Freedom Scientific ONYX OCR, User Manual

Page 1: ...440901 001 Revision A ONYX OCR Portable Video Magnifier User s Guide Supplement to the ONYX Deskset HD User s Guide Freedom Scientific Inc www FreedomScientific com...

Page 2: ...o operate the equipment Keep the unit away from wet areas rain and other sources of liquids or high humidity Do not submerge the unit Always operate the unit in a place where the temperature is betwee...

Page 3: ...e instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful i...

Page 4: ...round Colors 7 Button Bar 8 Menu Gray 8 Magnification Yellow 8 Play Pause Speech White 8 Speech Volume Blue 9 Reading Speed Green 9 Close Red 9 General Operation 10 Magnifying a Document 10 Reading a...

Page 5: ...v Delete 18 Voice 19 View 20 Settings 22 Restore Defaults 28 About 28 Service and Support 29...

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Page 7: ...t of the document Continue to add more pages to the document and quickly save it to an SD card In addition to processing and reading text the ONYX OCR can also be used as a picture viewer This lets yo...

Page 8: ...uide Powering On the Unit 1 If the unit is off press the green Power button located in the upper left corner of the remote control to power it on Note If the unit does not power on make sure the main...

Page 9: ...as the unit switches from the video magnification camera to the ONYX OCR camera Note To switch to OCR mode the default method is to tap the screen in the lower right corner This can be changed so tha...

Page 10: ...ch on is announced do the following Place the document you want to read under the side mounted OCR camera Position the document so that it displays inside the yellow document outline box that appears...

Page 11: ...5 3 Tap the screen and the ONYX OCR captures and processes the document and starts reading within several seconds...

Page 12: ...isplay in their original colors To magnify a photo tap it once To return to the full page view tap the photo again 5 To read multiple pages in the same document or pages in a new document do the follo...

Page 13: ...cted If no high contrast color is needed the text can be displayed in its original colors To quickly change color settings tap followed by and then Refer to Color on page 20 for more information about...

Page 14: ...tion Menu Gray Tap to enter the menu Magnification Yellow Tap the Minus button to decrease magnification Tap the Plus button to increase magnification Tap the center Overview button to switch between...

Page 15: ...ap the right blue speaker button to increase speech volume Reading Speed Green Tap the left green button to decrease reading speed Tap the right green button to increase reading speed Close Red Tap th...

Page 16: ...fic area of the document displayed on the screen press and hold your finger on the text you wish to magnify Touch the screen as long as you like to zoom in To scroll up down left or right within the m...

Page 17: ...layed on the screen and configure various speech options Opening and Closing the Main Menu To open the Main menu tap the grey Menu button in the button bar It is located in the lower left corner when...

Page 18: ...the following 1 Open the Main menu and tap the blue Save button 2 Select a format in which to save the document Document Save the document using the standard file format This allows you to view it as...

Page 19: ...P3 audio file The available voices are limited to only the Nuance voices In case no Nuance voice is installed the MP3 button will be greyed out and this option is not available for the selected langua...

Page 20: ...ocument without a voice label The document will be saved using the first line of the document as the name of the document Select Yes if you would like to add a voice label You will hear a beep after w...

Page 21: ...ll prompt you with the question if the captured pages should be processed If No is selected the conversion to text will be done while reading the document If Yes is selected all pages will be processe...

Page 22: ...ed documents The most recently saved document appears first Select the Pictures button to open and view pictures 2 Scroll the list of documents or pictures using the scroll bar on the right side of th...

Page 23: ...iew The menu closes and the document or picture opens Pictures can be magnified It is also possible to open text documents in TXT format or photos from a USB stick To open documents in TXT format the...

Page 24: ...enu tap the red Delete button to see the list of documents 2 Select the document you wish to delete A confirmation message appears 3 To delete the document select Yes To cancel deleting the document s...

Page 25: ...detection is enabled refer to Options on page 24 this button only changes between voices of the detected language For instance if the detected language is English this button will only change between...

Page 26: ...be highlighted on the screen as it is spoken For example the highlight can appear around words or lines of text Color This option is not available when viewing a photo or other document with no text...

Page 27: ...line and the highlighted word is always displayed at the center of the screen Pictures are not shown in this mode Page Mode Shows a photograph of the document in its original layout including the pic...

Page 28: ...er the Settings menu It contains four buttons Voice Options Restore Defaults About Voice Settings The Voice button in the settings menu opens a list with all available reading voices and languages Sel...

Page 29: ...t it from the list by tapping it A checkmark in front of the voice name indicates it is enabled When the voice is enabled it will be available under the Voice button in the Main menu By deselecting a...

Page 30: ...24 Options The Options menu contains the following configuration settings Text recognition quality Activate Speech Automatic language detection Column filter...

Page 31: ...ou set the recognition quality The Optimal setting is the recommended mode and will offer the best text recognition quality The Fast mode is for simple documents without columns and pictures The Fast...

Page 32: ...26 Activate Speech Starting OCR Mode This option lets you configure how to start OCR mode by tapping either in the bottom right corner default or anywhere on the screen...

Page 33: ...ction first enable up to maximum five languages To do this go to the Voice Settings selection menu page 22 and enable a language by selecting at least one voice per language Do this for a maximum of f...

Page 34: ...ring the most comprehensive text recognition The Include incomplete columns will try to detect all text on the page but may result in incomprehensive text at the beginning or end of the document Resto...

Page 35: ...ied to solve the problem Warranty Information and Product Registration The ONYX OCR and its accessories come with a two year warranty against manufacturing defects Note These devices have no user serv...

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