Using More of your Auto-Lektor
Scanning documents and loading text from a CD
Auto-Lektor does three tasks
:
it scans, it recognises the scanned image and it reads the
recognised text.
The Buffer
Once the text has been recognised, it is placed into a memory area called the "Buffer". as
more pages are recognised, they are added at the end of text which is already in the
Buffer.
When you read or navigate around in the recognised text, you are working in the Buffer.
If you want to read text you have saved, or read text you have loaded from a CD, Auto-
Lektor will load the text directly into the Buffer. If there was already some text in the Buffer,
the new text will be added to the end of the existing text. If you want the new text not to be
added to the previous text, you must clear the Buffer using CB before scanning or loading
the new text.
Pages
When you load text from a CD or from the Auto-Lektor hard disk, Auto-Lektor will check for
page breaks. If there are no page breaks in the file, Auto-Lektor will divide the text into
pages for you.
To start reading you do not need to wait for the recognition to finish, but only for the first
page of text to be loaded into the Buffer. Auto-Lektor will tell you that there is new text in
the Buffer.
Auto-Lektor scans a document by passing the scanner head along under the scanner
glass, to take a picture of the page lying on the glass. The scanner head passes twice
along the glass; once to scan the page, and once to return to the start position ready for
the next page. You can hear and feel when the scanning mechanism begins to return to
the start position; as soon as it begins to return, you can put a new page on the glass
ready to be scanned.
The Cursor
The cursor is the term for your place in the document in the Buffer. As you read through a
document, the cursor moves from word to word; as you navigate around the document, the
cursor moves up, down, left or right. When you leave the Buffer or shut Auto-Lektor down,
the position of the cursor is saved, so you can begin reading again at the same place. The
cursor position is only saved for text in the Buffer; Auto-Lektor doesn't save the cursor
position for a file on the hard disk or on CD.
The contents of the Buffer are saved automatically when you shut Auto-Lektor down.
The cursor can be moved around in your text using the navigation keys on the front panel
or on an external keyboard. When you navigate, you move by character (a letter or Space
or punctuation mark), by word, by sentence, by paragraph or by page.
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