

Note that if you are saving as PDF the original position and size of text areas will be retained. So if you make text bigger it will start to overlap

Making Accessible PDF files PDF files are very common but can be very hard to use. ClaroRead Pro and Plus give you ways to make them usable and access

5. Correct reading order in the Preview window. o a. Delete superfluous content for "blind" users such as headers and footers. o b. Remo

PDF and Accessibility This is a guide to PDF, how it affects people trying to use assistive technology (A.T.) with it, and what can be done. It assume

for this. The existing business processes had already produced millions of PDF files and continued to produce new PDF files as the final, edited forma

The Settings button opens the Setting dialog that lets you change all the main ClaroRead options and settings, including Speech, View, Prediction, Che

Whichever approach you take, if you are interested in the accessibility of your PDFs, the rest of this document will help you understand the issues. C

well. Finally, the tags worked out by Reader are not stored anywhere for future use, so if you close and open the PDF again then the same process must

is provided" is unchecked then Reader will go across the page and down, or down the page and across, or some other order specified in the PDF fil

Again, you will or you do not have a "screenreader" running. You can check whether a document is tagged by opening it in Adobe Reader and

Fourth, it takes the tags, generated or originally in the document, and works out the reading order (technically it build the document object model.)

document to check that "Tagged reading order" is indeed the default for tagged documents. When the document has been fully-tagged then it i

Chapter 4: How Adobe Reader handles PDFs for a sighted user This chapter describes key Adobe Reader features for people with some sight who need zoomi

Images are centred and scale to fit too. One drawback is that you cannot do a text search in Reflow mode. You can switch to this view with Ctrl+4 at

le itself. This overrides the setting in Preferences, Page Display. Style. This overrides the other two settings if you check Always use Page Layout

Fit Width The document is zoomed so that the width of the whole page fits across the whole of Adobe Reader. This means you don't have to scroll l

Moving and Docking the ClaroRead Toolbar Lock Toolbar to Active Window By default the ClaroRead Toolbar locks onto the currently-active window, and wi

Check this checkbox. Set to "Single Page Continuous". Preferences, Accessibility, Override page display, Always use Zoom Setting. Check thi

ClaroRead Settings ClaroRead's Speech, View, Prediction, Check and Scan settings (ClaroRead Plus and Pro only) can all be modified from their own

Test When you change the voice setting you can test the new setting prior to clicking OK. Loading a new voice takes a second or two, so please be pa

is not checked, the speech will flow naturally, and will take account of punctuation, certain abbreviations and other text details. Stop after sentenc

Text To Speech Pronounce There are times when the text-to-speech voices don’t pronounce things quite as you like. These could be, for example, names

Advanced Speech Settings The Advanced Speech settings tab allows you to control the amount and type of speech from ClaroRead and control highlighting

Speak Objects Under Mouse ClaroRead can speak back any tooltips, menu items, web page links, web page text and other items on your screen when you ho

Echo Dragon Voice Input If you are dictating text using Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 7 or above, ClaroRead can be set to echo back each word or p

View Settings ClaroRead View Settings allows you to change the Buttons appearing on the ClaroRead Toolbar, and also change the size of the Buttons. T

You can also choose to have the Toolbar "floating" so you can click the top of the Toolbar and drag it anywhere around the screen as you de

Dock toolbar to the top of the screen You can dock the floating toolbar to make a toolbar all the across the top of the screen. First set the ClaroRea

Prediction Settings The Prediction tab lets you enable word prediction, select your dictionary and modify the prediction dictionary towards the typica

you have already rejected them. With "show ignored words" checked the above 5 words will still be displayed if you press "t" after

Check Settings It is possible to modify the settings for the Spelling Check window in the Check Settings tab.  You can turn on or off the Spelling

Should you wish to ignore certain homophones from the ClaroRead homophone list then simply check the box next to the word. Check "Check whilst t

Keyboard Control Key Control is part of the Check Words & Keyboards Settings. This is a very handy feature, which can avoid TYPING WORDS IN CAPS

F11 Key = Clear Homophones F12 Key = ClaroRead Help CTRL Key = Stop Speech CTRL + F8 Key = Mute (or un-mute) ClaroRead. F6 Key = Swaps keyboar

Scan Settings (Plus and Pro Only) This feature is only available in ClaroRead Plus and Pro. The Scan Settings tab is shown below. Format When you sca

Preview scanned image Check "Preview scanned image" on the Scan tab and next time you scan the Preview window will be opened with lots of

When you have "No Scanner" selected, the following screen will appear, click Next. Now there should be a list of available scanner drivers

You should now see the selected scanner driver in the list, ensure it is selected and click Next. Next you need to choose whether to test the scanne

Speech Features ClaroRead's ability to make the computer talk is one of its key innovative features. ClaroRead uses high-quality synthesized voic

Click Finish to complete the Scanner Wizard. ClaroRead should now operate with your chosen Scanner. Select Scan from Paper from the Scan menu. If yo

Advanced Settings Editor The Advanced Settings Editor allows you to alter homophones and tricky words, prediction settings and train the prediction di

You can import and export ClaroRead's settings using the buttons in the "Settings" section. Clicking the "Check for updates"

Change any details you wish and click OK. To add an entry, click on the "Add" button on the Homophones tab, fill out the form and click OK.

The Training Prediction tab allows you to alter words used in the prediction dictionary and train the prediction dictionary using Word documents. Clar

Spelling tab This tab shows spellings that are detected and corrected by ClaroRead and Word for you. The current corrections made are displayed in &q

Training and Demonstration Videos You can try out our range of 'how-to' videos online. These take you through different ClaroRead functions,

Technical Support Questions and Answers Q: I can't hear the voice, what's wrong? A: Check our speech support page for possible solutions. Q:

Contact Us We would like to thank you for using ClaroRead. You can see more Claro Software products at www.clarosoftware.com If you have any queries,

Making Word Documents Speak Using Play Open Microsoft Word and open the Word document you would like to have spoken or type some text of your own. Cli