Getting Started
Scanning and Reading
Turn Auto-Lektor on with the power button. You will find this button to the left of the
keyboard on the front, towards the bottom left-hand corner of the front panel.
In addition to the power button on the front panel, there is also a switch on the rear panel,
to shut off all power to Auto-Lektor. Make sure this switch is in the "on" position before
pressing the power button.
Auto-Lektor will take a few moments to be completely ready to scan; when it is ready, you
will hear it say "Hello. Auto-Lektor system version 1 5. Press Help button at any time to
enter Context Help."
Lift the lid, and put a document or book face down on the glass. Close the lid. If you have
chosen to scan a book, you will notice that the hinge opens up widely, so that the lid can
still close over the book. When there is only a single sheet on the glass, this hinge folds
back down into the scanner.
Press the Scan button. This is on the bottom row, second button from the left.
You will hear the scanner head move along the glass, as Auto-Lektor scans the page; then
you will hear the scanner head return. If you rest your hand on the lid, you can feel the
changes as the scanner head moves forward and back.
Once the first page has been scanned, Auto-Lektor will say "Starting recognition". You can
continue scanning while recognition is taking place, if you have more than one page to be
read.
As soon as the first page has been recognised, the text is loaded into the Buffer, and Auto-
Lektor says "New text in Buffer".
Now press the Read button, and Auto-Lektor will read the text aloud.
Getting Help
When you turn Auto-Lektor on, the first message you hear is "Press Help button at any
time to enter context help".
The Help button is at the bottom left-hand side of the Auto-Lektor keyboard, the left-most
button on the bottom of the three rows of buttons.
Pressing the Help button gives you a way to hear what each individual button does,
without activating it. If you press the Help button once,you enter Context Help Mode; Auto-
Lektor says "Entering Context Help Mode. Press a key to hear its function". Now if you
press any other button, Auto-Lektor will give you a spoken explanation of its function. For
instance, if you press Help and then press Scan, Auto-Lektor will say "Scan and
Recognise, or fetch text from other source". This describes what the Scan button does in
normal use.
To leave Context Help Mode, press the Help button again. Auto-Lektor then returns to
normal keyboard mode.
Essential Keys
There are some important buttons on the keyboard to give you access to the primary
functions of Auto-Lektor. These buttons are:
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