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1. 68 Changing the Default Recognition 69 Primary and Secondary Recognition Languages 70 Acquiring Pages in the Background 71 BOOK 8 Workflows 2 72 Introduction to 5 72 Factory Workflows 73 Specialty Workflows 77 Workflow Settings sissies os tiie eed 79 79 PROCESS 84 Creating a Workflow jie 90 Setting the Active 92 Modifying 93 Renaming Custom Workflow 94 Deleting a Custom Workflow 95 Resetting a Factory 96 Book 9 Reading 97 Reading with 97 Reading
2. 224 Text SOLS CUO 225 aie lea 225 5 648 226 OpenBook Feature 228 Using Laptop Keyboard Layout Traditional 230 Introduction OpenBook User s Guide About this Guide The OpenBook User s Guide teaches you to use and customize OpenBook s image acquisition and reading capabilities to fit your personal needs The first book the Quick Start Guide gives you the basics to get up and running with OpenBook Following the Quick Start Guide are more books that give complete instructions to all of OpenBook s features Finally you will find a list of keystrokes for quick reference These keystrokes are also available in the back of the print and Braille Quick Start Guide as perforated reference cards However you decide to use this guide we will lead you a more productive computing experience with this powerful software Documentation Conventions In the OpenBook User s Guide we will refer to various commands menu options and other selections To make reading this guide as simple as possible we have included a sample of the following conventions When instructing you to type text into a command line or input field the text will appear in this type style
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5. which is processed using FIP the Exact View of the image will be in color While color printing can result in a more accurate OCR in the Text View you may wish to disable printing in color and just print in black and white as color images do take up more space To turn off color printing open the print dialog box of the application you are printing from and select the Freedom Import Printer from the list of printers Next Choose Properties navigate to the Additional page and select Advanced When this dialog box opens navigate to the Tiff page and the Bits Per Pixel choose 1 bit Black and White After you apply this change the text or images sent to OpenBook for OCR and the Exact View will be saved in black and white If you open a document or image from within OpenBook and the Freedom Import Printer processes the document color printing is always used by default Appending a File If you are working ARK document you can append the contents of another file to the end of the currently open document To append a file press ALT F to open the File menu use the arrow keys to navigate to Append File and press ENTER This opens the Select a File to Append dialog box which works exactly like the Select a File to Open Dialog box The only difference is that after you select a file and activate the Append button the selected file is appended to the end of the currently open document as a new page
6. Emphasis Voice the voice used to read text that is bold underlined and in italics The Emphasis Voice also reads bookmarks when the Announce Bookmarks check box is enabled in the Speech Settings Properties page In order to have OpenBook recognize text that is bold underlined and in italics you must enable the Keep Text Emphasis check box in the Process page for the selected workflow Please see the Book Workflows for more information Use the SPACEBAR to check the Apply Settings to All Voices check box if you want to globally apply your voice setting changes for one voice to the other voices The next seven controls are combo boxes that allow you to select the synthesizer voice language voice name as well as adjust the voice rate volume pitch and punctuation level You can experiment with these adjustments until you find the settings you like Use your UP and DOWN ARROW keys to make your selections or point and click with your mouse Press the TAB key to move to the next control or SHIFT TAB to move to the previous control To test the different voices options press ALT T This activates the Test button which also tests any voice modifications that you apply such as rate volume etc To stop the test press ALT T again 6 If you do not want to use the OpenBook speech press TAB until you hear Enable Speech check box and press the SPACEBAR to uncheck this box and turn off speech 37 7 Last if you
7. To import or export Braille files press ALT F B This opens the Braille submenu which has two options Import a Braille File to Text Format and Export the Current File to Braille Format To access files on your notetaker please see the Book Using Your Notetaker Playing Audio Files OpenBook supports several popular audio formats including DAISY Audio XML and Music Files MP3 MPG WAV and WMA file formats To play an audio file or DAISY audio book press ALT F or click on the File menu and choose Open Audio Directory Alternatively press CTRL R 143 144 When this dialog box opens you are placed into a list view which initially shows the available drives on your computer This includes A your CD or DVD ROM drive and any external drives that are currently connected such as a USB thumb drive Use the arrow keys to select the drive you want then press ENTER to open it and display the list of folders and any audio files stored on the root of the drive If the audio files you want to play are stored in a specific folder repeat this process until you have opened the specific folder Before pressing ENTER to open a folder you can press TAB to move to the Audio Files read only edit field which shows how many subfolders and audio files are available in the selected drive or folder For instance if you have an audio CD inserted that contains 10 tracks and the CD ROM drive is selected OpenBook displays contains 10 a
8. 199 UM ete A A 199 201 Audio File Navigation 202 Navigatio M 203 204 Text Selection 204 205 Visual Settings 206 OpenBook Feature 208 Book 22 Laptop Keyboard 211 uneccosasannnxucataueessascueueanecunecteneesets 211 Audio File Navigation 212 213 214 Text SCISCUOM 215 216 Visual Settings 216 OpenBook Feature 219 Book 23 Traditional Ruby Keyboard 222 222 Audio File Navigation 222
9. Note you enter any wildcard characters such as or 130 when entering a file name OpenBook updates the Files list view and announces File List Box Updated instead of opening a file after you select Open For example if you enter txt the Files list view updates to show only files containing four characters and a TXT extension Or if you enter file the Files list view updates to show all files that begin with file followed by zero or more characters Recently Opened Files OpenBook lists the last five files you have opened on the File menu The only files that do not appear in this list are DAISY audio files opened directly from a CD music files opened from your hard drive or a CD and image files To access a recently opened file press ALT F to display the File menu and then press a number between 1 and 5 on the numbers row Pressing 1 opens the most recent file pressing 2 opens the second most recent file and so on Use the ARROW KEYS to move through the menu if you want to hear the names of each recently opened file Opening Files with the Freedom Import Printer OpenBook is capable of opening the most popular file formats available for creating text documents However you may encounter documents where the author has either locked out direct access to the text in the document or created a graphic which represents text In either case OpenBook s document converters are not able to dire
10. 168 To select a paper source 1 2 Press CTRL P to open the Print dialog box Use TAB to move to the Properties button and press SPACEBAR to open the Print Setup dialog box Next press TAB until you hear Paper Source Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to make your selection Once you have selected the paper source you can change more print parameters or press ENTER to return to the Print dialog box 9 To print your document press to move the Ok button then press ENTER to start your print job Setting Page Margins Page margins can only be set using inches When you install OpenBook the default margin set for the top bottom left and right page edge is 1 inch To set page margins 1 2 Press CTRL P to open the Print dialog box Use TAB to move to the Properties button and press SPACEBAR to open the Print Setup dialog box Next press TAB until you hear Left Margin In the edit box type in the number you want to set for the left margin Press TAB to move to the Right Margin edit box and type the number you want set for the right margin Repeat this step if you want to set the top and bottom margins Once the margins are set you can change more print parameters or press ENTER to return to the Print dialog box To print your document press TAB to move to the Ok button and press ENTER to start the print job 169 Book 15 Embossing Before you can emboss a document you mus
11. ALT DOWN ARROW ALT UP ARROW CTRL DOWN ARROW CTRL UP ARROW CTRL PAGE DOWN CTRL PAGE UP PAGE DOWN PAGE UP CTRL END CTRL HOME SHIFT F1 1 INSERT 1 CTRL SHIFT F12 Select Next Character Edit Mode SHIFT RIGHT ARROW Select Prior Character Edit Mode SHIFT LEFT ARROW 204 Select Next Word Select Prior Word Select Next Line Select Prior Line Select to End of Line Select to Beginning of Line Select Next Page Select Prior Page Select to Beginning of Page Select to End of Page Select All text on current page Say Selected Text Acquisition Toggle Recognize Columns Acquire CTRL SHIFT RIGHT ARROW INSERT SHIFT RIGHT ARROW or SHIFT RIGHTARROW in Read only Mode CTRL SHIFT LEFT ARROW INSERT SHIFT LEFT ARROW or SHIFT LEFT ARROW in Read only Mode SHIFT DOWN ARROW SHIFT UP ARROW SHIFT END SHIFT HOME SHIFT PAGE DOWN SHIFT PAGE UP CTRL SHIFT HOME CTRL SHIFT END CTRL A INSERT SHIFT DOWN ARROW CTRL SHIFT Z F4 or SPACEBAR when in Read only Mode 205 Acquire and Replace Current Page CTRL SHIFT F4 Mail Sorter Preview BuckScan Money Identifier Acquisition Context Menu Visual Settings 206 Cycle Between Views Font Background Color Font Size Increase Font Size Decrease Font Spacing Increase Font Spacing Decrease Font Type Toggle Two Tone scroll Exact View Down Scroll Exact View Left scroll Exact View Right scroll Exact View Up ARROW Pan Down Incr
12. Closing a File When you close a document OpenBook prompts you to save the document if you have made editorial changes The shortcut keys for this item are CTRL W or CTRL F4 135 If you attempt to close a document that has pending pages waiting to be processed a dialog box opens prompting you to select from one of the following actions Note 136 Save Selecting this button Saves the entire document including unprocessed content This means that if you acquired 100 pages and OpenBook indicates there are 60 unprocessed pages the document is saved with the 40 recognized pages along with the 60 pages that have not yet been processed The next time you open this file OpenBook will automatically resume processing the pending pages lf OpenBook is processing a PDF you choose to save before processing is complete only the pages that have already been recognized are saved This is because unlike other image files where all available pages are pending and waiting to be processed OpenBook processes PDF files one page at a time with one pending page awaiting processing For example if you open a 500 page PDF document and then save after 100 pages are processed the resulting OBX document would contain just the 100 processed pages instead of 100 processed pages plus 400 unprocessed pages as it would if it was a 500 page TIF image Discard Selecting this button Saves only the processed portion of the document and discards al
13. Key Describer Where Am 1 Help F4 or SPACEBAR CTRL DELETE F10 or F12 ENTER ESC CTRL F12 SHIFT CTRL F12 F1 Voice Rate Move Up Move Down Move Left Move Right Page Up Page Down CTRL 1 and CTRL 2 UP ARROW DOWN ARROW LEFT ARROW RIGHT ARROW PAGE UP PAGE DOWN 231
14. The Definition view displays the definition of the selected word You can use the ARROW keys to read the contents This field cannot be modified While reading the definition press ENTER or use the mouse to click on any word in the main definition to bring up the definition for that particular word Select the Show Expanded Definition check box to show the full definition of the word including unusual definitions For example try the word skin When the Show Expanded Definition check box is checked the expressions by the skin of one s teeth and have a thin skin are included in the definition view When unchecked which is the default setting this additional information is not displayed Selecting the Switch to Thesaurus button opens the Thesaurus and displays any synonyms for the selected word If you have displayed additional definitions by selecting words from the definition view or entering words into the Word edit field select the Previous Look up button to return to the prior definition or the Next Look up button to go to the next definition The Word edit field displays the currently selected word You can view the definition for another word by typing it into this field and pressing ENTER The definition of the new word is displayed in the Definition view Select the Read Word button to have OpenBook announce the word currently being defined When you are finished select the Close button to close the
15. 6 Select OK to close this dialog box and once more to close the Workflow Settings properties page For more information on using workflows please see the book Workflows Split Facing Pages Selecting this menu option splits the pages of a book whose facing pages can both fit on the scanner glass or under the camera into separate pages This includes splitting the Exact View image into two separate images OpenBook will store the pages separately with separate page numbers This allows the page numbers in your document to match the page numbers in the actual book After recognition OpenBook will automatically read the first page and then read the second page Just like Recognize Columns The default setting for this option depends on the default setting of the Split Facing Pages check box in the Process page of the settings for the currently active workflow By default this option is disabled for all factory workflows Toggling the menu item is only temporary It will revert back to the default setting if OpenBook is closed and restarted or a different workflow is selected To permanently change the default setting for Split Facing Pages for the active workflow do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press O or select Workflow Settings to open the Workflow Settings properties page 3 In the list of workflows make sure the currently active workflow is selected then choose Modify to open the Work
16. The default setting is 60 Hz which is used by the United States while 50 Hz is typically used in Europe Select None if you are in a location with no florescent lighting The Page Size combo box allows you to set the boundaries which the PEARL will use when capturing an image You can choose from Letter 8 5 inches by 11 inches A4 210 millimeters by 270 millimeters or Full 9 inches by 12 inches The default setting is full By default if is not currently acquiring images from the camera or Camera View is not active PEARL will power down after five minutes of inactivity The camera will reactivate if you begin an acquisition switch to camera view change the time out setting or toggle the camera light To configure how long PEARL waits before it times out use the Timeout slider to choose a value between 1 and 20 minutes If you do not want PEARL to time out even when it is being used uncheck the Enable Camera Timeout check box Once you have made the necessary changes select Ok to close the Camera Properties dialog box and once more to close the Device Selection dialog box For scanners that are not automatically recognized by OpenBook you may need to activate the Scanner Properties button to manually fine tune the scanner s twain settings so that it will work with OpenBook This button is only available if does not recognize the scanner Select the Allow scanner to finish w
17. To use this feature press the TAB key to move to the control that you want to see the help for and press SHIFT F1 OpenBook Keyboard Layouts OpenBook lets you choose from three different keyboard layouts depending on the type of keyboard you use Select from Desktop Laptop or Traditional Ruby Additionally if you use multiple Freedom Scientific products many keystrokes in the Desktop and Laptop layouts mirror those found in JAWS MAGic and the PAC Mate to make it easier when switching between these applications If your keyboard has a numeric keypad usually located on the right side of the keyboard choose desktop Many OpenBook keystrokes will use this numeric keypad Refer to the Topic Desktop Keyboard Layout for a complete list of desktop keystrokes Note The desktop keyboard layout is selected by default If your keyboard does not have a numeric keypad as is the case with most laptop computers choose laptop Refer to the topic Laptop Keyboard Layout for a complete list of laptop keystrokes If you have used OpenBook for many years and prefer the traditional OpenBook keystrokes choose Traditional Ruby Refer to the topic Traditional Ruby Keyboard Layout for a complete list of the Traditional OpenBook keystrokes To change the keyboard layout 1 2 3 4 Note Press ALT G to open the Settings menu Press K to open the Keyboard Settings dialog box When this dialog box opens the Keyboard Layout combo
18. Use the PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys to adjust the volume in larger increments Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Voice Pitch To adjust the pitch of the currently selected synthesizer 42 1 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings Properties page Press TAB until you hear Voice Pitch Note Use UP ARROW to increase and DOWN ARROW 10 decrease the pitch or point and click with your mouse to adjust the speech pitch Use the PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys to adjust the pitch in larger increments Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Pitch adjustment is not supported in all synthesizers This includes the RealSpeak Solo Direct synthesizer that is distributed with Voice Punctuation To determine how much punctuation OpenBook announces while reading choose an item from the Voice Punctuation combo box Your choices are Note All speaks every punctuation symbol Most OpenBook speaks the most commonly used punctuation such as periods and commas Some OpenBook speaks the less common punctuation and does not speak periods and commas This setting is the default fo
19. Visual Settings Properties 50 Book 6 Using Settings 52 Understanding Settings Files 52 the Settings 52 Retrieve eee 53 54 Book 7 Acquiring and 55 Overview of Acquisition and Processing 55 Acquisition Device Selection 55 Acquiring a 58 59 WOKOW 60 ACQUIS Pade ecient urease aires 60 Acquire and Replace Current Page 60 Acquire and Insert New 61 FiO FOCOGINZ ae 61 63 Check ich 63 FECOOMIZE COMIN 64 65 Previewing a 66 Photocopying 66
20. you could capture all the odd numbered pages first by going front to back press ESC to bring up the Multipage Image Acquisition dialog box slide the book so the even numberd pages are under the camera choose Turn Pages Over then capture the even pages going back to front If you are using a scanner as the acquisition source and the Allow scanner to finish when canceling a scan check box is checked see Acquiring and Processing Setting the Acquisition Device the Multipage Image Acquisition dialog box will not open until the scanner has completed the scan Poetry and Recipe This workflow is similar to the Acquire and Read workflow in that it acquires a single page and automatically begins reading However this workflow retains all line breaks where they appear in the actual text so it reads more like the original document Specialty Workflows A specialty workflow is a workflow that is only used when you perform a specific task such as when opening a PDF file or acquiring a page into Microsoft Word When you choose to perform one of these specialized tasks OpenBook will use the settings from the specific specialty workflow instead of the currently active factory or custom workflow In the list of workflows specialty workflows are indicated by specialty following the workflow name Specialty workflows cannot be renamed or deleted however they can be modified to suit your needs The following Specialty Workflows are a
21. 1 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings properties page Next press TAB until you hear Skim Read Speaks Paragraph combo box or press ALT M Use the UP or DOWN ARROW keys to make your selection Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Movement Unit You can determine how much text is spotlighted by changing the spotlight movement unit Your choices are word sentence line or paragraph To change the Movement Unit for the spotlight 1 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press V or select Visual Settings to open the Visual Settings Properties page Press ALT 0 or click in the Spotlight Movement Unit combo box When you choose the unit you want to read with OpenBook displays the spotlight in the sample text near the bottom of the properties page Press the Ok button to exit this properties page 101 Dictionary 102 You can look up a word s definition by selecting the word with either the mouse or the SHIFT ARROW keys then pressing CTRL D or F8 When you select Dictionary the Dictionary dialog box opens announces the selected word to be defined and begins reading the definition At this point you have several controls from which to choose Use the TAB key to move to the particular option you want
22. Dictionary and return to your document Pronunciation Dictionary The Pronunciation Dictionary lets you correct how OpenBook pronounces a particular word or combination of letters Using the Pronunciation Dictionary 1 From the Advanced Menu select Pronunciation Dictionary ALT A 2 When the Pronunciation Dictionary dialog box opens your cursor is in an edit field Type the word that is mis pronounced Do not use any spaces and or punctuation as you type 3 Press TAB to move to the Pronunciation edit box Type how the word is pronounced Pronunciations can include spaces as this helps with stressing the correct syllable and with the pronunciation of vowels 4 Next press ALT L to move to the field containing the list of all the words in the pronunciation dictionary Press the DOWN ARROW key or the first letter of the mispronounced word to move to the word in the list 103 5 Ifthe word is case sensitive TAB to the Case Sensitive check box and press the SPACEBAR to place a check in the box For example you might want OpenBook to pronounce the text string pa as the word pa when the letters are not capitalized but to say the individual letters A when they are capitalized You would type the upper case letters PA in the Word field type the letters P and A upper or lower case in the Pronunciation field and check the Case Sensitive box 6 Press ALT T to hear the original word and the replacem
23. ENTER Pause Playback CTRL Move to the Next Heading or Audio File DOWN ARROW Move to the Previous Heading or Audio File UP ARROW Expand a subheading in DAISY files only RIGHT ARROW 222 Close a subheading in DAISY files only ARROW Say Current Heading or Audio File Move to the First Heading or Audio File Move to the Last Heading or Audio File Fast Forward Five Seconds Rewind Five Seconds Increase audio Rate for DAISY Files Decrease audio rate for DAISY Files Navigation Go To Bookmark F9 Open Go To Dialog box CTRL G LEFT NUM PAD 5 CTRL HOME CTRL END RIGHT ARROW or RIGHT SHIFT LEFT ARROW or LEFT SHIFT CTRL 2 or NUM PAD ASTERISK CTRL 1 or SHIFT NUM PAD ASTERISK Go To Next item page comment or highlight as specified in Go To dialog box F5 Go To Prior item page comment or highlight as specified in Go To dialog box SHIFT F5 223 Say Next Character Edit Mode Say Prior Character Edit Mode Say Next Word Read only Mode Say Prior Word Read only Mode Next Line Say Prior Line Say Next Paragraph Say Prior Paragraph Next Page Prior Page Move Up One Screen Move Down One Screen End of File Top of File Help Help Help context sensitive help Key Describer toggle 224 RIGHT ARROW moves by word in Read only Mode LEFT ARROW moves by word in Read only Mode RIGHT ARROW LEFT ARROW DOWN ARROW UP ARROW CTRL DOWN ARROW CTRL U
24. G or select General Settings to open the General Settings Properties page Press TAB until you hear Default Print Font Name Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select your new default printer font Press TAB to move to the Default Print Font Size combo box Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select your new default font size Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER To change the display font 1 2 4 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press V or select Visual Settings to open the Visual Settings Properties page Press TAB or click on any of the controls and make the changes necessary to the display font Press the Ok button to exit this properties page Changing Printers If multiple printers are installed on your computer then OpenBook uses the same default printer designated in Windows 166 While OpenBook s Print dialog box allows you to change printers it does not allow you to change the default printer To change printers 1 2 Press CTRL P to open the Print dialog box Press ALT N to move to the Name combo box This edit box lets you select a different printer Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys select another printer Press ENTER or select the Ok button to print your document Page Orientation The Orientation area of the Print Setup dialog box is compo
25. Go To Dialog box LEFT ARROW or LEFT SHIFT ALT CTRL PAGE UP ALT CTRL PAGE DOWN BACKSPACE F9 CTRL G Go To Next item page comment or highlight as specified in Go To dialog box 5 Go To Prior item page comment or highlight as specified in Go To dialog box Say Next Character Edit Mode Say Prior Character Edit Mode Say Next Word SHIFT F5 RIGHT ARROW or CAPSLOCK PERIOD moves by word Read only Mode LEFT ARROW or CAPSLOCK M moves by word in Read only Mode CTRL RIGHT ARROW INSERT RIGHT ARROW or RIGHT ARROW when in Read only Mode 213 Say Prior Word Say Next Line Say Prior Line Say Next Sentence Say Prior Sentence Say Next Paragraph Say Prior Paragraph Next Page Prior Page Page Down Page Up End of File Top of File Help Context Sensitive Help Help CTRL LEFT ARROW INSERT LEFT ARROW or LEFT ARROW when in Read Only Mode DOWN ARROW or CAPSLOCK 0 UP ARROW or CAPSLOCK U ALT DOWN ARROW ALT UP ARROW or CAPSLOCK Y CTRL DOWN ARROW CTRL UP ARROW or CAPSLOCK CTRL U CTRL PAGE DOWN CTRL PAGE UP PAGE DOWN PAGE UP CTRL END CTRL HOME SHIFT F1 F1 Keyboard Help Where Am Text Selection INSERT 1 or CAPSLOCK 1 CTRL SHIFT F12 Select Next Character Edit Mode SHIFT RIGHT ARROW Select Prior Character Edit Mode SHIFT LEFT ARROW Select Next Word Select Prior Word Select Next Line Select Prior Line Select to End o
26. NUM PAD 5 to read the current character Note You can only read by character when in Edit mode CTRL E Pressing LEFT or RIGHT ARROW in Read only mode reads by word instead 97 To read by word press CTRL LEFT or CTRL RIGHT ARROW for the previous or next word or INSERT NUM PAD 5 to read the current word Press INSERT NUM PAD 5 twice to have OpenBook spell the current word or three times to spell the word phonetically For example the word cab is spelled as Charlie Alpha Bravo etc You can also use INSERT NUM PAD 5 in menus or dialog boxes to read the current dialog box control or menu item To read by line press UP or DOWN ARROW for the previous or next line or press INSERT UP ARROW to read the current line You can also use INSERT UP ARROW in menus and dialog boxes to read the current menu item or dialog box control To read by sentence press ALT UP or ALT DOWN ARROW for the previous or next sentence or press ALT NUM PAD 5 read the current sentence To read by paragraph press CTRL UP or CTRL DOWN ARROW for the previous or next paragraph or press CTRL NUM PAD 5 to read the current paragraph Note When using CTRL NUM PAD 5 the spotlight remains on 98 the current word and does not highlight each word as OpenBook reads the current paragraph As you navigate through documents using the various reading commands press CTRL SHIFT F12 to obtain Where Am information OpenBook speaks the name of the currently open
27. OCR Correction feature only recognizes for whole words and punctuation Do not use spaces Press TAB to move to the next edit box In this field enter the word the way OpenBook should have recognized it Corrections can include spaces If the OCR correction is case sensitive TAB to the Case Sensitive check box and press the SPACEBAR to place a check in the box Press ALT T to hear the original word and the replacement word You can use the Test button to test a word and its correction before you add it to the list and for words already in the list Press ALT A to add the word and its correction to the word list Press ALT D to delete a word and its correction from the word list 125 9 Press ALT P to have OpenBook apply corrections from its list to the open document 10 Press ALT C to close the OCR Correction dialog box and return to your document By default in all workflows OCR corrections are automatically applied to every document that you acquire If you prefer to do this manually do the following 1 2 Note 126 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press O or select Workflow Settings to open the Workflow Settings properties page When this properties page opens the currently active workflow is selected Activate the Modify button to open the Workflow Properties multi page dialog box Press CTRL TAB to move to the Process page Press TAB to move to the Apply OCR Corrections check bo
28. Openbk9 Obu exe A hot key is a combination of keys pressed on the keyboard which invokes the same response regardless of the application you are currently using A hot key can be a single key on the keyboard but more commonly it is several keys pressed in combination For example ALT CTRL O requires you to press all three keys simultaneously Alternatively shortcut keys invoke a different action depending on the application in which you are currently working Shortcut keys also can be one key or multiple keys pressed in combination Shortcut keys may also require you to press a sequence of keys such as ALT F O In this case you would press the ALT key and the F key release them and then press the O key These hot keys and shortcut keys will appear in bold text throughout the User s Guide Another convention we use in this Guide is the reference regarding the active state of an item When we refer to an item in the active state we mean that OpenBook is focusing on the item and certain keystrokes performed affect that item OpenBook gives both auditory and visual feedback to indicate the active state Book 1 Quick Start to OpenBook Welcome to OpenBook OpenBook is a software program that transforms your personal computer and scanner into a full featured reading machine Use any of today s popular scanners or the PEARL Portable Reading Camera from Freedom Scientific to acquire the text of your favorite magazine book or
29. SHIFT TAB twice to move to the files List View Use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to navigate the List View and when you find the folder where you want to save the file press ENTER If you cannot find the file or folder in the List View you may want to look in the Tree View Press SHIFT TAB again to move to the Look in combo box Use your UP ARROW key to navigate the Tree View As you move to each folder it opens automatically revealing its contents in the List View below When you have found the folder where you want to save the file press TAB to move to the Save button and press ENTER to begin the text to audio conversion This may take a few minutes depending on the size of the file To cancel the process press ENTER again Note If you attempt to save an audio file with the same name as an existing file adds 01 to the end of the filename OpenBook does not overwrite the existing file Document Properties Select this item to view specific information about the open document CTRL R Importing and Exporting Braille Files When exporting files to BRF or BRL format OpenBook translates in contracted Braille using the same page and line break as in the original file By default there are 25 lines per page and 40 cells per line Braille files brf brl are imported as text files Currently emphasized text bold italic underline is not imported into text files but is maintained when exporting Braille files
30. Settings properties page specifies the language OpenBook identifies during the recognition process not the language for OpenBook speech This option is useful if the document you are acquiring has text that contains accent marks umlauts or other characters unique to a particular language The primary and secondary recognition language settings apply to all workflows unless specifically configured in the settings for a particular workflow To change the default primary or secondary recognition language do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press O or select Workflow Settings to open the Workflow Settings properties page 3 To move to the Primary Language combo box press TAB or ALT P To move to the Secondary Language combo box press TAB or ALT C 4 Use the ARROW keys to make a selection 5 Press ENTER or click OK to apply your changes and close this dialog box 6 Open the Settings Menu again ALT G and choose Save the Settings S 7 the Save Settings dialog box press ENTER to make the changes part of the default settings For more information on this feature please see the book Using Settings Files Acquiring Pages in the Background you are working in another application with OpenBook running in the background press CTRL ALT S to have OpenBook acquire and process an image using the currently active workflow without moving focus away from the application This allows you to c
31. TAB to move through the various controls on this page and select the acquisition settings you want to change for your custom workflow When finished choose Next to go to the Process page On the Process page configure the settings this workflow will use when recognizing text and where the reading cursor is positioned after the new page is added to the document As with the Acquire page this page uses the settings from the currently selected workflow Choose Finish and the Workflow Name dialog box opens Type a name for your new workflow then press ENTER The new workflow will now appear in the list of workflows If you are done select OK to close the Workflow Settings properties page Each custom workflow you create is saved in the OpenBook 9 0 Users Default Settings Workflows folder as an INI file which be copied and shared with other 9 users if desired For example if you created a custom workflow called Book SplitPage it would be saved as c program files Freedom Scientific OpenBook 9 0 Users Default settings Workflows Book SplitPage ini If you are in an environment where OpenBook is installed on more than one computer and you want other users to have access to this workflow instead of manually configuring the workflow on each computer you could simply copy Book splitPage ini or any other custom workflows you want to share to a USB flash drive then drop them into the Workflows folder on each comput
32. When asked to confirm the deletion press ENTER to activate the Yes button or press TAB then ENTER to activate the No button Rather than use the delete button in the Bookmark dialog box it is easier to place your cursor to the right of the Bookmark and press the BACKSPACE key or CTRL SHIFT F9 There are two ways to go to a specific bookmark The first option is to press CTRL G to open the Go To dialog box and select Bookmark from the Go to what list box In the Bookmark name combo box select the name of the bookmark you want to go to and activate the Go to button to move to it The second option is to open the Bookmarks dialog box use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to locate the bookmark in the list and press ENTER to activate the Go To button You may also change how your bookmarks are sorted To do this press the TAB key until you hear Sort by Name radio button Next use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to make your selection Your choices are Sort by Name or Sort by Location The Sort by Name radio button is selected by default each time you open the Bookmark dialog box To have OpenBook announce each Bookmark while it is reading the document you must go to the Speech Settings Properties page and place a check in the Announce Bookmarks check box 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 111 2 Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings properties page 3 Press TAB until you hear Announce Bookmarks c
33. along with the processed content This allows you to save and close a document that has not yet completed processing then open it at a later time and resume processing If you save a document in a format other than OBX such as TXT or RTF only the recognized text is saved and all pending pages are lost Note If OpenBook is processing a PDF and you choose to save before processing is complete only the pages that have already been recognized are saved This is because unlike other image files where all available pages are pending and waiting to be processed OpenBook processes PDF files one page at a time with one pending page awaiting processing For example if you open a 500 page PDF document and then save after 100 pages are processed the resulting OBX document would contain just the 100 processed pages instead of 100 processed pages plus 400 unprocessed pages as it would if it was a 500 page TIF image Creating a New Folder Since the Open Save As Save Pages and Save to Audio items have the same dialog box features you can create a new folder anytime you select these items To create a new folder 1 Press ALT F to open the File Menu 2 Use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to navigate to any of the following items Open Save As Save Pages and Save to Audio 139 3 When the dialog box opens press ALT F to activate the New Folder button 4 Anew folder is created in the List View of the dialog box Type the name of the new
34. and read the context sensitive help topic Book 3 User Interface Dialog boxes amp Controls Introduction to the User Interface The user interface automatically opens when you launch OpenBook To open the program press ALT CTRL 0 or select it in the Programs Menu The OpenBook user interface consists of the Title Bar the Menu Bar the Document Window the Status Bar and the Scroll Bar You can work in other applications without closing the OpenBook program by using ALT TAB When you want to return to OpenBook press ALT TAB again If you have more than two applications opened at the same time you hold the ALT key down while you press the TAB key until you reach the application you want to work in Title Bar The Title Bar is the blue bar across the top of the application which says OpenBook name of the file document Locate the OpenBook Title Bar at the very top of the window Press INSERT T to hear the text of the Title Bar To open the Application System Menu press ALT SPACEBAR or click the OpenBook icon on the left side of the Title Bar The Application Menu contains six items e Restore This item restores the application window to its previous size and location 29 30 e Move With this item you can change the location of the application window Size This item lets you change the size of the application window Minimize This item reduces the application window to an ico
35. and text tell the story but word recognition might be difficult Split View is available whether you have Keep Exact View enabled or not If a page does not have an Exact View image the bottom portion of the Split View displays an image containing the message No Image Available This is useful if a document has some pages that have an exact view and some that do not It is possible to have a document such as this if portions were acquired using a workflow with Keep Exact View On then later pages were acquired and added to that same file using a workflow with Keep Exact View off All the normal editing features and tools you normally use while in Text View such as Dictionary Highlight Bookmark Insert Comment Edit Mode are available to the Text View while you are in Split View While primarily a tool for low vision users Split View is also useful when collaborating with sighted co workers as it allows you to visually compare the original document image alongside the recognized text NOTES Changing low vision options such as text size font spacing and margins only affects the Text View Since the Exact View is simply the original acquired image OpenBook can not modify the actual image When changing the Spotlight Text Color through the Visual Settings properties page on the Settings menu the new color will be applied to both the Text View and Exact View areas This makes it easy for you to keep track of where you are
36. as a user you will need to type in your name and then press TAB to move to the Ok button When you arrive at the Ok button press ENTER 199 200 If you have previously logged in as a user your login name will be among the names in the Please Sign In Here combo box In this case use the UP or DOWN Arrow key to locate your name or simply press the first letter of your name until you see and or hear it spoken Next press TAB to move to the Ok button When you arrive at the Ok button press ENTER Book 21 Desktop Keyboard Layout Reading Number Announcement Toggle CTRL SHIFT N Read Dialog Box in Tab Order INSERT B Read Default Button of Dialog Box INSERT E Read Current Dialog Box Control INSERT TAB Say Character NUM PAD 5 Say Word INSERT NUM PAD 5 Spell Word INSERT NUM PAD 5 twice Spell Word Phonetically INSERT NUM PAD 5 three times Say Line INSERT UP ARROW ALT NUM PAD 5 CTRL NUM PAD 5 Say Sentence Say Paragraph Say To Cursor INSERT HOME Say From Cursor INSERT PAGE UP Say Top Line of Window INSERT END Read Status Bar Say Window Title Say All INSERT PAGE DOWN INSERT T INSERT DOWN ARROW or F12 201 Skim Read CTRL INSERT DOWN ARROW Fast Forward Rewind during Say All or skimming LEFT RIGHT ARROW or LEFT SHIFT RIGHT SHIFT Silence Speech CTRL Audio File Navigation Start Stop Audio Playback INSERT DOWN ARROW Pause Playback CTRL Move to the Next Heading or Audio File DOWN ARROW Move to
37. changes to the comment text and then press OK To delete a comment place your cursor on the comment and press SHIFT DELETE To move quickly through the comments in a document press CTRL G to open the Go To dialog box In the Go to what list box select Comments and then activate the Next or Previous button to move through your comments When you hear the comment you want activate the Close button to return to your document on the current comment If comments is already the selected navigation option press F5 or SHIFT F5 from within the document to move to the next or previous comment To send all comments to a new blank document press ALT F or click on the File menu and select Export Comments All comments in the current document are pasted into a new untitled document which you can then save Each comment is proceeded by a number and is separated by a blank line for easy navigation By default OpenBook will announce comments while reading the document If you do not want to hear comments while reading do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings properties page 3 Press TAB until you hear Announce Comments check box 4 Press the SPACEBAR to uncheck the box 5 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Find The Fin
38. choose to open a PDF file through the Select a File to Open dialog box If OpenBook is unable to process the particular file you are asked if you want to use the Freedom Import Printer instead If you choose Yes OpenBook switches to the Freedom Import Printer specialty workflow and resumes processing Selecting No cancels the recognition and the PDF file is not opened You can only modify process settings for this specialty workflow Workflow Settings Workflows consist of two types of settings acquisition and processing You can access the settings for a workflow by opening the Workflow Settings properties page ALT G choosing a workflow from the list and then selecting the Modify or Create New button If you choose Modify the Workflow Multipage dialog box opens Otherwise selecting Create New opens the Create New Workflow wizard which guides you through creating a custom workflow using the settings from the currently selected workflow as a starting point Acquire Page The settings on the acquire page control how the workflow acquires images and where the page is placed in the document These options are described below Acquisition Mode This combo box lets you specify whether OpenBook acquires one or more pages when you press the acquire keystroke Your choices are Single OpenBook acquires one page from the scanner or camera processes it and begins reading To acquire another page you will need to press t
39. delay is set to 0 the camera uses motion detection to determine when the page is perfectly still before capturing an image This means that if you are trying to position a page under the camera or flipping pages in a book the camera will not take a picture until it detects no movement from the item placed under it Make sure to move slowly but purposefully when positioning a page under the camera This helps to prevent PEARL from inadvertently taking a picture before the page is properly positioned Do not make any sudden abrupt movements once the page is in place If your scanner has a duplexer you can Enable the Duplex Mode check box to use this feature This option is unchecked by default in all factory workflows Process Page The settings on the Process page control how text is recognized and where the reading cursor is positioned These options are described below Use Default Recognition When this check box is checked the workflow will use the default recognition strategy primary language and secondary language options that are selected in the main Workflow Settings properties page This is the default setting for all workflows If you uncheck this item you can then configure a different recognition strategy primary language or secondary language for the currently selected workflow For example if the default recognition strategy is set to Balanced all workflows will use this strategy when recognizing text However
40. document as well as the line number of the current page where the cursor is located This command also works in dialog boxes and tells you the name of the open dialog box and the currently selected control For a complete list of keystrokes refer to the keystroke lists at the end of this manual Reading Using Say All In a Say All begins reading at the cursor location and continues through the rest of the document If you want OpenBook to read an entire document make sure you position the cursor at the top of the file before starting the Say All When you acquire a document and the currently active workflow is configured to start soeaking automatically OpenBook begins reading using Say All To start a Say All in a document you have opened or if the currently active workflow is not set to soeak automatically when a page is acquired press INSERT DOWN ARROW Use ALT CTRL PAGE DOWN decrease the reading speed or ALT CTRL PAGE UP to increase the reading speed To stop reading press CTRL or ESC Fast Forward and Rewind With OpenBook you can move quickly through a document using the Fast Forward or Rewind functions To fast forward or rewind you must be reading with the Say All command INSERT DOWN ARROW or be skim reading using the CTRL INSERT DOWN ARROW command To fast forward press the RIGHT SHIFT or the RIGHT ARROW key To rewind press the LEFT SHIFT or the LEFT ARROW key If you press the rewind command
41. embossed If you do not want to change any of the parameters and are ready to emboss press TAB until you reach the Ok button and then press ENTER Number of Copies Unless you specify the number of copies you want embossed OpenBook will only emboss one copy of a document To emboss more than one copy of a document 1 Press ALT F E to open the Emboss dialog box 2 Press TAB until you hear Number of copies one 3 Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to increase or decrease the number of copies to be embossed 4 Once you have selected your number you can change more emboss parameters or press TAB to move to the Ok button Press ENTER to emboss your document Changing Emboss Settings Depending on your needs you may want to emboss on different size paper Changes made to the embossing settings are retained until you change them or reset them to their defaults 171 172 For 8 5 x 11 inch paper use the following settings Cell Per Line 34 Lines Per Page 25 Top Margin in lines 0 Max Cells Per Line of Embosser 34 Max Lines Per Page of Embosser 27 For 11 5 x 11 inch paper use the following settings Cell Per Line 40 Lines Per Page 25 Top Margin in lines 0 Max Cells Per Line of Embosser 42 Max Lines Per Page of Embosser 27 To change embossing settings 1 Press ALT F E to open the Emboss dialog box 2 Use TAB to move to the Properties button and press SPACEBAR to open the dialog box 3 Pre
42. file and eliminate the need to perform OCR Depending on the age of the PDF file or the choices made by the author direct access may or may not be available Additionally many PDF files are simply pictures of text pages and as such cannot provide screen readers direct access When you encounter files which do not provide direct access through your screen reader you will want to use the Freedom Import Printer to gain access To use this printer open the application s Print dialog box and select Freedom Import Printer from the list of printers and initiate printing of the document If OpenBook is not running it will be launched and then the file will be sent to OpenBook for recognition using the Freedom Import Printer specialty workflow If OpenBook is already running the file will immediately be sent to and recognized In both cases the recognized text will be placed in a new document in OpenBook is currently running when you print the file from the specific application you may need to press ALT TAB to move focus to OpenBook You can also use the Freedom Import printer to open a document from within OpenBook To utilize this method the file format needs to be associated with an application installed on your computer that is capable of opening and printing the document To open a graphic file from within OpenBook press CTRL O to open the Select a File to Open dialog box In the Files of Type comb
43. for the selected word If you have displayed additional lists of synonyms by selecting words from the Synonym view or entering words into the Word edit field select the Previous Look up button to return to the prior synonym list or the Next Look up button to go to the next synonym list The Word edit field displays the currently selected word You can view the synonyms for another word by typing it into this field and pressing ENTER The synonyms for the new word are displayed in the Synonym view Select the Read Word button to have OpenBook announce the currently selected word When you are finished select the Close button to close the Thesaurus and return to your document 105 Indicate Emphasis Text When enabled the emphasis voice will Bold Italics Underlined text in a document when reading using the Say All function see Reading Reading Using Say All Additionally the chosen emphasis voice will speak rows of symbols of four or more such as or etc during both a Say All and when arrowing through text When disabled the emphasis voice will only speak rows of symbols of four or more such as or etc during both a Say All and when arrowing through text This option is disabled by default To enable Emphasis Text 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings properties page 3 Press TAB until you hear Indica
44. in both views as you navigate By default if you have an exact view color or grayscale image you cannot apply any low vision color such as yellow on blue background to the Exact View The exact view image is saved with the original colors from the acquired page which then prohibits OpenBook from being able to display low vision colors Your chosen Low Vision colors and all other chosen Low Vision settings will apply to your Text View displayed in the upper portion of the screen To apply text colors to an Exact View color or grayscale image enable the Two Tone setting from the View menu or the Visual Settings properties page 153 Camera View 154 Camera View displays a real time view from the PEARL camera on your monitor meaning that as you move items around under the camera such as turning pages or removing and replacing objects the image on the screen will update accordingly This is different from Exact View which only shows the image once it has been acquired You activate Camera View by opening the View menu ALT V and choosing Camera View You can also press CTRL SHIFT V to cycle between Text View Exact View Split view and Camera View If the PEARL is not connected or is not configured as the acquisition device this view is not available Additionally if the Camera View is active and you disconnect the PEARL from the computer an image containing the message no image available is displayed Camera View i
45. in the document make sure you always acquire the opposite side of the last page even if it is blank This option is not available if you have already activated it or if you have enabled the Split Facing Pages setting for the current workflow Note This feature is most useful with scanners that have an automatic document feeder 75 76 e Finished Acquiring Images Activating this button closes the dialog box and stops acquiring images until you begin another page acquisition by pressing the F4 key or through the Acquire menu Once you select an action the dialog box closes and you can continue reading where you left off in the document Multipage Automatic Similar to Multipage Prompt for Pages this workflow also allows you to continue reading from your current location and acquire new pages that are appended to the end of the document However instead of opening a dialog box prompting you for an action to perform after each acquisition OpenBook uses the feed from a document feeder a timer or the motion detection with the PEARL camera to continually add pages until commanded to stop Using the timer lets you specify how long OpenBook pauses between acquisitions Pressing ESC will stop the acquisition process and open the Multipage Image Acquisition Dialog box described above where you can select an action For example if you are using PEARL to acquire a book whose facing pages are too large to both fit under the camera
46. is automatically inserted into the Authorization Number edit box If your Authorization number is not shown type it into the edit box You can find your Authorization number in print and Braille on your disc sleeve 6 Press ENTER to continue You will be asked to connect to the Internet if you have not already done so You must establish an Internet connection before continuing with the activation 7 If you have not registered OpenBook you are asked to do so now Registering OpenBook lets you receive technical support Choose Register Now and complete the online registration form by following the instructions provided You can choose to register later but you must register the next time you activate OpenBook 8 After you submit your registration Internet License Manager attempts to activate OpenBook This process may take several minutes When the activation is successful choose Finish Note If Internet License Manager cannot activate OpenBook because of your firewall software see the next section Troubleshooting Firewall Software Troubleshooting Firewall Software Firewalls protect computer systems from being accessed by unauthorized users Some network or personal firewall software may interfere with the installation activation or usage of OpenBook The following information will help you reconfigure your firewall to work with OpenBook Refer to your firewall software documentation for more information o
47. languages depending on whether you are using Eloquence RealSpeak Solo Direct or SAPI5 The available languages will also vary depending on what synthesizers are installed The default Eloquence synthesizer offers eight languages To change the voice language 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings Properties page Press TAB until you hear Voice Language 4 Use your UP and DOWN ARROW keys or point and click with your mouse to select a different language 5 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Note Some speech synthesizers allow you to select multiple as a choice in the Language combo box Selecting multiple lets you choose any voice style from all of the languages available for the synthesizer Voice Name 40 The Voice Name combo box allows you to select which voice is used It is helpful to have different voices selected for the Reading Menu and Emphasis voices You then immediately know the source of information spoken by OpenBook The voices available in this combo box will depend on whether you are using Eloquence RealSpeak Solo Direct or SAPI 5 and what synthesizers are installed on your computer The default Eloquence synthesizer offers 14 voices including Reed Shelly Grandma Grandpa etc To change the voic
48. lists the description of the shortcut keys Font size increase CTRL 4 Font size decrease CTRL 3 Font amp Background Color CTRL 5 Font type CTRL 6 Font spacing increase CTRL 8 Font spacing decrease CTRL 7 Visual Settings Properties page 50 For complete control over how your document displays on your monitor in Text View go to the Visual Settings Properties page ALT G V From this page you can select your preferred view font type and size page margins and the color and spacing for every element on your page You can also change the text and background colors for the text spotlight which highlights words as OpenBook reads Use the preview area near the bottom of the dialog box to see how the changes you make affects the text Text View must be active in order to see any changes When this properties page opens the Preferred View combo box is active Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select the view you want to apply when opening documents Press TAB to move to the Font Name combo box Again use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select the font you want displayed then press TAB to move to the next combo box Follow these basic steps to make changes for the document displayed on your screen When you are done press ENTER io exit this properties page you changed the preferred view it will be applied to all future documents you open For example if you select Split View as your preferred view all documents you o
49. newspaper article and let OpenBook immediately read that page aloud to you Or open an electronic file from any of today s most popular applications and edit at will With OpenBook nothing is left inaccessible and even better you are in control of how a page is read and presented on your computer screen With the PEARL you will experience instantaneous page acquisition enabling OpenBook to process multiple pages within seconds The PEARL camera has an automatic mode that senses motion and allows it to capture an image whenever a page is turned When used on a laptop or netbook computer you will have a truly portable acquisition and reading system while on the go System Requirements The recommended system requirements for OpenBook are listed below Specification Minimum Requirement Operating system Processor speed Memory RAM Available hard disk space for installation Video Sound Keyboard Acquisition device CD ROM Drive Installing OpenBook All 32 bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 all 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Vista and all 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 500 MHz Intel Pentium or faster 256 MB 512 MB recommended 1 2 GB on the drive containing the Program Files and Windows folders 256 color graphics Windows compatible sound card and speakers 104 key Keyboard A TWAIN or WIA compatible flatoed scanner or the PEARL camera f
50. press and hold then move to drag image in Exact View and Camera View CTRL F9 CTRL SHIFT F9 ALT CTRL M SHIFT DELETE ALT ENTER ALT SHIFT APOSTROPHE CTRL F11 ALT F11 ESC CTRL SHIFT F11 ALT CTRL F11 ALT SHIFT F11 F11 SHIFT F11 CTRL C CTRL X CTRL V 219 Delete Current Page CTRL DELETE Delete Character Edit Mode DELETE Dictionary CTRL D or F8 Edit Mode Read only Mode toggle CTRL E ALT PAGE DOWN ALT PAGE UP Move Page Down in Exact View Move Page Up in Exact View 220 Insert Page Break Edit Mode CTRL ENTER Delete Page Break Edit Mode CTRL SHIFT DELETE Find text CTRL F Find next occurrence of text CTRL SHIFT F Replace text Edit Mode CTRL H Spell Check F7 Thesaurus CTRL T Undo CTRL Z Decrease Voice Rate ALT CTRL PAGE DOWN Increase Voice Rate ALT CTRL PAGE UP Mute Synthesizer CTRL F5 Close Document Window CTRL F4 Document Toggle CTRL F6 New File CTRL N Open File CTRL O Open Audio Directory Print Save Current Page Save Document Exit CTRL R CTRL P CTRL SHIFT S CTRL S ALT F4 221 Book 23 Traditional Ruby Keyboard Layout Reading Read Dialog Box in Tab Order CTRL B Read Status Bar CTRL SHIFT F10 Say All F10 12 or NUM PAD ENTER Skim Through Document SHIFT F12 Fast Forward Rewind during Say All or skimming LEFT RIGHT ARROW or LEFT SHIFT RIGHT SHIFT Silence Speech CTRL Audio File Navigation Start Stop Audio Playback F10 F12 or NUM PAD
51. rather than only being able to access the information until the next page is acquired As the name implies this workflow is most useful for quickly scanning envelopes to determine their contents and who they are addressed to so you can sort them correctly This workflow is automatically used to acquire and process a page whenever you press CTRL SHIFT F3 to open a Preview document even if it is not set as the active workflow If you choose to set Mail Sorter Preview as the active workflow and press F4 to acquire a page the page is placed into the current document Multipage Prompt for Pages This workflow allows you to continue reading from your current location and acquire new pages that are appended to the end of the document After each new page is acquired OpenBook displays a dialog box with the following options e Acquire Another Page Activating this button causes OpenBook to acquire the next page and append it to the document e Turn Pages Over After acquiring one side of each page in a double sided document activating this button allows you to acquire the opposite side of each page and have it inserted into the document in the correct page order during recognition For instance if you were acquiring three double sided pages you could acquire pages 1 3 and 5 select Turn Pages Over and then acquire pages 6 4 and 2 The pages would then be placed in the correct order during OCR In order for pages to be sorted correctly
52. select the synthesizer for the Reading voice the same selection is also used for the Emphasis voice If you attempt to select a synthesizer that has no voices available you will receive a message which is spoken by the previously selected synthesizer informing you that no voices are installed for the current synthesizer and to select a different one For example if you change from Eloquence to SAPI 5 and there are no SAPI 5 voices on your computer Eloquence will the message and will continue to provide speech so you can select a different synthesizer In addition you will not be able to change settings like the rate volume pitch inflection punctuation level voice name or language until you select a synthesizer with available voices The OK and Apply buttons will also be unavailable To change synthesizers 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings Properties page 3 Press TAB until you hear Synthesizer 4 Use your UP and DOWN ARROW keys or point and click with your mouse to select a different synthesizer 5 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Note With some speech synthesizers pitch punctuation and multi language options may not be available 39 Language The Voice Language combo box lists the available
53. through the firewall in order to retrieve updates 22 Migrating Files from a Prior Version of OpenBook If you have updated from a previous version of OpenBook you probably have files stored in your old Library folder that you would like to be able to access 9 0 When you uninstall a prior version the OpenBook folder which contains the Library remains on your hard drive to ensure any files saved in these folders are not removed The following procedures will show you how to navigate to and open these files as well as move the older files to your new library folder To open files that are located in a previous OpenBook library do the following 1 Press CTRL O to open the Select a File to Open dialog box 2 Press SHIFT TAB two times to move to the Look in combo box and press UP ARROW until you hear Local Disk C 3 Press TAB to move to the Files list view and use the arrow keys to locate the folder of the previous OpenBook installation and press ENTER For example if the last version installed was 8 0 locate the folder 8 4 Locate the folder Users and press ENTER 5 Locate the folder Default and Press ENTER 6 Locate the folder Library and Press ENTER to open the Library folder 7 Locate the category folder that contains the file you wish to open and press ENTER 8 Locate the file and press ENTER to open it 23 If you need to regularly access files from a previous
54. to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Announce Headers and Footers Enable this option if you want OpenBook to read the header and footer for each page when you use the Say All command INSERT DOWN ARROW Uncheck this option if you do not want OpenBook to read headers and footers when you use the Say All command You can still use the ARROW keys to read the header and footer This option is enabled by default To turn off the Announcement of Headers and Footers 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings properties page 3 Press TAB until you hear Headers and Footers 47 48 4 Press the SPACEBAR to uncheck the box 5 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER If you want to save your setting changes open the Settings menu ALT G and select Save the Settings S With the Save Settings dialog box open type a name for the new settings file then TAB to the Save button and press ENTER For more information please see the book titled Using Settings Files Book 5 Adjusting Visual Settings Low Vision Menu Although you can change the same settings in the Visual Settings Properties page ALT G V the Low Vision menu provides an
55. to move to Cursor Settings and press ENTER In the Dot Pattern edit box type the dot pattern you would like to use to represent the cursor For example 78 In the group of radio buttons choose whether you want the cursor to blink be always down so it is not shown on the display or always up In the Blink Rate edit box enter a number to specify the rate at which the Braille cursor blinks The default is 500 milliseconds Book 20 OpenBook with Multiple Users Enabling Multiple Users For those environments where there are many OpenBook users but only one computer OpenBook allows for more than one user to login and have their individual preferences settings and library Select enable Multiuser Login from the Advanced Menu ALT A to switch between multiuser and single user mode When you uncheck this item OpenBook switches to single user mode and does not display the User Log In screen when you launch the program Note This item is always enabled in the network version of OpenBook It is good practice for an OpenBook user who is in a public setting to log off when they are done working This way the next user can easily login To log off go to the File Menu ALT F and select the Log Off menu item This opens the Log In dialog box which prepares OpenBook for the next user login Logging In The Log In dialog box is only available when the Multiuser Login is enabled in the Advanced Menu If you have never logged in
56. to switch to another open document close the current document or open an image file which creates a new document during OCR 155 Overlay 156 In Camera View the entire area under the camera 9 inches by 12 inches is displayed However you can configure the boundaries the camera uses when acquiring the page by opening the PEARL Properties located in the Device Selection dialog box in the Advanced menu ALT A In the Page Size combo box you can choose from Full default Letter or A4 For more information on these settings see Acquiring and Processing Setting the Acquisition Device In addition the Mail Sorter Preview workflow only acquires a certain portion of the page To distinguish the portion of the image that is to be acquired from the rest of the image OpenBook displays an overlay rectangle An overlay emphasizes a part of an image by increasing the difference in brightness contrast between it and the rest of the image Overlay is to images as Masking is to text The overlay rectangle is always displayed and moves as you pan so the same portion of the image is always covered If you change the page size in the PEARL properties or change how much of the image is acquired in the workflows settings the overlay will also change to reflect the new settings To change the Overlay color and transparency do the following 1 Press ALT G or click the Settings Menu 2 Press Wor select Image View Settings to open th
57. two items Open from and Save to Use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to select Open from then press ENTER From the Select a file to open dialog box press SHIFT TAB to move into the files list Use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to select a file then press ENTER Saving Files To save files to your notetaker 1 184 From the File Menu ALT F select Notetaker T This opens the Notetaker submenu which has two items Open from and Save to Use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to select Save to then press ENTER Type a name for the file you want to save Press SHIFT TAB to move into the files list Use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to select a folder in which you want to save your file then press ENTER Book 18 Launchable Applications Launchable Applications are word processing or Braille transcription applications that you can start from OpenBook s Launch Menu When you start an application from the Launch Menu the new application becomes active while OpenBook runs in the background Documents originally opened in OpenBook open in the file format of the new application Note You may need screen reading software to read documents in some of these launchable applications To move between applications hold down the ALT key and press the TAB key You may need to press TAB more than once to cycle through each application When you reach the application you want active release both keys simultaneously Adding New Launch
58. you are reading or you may acquire pages into one document then open and read a different one Acquire Image Only This workflow acquires the image and saves it as an image file without performing the recognition process This workflow is useful if you want to create and save an image file to be used later as a graphic 73 74 Once OpenBook acquires the page from the scanner or camera the Image File Name dialog box opens This dialog box similar to the Save As dialog box in the File menu and allows you to enter a name for the image file select the location where the image is saved and choose the image file format Acquired images can be saved as TIF LZW default BMP JPEG PCX PCX Fax PCX grayscale PNG TIF Black and White Fax Mode TIF Black and White TIF RLE or TIF Uncompressed files To change the default image format used when saving images you must go to the Settings Menu and select General Settings ALT G G then press TAB to move to the Image Output File Type combo box Use the UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select the default image file type you want to use when acquiring pages using this workflow Mail Sorter Preview This workflow replaces the Scan Preview menu item found in versions of OpenBook prior to version 9 and offers greater flexibility It allows you to adjust how much of the page is acquired and whether or not the current page is overwritten with the new one This makes it possible to keep records
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60. Context Sensitive Help When you a dialog box press SHIFT F1 to read the context sensitive help message for the current item You can also access context sensitive help by right clicking the mouse a control and selecting What s This or by clicking on the question mark symbol at the top right corner of the dialog box and then clicking on a control Key Describer Turning on Key Describer allows you to safely explore keyboard commands without actually performing the command For example when you turn on Key Describer and press a key OpenBook tells you what the selected key does without actually performing that particular function To turn on Key Describer press INSERT 1 Press INSERT 1 again to turn off Key Describer and return to normal operation OpenBook User s Guide We provide you with the content of the OpenBook Online Help System in the OpenBook User s Guide which uses large text for easy reading The manual contains the Quick Start Guide a detailed description of OpenBook s features and pull out reference cards Technical Support If you do not find the answers to questions or problems that you have contact Freedom Scientific Technical Support 727 803 8600 or e mail Support FreedomScientific com Office hours are from Monday through Friday 8 30 A M to 7 00 P M Eastern Standard Time Please have the following information on hand Product serial number used for registration e Pro
61. ER or when the text wraps at the edge of the window In Exact View the line is determined by the rectangle of the word s By default the exact view uses a black background To select a different background color do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press Wor select Image View Settings to open the Image View Settings properties page 3 Press TAB to move to the Exact View Background Color combo box and select the color you want to set as the background 4 Press the OK button to exit this properties page NOTES To change text or spotlight colors you must go to the Visual Settings Properties page in the Settings Menu By default if you have an exact view color or grayscale image you cannot apply any low vision color such as yellow on blue background to the Exact View The exact view image is saved with the original colors from the acquired page which then prohibits OpenBook from being able to display low vision colors Your chosen Low Vision colors and all other chosen Low Vision settings will only apply to your Text View or the Text View area of Split View To apply text colors to an Exact View color or grayscale image enable the Two Tone setting from the View menu or the Visual Settings properties page 149 Two Tone 150 Two Tone allows you to apply text and background colors to a color or grayscale image in both Exact View and Split View This setting is not available if the
62. ER to print your document Selecting a Print Range The Print Range area of the Print dialog box is composed of three radio buttons All Pages Selected Text Only and Pages to _ Unless you specify a print range OpenBook will print all pages contained with in a document To specify a Print Range 1 2 3 Press CTRL P to open the Print dialog box Press TAB until you hear All Pages checked Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to make your selection If you choose Pages to _ be sure to TAB to the Edit boxes and type in a number Once you have selected your new page range you can change more print parameters or press TAB to move to the Ok button then press ENTER to print your document Changing Print Font In the Print dialog box there is a Print Font area which has two radio buttons Print using default font and Print as displayed When installed OpenBook s default font is Arial 14 point To change the print font from default to as displayed 1 2 3 Press CTRL P to open the Print dialog box Press TAB until you hear Print using default font Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to move between each radio button Once you have selected how you want your document to print you can change more print parameters or press TAB to move to the Ok button then press ENTER to print your document 165 To change the default print font 1 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press
63. ESC key Be sure to give each succeeding page a new number larger than the page numbers before it For example you could have 3 page document that you renumber as pages 10 20 and 30 but you can t renumber the pages as 20 30 and 10 If you type a number that breaks this rule will prompt you to enter a valid number You can revert back to OpenBook s original page numbering sequence at any time by checking the box called Revert to Original page numbers Press the SPACEBAR to check this box then press ENTER Insert Page Break When you need to insert a page break in your document place your cursor on the line where you want the break to occur then press CTRL ENTER OpenBook inserts a page break immediately before the current line of the document The text after the inserted page break becomes the beginning of the new page the text before the inserted page break becomes the end of the previous page Delete Page Break 122 To use this feature move your cursor to the bottom of the first of the two pages Go to the Edit Menu ALT E Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to move to the Delete Page Break menu item and press ENTER Or you can simply press CTRL SHIFT DELETE from within the document Move Page When you need to move the current page to another location in a document select Move Page from the Edit Menu TO move a page 1 2 Press ALT E to select the Move Page item In the Move Page
64. IFT V CTRL 4 CTRL 3 CTRL 5 CTRL 6 CTRL 8 CTRL 7 ALT CTRL DOWN ARROW ALT CTRL LEFT ARROW ALT CTRL RIGHT ARROW ALT CTRL UP CTRL WINDOWS Key DOWN ARROW Pan Up Incrementally Pan Left Incrementally Key Left Pan Right Incrementally Key RIGHT Pan Up One Screen Pan Down One Screen Pan to Top Left Pan to Top Right Pan to Bottom Left Pan to Bottom Right Pan Down Smoothly Pan UP Smoothly Pan Left Smoothly Pan Right Smoothly CTRL WINDOWS ARROW CTRL WINDOWS ARROW CTRL WINDOWS ARROW PAGE UP PAGE DOWN WINDOWS Key HOME WINDOWS Key PAGE UP WINDOWS Key PAGE DOWN WINDOWS Key END WINDOWS Key DOWN ARROW WINDOWS Key UP ARROW WINDOWS Key LEFT ARROW WINDOWS Key RIGHT ARROW Increase Smooth Panning Speed PLUS Decrease Smooth Panning Speed MINUS 227 Increase Zoom Level CTRL PLUS Press and hold to zoom continuously until you reach the desired zoom level Decrease Zoom Level CTRL MINUS Press and hold to zoom continuously until you reach the desired zoom level Zoom to Page Width Zoom to Page Height Zoom to Default Zoom Level Rotate Image Right Rotate Image Left Toggle Camera Light Center Image Drag Image CTRL SHIFT W CTRL SHIFT H CTRL SHIFT D CTRL SHIFT R CTRL SHIFT L CTRL L WINDOWS Key C Exact View and Camera View ALT LEFT MOUSE BUTTON press and hold then move to drag image in Exact View and Camera View OpenBook Featur
65. OWN ARROW to move through the tree view When you hear closed you press RIGHT ARROW to open that level You are then presented with more information beneath it Press DOWN ARROW to move through the next level One of those items may also be closed so you would press RIGHT ARROW again to open that item If you want to close a level press LEFT ARROW To have an item display in the text view press ENTER on the standard keypad 35 Book 4 Adjusting Speech OpenBook allows you to adjust the speech settings so you can determine how much feedback you receive which makes it easier to distinguish where and what OpenBook 15 reading Selecting Voices With OpenBook you can assign different voices for reading and editing text speaking menu and dialog box items and for reading text that has emphasis such as underline italic or bold Additionally you can adjust the volume pitch and inflection of each voice To select and adjust voices 1 Press ALT G or click the Settings Menu 2 Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings Properties page 3 When the Properties page opens the Voice Selection combo box is active Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select the voice you want to modify Once you have selected a voice press TAB to move to the next control Your choices are e Reading Voice the voice used to read and edit text e Menu Voice the voice used to read menus and dialog boxes 36 Note
66. OpenBook Image Acquisition and Reading Software User s Guide VERSION 9 0 Freedom Scientific July 2010 PUBLISHED BY Freedom Scientific 11800 31 Court North St Petersburg Florida 33716 1805 USA http Awww FreedomScientific com Information in this document is subject to change without notice No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or any means electronic or mechanical for any purpose without the express written permission of Freedom Scientific Copyright 1993 2010 Freedom Scientific All Rights Reserved OpenBook and JAWS are registered trademarks of Freedom Scientific in the United States and other countries Microsoft Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Vista are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U S and or other countries OpenBook contains technology licensed and or developed by Nuance Inc OpenBook uses an encoding engine developed by L A M E to convert OpenBook supported files into wav or mp3 file formats Web site http Awww mp3dev org OpenBook includes technology developed by Info Zip refer to c Program Files Freedom Scientific OPENBook 9 0 Help License txt for license details Info Zip Web site http www info zip org FineReader recognition technology c ABBYY tm Moscow Russia The Sentry Spelling Checker Engine Copyright 1999 Wintertree Software Inc Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary Thesaurus Copyright Wordsm
67. OpenBook indicates capital letters by preceding them with the DOT 6 character If you select this check box OpenBook does not use capital indication in order to preserve space on your Braille display This check box is cleared by default Braille Flash Messages 194 Braille Flash Messages are short announcements that appear on your Braille display for only a few seconds These messages announce application start messages error messages OpenBook messages context help messages status information and user requested information Braille Flash Messages disappear automatically after a short time but you can dismiss one at any time by pressing a cursor routing button If you need more time to finish reading a message press one of your Braille display s panning buttons to keep the message on the display longer Do the following to turn Braille Flash Messages on or off change the message verbosity level and specify the length of time messages remain on the display Press ALT G or click on the settings menu and select Braille Basic Settings to open the Braille Basic Settings dialog box Activate the Advanced button to open the Braille Options dialog box press TAB to move to the Flash Messages button and press ENTER In the Flash Message Time Out combo box Select the length of time in milliseconds that you want Braille Flash Messages to remain on your Braille display You can choose a value between zero and 30 000 millise
68. P ARROW CTRL PAGE DOWN CTRL PAGE UP PAGE UP PAGE DOWN CTRL END CTRL HOME F1 or NUM PAD MINUS SHIFT NUM PAD MINUS SHIFT F1 CTRL F12 Where Am Text Selection Select Next character Edit Mode Select Prior character Edit Mode Select Next Word Select Prior Word Select Next Line Select Prior Line Select Next Page Select Prior Page Select to beginning of page Select to end of page Select to beginning of line Select to end of line Select All text on current page Acquisition Toggle Recognize Columns Acquire Edit Mode NUM PAD 7 SHIFT RIGHT ARROW SHIFT LEFT ARROW CTRL SHIFT RIGHT ARROW or SHIFT RIGHT ARROW in Read only Mode CTRL SHIFT LEFT ARROW or SHIFT LEFT ARROW in Read only Mode SHIFT DOWN ARROW SHIFT UP ARROW SHIFT PAGE DOWN SHIFT PAGE UP CTRL SHIFT HOME CTRL SHIFT END SHIFT HOME SHIFT END CTRL A CTRL SHIFT Z F4 or NUM PAD INSERT 225 Acquire Read only Mode SPACEBAR F4 or PAD INSERT Acquire and Replace Current Page CTRL SHIFT F4 Mail Sorter Preview BuckScan Money Identifier Acquisition Context Menu Visual Settings 226 Cycle Between Views Font size increase Font size decrease Font Background Color Font type Font spacing increase Font spacing decrease scroll Exact View Down Scroll Exact View Left scroll Exact View Right scroll Exact View Up ARROW Pan Down Incrementally CTRL SHIFT F3 CTRL M SHIFT F10 CTRL SH
69. RROW In Exact view pans right until the right edge of the image is reached In Camera View pans right until the right edge of the image is reached pauses scrolls down to the next line pauses then continues panning right PAD PLUS Increase panning speed while panning e PAD MINUS Decrease panning speed while panning To change directions while panning for example if you are panning forward and you want to pan in reverse press the keystroke that corresponds to the direction you want to pan OpenBook will immediately begin panning in the new direction without interrupting the panning While panning right in Camera View you can also press ENTER before the right edge of the image is reach to quickly advance a line OpenBook will scroll down to the beginning of the next line and continue panning right Incremental panning instantly jumps to a new position and stops Use the following keystrokes in Exact View or Camera View to incrementally pan an image WINDOWS Key CTRL DOWN ARROW Pan down WINDOWS Key CTRL UP ARROW Pan up e WINDOWS Key CTRL LEFT ARROW Pan left WINDOWS Key CTRL RIGHT ARROW Pan right PAGE UP Pan up one screen PAGE DOWN Pan down one screen WINDOWS Key HOME Pan to top left WINDOWS Key PAGE UP Pan to top right WINDOWS Key PAGE DOWN Pan to bottom left WINDOWS Key END Pan to bottom right Configuring Exact View Smooth Panning Opti
70. able Applications You can choose to have OpenBook search for and add standard launchable applications such as Microsoft Word WordPad or Notepad or you can manually add specific applications you want to use as launchable applications 185 186 To add standard launchable applications press ALT C to open the Launch menu and select Setup Standard Launchables OpenBook begins searching your computer for standard word processing and Braille translation applications and adds them to the Launch menu As this can take several minutes you can activate the Cancel button at any time to abort the search Once this process completes OpenBook displays a dialog box stating how many applications were found Activate the OK button to close this dialog box To add a launchable application manually do the following 6 From the Launch menu choose Manage Launchables Select Add from the sub menu Alternatively you can press ALT C M A OpenBook displays the Add Launch Application dialog box In the Menu Name edit box enter the name of the launchable application This is the name that will appear on the Launch menu In the Program Path edit box enter the location and name of the file used to start the application If you do not know the location and or name of the file press ALT B to activate the Browse for Program button Locate the file that starts the application and select it Press ENTER to insert the location and name of th
71. also use a dongle a hardware device that connects to your computer s USB or parallel port to make your OpenBook license more portable A dongle allows you to use an authorized version of OpenBook on any computer as long as the dongle remains connected Note Adding or removing certain hardware components may cause your computer s Locking Code to change If this occurs you must reactivate OpenBook If you need to request more activations go to http www fsactivate com Activating with Internet License Manager You can use Internet License Manager ILM to activate OpenBook using an Internet connection This is the easiest and quickest way to activate your product To activate OpenBook using the Internet do the following 1 In the Activation dialog box choose Start Activation 2 Read the message that displays and then choose Continue Insert the Authorization CD into your CD ROM drive and choose Activate Using Authorization CD You can find your Authorization CD in the same sleeve as your OpenBook program disc If you do not have your Authorization CD choose Enter Your Authorization Number Manually Note you have previously inserted your Authorization CD you will not be asked to insert it again Continue to step 3 of the activation 3 Choose Activate 4 Use the ARROW keys to select Now Using the Internet RECOMMENDED and then press ENTER 5 If you used your Authorization CD your 20 digit Authorization number
72. and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER 127 OpenBook has its own file format called OBX which is the default file format whenever you open or save a file Files saved in this format are not compatible with versions of OpenBook prior to 8 0 however the ark format is still supported so you can open saved files from a previous version If you want a different file format set as the default file type you must change the setting in the General Settings properties page To change the default file format setting 1 Press ALT G or click the Settings Menu 2 Press Gor select General Settings to open the General Settings properties page 3 Press TAB until you hear Default File Format or press ALT F to activate the combo box Use the UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select the file type you want set as the default 4 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Basic File Operations Creating a New File Select this menu item to create a new file When you select New OpenBook creates a new untitled document file The shortcut key for this item is CTRL N 128 Opening a File When you select Open the Select a File to Open dialog box opens This dialog box contains a list of available files Use TAB and SHIFT TAB to move from field to field and the UP and DOWN ARROWS to move fro
73. anges part of the default settings For more information on this feature please see the book Using Settings Files Closing OpenBook You can close OpenBook like any other Windows application by pressing ALT F4 pointing the mouse and left clicking on the X in the top right hand corner of the window or selecting Exit from the File menu Acquiring and Reading OpenBook combines the best in image acquisition image processing and reading features to convert printed media into electronic format It then displays and reads the content aloud giving you access to material that would otherwise be inaccessible or difficult to read 17 When you install OpenBook the Eloquence text to speech synthesizer from Nuance is also installed and is the default for reading OpenBook can acquire images using either a scanner or the PEARL camera You can acquire one or more pages from a document such as a book or piece of mail and then read or edit the resulting text If you want to keep the document you just acquired you can then save it to a file on your computer Additionally you can customize the acquisition processing reading and display properties of OpenBook To acquire a page from a scanner place the page on the scanner bed and press the F4 key when you are ready to acquire the page To acquire a document from the PEARL position the page under the camera so that the top edge is aligned with the page guide Center the page between the
74. ans bold underline and or italic text is marked If you want to emboss without marking Emphasis Text press SPACEBAR to uncheck this box To emboss your document press TAB to move to the Ok button and then press ENTER 175 Book 16 Book Search Quick Book Search OpenBook helps you quickly search a variety of sources for books in electronic format Use the Book Search feature to download your favorite books from the Baen Free Library Bookshare org and Project Gutenberg To search for a book 1 From the Launch menu choose Book Search Select Quick Search from the submenu Alternatively you can press ALT C B Q 2 Enter the title and or author of the book you are searching for Press ALT S Choose the online book providers you want to include in the search by selecting the corresponding check boxes Clear the check boxes next to the providers you do not want to include in the search Note In order to download copyrighted books from BookShare org you must establish a Bookshare org user account If you have an account press ALT L to select the Login to Bookshare org check box When you begin the book search OpenBook will ask you to enter the e mail address and password for your Bookshare org account If you do not select the Login to Bookshare org check box OpenBook will only search Bookshare org for books that are not copyrighted 176 Note Activate the Begin Search button or press ALT B to searc
75. box is active Use UP or DOWN ARROW locate the keyboard layout you want to use TAB to the Ok button and press SPACEBAR In both Desktop and Laptop keyboard layouts you must press the CAPS LOCK key twice quickly in order to toggle all caps on or off This is because the CAPS LOCK key is also used to perform certain OpenBook commands such as CAPS LOCK DOWN ARROW to begin a Say All 27 28 Using the Mouse with OpenBook Point amp Click With OpenBook you don t have to learn keystrokes to perform actions You can use the mouse to point at items on the user interface and click the buttons to activate features For example if you are in a dialog box you can use your mouse to click directly on any option in the dialog box to select it If you are not sure how to activate a feature use your mouse to open the menus and find the feature you need Left Click vs Right Click The left mouse button is the more commonly used mouse button because it activates menus and controls Alternatively the right mouse button provides useful shortcuts to many items found under OpenBook s menus Right click on the user interface to see a context menu or right click on a control to view context sensitive help To use the context sensitive help feature move the mouse to the control you want help on and right click A What s This button appears Move your mouse over this button and click the left mouse button to have OpenBook open
76. box is enabled for all workflows except for Acquire in Background and Multipage Prompt for Pages 89 Creating a Workflow 90 While many users may be satisfied using the workflows included with you can create your own custom workflows to achieve the best results possible when processing the material you need to access You can create as many workflows as you want using any combination of settings For example you may like the settings in the Acquire and Read workflow but you need to recognize text in another language Or when acquiring a book you may want to change the delay for automatic page acquisition keep any blank pages and turn off column recognition The possibilities are endless To create a new workflow do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Then press O or select Workflow Settings to open the Workflow Settings Properties page 2 Navigate through the Workflow Name list to any factory or custom workflow on which you want to base your new customized workflow Press TAB or ALT N to move the Create New button and press ENTER This button is not available if the workflow selected in the list is a specialty workflow 4 Create New Workflow wizard opens on the Acquire page which contains the settings that determine how the workflow acquires images from the scanner or camera By default this page uses the settings from the currently selected workflow Press
77. capable of scanning in color to create color photocopies 67 9 Leave the Automatic Contrast check box checked to have OpenBook automatically adjust the contrast depending on the page being photocopied If you uncheck this option you can then use the contrast slider to manually adjust the contrast from 0 to 16 Lower numbers produce darker copies while higher numbers produce lighter copies Setting it to 8 is considered normal contrast The contrast settings are ignored if the acquisition source is set to use the PEARL camera 10 Activate the OK button to begin acquiring the image or document When the acquisition is complete OpenBook prints the copy using the designated printer Acquiring from Word 68 You can acquire a page with OpenBook while you are working in Microsoft Word When finishes acquiring and recognizing the page it displays the text in Word For best results do not acquire more than one page into the currently open Word document To acquire a document from Word 2003 or earlier 1 Place the page you want to acquire on your scanner or under the camera 2 Microsoft Word open the File menu and choose Acquire Using OpenBook To acquire a document from Word 2007 1 Place the page you want to acquire on your scanner or under the camera 2 Microsoft Word press ALT or click on the ribbon navigate to the Add ins tab and choose Acquire Using OpenBook OpenBook acquires and r
78. conds 1 000 milliseconds are equivalent to 1 second Select Manually Clear Only if you want the message to remain on the display until you press a cursor routing button Select the Enable Flash Messages check box if you want OpenBook to announce information by using Braille Flash Messages Clear this check box to disable these Messages Select the Enable Message Prefixes check box to have OpenBook display a special prefix before Braille Flash Messages to distinguish them from screen text This prefix is a three letter abbreviation that indicates the source of the message If your Braille display has status cells uses those to indicate that the text is a Braille Flash Message regardless of whether you select this check box Clear this check box if you do not want to use this feature In the Verbosity Level radio buttons choose Beginner Intermediate or Advanced depending on the types of messages you want to receive To further customize what is displayed at each level press ENTER on the Beginner Intermediate or Advanced Preferences buttons and check or uncheck the messages you want When you are finished customizing the Braille Flash Messages select OK to return to the Braille Options dialog box select OK again to return to the Braille Basic Settings dialog box and select the Close button 195 Linking and Unlinking the Cursor There are two settings that determine how a Braille display affects or is affec
79. continuously to move backwards through a document you are moved to the prior sentence 99 Both sets of commands work equally well However if you use Windows Sticky Keys then you should use the ARROW keys Otherwise you must uncheck the Disable Sticky Key Hotkey Toggle check box and check the Enable Shift Keys For Fast Forward and Rewind check box in the Keyboard Settings Properties page in order to use the SHIFT keys To disable Sticky Keys and enable Shift keys for fast forward and rewind 1 Press ALT G or click the Settings Menu 2 Press K or select Keyboard Settings to open the Keyboard Settings properties page 3 Next press TAB until you hear Disable Sticky Key Hotkey Toggle check box 4 Press the SPACEBAR to uncheck the box 5 Press TAB to move to the Enable Shift Keys For Fast Forward and Rewind check box 6 Press the SPACEBAR to check the box 7 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Skim Read 100 If you need to quickly understand the main idea of a paragraph you will find the Skim Read feature useful Skim Read lets you read the first and or last sentence of each paragraph in the document To use the Skim Read feature press CTRL INSERT DOWN ARROW To stop Skim Read press CTRL or ESC To change what is read when you use the Skim Read feature follow these steps
80. contractions and Braille translation in either Contracted English Braille or Unified English Braille UEB To configure these options press ALT G or click on the Settings menu select Braille Basic Settings and activate the Advanced button When the Braille Options dialog box opens press TAB to move to the following controls Enable Translator Select this check box to have contracted Braille sent to your Braille display In computer Braille each character is represented by a single Braille cell In contracted Braille certain combinations of letters are combined into a shorter form and more information is displayed at one time This check box is uncheck by default Contracted or Unified English Braille Select the Contracted English Braille radio button to configure OpenBook for contracted English Braille Select the Unified English Braille radio button to configure OpenBook for UEB The default selection is contracted English Braille Expand Current Word If this check box is checked and the translator is enabled the word at the Braille cursor location is displayed in computer Braille If the translator is enabled and this check box is cleared the Braille cursor rests at the beginning of the word and only moves as you navigate from word to word It is helpful to check this option when editing documents while using contracted Braille This check box is checked by default 193 Suppress Capital Signs contracted Braille
81. ction OpenBook User s 1 About this Guide alae 1 Documentation Conventions 1 Book 1 Quick Start 3 3 2 3 Installing 2 2 4 Uninstalling 2 2 7 6 Activating 5 4 6 Activating with Internet License Manager 7 Activating by 9 Dy 11 Activating through a Trusted Third 12 Dongle 2 15 Installing the RealSpeak Solo Direct Synthesizer 16 Getting State 16 Launching EAE 16 Closing E 17 Acquiring and 17 Getting 19 Online Help System 19 Context Sensitive
82. ctly open the document and provide access to the textual content When you encounter these types of documents utilizing the Freedom Import Printer which installs with OpenBook may provide you access to the content of the document The Freedom Import Printer is a printer driver that sends its information to OpenBook instead of an actual printer The information sent from the Freedom Import Printer is processed by OpenBook in the same way pages received from a scanner or the PEARL camera are processed This optical character recognition OCR converts graphic based text into digital text providing you access to read and modify the text To utilize the Freedom Import Printer you must have an application capable of opening and printing the file installed on your computer There are two methods for opening unrecognized files If you a screen reader such as JAWS installed on your computer the first and preferred method of accessing files that may contain text rather than strictly graphics is to open a file using an application capable of directly opening the file format If the screen reader provides you access to the file content there is no reason to use the Freedom Import Printer to gain access 131 132 A popular file format where we recommend you try this direct access with is Adobe s Portable Document Format PDF When authors create PDF files they may provide screen readers direct access to the text contained in the
83. d feature is a very handy tool that lets you search for a word or phrase within an open document quickly When you press CTRL F OpenBook launches the Find dialog box with the cursor in the Find What edit box Type in the word or phrase you want to find Use the TAB key to navigate the dialog box Other controls in this dialog box that are available are Find Whole Words Only Match Case and Search Direction When you are ready press ENTER on the Find Next button When OpenBook has found the word or phrase press ENTER on the Read Sentence button This reads the sentence that contains the words you are seeking 117 Find and Replace Text 118 The Find Replace menu item CTRL H is similar to the Find feature in that it searches for words or phrases within a document but it has the additional feature of replacing words or phrases with alternative text Its dialog box is similar to the Find dialog box but has two additional buttons The Replace button which replaces one instance of the word or phrase and the Replace All button which replaces all instances of the word or phrase in the document Book 11 Editing When you start OpenBook you are in Read only Mode by default All of 5 editing features are only available in Edit Mode To switch to Edit Mode press CTRL E or if you prefer change the default setting so that OpenBook always starts in Edit Mode In Edit Mode you still retain all of your acquisition and proce
84. dialog box use the TAB key to move about the different controls in the dialog box To activate the button controls press the SPACEBAR You can choose to move the current page up or down one page position or to the top or bottom of the document In the edit box type the page number that you want to move the current page to Or type 2 or 2 to move forward or back 2 pages Once OpenBook moves the page it tells you the current page s new page number and the other pages in the document are renumbered to accommodate the moved page Delete Current Page Select this menu item to delete the page your cursor is on When you delete the current page OpenBook opens a dialog box warning you that page deletion cannot be undone and asks you to confirm the deletion Alternatively press CTRL DELETE Remove Headers and Footers Sometimes it maybe helpful to remove the header and or footers from your acquired documents especially when you are reading 123 After you acquire a document containing headers and footers you can then remove the headers footers or both From the Edit Menu ALT E choose Hide or Show Headers Footers Choose whether to remove the header footer or both by selecting the appropriate check boxes Press ENTER to remove the headers footers from the Text View and close the dialog box This does not remove the headers footers from the Exact View image Spell Check You can check the spelling of a specific word o
85. duct name and version number e of computer hardware you are using e Software version number of Windows 21 About OpenBook Select About OpenBook from the Help menu to view the version number of OpenBook you are currently running This dialog box also displays your product serial number and your computer s locking code used for ILM activation Updating OpenBook Freedom Scientific is continually seeking to improve and expand OpenBook Periodically updates to OpenBook will be released It is recommended that you keep your software up to date so that you experience the greatest possible performance Updating your software is quick and easy To search for updates to OpenBook do the following Note Your computer must be running Windows XP or later and it must be able to access the Internet in order to use the following update procedure 1 Press ALT H or click on the Help menu 2 Press P or select Check for Updates The update feature determines if have the most current release If you do not select one or more items from the list and then select INSTALL to begin the update All enhancements since the initial release are included in the update Note lf your computer has active firewall software such as Windows Firewall you may receive a warning indicating that either the FSAutoUpdate Application or FSAutoUpdate exe is attempting to access the Internet You must allow this process to access the Internet
86. e Image View Settings properties page 3 Press to move to the Camera View Color combo box and select the color you want to use for the overlay 4 Press TAB to move to the Camera View Overlay Transparency slider and use the ARROW keys to select the level of transparency you want for the overlay rectangle Higher values make the overlay more transparent 5 Press the OK button to exit this properties page Rotate Camera View To rotate the image in the Camera View press ALT V or click on the View menu Then press R to open the Rotate Camera View submenu Select Rotate Right to rotate the view 90 degrees to the right Alternatively press CTRL SHIFT R to carry out this function Select Rotate Left to rote the view 90 degrees to the left Alternatively press CTRL SHIFT L to carry out this function Zooming the View You can change the zoom level of the Exact View image or the Camera View by selecting one of the options from the Zoom Submenu To change the zoom level press ALT V to open the View menu and choose Zoom to open the Zoom submenu Use UP or DOWN ARROW to select the zoom you want then press ENTER Your choices Zoom In Incrementally increases the zoom level Zoom Out Incrementally decreases the zoom level Width Instantly zooms enough so the width of the image is in the window Height Instantly zooms enough so the height of the image is in the windo
87. e Save to Audio converts OpenBook supported files into WAV or file formats using the currently selected reading voice For example if you use RealSpeak Solo Daniel as your reading voice this is the voice you will hear in the resulting audio file that OpenBook creates To save to audio 1 2 3 Open or acquire the file you want to save as audio Press ALT F to open the File Menu Use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to navigate to Save to Audio and press ENTER to open the Save to Audio dialog box If you just want to save the current page press the TAB key to move to the Ok button and press ENTER If the document you opened is large and you are saving a range of pages use your DOWN ARROW key to select Save Page Range Press TAB to move to the Page Range edit box and type in the page numbers You can use dashes or commas between each number 141 142 If you want to save the entire audio file as one file press the TAB key to move to the Save Range as a Single File check box and press SPACEBAR to place a check in this box Leaving this box unchecked saves each page as a separate file Press the TAB key to move to the Ok button and press ENTER When the Save to Audio dialog box opens the File Name edit box is active Type a name for the file in this edit box Press TAB to move to the Files of Type combo box and use the arrow keys to select the file format If you want to save the file in a different folder press
88. e Settings R Use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to move to the settings file you want to use 53 3 Press ENTER to select the file and close the dialog box 4 Ifyou want to apply more than one Settings File simply repeat the steps outlined above Delete Settings You can delete an OpenBook settings file that is no longer needed by doing the following 1 54 Go to the Settings Menu ALT G and select Delete Settings D Use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to move to the settings file you want Press ENTER to delete the file A second dialog box appears asking you to verify the deletion Press ENTER again to confirm and close the dialog box Book 7 Acquiring and Processing Overview of Acquisition and Processing With OpenBook s extensive image acquisition and processing features you can access almost all printed documents OpenBook can acquire an image from either a twain compatible flatbed scanner or the PEARL Portable Reading Camera from Freedom Scientific Once OpenBook acquires the image it processes the image using optical character recognition OCR and converts the document into text Acquisition Device Selection Use the Device Selection dialog box to specify the device OpenBook will acquire pages from If both the PEARL anda scanner are connected to your computer when OpenBook is launched OpenBook will use the camera by default To change the acquisition device do the following 1 Press ALT A to open th
89. e information stored on the computer You can use the Dongle Viewer utility to view information on the license associated with the dongle currently connected to your computer To start this utility go to the 9 0 program group open the Tools submenu and choose Dongle Viewer It is recommended that you do not connect the dongle to your computer until after you install OpenBook If the dongle was connected before or during installation you must restart your computer to receive proper authorization Dongles are sold separately or as an additional OpenBook feature Contact Freedom Scientific Sales at 800 444 4443 or 727 803 8000 if you want to purchase one Certain international versions of OpenBook require a dongle for authorization Using one of these versions without a dongle displays an error message 15 Installing the RealSpeak Solo Direct Synthesizer Included with the OpenBook program disc is another disc containing the RealSpeak Solo Direct speech synthesizer It contains a variety of voices in several languages To install these voices insert the disc into your computer s CD ROM drive Next follow the instructions to select which voices you want to install and complete the installation You can also use the RealSpeak Solo Direct Sample and Download page available at http www freedomscientific com downloads RealSpeak Solo Direct Voices RealSpeak Solo Direct Downloads asp On this page you can previe
90. e Advanced Menu 2 Use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to navigate to Device Selection and press ENTER to open the Device Selection dialog box In the Acquisition Source combo box use the ARROW keys to select either Scanner or PEARL If the camera is not connected to the computer Scanner is the only choice 4 If you selected Scanner as your acquisition source press TAB to move to the Device combo box 55 5 Inthe Device combo box use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to select the scanner type you are using The number of driver choices depends on the number of scanners installed on your system OpenBook detects each scanner driver installed on your computer and automatically selects a default driver Note Due to its slow speed we do not recommend using the HP TWAIN driver unless you are using one of the HP 3200 4300 series scanners 6 Press TAB to move to the Ok button and press ENTER to close this dialog box OpenBook will use the selected acquisition device until the next time you change it Note If no acquisition devices are connected to your 56 computer the Device Selection dialog box will be unavailable If you selected the PEARL for acquiring pages you activate the Camera properties button to configure settings specific to the camera The Light Frequency Correction combo box allows the camera to adjust for the interference caused by the frequency of florescent lights The choices are 50 Hz 60 Hz or None
91. e Hotkeys 228 Copy text Cut text Edit mode Paste text Edit mode Delete Current Page CTRL C CTRL X CTRL V CTRL DELETE Delete Character Edit Mode DELETE Dictionary CTRL D or F8 Edit Mode Read only Mode Toggle CTRL E Move Page Down Exact View ALT PAGE DOWN Move Page Up in Exact View ALT PAGE UP Insert Page Break Edit Mode CTRL ENTER Delete Page Break Edit Mode CTRL SHIFT DELETE Find text CTRL F Find next occurrence of text CTRL SHIFT F Replace text Edit Mode CTRL H Spell Check F7 or CTRL K Spell Word F3 twice or NUM PAD 5 Spell Word Phonetically Thesaurus Undo Insert Bookmark Delete Bookmark Close current document Decrease Voice Rate Increase Voice Rate twice F3 three times or NUM PAD 5 three times CTRL T CTRL Z CTRL F9 CTRL SHIFT F9 CTRL F4 or CTRL W CTRL 1 or SHIFT NUM PAD ASTERISK CTRL 2 or NUM PAD ASTERISK 229 Mute Synthesizer Document Properties Exit New File Open File Print current document Save current document Toggle Windows Word Count CTRL F5 CTRL R ALT F4 CTRL N CTRL O CTRL P CTRL S CTRL F6 SHIFT F7 Using a Laptop Keyboard Layout Traditional You can use OpenBook on a portable notebook or laptop computer However most portable computers do not have standard 17 key keypads We have therefore assigned alternate keys to the NUM PAD functions 230 Acquire Delete Page Speak Select Escape
92. e Note notetakers are supported You can also use your PAC Mate with OpenBook Preparing Your Notetaker you are using your notetaker as a Braille display with a screen reader you will need to disable your Braille display settings in both your notetaker and screen reader before transferring any files Freedom Scientific Notetakers First you must connect your notetaker to your computer with the serial cable supplied Next press O CHORD W CHORD DOTS 1 3 5 CHORD DOTS 2 4 5 6 CHORD to prepare your notetaker to communicate with your PC Freedom Scientific s PAC Mate Freedom Scientifics PAC Mate with Pocket PC uses ActiveSync to communicate with OpenBook To move files between OpenBook and your PAC Mate perform the following 1 Ensure that ActiveSync is installed on your computer ActiveSync is included on your PAC Mate Companion CD 180 Note Connect your PAC Mate to your computer using the supplied USB cable ActiveSync detects the connection and starts automatically If you have not already done so must establish a partnership between ActiveSync and your PAC Mate If ActiveSync does not automatically detect the Mate start ActiveSync on your computer Open the File menu and choose Get Connected OpenBook and PAC Mate are now ready to exchange files Pulse Data HumanWare Products Pulse Data HumanWare Notetakers use Microsoft ActiveSync to communicate with a PC 1 Connect your note
93. e file into the Program Name edit box If you know the name of the file but not the location press ALT S to activate the Automatic Search for Program button Enter the name of the file and press ENTER to activate the OK button OpenBook locates the file and inserts the full path and file name into the Program Name edit box 10 Note If you want to apply parameters to the command line enter any command line arguments in the Command Line Argument edit box You must know what command line arguments the application will accept For example using A with NotePad forces NotePad to open a text file as ASCII text To find out what command line arguments can be used with a specific application refer to the documentation for that program If you want to minimize the application after it is started press ALT N and select the Minimize on Launch check box If you want OpenBook to export the active document to the application when you launch it press ALT X to select the Export Document check box Press TAB and enter the folder location where you want OpenBook to save the exported document in the Export Document To edit box If you do not know the exact path of the export folder press TAB and then press SPACEBAR on the Browse for Folder button This allows you to browse for the folder you want to export documents to If you want to convert the active OpenBook document into a file format used by the launchable application make a select
94. e name 1 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings Properties page Press TAB until you hear Voice Name Use your UP and DOWN ARROW keys or point and click with your mouse to select a different voice Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Voice Rate To adjust the rate of the currently selected synthesizer 1 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings Properties page Press TAB until you hear Voice Rate Use UP ARROW to increase and DOWN ARROW to decrease the voice rate or point and click with your mouse to adjust the rate speech Use the PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys to adjust the rate in larger increments 41 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Voice Volume To adjust the volume of the currently selected synthesizer 1 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings Properties page Press TAB until you hear Voice Volume Use UP ARROW to increase and DOWN ARROW to decrease the volume or point and click with your mouse to adjust the volume of speech
95. easy to use interface for adjusting some of the more common visual aspects of your document including font size and type text and background colors text spotlight colors as well as character word and line spacing These changes only affect the Text View which is the recognized version of the document Press ALT L or click on Low Vision from the menu bar Use the ARROW keys to navigate the menu items When you find the item you want to change press ENTER or click to select that item This launches the Low Vision Settings dialog box which has eight buttons and opens in the center of your screen The button that corresponds with the item you selected in the Low Vision Menu will be active For instance if you selected Size from the menu the Increase Size button will be active At this time you can press the SPACEBAR to change the setting or press TAB to move to the next button If you want more control over each setting press TAB to move to the Customize button and press ENTER This opens the Visual Settings Properties page found under the Settings Menu This Visual Settings dialog box is the same dialog box you would navigate to using ALT G then V 49 For your convenience there are also shortcut keys that control the features available in the Low Vision Menu You can press these commands anytime you need to change the way text is displayed on your screen in Text View These changes remain in effect until you exit OpenBook Below
96. ecognizes the page When OpenBook is finished processing the page it displays the text of the page in Word Changing the Default Recognition Strategy The strategy determines the speed and accuracy with which OpenBook recognizes text This option is located in the Workflow Settings properties page and applies to all workflows unless specifically configured in the settings for a particular workflow To change the default recognition strategy do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press O or select Workflow Settings to open the Workflow Settings properties page 3 Press TAB or ALT T to move to the Strategy combo Box then use the ARROW keys to select a strategy Your choices are Most Accurate This option features the highest accuracy but the longest processing time e Fastest This option features the shortest processing time but the lowest accuracy Balanced This option features an average processing time and a high degree of accuracy This is the default setting 4 Press ENTER or click OK to apply your changes and close this dialog box 69 5 Open the Settings Menu again ALT G and choose Save the Settings S 6 Inthe Save Settings dialog box press ENTER to make the changes part of the default settings For more information on this feature please see the book Using Settings Files Primary and Secondary Recognition Languages 70 These controls found in the Workflow
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98. ementally CTRL SHIFT F3 CTRL M APPLICATIONS Key CTRL SHIFT V CTRL 5 CTRL 4 CTRL 3 CTRL 8 CTRL 7 CTRL 6 CTRL 2 ALT CTRL DOWN ARROW ALT CTRL LEFT ARROW ALT CTRL RIGHT ARROW ALT CTRL UP CTRL WINDOWS Key DOWN ARROW Pan Up Incrementally Pan Left Incrementally Key Left Pan Right Incrementally Key RIGHT Pan Up One Screen Pan Down One Screen Pan to Top Left Pan to Top Right Pan to Bottom Left Pan to Bottom Right Pan Down Smoothly Pan UP Smoothly Pan Left Smoothly Pan Right Smoothly CTRL WINDOWS ARROW CTRL WINDOWS ARROW CTRL WINDOWS ARROW PAGE UP PAGE DOWN WINDOWS Key HOME WINDOWS Key PAGE UP WINDOWS Key PAGE DOWN WINDOWS Key END WINDOWS Key DOWN ARROW WINDOWS Key UP ARROW WINDOWS Key LEFT ARROW WINDOWS Key RIGHT ARROW Increase Smooth Panning Speed PLUS Decrease Smooth Panning Speed MINUS 207 Increase Zoom Level CTRL PLUS Press and hold to zoom continuously until you reach the desired zoom level Decrease Zoom Level CTRL MINUS Press and hold to zoom continuously until you reach the desired zoom level Zoom to Page Width CTRL SHIFT W Zoom to Page Height CTRL SHIFT H Zoom to Default Zoom Level CTRL SHIFT D Rotate Image Right CTRL SHIFT R Rotate Image Left CTRL SHIFT L Toggle Camera Light CTRL L Center Image WINDOWS Key C Exact View and Camera View Drag Image ALT LEFT MOUSE BUTTON press and hold then move to drag image in Exac
99. ent word You can use the Test button to test a word and its correction before you add it to the list 7 Press ALT A to add the word and its pronunciation to the word list 8 Press ALT D to delete a word and its pronunciation from the word list 9 Press ALT P to have OpenBook apply the pronunciation to the open document 10 Press ALT C to close the Pronunciation Dictionary dialog box and return to your document Thesaurus 104 You can look up a word s synonym or antonym by selecting a word with either the mouse or the SHIFT ARROW keys then pressing CTRL T When you select Thesaurus OpenBook opens the Thesaurus dialog box announces the selected word lists the synonyms and begins reading the list of synonyms in the Synonyms field At this point you have several controls from which to choose Use the TAB key to move to the particular option you want Note lf the selected word has no synonyms available OpenBook will say no synonyms found when you attempt to open the Thesaurus Select OK to return to the document and select another word The Synonym view displays the Synonyms of the selected word You can use the ARROW keys to read the contents This field cannot be modified While reading the list of synonyms press ENTER or use the mouse to click on any word in the main synonym list to list synonyms for that particular word Selecting the Switch to Dictionary button opens the Dictionary and displays the definition
100. er you will need to acquire each individual page To acquire a page using the PEARL position the page under the camera so that the top edge is aligned with the page guide Center the page between the outer edges of the page guide or line up a side edge of the document with an outer edge of the page guide then press the SPACEBAR or F4 key For small books such as paperback books place the book sideways with one edge against the page guide and then center the book between the outer edges of the page guide This allows you to acquire two pages at once and maintain pagination For larger books acquire one page ata time sliding the book to the left or right to capture the next page Note When aligning a large book with facing pages make sure that the spine of the book is aligned with the edge of the page guide This prevents needless information on the opposite page from being captured OpenBook will play a camera shutter sound when the image is acquired If you are using the camera you will hear this sound immediately after pressing the acquire command If you are using a scanner OpenBook will announce when scanning has begun followed by a series of tones as the page is scanned Once the scanner has finished scanning you will hear the shutter sound as OpenBook acquires the image from the scanner During the acquisition and OCR processes you can continue working in your document The status bar indicates the progress of the ac
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102. er running OpenBook When you open the Workflow Settings properties page the custom workflow you just copied will appear in the list of workflows Custom workflow INI files can even be added while OpenBook is currently running 91 Setting the Active Workflow 92 When ever you begin a new image acquisition either through the Acquire menu ALT Q or by pressing the acquire hotkey OpenBook uses the settings from the currently active workflow to acquire the image and recognize the text You can use one of the two procedures below to set the active workflow To set the active workflow using the menus do the following 1 Press ALT Q to open the Acquire menu or press the APPLICATIONS key to open the context menu 2 Select Workflow to open the Workflow submenu 3 Press UP or DOWN ARROW 10 select the workflow you want to use and press ENTER The active workflow is always indicated by a check mark 4 want to make this workflow the active workflow each time you start open the Settings menu ALT G and choose Save the Settings S When the Save Settings dialog box opens press ENTER to make this change part of the default settings For more information on this feature please see the book Using Settings Files To set the active workflow through the Workflow Settings properties page do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings menu Then press O or select Workflow Settings to open the W
103. f open the Acquire menu and press ENTER on Recognize Columns to disable it Then try re recognizing the page or document again BuckScan BuckScan recognizes both American and Canadian paper currency Denominations supported include 1 2 5 10 20 50 and 100 In order for BuckScan to correctly recognize your currency you must go to the Settings Menu and select General Settings ALT G G then press TAB to move to the BuckScan Currency combo box From the combo box use the UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select U S Dollars or Canadian Dollars To use BuckScan place your bill horizontally along the edge of the glass plate s right rear corner Press CTRL M or select BuckScan from the Acquire menu If OpenBook fails to recognize the denomination try placing your bill horizontally along the edge of the glass plate s left front corner Note BuckScan will only work with older scanners Newer scanners have federally mandated counterfeiting protections in place which prevent them from being able to scan currency Check Orientation Select this option to have OpenBook acquire a page and speak its orientation for example upside down sideways or right side up When checking orientation no additional recognition is performed This is useful if you want to make sure the page you want to read is positioned correctly on the scanner or under the camera before it is recognized so you can get the most accurate results This item
104. f Line Select to Beginning of Line Select Next Page Select Prior Page Select to Beginning of Page Select to End of Page CTRL SHIFT RIGHT ARROW INSERT SHIFT RIGHT ARROW or SHIFT RIGHTARROW in Read only Mode CTRL SHIFT LEFT ARROW INSERT SHIFT LEFT ARROW or SHIFT LEFT ARROW in Read only Mode SHIFT DOWN ARROW SHIFT UP ARROW SHIFT END SHIFT HOME SHIFT PAGE DOWN SHIFT PAGE UP CTRL SHIFT HOME CTRL SHIFT END 215 Select All text on current page Say Selected Text Acquisition Toggle Recognize Columns Acquire CTRL A CAPS LOCK SHIFT DOWN ARROW or CAPS LOCK SHIFT A CTRL SHIFT Z F4 or SPACEBAR when in Read only Mode Acquire and Replace Current Page CTRL SHIFT F4 Mail Sorter Preview BuckScan Money Identifier Acquisition Context Menu Visual Settings 216 Cycle Between Views Font Background Color Font Size Increase Font Size Decrease Font Spacing Increase Font Spacing Decrease Font Type Toggle Two Tone CTRL SHIFT F3 CTRL M APPLICATIONS Key CTRL SHIFT V CTRL 5 CTRL 4 CTRL 3 CTRL 8 CTRL 7 CTRL 6 CTRL 2 Scroll Exact View Down Scroll Exact View Left scroll Exact View Right scroll Exact View Up ARROW Pan Down Incrementally Pan Up Incrementally Pan Left Incrementally Key Left Pan Right Incrementally Key RIGHT Pan Up One Screen Pan Down One Screen Pan to Top Left Pan to Top Right Pan to Bottom Left Pan to Bottom Right Pan Down Smo
105. flow Properties multi page dialog box 4 Press CTRL TAB to move to the Process page 5 Press TAB to move to the Split Facing Pages check box and use the SPACEBAR to check or uncheck the box 65 6 Select OK to close this dialog box and once more to close the Workflow Settings properties page For more information on using workflows please see the book Workflows Previewing a Page Use CTRL SHIFT F3 to open a Preview document and quickly acquire and read the first couple of lines of a page If you then want to fully acquire the page press CTRL F4 to close the Preview file then press the SPACEBAR If you want to acquire and preview another page press CTRL SHIFT F3 again This command uses the Mail Sorter Preview workflow to acquire and process the page If you want to change any settings for the preview such as how much of the page is acquired or whether not OpenBook keeps an Exact View of the page go to the Workflow Settings properties page ALT G 0 and modify the Mail Sorter Preview workflow For more information on changing workflow settings please see the book Workflows Note Changing the Recognize Columns and Split Facing Pages items through the Acquire menu will not apply when using the preview command You must modify these settings in the Mail Sorter Preview Workflow in order for them to take affect when previewing a page Photocopying Documents OpenBook allows you to acquire a document or image and
106. folder 5 Press ENTER twice to open the new folder Save Pages 140 CTRL SHIFT S is the command that allows you to save either the current page or a range of pages in the open document This item is useful when you acquire pages of mail or other items to selectively save only the pages you want to keep You can save just the page your cursor is on or you can specify a range of pages to save To save pages 1 From the File Menu choose Save Pages ALT F then G The Save Pages dialog box opens with Save Current Page radio button checked If you want to save only the current page press ENTER OpenBook takes you to the File Open dialog box and prompts you for a file name If you want to save a range of pages press the DOWN ARROW once to check the Save Page Range radio button and activate the edit box Type in the range of pages you want to save for example 2 6 or 2 3 4 Once you have entered a valid range press ENTER or press TAB to go to the Ok button then press ENTER OpenBook will take you to the File Open dialog box and prompt you for a file name You can cancel the operation at any time by going to the CANCEL button or pressing ESC Note If you have used the Renumber Pages function to change the number sequence in your document you must specify the revised page numbers in the Save Pages dialog box Saving to Audio If you own an audio player that will play WAV or files you will want to use this featur
107. h for books OpenBook displays a list of books that match your criteria If you cannot find the book s you want to download you can revise your search Activate the Revise Search button or press ALT R and then enter a different title and or author Additionally when searching Bookshare org books that are only available remotely are not included in the results list When the search is complete use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to scroll through the list Press SPACEBAR to select the check boxes next to the books you want to download Activate the Download button or press ALT D to begin downloading the books The file s are saved in the Books folder of your Library Even if you have changed the default file location in the General Settings dialog box downloaded books are always saved in this folder When the download is complete activate the Open Files Now button to view your downloaded books Activate the Done button to view the file s at a later time Advanced Book Search The Advanced Book Search feature provides you with additional search options To perform an advanced search 1 From the Launch menu choose Book Search Select Advanced Search from the submenu Alternatively you can press ALT C B A 177 Note 178 You can also activate the Advanced Search button in any dialog box Enter keywords to search for in the Contains edit box In the Search combo box choose whether to search for these ke
108. he acquire keystroke again e Multiple Lets you acquire a batch of pages for later processing Some additional options become available when this mode is selected 79 80 Single page acquisition mode is the default setting for all workflows except Multipage Prompt for Pages and Multipage Automatic If you are modifying the Acquire from Word specialty workflow this option is not available You can only acquire pages one at a time into Microsoft Word Color Mode This combo box contains the following color modes e Color Acquires and recognizes pages of colored text art and photographs in color The results of Color Scanning are only apparent while you are in Exact View CTRL SHIFT V For this reason you must have Keep Exact View enabled in the workflow you want to use for acquiring pages in color If you do not have a color scanner installed OpenBook will tell you that acquiring in color is not possible and will acquire in black and white e Gray Scale Select this item if you do not need to have the Exact View image in color or you do not intend to keep the Exact View image after OCR Resolution Resolution is measured in dots per inch dpi The higher the resolution the more dots per inch resulting in larger image files The Resolution combo box allows you to select from 200 300 400 500 or 600 dpi Many scanners have a standard setting of 300 dots per inch dpi However if you are reading pages printed
109. heck box 4 Press the SPACEBAR to check the box 5 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Highlights 112 OpenBook allows you to indicate important passages or key words in your document just as you would highlight text in a book To highlight text in your document 1 Place your cursor at the beginning of the text you want to highlight or use the mouse or the standard text selection commands to select the text you want to highlight Press ALT T or click on the Tools menu Then select the Highlighter Color submenu and press ENTER double click the color you want to use Open the Tools menu again and choose Start Highlight If text is selected then this option will change to Highlight Selection Alternatively press CTRL F11 to begin highlighting or ALT F11 to highlight the selected text If you selected a block of text then that block is highlighted using your chosen highlighter color Otherwise after you turn on highlighting use the mouse or the standard navigation commands to move through your document As you navigate the text is highlighted using your chosen highlighter color Additionally will say highlight as you move through the text so you know highlighting is enabled When you are done highlighting open the Tools menu again ALT T and select Stop Highlight Alte
110. hen canceling a scan check box if you canceled a scan in the middle of the process and you are no longer able to scan Select the Black and white contrast uses Brightness instead of Threshold check box when a scanned document with Color disabled and Keep Exact View enabled looks identical to a scanned document using a contrast setting of 255 This should darken the contrast for better visibility If your first scan works but subsequent scans seem to ignore any changes made to the acquisition settings you need to select the Must close TWAIN after each scan check box 57 Once you have made the necessary changes select Ok to close the Scanner Properties dialog box and once more to close the Device Selection dialog box Acquiring a Page 58 There are two keys you can use to acquire a page the SPACEBAR or the key If you are in Edit mode you only use F4 as pressing the SPACEBAR will insert a space into the currently open document By default when you acquire pages OpenBook inserts them at the end of your document and places the cursor on the new page To acquire a page from a scanner place the page on the scanner bed then press the SPACEBAR or F4 key For small books such as paperback books place the book sideways so both pages are on the scanner glass This allows you to acquire two pages at once and maintain pagination see Split Facing Pages For larger books where only one page at a time will fit on the scann
111. horization number and Locking code You will then receive an Activation License code either in an e mail message or on a CD To activate OpenBook by fax do the following 1 In the Activation dialog box choose Start Activation 2 Read the message that displays and then choose Note Continue Insert the Authorization CD into your CD ROM drive and choose Activate Using Authorization CD You can find your Authorization CD in the same sleeve as your OpenBook program disc If you do not have your Authorization CD choose Enter Your Authorization Number Manually If you have previously inserted your Authorization CD you will not be asked to insert it again Continue to step 3 of the activation 3 Choose Activate 4 Use the ARROW keys to select Fax and then press ENTER 5 Complete the form by typing the required information into the edit boxes If you want to receive your Activation License code in an e mail message enter your e mail address If you do not enter an e mail address Freedom Scientific will send you a CD in the mail that will automatically activate OpenBook 11 6 If you used your Authorization CD your 20 digit Authorization number is automatically inserted into the Authorization Number edit box If your Authorization number is not shown type it into the edit box You can find your Authorization number in print and Braille on your OpenBook disc sleeve 7 Choose Print to send the form to your printe
112. ialog box opens OpenBook automatically speaks the dialog box text as well as the first control To hear the text again along with all of the controls available in the dialog box press INSERT B Multi Page Dialog Boxes A Multi Page dialog box is a dialog box with multiple pages When you open a multi page dialog box the name of the current page is announced after the name of the dialog box 32 Multi page dialog boxes contain an extra control the page tab control Move to this control the same as any other control by pressing TAB or SHIFT TAB until it is reached Press RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW to move between the pages of the dialog box and press TAB to move to the first control on that dialog box page You can also press CTRL TAB to switch pages in a multi page dialog box Radio Buttons Radio buttons are small circles Use DOWN ARROW to move through the radio buttons and when you land on the appropriate choice press TAB to move to the next control Note Only one radio button in a group can be selected at a time Edit Fields Edit fields are similar to the edit fields in word processors You can type text into an edit field and typically you can use the same navigation keystrokes here as you would in a document edit field A multi line edit field allows you to type more than one line in an edit field Edit Combo Box An edit combo box is a combination of two controls an edit field and a list box You can either
113. immediately send a copy of it to your printer Perform the following to create a photocopy 66 Choose Photocopy from the Launch menu or press ALT C P Press ALT B and specify how many copies you want to make Then press ALT N and select the printer you want to use to create the copy If necessary activate the Properties button or press ALT P to change the paper size orientation and margins If you are using a scanner select the Scan Initiated check box to have OpenBook announce when scanning begins Select the Acquisition Tones check box to have OpenBook play tones as the image is being acquired Select the Image Acquired check box to have OpenBook play a camera shutter sound once it has acquired the image from the scanner or camera Select the Fit Printed Page check box to resize the acquired image so the entire document fits within the margins of the printed page For instance if the acquired page has narrow margins but you are printing using wider margins Clear this check box to print the image in its original size fitting as much text as possible in the specified margins Depending on the size of your print margins compared to the dimensions of the original acquired image portions of the document may not be printed Determine the color mode you want to use when acquiring in the Color Mode combo box Choose from color black and white black and white fax or gray scale You must have a color printer and scanner
114. in the Exact View The right side displays workflow status information such as Acquiring Processing page N where n is the number of the page currently being processed or Processing complete For example line 20 of 87 page 2 of 10 8 unprocessed images Processing page 3 The right side of the status bar will be blank if the document focus changes after the workflow is complete if a workflow has been canceled during acquisition or processing or no workflow is in progress for the current document To read the Status Bar press INSERT PAGE DOWN You can determine whether or not the status bar is displayed from the View Menu 31 Scroll Bar The Scroll Bar is the shaded bar along the right side of the document window It allows you to view other parts of a document You scroll a document using the UP and DOWN ARROW keys or the PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys on your keyboard If you a mouse user left click your mouse on either the Scroll Up or Scroll Down Arrow Or drag the box between the Scroll Arrows up or down by pressing and holding the left button on your mouse Dialog boxes amp Controls Dialog boxes are smaller windows that usually appear from a menu choice They contain controls used to configure various settings There are many types of controls in a dialog box such as edit fields and combo boxes In dialog boxes TAB moves you forward through the controls while SHIFT TAB moves you backwards When a d
115. in very small type and have a scanner that can resolve as finely as 400 dpi you may see improved recognition accuracy For 400 dpi to be effective your scanner must have an optical resolution of at least 400 by 400 dpi An optical resolution of 300 by 600 dpi is not adequate This setting is ignored if the acquisition source is the PEARL camera Full Device Length When this check box is checked OpenBook acquires the full length of the scanner bed or the entire field of view under the PEARL camera 9 inches by 12 inches If you uncheck this option you can then specify how much of the scanner bed is scanned or how much of the area under the camera is captured This item is checked by default in all factory workflows except the Mail Sorter Preview Partial Acquisition Available only when the Full Device Length check box is unchecked this slider control allows you to specify how much of the scanner bed or how much of the area under the PEARL is acquired starting from the top You can set it any where between 10 and 90 percent This setting is useful if you want a preview OpenBook will acquire just enough of the page for you to get an idea of the content Contrast If you are using a scanner to acquire images these options control the light to dark contrast ratio in the acquired document 81 82 Select the Automatic Contrast check box to have automatically adjust the contrast accordingly depending on
116. inal completed word after you type it This is useful for beginning typists or with material you are proofreading e Off Does not echo any keystrokes Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Announce Capital Letters If you want OpenBook to announce capital letters while typing you will then need to leave this check box active To turn off the announcement of capital letters while typing 1 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings properties page Press TAB until you hear Capital Letters While Typing then press SPACEBAR or press ALT C to uncheck the box Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Announce Shortcut and Access Keys Announces the menu shortcut or access keys for example CTRL O for Open in the File Menu after each menu item is spoken This feature helps you learn these keystrokes so you can quickly perform the operations you want This option is disabled by default 45 To enable the Announcement of Shortcut and Access Keys 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings properties page 3 Next press TAB until you hear Shortcut a
117. ing Columns This group of radio buttons allows you to enable or disable column recognition Select the Recognize Columns radio button if you are acquiring documents where the text is laid out in columns such as a magazine or newspaper article and you want to preserve the column information Select Ignore Columns if you do not care about preserving the column layout or the information in the document is not presented in columns 87 88 You can also temporarily change this setting by opening the Acquire menu and choosing Recognize Columns If the Preserve Line Breaks check box is checked in the current workflow and you are acquiring a page containing columns if Recognize Columns is enabled line breaks are preserved for each column If OpenBook is set to ignore columns line breaks are only preserved after the right most column Split Facing Pages Enabling this check box splits the pages of a folded out book into two separate pages This also splits the exact view into two separate images When this option is checked the Turn Pages Over item is not available when acquiring multiple pages You can also change this setting temporarily by opening the Acquire menu and choosing Split Facing Pages Table Processing This group of radio buttons configures how OpenBook processes documents containing tables such as financial or statistical information Tables be organized either by row or column Select Organize by Row
118. io from a CD or external USB drive and you eject the CD or disconnect the drive you will receive a warning and the file will be closed OpenBook will still remain open so you can select a different file 145 Book 13 Low Vision Features Masking Available in Read only Mode with Text View Masking emphasizes the text you are reading by shading the text you are not reading With Masking you have four options Line Masking Sentence Masking Paragraph Masking and No Masking Note 146 If you enable Masking while you are highlighting text highlighting is canceled and all highlight menu options are disabled Additionally when masking is on OpenBook will not announce highlighted text and default display and masking colors are displayed instead of the highlight colors To use Masking 1 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press V or select Visual Settings to open the Visual Settings Properties page Press TAB to move to the Masking Increments Use the UP or DOWN ARROW key select one of the four options No Masking Sentence Line and Paragraph If you selected Sentence Line or Paragraph press TAB to move to the Text Slider control Use the ARROW keys to lighten or darken the text on the page Press TAB again to move to the Background Slider control Use the ARROW keys to lighten or darken the background color on the page 6 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to
119. ion in the Save as Type combo box Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to select the format you want to use when converting documents for this launchable application Activate the Add button or press ALT A to add the application to the Launch menu 187 Editing Launchable Applications To edit the menu name command line parameters conversion settings and other options for a launchable application From the Launch menu choose Manage Launchables Select Edit from the sub menu Alternatively you can press ALT C M E OpenBook displays the Launch Programs dialog box which contains a list of all launchable applications Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to select the launchable application you want to edit Then press TAB and activate the Edit button OpenBook displays the current information and settings for the application in the Edit Launch Program dialog box This dialog box is identical to the Add Launch Application dialog box Modify the settings for the launchable application Refer to Adding Launchable Applications for more information on the options available in this dialog box When you have finished activate the Update button or press ALT U to save your changes Deleting Launchable Applications 188 To remove an application from the Launch menu From the Launch menu choose Manage Applications Select Delete from the sub menu Alternatively you can press ALT C M D OpenBook displays the Launch P
120. is not available if the active workflow is Acquire Image Only 63 64 Recognize Columns This feature is useful for acquiring pages where the text Is printed in columns such as a newspaper Turn this feature off when you acquire information that needs to be read across a page such as a billing statement To enable disable this feature press CTRL SHIFT Z or choose Recognize Columns from the Acquire menu The default setting for this option depends on the default setting of Recognize Columns in the Process page of the settings for the currently active workflow For instance the default Acquire and Read workflow is set to recognize columns while the Mail Sorter Preview workflow is set to ignore columns Toggling the menu item is only temporary It will revert back to the default setting if OpenBook is closed and restarted or a different workflow is selected To permanently change the default setting for Recognize Columns for the active workflow do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press O or select Workflow Settings to open the Workflow Settings properties page 3 In the list of workflows make sure the currently active workflow is selected then choose Modify to open the Workflow Properties multi page dialog box 4 Press CTRL TAB to move to the Process page 5 Press TAB to move to the group of radio buttons that control column recognition and use the ARROW keys to select the option you want
121. k Using Settings Files you have changed the default zoom level through the Image View settings after accessing Camera View during the current OpenBook session you must close and restart OpenBook before the new default zoom level will take affect Changing the zoom level through the View menu while in Camera View will immediately apply the new zoom setting Virtual XY Table The virtual XY table allows you to visually read through text on the screen in the Exact View and the live Camera View the view is zoomed to a larger size and the entire image is not visible you can use the mouse or keyboard commands to pan the image up down left or right respectively There are two types of panning smooth and incremental Smooth panning continuously pans an image in a particular direction until you press a keystroke to stop change the panning direction or when you reach the edge of the image Smooth panning simulates the movement of an XY table which is a common component of desktop video magnifiers Use the following keystrokes to control smooth panning e WINDOWS Key DOWN ARROW In Exact View and Camera View pans down until the bottom edge of the image is reached WINDOWS Key UP ARROW In Exact View and Camera View pans up until the top edge of the image is reached 159 160 WINDOWS Key LEFT ARROW In Exact View and Camera View pans left until the left edge of the image is reached e WINDOWS Key RIGHT A
122. kflow the new settings will be used the next time you acquire an image If you modified a factory workflow OpenBook displays modified after the workflow name in the list For instance Acquire and Read modified A modified specialty workflow will display Specialty modified after the workflow name such as PDF File specialty modified Note you choose to modify one of the specialty workflows you can only change acquisition settings for the Acquire from Word specialty workflow For the Freedom Import Printer Image File and PDF File specialty workflows only the Process page is available Renaming a Custom Workflow If you would like to rename a custom workflow you created do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings menu Then press O or select Workflow Settings to open the Workflow Settings properties page 2 From the list of workflows select the workflow you want to rename then activate the Rename button This button is not available if the workflow selected in the list is a factory or specialty workflow Note The workflow that is currently active will be selected when the Workflow list box first opens and is indicated by current following the workflow name 94 When the Workflow Name dialog box opens type a new name for the Workflow and press ENTER Select OK to close the Workflow Settings properties page Deleting a Custom Workflow To delete a workf
123. l unprocessed content This means that if you acquired 100 pages and OpenBook indicates there are 60 unprocessed pages only the 40 pages that have already been recognized will be saved Close Selecting this button Closes the document without saving e Cancel Selecting this button Closes the dialog box and returns to the currently open document When you close a document you are placed into the next open document If no other documents are open OpenBook places you in a new untitled document Each new document is named Untitled2 Untitled3 Untitled4 etc If you want OpenBook to begin with Untitled1 you must close and restart the program Saving a File This menu item saves the current document in the default location or in the folder from which you opened the document The shortcut key is CTRL S Save As This menu item allows you to save the current document under a new name in a different file format and in a different folder Other supported file formats include ark plain text Word Rich Text and HTML You should only save in the ark format if you need to access the file using a version of OpenBook prior to 8 0 To Save As 1 Press ALT F to open the File Menu 2 Use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to navigate to Save As and press ENTER to open the Save As dialog box 3 When the Save As dialog box opens the File Name edit box is active So if you want to name or rename your file just in the new name 4
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125. lays as you want When finished select the Next button In the Primary Device combo box select the Braille display you want OpenBook to use as the default and choose Next 191 In the Select the output port edit combo choose the port your Braille display is connected to For example USB 1 com2 etc If you are adding more than one display select Next until you have configured each display Press ENTER on Finish to return to the list of installed Braille displays and press ENTER on Close to exit the Braille Manager dialog box To begin using the display you must open the Settings menu and toggle the Enable Braille setting off and back on so OpenBook will detect the display Changing the Default Braille Display If you have more than one display installed OpenBook you can change which one is the default display To change the default Braille display Press ALT G or click on the Settings menu and select Braille Basic Settings to open the Braille Basic Settings dialog box In the Default Braille Display combo box select the Braille display you would like to use then select the OK button To begin using the display you must open the Settings menu and toggle the Enable Braille setting off and back on so OpenBook will detect the display 192 Braille Translation Options You can view text on your display in either contracted Braille or computer Braille also has the ability to do Braille
126. le OpenBook recognizes text from the Freedom Import Printer and places it into a new document 133 You can change the settings OpenBook uses to recognize text received from the Freedom Import Printer by modifying the Freedom Import Printer specialty workflow To do this open the Settings menu ALT G and choose Specialty Workflows or press L When this properties page opens select Freedom Import Printer from the list view then activate the Modify button After you make the necessary changes to the process settings for this specialty workflow select OK to save your workflow changes then once more to close the Specialty Workflows properties page For example you may want to use a different recognition strategy or you may want to have the cursor remain at the current position in the document so you can continue reading as new pages are added instead of being placed at the beginning of each new page Note When opening unprotected PDF files you will find it 134 quicker to open these documents directly in by selecting Adobe Portable Document Format pdf from the Files of type combo box in the Select a file to open dialog box By default the Freedom Import Printer prints in color This means that if Keep Exact View is enabled in the Settings for the Freedom Import Printer specialty workflow and you send an image or file to OpenBook via the Freedom Import Printer or you open color image from within
127. lected topic in the Text View you must press ENTER Simply moving back to the Text View without pressing ENTER does not display or read the newly selected topic The Index page is particularly helpful if you are searching for a particular topic because it lists help topics in alphabetical order To move between the Contents and the Index pages of Help press CTRL TAB 19 20 Navigating the Index s list of topics is similar to navigating the Tree View of the Contents page in that you can use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to move you up and down the list of topics Or if you know the topic you want to find type its first letter For instance you want information on the Zoom feature of OpenBook You would then type the letter Z The Index automatically moves through the list to that topic or to a topic that begins with the letter Z You can also navigate OpenBook s Help System by pressing the TAB key When you press the TAB key you cycle between the three controls in Help Pressing the TAB key once activates the Tree View or Index list use the ARROW keys to navigate or open and close topics Pressing the TAB key twice activates the Tab Control on the Contents or Index page use the LEFT and RIGHT ARROW keys to switch between the Contents or Index page Pressing the TAB key again activates the Text View where the topic contents are displayed Here you can press INSERT DOWN ARROW read or the ARROW keys to navigate the contents
128. lf you want to save the file in a different folder press SHIFT TAB to move to the files List View 137 Note 138 Use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to navigate the List View and press ENTER when you find the folder where you want to save the file If you cannot find the file or folder in the List View you may want to look in the Tree View Press SHIFT TAB to move to the Look in combo box Use your UP ARROW key to navigate the Tree View As you move to each folder it opens automatically revealing its contents in the List View below Press TAB to move to the Files of Type combo box and use the ARROW keys to select the file format you want to save After you have named your file found the folder and selected the file format you want to save to press TAB to move to the Save button and press ENTER you enter any wildcard characters such as or when entering a file name OpenBook updates the Files list view and announces File List Box Updated instead of saving a file after you select Save For example if you enter txt the Files list view updates to show only files containing four characters and a TXT extension Or if you enter file the Files list view updates to show all files that begin with file followed by zero or more characters When you save a document using the default OBX format and the document contains pending pages that have not yet been processed the unprocessed pages are saved
129. library you will find it more convenient to simply copy the entire library or selected contents into your OpenBook 9 0 library To copy a library do the following Note These steps assume you are familiar with navigating the Windows operating system with your screen reader or screen magnification software 1 Press WINDOWS Key R to open the Run dialog box and type c OpenBKX users default library where X refers to the version number such as 7 or 8 and press ENTER 2 When the Library folder opens press and hold the CTRL key while navigating through the list of folders using UP or DOWN ARROW When you locate a folder that contains files press the SPACEBAR to select it Continue until you have selected all of the folders you want Alternatively if all of the folders contain important files simply press CTRL A to select everything at once 3 Press CTRL C to copy 4 Go to the OpenBook 9 0 program group and press ENTER OpenBook Documents to open the OpenBook 9 0 library 5 When the Library folder opens press CTRL V to paste If you receive a dialog box telling you that folders already exist select Yes to all All files from your previous library are now available in the OpenBook 9 0 library 24 Book 2 Navigating OpenBook Use Your Keyboard or Your Mouse With OpenBook you can use your mouse or your keyboard to access most features Many people use a combination of the two The OpenBook documentatio
130. lighted with the specified color If you do not choose a highlight color the Next and Previous buttons will move forward or backward through all highlights in the document As move to each highlight OpenBook will announce the highlight color and read the highlighted text OpenBook also announces when you reach the first or last highlight in the document When you hear the one you want activate the Close button to return to the document at the beginning of the current highlight If you choose Comment activate the Next or Previous button to move to the next or previous comment in the document As you move through comments OpenBook will speak the text of the comment OpenBook also announces when you reach the first or last comment in the document When you hear the one you want activate the Close button to return to your document on the current comment When you close the Go To dialog box the last element that you moved to becomes the default For example if you moved by highlight the next time you press CTRL G to open the Go To dialog box Highlight will be the default If you then choose to move by Page then Page will become the default To quickly move to the next or previous selected element without opening the dialog box pres F5 or SHIFT F5 This command only works when moving by page highlight or comment To go to another bookmark open the Go To dialog box and select the name of the bookmark you want to go to 109 Bo
131. low you created do the following 1 Note Note Press ALT G or click on the Settings menu Then press O or select Workflow Settings to open the Workflow Settings properties page From the list of workflows select the workflow you want to delete then activate the Remove button This button is not available if the workflow selected in the list is a factory or specialty workflow or if the custom workflow you want to delete is still set as the active workflow If the custom workflow you want to delete is active set a different workflow as the active workflow and you will then be able to delete the particular custom workflow The workflow that is currently active will be selected when the Workflow list box first opens and is indicated by current following the workflow name A dialog box opens asking if you are sure you want to delete the workflow Choose OK if you are sure you want to delete the selected workflow Otherwise choose Cancel Select OK to close the Workflow Settings properties page Never attempt to remove a custom workflow by deleting the INI file To delete a custom workflow always use the Remove button on the Workflow Settings properties page 95 Resetting a Factory Workflow To restore a modified factory workflow to its default settings do the following Note 96 Press ALT G or click on the Settings menu Then press O or select Workflow Settings to open the Workflow Settings p
132. lows Press the APPLICATIONS key to open the context menu and choose Workflows A submenu opens listing all available workflows e Open the Acquire menu ALT Q and choose Workflows A submenu opens listing all available workflows e Open the Settings menu ALT G and choose Workflow Settings to open the Workflow Settings properties page You are placed in a list box containing all available workflows Factory Workflows OpenBook provides several pre configured or factory workflows to perform the most common acquisition and processing tasks Factory workflows can be modified however they cannot be renamed or deleted If a factory workflow is modified displays modified following the workflow name The following workflows are available Acquire and Read Acquire and Read acquires and processes a single image The new page is added to the end of the document and the cursor is moved to the top of the new page where OpenBook automatically begins reading This workflow is best for quickly reading short documents such as letters and recipes and is the active workflow when you start for the first time Acquire in Background The Acquire in Background workflow allows you to acquire one page while you are reading another The new page is added to the end of the document while the cursor remains at your current reading position The document you are acquiring may be the same as the document
133. ly after the current page e Insert Before Current Page New page s inserted before the current page Replace Current Page The current page is replaced with the newly acquired page Multipage Acquisition If you set the Acquisition mode to Multiple several options become available which allow you to specify how OpenBook acquires multiple pages Selecting the Prompt for Pages radio button opens a dialog box after each image acquisition You can choose to acquire another page turn pages over to acquire odd even pages or finish acquiring For more information on this dialog box see the description of the Multipage Prompt for Pages factory workflow Select the Automatic radio button to have OpenBook acquire new pages after a certain period of time automatically through a document feeder attached to a scanner or as soon as PEARL detects the page has been turned and there is nO more movement from the item under the camera 83 Once automatic acquisition is enabled use the Page Acquisition Delay spin box to set a time delay from 0 to 25 seconds This delay is from the time the image is acquired until the next acquisition begins For example if you do not use a document feeder with your scanner and you need to manually change pages you might set the delay to 10 which would give you 10 seconds to place the new page on the scanner before OpenBook attempts to acquire the next image If you are using the camera and the
134. m item to item within a field When you locate the file you want to open press ENTER If the file you are opening contains any unprocessed pages OpenBook immediately begins processing these pages using the currently active workflow and adding the recognized text to the file When you opena file that is not an OBX or ARK document such as an RTF or TXT document or an image file such as a TIF or PDF file OpenBook creates a new untitled document where it places the text contained in the file To open a file 1 Press CTRL O to open the Select a File to Open dialog box 2 When the Select a File to Open dialog box opens the File Name edit box is active Press TAB to move to the Files of Type combo box and use the ARROW keys to select the format of the file you want to open 3 Next press SHIFT TAB twice to move to the files list view 4 Use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to navigate the List View to find the file or folder you want to open When you have found it press ENTER 5 If you cannot find the file or folder in the List View you may want to look in the Tree View Press SHIFT TAB to move to the Look in combo box 129 6 Use your UP ARROW key to navigate the Tree View As you move to each folder it opens automatically revealing its contents in the List View below 7 After you have selected the file format found the folder and selected the file you want to open press TAB to move to the Open button and press ENTER
135. mber Announcement Toggle CTRL SHIFT N Read Dialog Box in Tab Order CAPSLOCK B Read Default Button of Dialog Box CAPSLOCK E Read Current Dialog Box Control CAPSLOCK TAB Say Character CAPSLOCK COMMA Say Word CAPSLOCK K Spell Word CAPSLOCK K twice Spell Word Phonetically CAPSLOCK K three times Say Line CAPSLOCK UP ARROW or CAPSLOCK l Say Sentence CAPSLOCK H Say Paragraph CAPSLOCK CTRL l Say To Cursor CAPSLOCK SHIFT J Say From Cursor CAPSLOCK PAGE UP or CAPSLOCK SHIFT L Say Top Line of Window CAPSLOCK END or CAPSLOCK SHIFT Y Read Status Bar CAPSLOCK SHIFT N 211 Say Window Title CAPSLOCK T Say All CAPSLOCK DOWN ARROW CAPSLOCK A or F12 Skim Read CTRL INSERT DOWN ARROW Fast Forward Rewind during Say All or skimming LEFT RIGHT ARROW or LEFT SHIFT RIGHT SHIFT Silence Speech CTRL Audio File Navigation Start Stop Audio Playback INSERT DOWN ARROW Pause Playback CTRL Move to the Next Heading or Audio File DOWN ARROW Move to the Previous Heading or Audio File UP ARROW Expand a subheading in DAISY files only RIGHT ARROW Close a subheading in DAISY files only LEFT ARROW Say Current Heading or Audio File CAPSLOCK K Move to the First Heading or Audio File CTRL HOME Move to the Last Heading or Audio File CTRL END Fast Forward Five Seconds RIGHT ARROW or RIGHT SHIFT 212 Rewind Five Seconds Increase audio Rate for DAISY Files Decrease audio rate for DAISY Files Navigation Back Space Go To Bookmark Open
136. n Maximize This item enlarges the application window so that it fills the screen e Close This item closes the application window ALT F4 Located on the right side of the Title Bar are three small icons These icons provide an alternative way to minimize maximize restore or close your application You access these icons with the mouse Menu Bar The Menu Bar is located just below the Title Bar and contains the File Edit Acquire View Tools Launch Advanced Settings Low Vision Window and Help Menus To open these menus press ALT and the underlined letter also referred to as the Access key For example press ALT F to open the File menu Document Window The Document Window also referred to as the Text View is the main area of the user interface which remains blank until you open acquire or type content into a new document Depending on the amount of memory in your computer you can have multiple document windows open at the same time Each document can be in either Edit Mode or Read only Mode Similarly you can acquire multiple documents into OpenBook and view each document by pressing CTRL TAB Status Bar The Status Bar appears at the bottom of the document window The left side displays the line the edit or reading cursor is on the total number of lines in the document the page number the total number of pages and whether there are any unprocessed images Line information is not displayed when
137. n allowing access for programs and files Note Hardware firewalls do not interfere with installing activating or running OpenBook Firewall Interferes with Installation If your firewall software is preventing you from installing OpenBook on your computer reconfigure the firewall to allow the file Setup exe to run Then retry the installation procedure Firewall Interferes with Activation If your firewall software prevents you from activating OpenBook using the Internet reconfigure the firewall to allow the following files to run FSActivate exe CAUtil exe and CAUtil enu Once you have reconfigured your firewall retry the activation process If you cannot reconfigure the firewall or if you still cannot activate OpenBook go to www FSActivate com Follow the instructions on the Web page to retrieve an Activation License code and activate your software For more information on using www FSActivate com see Activating through a Trusted Third Party Firewall Interferes with Using OpenBook If the firewall software prevents OpenBook from running or starting or displays a warning message reconfigure the firewall to allow the file OBU exe to run Activating by Telephone If you do not have an Internet connection you can call Freedom Scientific Customer Service Customer Service will send you a CD in the mail that will automatically activate OpenBook To activate OpenBook by telephone do the following 1 In the Activatio
138. n dialog box choose Start Activation 2 Read the message that displays and then choose Continue Insert the Authorization CD into your CD ROM drive and choose Activate Using Authorization CD You can find your Authorization CD in the same sleeve as your OpenBook program disc If you do not have your Authorization CD choose Enter Your Authorization Number Manually Note you have previously inserted your Authorization CD you will not be asked to insert it again Continue to step 3 of the activation 3 Choose Activate 4 Use the ARROW keys to select Telephone to Receive Activation by Mail and then press ENTER 5 Call 727 803 8015 Provide the customer service representative with the Authorization number and Locking code shown in this dialog box If your Authorization number is not shown you can find it in print and Braille on your OpenBook disc sleeve 6 Choose Quit You can continue using OpenBook in 40 minute mode until you receive your CD When you receive the CD with your Activation License code from Freedom Scientific insert it into your CD ROM drive to automatically activate OpenBook Note If the CD does not automatically activate your software 10 press WINDOWS Key R type D ActivationCode exe and press ENTER If your CD ROM drive is not D then substitute the correct letter Activating by Fax If you do not have an Internet connection can send a fax to Freedom Scientific with your Aut
139. n gives you information on performing actions with both the keyboard and the mouse For example you can either press ALT F to access the File menu or you can point and click the word File with the mouse Using the Keyboard with OpenBook OpenBook uses many Microsoft Windows keyboard commands For instance special keys such as ALT CTRL SHIFT TAB and INSERT are often combined with the Function Keys i e F1 through F12 to perform specific operations such as closing an application ALT F4 Special keys can also be combined with a letter to invoke a command for example CTRL S which saves the current document without closing it Or they can be combined with letters assigned to features such as ALT Q which accesses the Acquire menu By default does not announce these keystrokes also known as shortcut keys and access keys 25 Tip 26 To have OpenBook announce these keystrokes press ALT G P followed by ALT K This takes you to the Speech Settings Properties page After you press ALT K OpenBook should say Announce Shortcut and Access Keys checked Press ENTER to save the settings and close the dialog box The underlined letter a menu a command button or a dialog box option identifies the Access key while Shortcut keys usually correspond to a command name menu If you unsure how an item or control works you can activate context sensitive help with SHIFT F1 on the keyboard
140. nBook will install and run correctly Uninstalling OpenBook To uninstall go to the Programs Menu and select OpenBook 9 0 In the Tools submenu select the Uninstall OpenBook option and follow the prompts to remove the software If you have any other Freedom Scientific products such as JAWS or MAGic installed make sure you choose the option to leave shared components Activating OpenBook After you install you must activate your software When you first start you are asked to activate the program You can activate OpenBook at a later time by opening the Help menu and choosing Update Authorization OpenBook runs in 40 minute mode until it is activated on your computer To close the Activation dialog box and continue using OpenBook in 40 minute mode choose Run as Demo You must restart your computer every 40 minutes in order to continue using OpenBook until it is activated Internet License Manager ILM allows you to quickly activate OpenBook using the Internet If you do not have an Internet connection you can activate OpenBook by telephone or fax Alternatively you can activate OpenBook with the assistance of a trusted friend relative or organization that has access to the Internet Note Your user account must have power user or administrator privileges to activate OpenBook Contact your network administrator if your account does not have the required level of access You can
141. nd Access Keys check box 4 Press the SPACEBAR to check the box 5 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Announce Dialog Controls 46 If you want more feedback on the type of controls you encounter while working in then enable this item OpenBook will announce whether an edit box button combo box etc is active This option is enabled by default To turn off the announcement of dialog box controls 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings properties page 3 Next press TAB until you hear Dialog Controls 4 Press the SPACEBAR to check the box 5 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Announce Numbers as Single Digits If this option is enabled OpenBook reads numbers as series of single numbers For example 123 is read one two three This setting is off by default To have OpenBook announce numbers as single digits 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings properties page 3 Next press TAB until you hear Numbers as Single Digits 4 Press the SPACEBAR to check the box 5 Last if you want
142. ng 16 point Or maybe you are studying another language and need to change the default recognition strategy so you can acquire and read documents produced in that particular language Whatever your reasons are here is how you save your settings so you can use them whenever you have to To save setting changes do the following 1 Use the items in the Settings Menu ALT G to make OpenBook work the way you want Go back to the Settings Menu ALT G and select save the Settings S With the Save Settings dialog box open type a name for the new settings file or select the default file At this point you can press TAB to move to the Save button and press ENTER to save and exit the dialog box or you can press TAB to move to the list of check boxes These check boxes represent each of the menu items listed under the Settings Menu Choose All Settings to incorporate all setting changes into one Settings File or create individual Settings Files for each settings change Use TAB to MOVE through the check boxes and press the SPACEBAR to check the item you want to save as a Settings File You can make and apply as many Settings Files as you need Retrieve Settings This item allows you to apply your Settings Files to your active document If you choose not to retrieve any Settings Files then OpenBook will use the default settings To retrieve settings do the following 1 Go to the Settings Menu ALT G and select Retriev
143. ng Up OpenBook 181 Using AWto Det Ct 182 Manually Setting Up 182 Changing Settings 22 22 aaia 183 Opening Fles 183 SAVING 184 Book 18 Launchable 185 Adding New Launchable 185 Editing Launchable Applications 188 Deleting Launchable Applications 188 Book 19 Using a Braille Display 190 Enabling 191 Adding Braille 191 Changing the Default Braille Display 192 Braille Translation Options 193 Braille Flash 194 Linking and Unlinking the Cursor 196 Status ann 196 Changing the Braille Cursor 198 Book 20 OpenBook with Multiple USers 199 Enabling Multiple Users 2 2
144. nish to complete the process Using Activation Media Image Creator Activation Media Image Creator is a free program from Freedom Scientific that allows a user with an Internet connection to retrieve Activation License codes from Internet License Manager The user can then distribute these Activation License codes on CD 3 5 inch disk or e mail Users without Internet connections can use the files created by this program to activate OpenBook without having to type the lengthy Activation License code To download the installation package for Activation Media Image Creator visit www FSActivate com After you install the program follow the instructions in the Activation Media Image Creator online Help to retrieve and distribute Activation License codes from Internet License Manager Dongle Authorization Note Note A dongle is a hardware device that you can connect to a computer s parallel or USB port depending on the type of dongle OpenBook is authorized to run on that computer as long as the dongle remains connected This is useful if you frequently need to use OpenBook on many different computers and do not want to activate the program on each of them When OpenBook starts it first determines whether a dongle is connected to the computer If one is connected OpenBook uses the features and information for the license associated with the dongle to authorize OpenBook If no dongle is connected OpenBook searches for the licens
145. o box you will need to set the file format to All in order to find the file you want to open When you open a PDF or image file through this dialog box OpenBook attempts to use the Freedom Import Printer First the application associated with the document is opened and the document is opened in the application If you receive the message Unknown file type then you will be unable to open the document from within OpenBook until you install the application that is capable of opening the specific file Next the Freedom Import Printer automatically sends the file to OpenBook for the OCR and closes the associated application Note Image files with PDF GIF JPG JPEG PCX or PNG extension are directly supported by OpenBook If you choose to open one of these formats the Freedom Import Printer will not be used Instead OpenBook immediately begins to recognize the text the file However if OpenBook is unable to process the image you will be asked if you would like OpenBook to use the Freedom Import Printer instead If you select Yes the image is processed using the Freedom Import Printer as described above Otherwise if you select No the recognition is canceled Once OpenBook begins to recognize the text it will announce each page As the file is processed you can read the recognized text even as new pages are added to the document You can even continue working in another document whi
146. o throw away acquired pages that are blank Note that sometimes you will want to keep blank pages so that you can maintain the Original page numbering and order When using the Re recognize feature blank pages are included even when this option is enabled Blank pages are only discarded during page acquisition Apply OCR Corrections When this check box is enabled OpenBook automatically applies OCR corrections to words that are not recognized properly by the recognition engine For more information see Editing OCR Correction Keep Text Emphasis When this check box is enabled OpenBook keeps attributes such as bold and italics during OCR Replace Uncertain Text This check box determines whether OpenBook identifies text that is not recognized correctly If you check the box you can then enter one or more characters into the Uncertain Text Marker edit field which OpenBook will insert into the document in place of the unrecognized text By default OpenBook will use the asterisk symbol to identify uncertain text Preserve Line Breaks This check box allows you to specify if keeps line breaks or not during recognition You may want to enable this option if you are acquiring a document where retaining the line breaks where they actually appear in the original text can improve the flow when reading This setting is off by default in all workflows except for the Poetry and Recipe workflow Recogniz
147. oes not have an Exact View image OpenBook displays an image containing the message No Image Available Additionally you can set Exact View as your preferred view when opening documents To do this open the Visual Settings properties page from the Settings menu and choose Exact View from the Preferred View combo box All future documents will now open in Exact View In Exact View you can read the page change background and text colors use the dictionary and spelling tools select text then copy it or apply a highlight color and change the zoom level Show Exact View is available for e Acquired documents if you have Keep Exact View enabled in the currently active workflow By default Keep Exact View is enabled in all workflows except the Mail Sorter Preview Documents you send to OpenBook via the Freedom Import Printer if you have Keep Exact View enabled in the Freedom Import Printer specialty workflow This option is enabled by default in this workflow e Image Files i e tif TIFF jpg jpeg pcx bmp gif or you open via the CTRL O option within OpenBook The Exact View is available as an original tif and pcx image whether the Keep Exact View setting is enabled or not Note Selecting text by line in Exact View will not always select the same amount of content as in Text View This is because in Text View a line is determined by either a hard line break which you get by pressing ENT
148. okmarks 110 OpenBook allows you to insert an unlimited amount of bookmarks anywhere in a document Serving as placeholders bookmarks let you easily locate information previously viewed When you use the Bookmark feature OpenBook inserts a bookmark at the current cursor position in the open document Each bookmark is linked to the word at its right Bookmarks are announced with the Emphasis Voice Please refer to Emphasis Voice in the Book Adjusting the Speech You add rename delete or go to specific bookmarks from the Bookmarks dialog box When adding Bookmarks first place your cursor in your document where you want to insert the bookmark Then open the Bookmarks dialog box by pressing F9 and TAB to the Add button Press SPACEBAR to open the Add Bookmark dialog box and type a name for your bookmark in the Bookmark Name edit box Press ENTER to activate the Ok button and close the dialog box To rename a bookmark open the Bookmarks dialog box use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to locate the bookmark in the list and TAB to the Rename button Press SPACEBAR to open the Rename Bookmark dialog box and type a new name for your bookmark in the Bookmark Name edit box Press ENTER to activate the Ok button and close the dialog box Tip To delete a bookmark open the Bookmark dialog box use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to locate the bookmark in the list and TAB to the Delete button Press SPACEBAR to open the Delete Bookmark dialog box
149. ompletely displayed If text is shown on only one side of your Braille display then DOTS 7 and 8 will be raised on the status cells for that side and down for the other If there is one more line of text to be shown the display s right then DOTS 7 and 8 in the last status cell will be down If there is two or more full lines of text to be shown on the display s right then DOTS 7 and 8 of the last two status cells will be down A blinking DOT 7 and a blinking DOT 8 indicates the position of the status cell and Braille cursor which corresponds to the character on the screen To change options for status cells Press ALT G or click on the Settings menu and select Braille Basic Settings to open the Braille Basic Settings dialog box Press TAB to move to the Advanced button and press ENTER Press ENTER on the Advanced Braille Display Settings button In the group of radio buttons select where you would like the status cells to appear on the display Your choices are Left default Right or None 197 Changing the Braille Cursor 198 By default the Braille cursor is represented by DOTS 7 and 8 However you can change the dot pattern used for the cursor as well as whether it blinks or not To change cursor settings Press ALT G or click on the Settings menu and select Braille Basic Settings to open the Braille Basic Settings dialog box Press TAB to move to the Advanced button and press ENTER Press TAB
150. ons To change the smooth panning speed for Exact View do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press Wor select Image View Settings to open the Image View Settings properties page 3 Press TAB to move to the Exact View Panning Properties button and press SPACEBAR 4 Inthe Forward Speed spin box choose a value between 1 fastest and 20 slowest that represents the panning speed to use when panning to the right The default setting is 5 5 Press TAB to move to the Vertical Speed spin box choose a value between 1 fastest and 20 slowest that represents the panning speed to use when panning up or down The default setting is 5 6 Press TAB to move to the Reverse Speed spin box and choose a value between 1 fastest and 20 slowest that represents the panning speed to use when panning to the left The default setting is 5 7 Press the OK button to exit the Exact View Panning properties and once more to exit the Image View Settings properties page 161 Configuring Camera View Smooth Panning Options To change the smooth panning speed and line wrap settings for Camera View do the following 162 1 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press W or select Image View Settings to open the Image View Settings properties page Press TAB to move to the Camera View Panning Properties button and press SPACEBAR Uncheck the Line Wrap check box if you do not want OpenBook to a
151. ontinue working in your application while OpenBook acquires and adds pages to document Press ALT TAB to switch to when you are ready to read the recognized text If you prefer you can change CTRL ALT S to a different keystroke To change the acquisition hotkey do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings menu 2 Press K or select Keyboard Settings to open the Keyboard Settings properties page 3 Press TAB to move to the Acquisition Hotkey box and press the key combination you want to use This combination must be CTRL ALT along with a letter or number 4 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER 71 Book 8 Workflows Introduction to Workflows 72 A workflow is a collection of settings that control how OpenBook acquires and processes images You select the appropriate workflow depending on how you want OpenBook to acquire the image recognize the text and then position the cursor for reading Workflows can be as simple as acquiring a single page performing OCR on it then reading it complex such as acquiring and processing entire book containing tables and other formatting You can choose from one of the default workflows included with OpenBook or create your own custom workflows to meet your needs There are three ways to access the list of workf
152. open document does not have an Exact View or the Exact View image is in black and white The default setting for this option is off which means that changes made to the text colors will only apply to the Text View or the Text View area of Split View To enable Two Tone 1 Open a document that contains an Exact View color or grayscale image 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 3 Press V or select Visual Settings to open the Visual Settings Properties page 4 Press to move to the Use Two Tone for Exact View check box and use the SPACEBAR to check or uncheck this item 5 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Alternatively you can toggle Two Tone on or off by opening the View menu ALT V and choosing Two Tone or by pressing CTRL 2 Once enabled you can change the text and background colors and have them applied to any open color or grayscale documents in both Text View Exact View and Split View Delete Exact View Since Exact View makes your files bigger you may want to save hard disk space by deleting the Exact View of the file after you are done using it From the Edit Menu select Delete Exact View ALT E X OpenBook asks you to confirm the deletion as this command deletes the Exact View from all pages in the open document not just the current page Split View This powe
153. or RIGHT ARROW to scroll the Exact View up down left or right respectively When in Split view the mouse scroll wheel will scroll the top pane or text view area while the ALT CTRL ARROW keys will scroll the bottom pane or exact view area The ability to scroll the view is useful when the document on the page 15 long the text is large or when the Exact View is zoomed to a larger size 163 Book 14 Printing The option to print your files is important to your productivity Regardless of your task having your information in hard copy allows for easy access and reference There are two ways to launch the print dialog box The easy way is to press CTRL P from within any document The other way is to open the File Menu ALT F and select Print P Unless you want to change print parameters or you have more than one printer installed on your computer you can immediately press ENTER or select the Ok button to print a single copy of your document Number of Copies 164 Unless you specify the number of copies printed OpenBook will only print one copy of a document To print more than one copy of a document 1 Press CTRL P to open the Print dialog box 2 Press TAB until you hear Number of copies one 3 Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to increase or decrease the number of copies to be printed 4 Once you have selected your number you can change more print parameters or press TAB to move to the Ok button then press ENT
154. orkflow Settings properties page Note From the list of workflows choose the workflow you want to use then activate the Set as Current button This button is not available if the workflow selected in the list is a specialty workflow or is already set as the active workflow The workflow that is currently active will be selected when the Workflow list box first opens and is indicated by current following the workflow name Select OK to close the Workflow Settings properties page Now the next time you acquire an image the settings for the workflow you selected are used Modifying a Workflow To change the settings for a factory specialty or custom workflow do the following 1 Note Press ALT G or click on the Settings menu Then press O or select Workflow Settings to open the Workflow Settings properties page From the list of workflows select the workflow whose settings you want to modify then activate the Modify button The workflow that is currently active will be selected when the Workflow list box first opens and is indicated by current following the workflow name Once the Workflow Properties multipage dialog box opens make any desired changes then choose OK Use CTRL TAB to move between the Acquire and Process pages and use TAB to move through the controls on each page 93 4 Select OK to close the Workflow Settings properties page If you made changes to the currently active wor
155. othly ALT CTRL DOWN ARROW ALT CTRL LEFT ARROW ALT CTRL RIGHT ARROW ALT CTRL UP CTRL WINDOWS Key DOWN ARROW CTRL WINDOWS ARROW CTRL WINDOWS ARROW CTRL WINDOWS ARROW PAGE UP PAGE DOWN WINDOWS Key HOME WINDOWS Key PAGE UP WINDOWS Key PAGE DOWN WINDOWS Key END WINDOWS Key DOWN ARROW 217 218 Pan UP Smoothly Pan Left Smoothly Pan Right Smoothly Increase Smooth Panning Speed Decrease Smooth Panning Speed Increase Zoom Level WINDOWS Key UP ARROW WINDOWS Key LEFT ARROW WINDOWS Key RIGHT ARROW PLUS MINUS CTRL PLUS Press and hold to zoom continuously until you reach the desired zoom level Decrease Zoom Level CTRL MINUS Press and hold to zoom continuously until you reach the desired zoom level Zoom to Page Width Zoom to Page Height Zoom to Default Zoom Level Rotate Image Right Rotate Image Left Toggle Camera Light Center Image CTRL SHIFT W CTRL SHIFT H CTRL SHIFT D CTRL SHIFT R CTRL SHIFT L CTRL L WINDOWS Key C Exact View and Camera View Drag Image OpenBook Feature Hotkeys Insert Bookmark Delete Bookmark Insert Comment Delete Comment Edit Comment Say Comment Begin End Highlight Highlight Selected Text Cancel Highlight Remove Highlight Say Highlight Toggle Highlight Announcement Next Highlight Prior Highlight Copy to Clipboard Cut to Clipboard Edit mode Paste from Clipboard Edit mode ALT LEFT MOUSE BUTTON
156. outer edges of the page guide or line up a side edge of the document with an outer edge of the page guide Press the F4 key when you are ready to begin acquiring Note The PEARL is optimized to work in normal room lighting 18 under most conditions The LED should be left off Here are a few shortcut keys to get you started with OpenBook have OpenBook read to you press INSERT DOWN ARROW e acquire a page press F4 SPACEBAR e To toggle between Edit Mode and Read only Mode press CTRL E e To silence speech press the CTRL key e To read faster press ALT CTRL PAGE UP e To read slower press ALT CTRL PAGE DOWN Getting Help Online Help System OpenBook s Online Help System consists of three components the Contents page with its tree view of books and topics the Index page with its alphabetical listing of topics and the Text View which displays all topic content When you launch Help OpenBook places you in the Text View To move from the Text View to the Tree View of books and topics press F6 To return to and begin reading the contents in the Text View press F6 again To navigate the books in the tree use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys The RIGHT ARROW key expands books to display their topics while the LEFT ARROW key closes books When you find the topic you want to read press ENTER OpenBook Help displays that topic and automatically begins reading the contents Note To display the se
157. pen will open in Split View instead of the default Text View To apply the view to the currently open document you must manually change it through the View menu ALT V or close and reopen the document If you want to save your setting changes open the Settings Menu ALT G and select Save the Settings S With the Save Settings dialog box open type a name for the new settings file then TAB to the Save button and press ENTER For more information please see the book titled Using Settings Files 51 Book 6 Using Settings Files Understanding Settings Files This book on Using Settings Files discusses the importance of Settings Files in their global application with OpenBook and explains how they are used In the Settings Menu ALT G there are three important items that make working with OpenBook convenient and easy especially if you have multiple needs These items are e Save the Settings Retrieve Settings Delete Settings Save the Settings 52 When launched OpenBook always uses the Default Settings file Therefore whenever you go into the Settings Menu to change a setting you should save that change to the default settings file Otherwise none of your changes will apply the next time you launch OpenBook You can save multiple settings files to use for certain situations For example you may be required to use Arial font 14 point in your academic environment but prefer to type your friend s letter in Bata
158. quisition and recognition For instance 5 Unprocessed Images Processing page 1 OpenBook displays Processing complete once all pages have been recognized Press INSERT PAGE DOWN to hear the status bar information If you are using the default Acquire and Read workflow or another workflow that automatically begins reading the new page OpenBook will begin reading as soon as recognized text is available even if it is still processing the current page Acquire Menu The Acquire Menu found on the menu bar contains most of the controls you need to acquire your items To activate a menu option open the Acquire menu use the ARROW keys to locate the option you want and press ENTER 59 Workflow This submenu lists all factory and custom workflows When you open this submenu you are placed on the currently active workflow which is indicated by a check mark To switch to another workflow use the UP or DOWN ARROW keys to locate the one you want and press ENTER The workflow you selected is now the active workflow To make the current workflow remain active the next time you launch OpenBook open the Settings menu ALT S and choose Save the Settings S In the Save Settings dialog box press ENTER to make the changes part of the default settings For more information on workflows please see the book Workflows Acquire a Page This item lets you acquire the page you have placed on the scanner or under the came
159. r After you have printed the form choose Quit 8 Fax the printed form to 727 803 8001 If you entered your e mail address you should receive an e mail message from Freedom Scientific within one or two business days Follow the instructions provided in the message to activate OpenBook If you do not enter an e mail address you will receive a CD from Freedom Scientific in the mail Insert the CD into your CD ROM drive to automatically activate OpenBook Note If the CD does not automatically activate your software 12 press WINDOWS Key R type D ActivationCode exe and press ENTER If your CD ROM drive is not D then substitute the correct letter Activating through a Trusted Third Party If you know a friend relative or other trusted person with an Internet connection they can help you activate OpenBook Alternatively you can use an Internet connection in a library at work or anywhere else You or a trusted third party can visit http Avww FSActivate com to obtain your Activation License code Tip A free program from Freedom Scientific called Activation Media Image Creator lets you create a CD 3 5 inch disk or e mail attachment containing OpenBook license information To obtain an Activation License code from FSActivate com do the following 1 Point your Web browser to hitp www FSActivate com 2 Enter your 20 digit Authorization number and Locking Note code Your Authorization number appea
160. r of all the words in a document If a word is spelled correctly but not recognized you can add the word s to OpenBook s dictionary In order for Spell Check to work you must be in Text View CTRL SHIFT V To check the spelling ina document press F7 OpenBook verifies the spelling of each word by comparing them to its dictionary Once the spell check is done a dialog box opens and words that are not recognized or are identified as misspelled appear in the Word Not Found box At this point you have several options to choose from Use the TAB key to navigate the dialog box and press ENTER on the control that performs the particular action you want When you encounter a combo box use the UP or DOWN ARROW keys to make your selection Word Count Press ALT T or click on the Tools menu and select Word Count when you want to know the number of words in a document 124 OCR Correction Use the OCR Correction feature to correct any words that OpenBook s OCR engine does not correctly identify To use OCR Correction follow these steps 1 Press ALT A O to launch the OCR Correction dialog box When the OCR Correction dialog box opens the Word list box is active Type the first letter of the mis identified word then use your UP and DOWN ARROW keys to find the word If the word is not found in the list press the TAB key to move to the mis identified word edit box and type in the word as it appears in the document OpenBook s
161. r the Reading and Emphasis voices None OpenBook does not speak any punctuation This is the default for the Menu voice The amount of punctuation you hear is unique to each synthesizer To select Reading Voice Punctuation 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 43 2 Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings Properties page Press TAB until you hear Reading Voice Punctuation 4 Use your UP and DOWN ARROW keys or point and click with your mouse to select your punctuation preference 5 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Key Echo 44 Use the Key Echo During Editing combo box to modify what feedback you receive while you are typing text into a document in Edit mode To change the key echo 1 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings properties page Press TAB until you hear Key Echo During Editing or press ALT T to activate the combo box Use the UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select the echo you want during editing Your choices are e Character Speaks every keystroke as you type Word Speaks only completed words that is it speaks the word you just typed as soon as you type punctuation or a space after it Both Speaks both the keystrokes as you type and the f
162. ra You can also press 4 or the SPACEBAR in Read only mode to carry out this function Acquire and Replace Current Page Selecting this item acquires a page and replaces the current page with the newly acquired one This feature is useful when you have a document with multiple pages and want to replace a page while maintaining the page sequence You can also press CTRL SHIFT F4 to carry out this function This item is not available if the current workflow is Acquire Image Only Acquire and Insert New Page Unlike Acquire and Replace Current Page Acquire and Insert New Page does not remove pages Instead this submenu lets you choose to insert newly acquired pages before or after the current page in the document These items are not available if the active workflow is Acquire Image Only Re recognize If you are not satisfied with the quality of the recognized text from an acquisition use the items in this submenu to have OpenBook re recognize the current page or the entire document without re acquiring it Only pages containing Exact View images can be re recognized By default Keep Exact View is enabled for all factory workflows except for Mail Sorter Preview If you have turned off this option for the current workflow you must re enable it and re acquire the pages You will then be able to perform re recognition Refer to the book on Workflows for more information on changing workflow settings If you attempt to re recogni
163. rful feature allows you to have access to both the exact view and the text view simultaneously so you don t have to toggle back and forth when you are trying to compare the recognized text with the original image You activate Split View by opening the View menu ALT V and choosing Split View You can also press CTRL SHIFT V to cycle between Text View Exact View Split view and Camera View When enabled the Exact View or the original acquired image is displayed in the lower part of the screen while the Text View or the recognized text is displayed in the top part of the screen Additionally you can set Split View as your preferred view when opening documents To do this open the Visual Settings properties page from the Settings menu and choose Split View from the Preferred View combo box All future documents will now open in Split View regardless of whether they have an exact view available or not 151 Tip 152 Split View makes it much easier to compare the text in the original image with the recognized text to locate errors that may have occurred during OCR If you find a possible error in the recognized text you can quickly compare to the exact view of the document and then go into Edit Mode and use the standard editing keys to make the correction Also in Split View both the Exact View and Text View display the spotlighted text simultaneously This feature is very handy for reviewing brochures flyers etc where pictures
164. rnatively press CTRL F11 again to turn off highlighting If you decide you do not want to apply the highlight to a particular section of text press the ESC Key to cancel highlighting To erase highlighting position the cursor anywhere in the highlighted text Then open the Tools menu ALT T and choose Remove Highlight Alternatively press CTRL SHIFT F11 to remove the highlight To move quickly through the highlighted sections of a document press F11 to move to the next highlight or SHIFT F11 to move to the prior highlight If you have chosen to navigate by a particular highlight color using the Go To dialog box CTRL G press F5 or SHIF F5 to move to the next or previous highlight When you are located in a section of text that is highlighted press ALT CTRL F11 to read the highlighted text To send all highlights to a new blank document press ALT F or click on the File menu and select the Export Highlights submenu The following choices are available 113 114 Sort by Color Selecting this option causes all of the highlighted text to be sent to a new document based on the highlight color This means that all of the green highlighted text appears first in the new document followed by the blue highlighted text and finally the magenta highlighted text e Document Order Selecting this option causes all of the highlighted text to be sent to a new document exactly the way it appears in the current document This mean
165. rograms dialog box which contains a list of all launchable applications Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to select the launchable application you want to remove Then press ENTER to activate the Delete button Activate the Yes button or press ALT Y to confirm that you want to remove the application from the Launch menu OpenBook confirms that the application has been removed Press ENTER to activate the OK button 189 190 Book 19 Using a Braille Display Using a Braille display offers tactile access to the environment This multi sensory approach adds an essential dimension to your computer experience as you are more able to fully conceptualize your Windows operating system Keys on your Braille display allow multidirectional movement on your computer screen while drop down menus dialog boxes and edit fields are shown on your Braille display OpenBook has many features to enhance Braille reading with your display You can configure whether or not text on your display is shown in contracted Braille You can also specify your Braille displays panning increment and text alignment To learn more about OpenBook and the controls that set your Braille display explore the Braille Basic Settings dialog box To open the Braille Basic Settings dialog box press ALT G or click on the Settings menu Then move to and press ENTER on Braille Basic Settings If you use OpenBook in conjunction with another screen reader tha
166. rom Freedom Scientific To install on your computer do the following Important If you will be using the PEARL do not connect the camera to your computer until the OpenBook installation is complete For more information on connecting and setting up PEARL refer to the PEARL Quick Start Guide 1 Insert the OpenBook disc into your CD ROM drive 2 The OpenBook Setup program starts You will hear the installation speak the instructions as they appear on your screen Follow these instructions to complete the OpenBook installation Note If your OpenBook installation disc does not start automatically go to the Start button select Run and type setup If your CD ROM drive is D substitute the correct drive letter The OpenBook setup program will then begin 3 Choose the Typical installation to install to the default location on your hard drive Select the Custom installation if you want to install in a location other than the default 4 Once installation is complete you must restart your computer before using OpenBook Note During installation on certain Windows systems you may receive a message stating that software you are installing has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows If this occurs choose the Continue button in Windows XP or Vista or the Yes button in Windows 7 to ignore this message and resume the installation Ope
167. roperties page From the list of workflows select the workflow you want to reset then activate the Restore Factory Values button This button is only available if the selected workflow has modified following the workflow name The workflow that is currently active will be selected when the Workflow list box first opens and is indicated by current following the workflow name Select OK to close the Workflow Settings properties page Book 9 Reading Reading with OpenBook Whenever you acquire a document if the currently active workflow is configured to start soeaking automatically OpenBook immediately begins reading aloud as soon as there is recognized text When you open a saved document the cursor is placed at the beginning of the file or at the last position if the file is an OBX or ARK document and you must use OpenBook s extensive selection of reading commands to read the text When reading a document you can choose to read by character word line sentence paragraph or the entire document at once As OpenBook reads it highlights each word on the screen This highlighting referred to as the text spotlight helps partially sighted users visually track cursor movement while OpenBook reads the text All reading commands with exception of reading the next or previous character work whether you are in Read only or Edit mode To read by character press LEFT or RIGHT ARROW for the previous or next character or
168. rs on your OpenBook disc sleeve in both print and Braille To find your computer s Locking code open the OpenBook Help menu and choose About OpenBook The Locking code is unique for each individual computer Be sure you enter the Locking code of the computer you intend to use with OpenBook when it is activated Choose Submit License Request to receive an Activation License code The remaining steps must be completed on the computer where the copy of OpenBook you want to activate is installed Begin by starting OpenBook on this computer From the OpenBook Help menu choose Update Authorization In the Activation dialog box choose Start Activation Read the message that displays and then choose Continue Insert the Authorization CD into your CD ROM drive and choose Activate Using Authorization CD You can find your Authorization CD in the same sleeve as your OpenBook program disc If you do not have your Authorization CD choose Enter Your Authorization Number Manually 13 Note If you have previously inserted your Authorization CD 14 you will not be asked to insert it again Continue to step 7 of the activation 7 Choose Activate 8 Use the ARROW keys to select the Activation Generated from www FSActivate com radio button and press ENTER 9 Type the Activation License code you received from www FSActivate com into the edit box and then press ENTER 10 After you have successfully activated OpenBook choose Fi
169. s an excellent tool for low vision users as it allows you to use the PEARL as a video magnifier With the live image of the document on your screen you can change the zoom level rotate the image left or right or use the virtual XY table to navigate the image You can even perform tasks under the camera such as writing and see what you are doing magnified on the screen If you are in a room with low lighting press CTRL L to toggle the built in LED light While in the Camera View you can use the standard OpenBook reading and navigation commands to read text in the currently open document However you can not change text elements such as colors font type size and spacing or use of 5 text selection or editing features while in Camera View If you choose to acquire the image under the camera OpenBook will use the settings from the currently active workflow to process and read the recognized text If you switch back to Text View Exact View or Split View the cursor will be located on the word where the reading stopped Notes e Since Camera View is basically live video feed it is possible for the camera to show something different from what is being read by OpenBook This is because the Camera View updates with a new image as soon as a new object is placed under the camera while OpenBook is only reading the text from the last acquired image e Camera View automatically closes if you press CTRL TAB
170. s that if you have a green highlight followed by a blue highlight and then green again this is the order they will appear in the new document By default will announce the beginning and end of a highlighted section while reading the document For example when you reach the first word of a green highlighted section you will hear starting green highlight When you reach the last green highlighted word you will hear ending green highlight If you do not want to hear highlights while reading do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings properties page 3 Press TAB until you hear Announce Highlights check box 4 Press the SPACEBAR to uncheck the box 5 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Alternatively press ALT SHIFT F11 to toggle the announcement of highlights on or off Note Highlighting does not work when Masking is enabled If you turn on Masking all Highlight menu options are disabled and if you are currently highlighting text the highlight is canceled and no text is highlighted In addition when masking is OpenBook will not announce highlighted text and default display and masking colors are displayed instead of the highlight colors Comments OpenBook allows you to add commen
171. sed of two radio buttons Portrait and Landscape To change the page orientation 1 2 Press CTRL P to open the Print dialog box Use TAB to move to the Properties button and press SPACEBAR to open the Print Setup dialog box Next press TAB until you hear Page Orientation Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to make your selection Once you have selected the page orientation you can change more print parameters or press ENTER to return to the Print dialog box To print your document press TAB to move to the Ok button then press ENTER to start the print job Choosing Paper Size The default paper size setting for OpenBook is 8 5 x 11 inches 167 To choose another paper size 1 2 Press CTRL P to open the Print dialog box Use TAB to move to the Properties button and press SPACEBAR to open the Print Setup dialog box When this dialog box opens your cursor is in the Paper Size edit box This edit box lets you select a different paper size Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to make your selection Once you have selected your new page size you can change more print parameters or press ENTER to return to the Print dialog box To print your document press TAB to move to the Ok button then press ENTER to start your print job Selecting a Paper Source If your printer has more than one paper tray or a manual feed use this combo box to select the tray you want your printer to use when you print your document
172. ss TAB to move to the Set Cell Per Line To edit box Type the number of Braille cells you want in each line 4 Press TAB to move to the Set Lines Per Page To edit box Type the number of lines you want on each page 5 Press TAB to move to the Set Top Margin in lines to edit box Type the number of lines you want to set for your top margin 6 Press TAB until you hear Max Cells Per Line of Embosser edit box Type the absolute maximum number of cells you want on each line Press TAB to move to the Max Lines Per Page of Embosser edit box Type the absolute maximum number of lines you want on each page Press ENTER or select the Ok button to print your document To reset your embosser s default settings 1 2 Press ALT F E to open the Emboss dialog box Use TAB to move to the Properties button and press SPACEBAR to open the dialog box When this dialog box opens your cursor is in the Embosser combo box Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select another embosser Reselect your embosser The default settings will repopulate each field Press ENTER or select the Ok button to return to the Emboss dialog box Computer Braille vs Contracted Braille By default will send text to your embosser contracted Braille However it can be set to emboss in computer Braille if necessary To change between computer Braille and contracted Braille 1 2 3 Press ALT F E to open the Emboss dialog bo
173. ssing features To always start in Edit Mode 1 2 Note Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press G or select General Settings to open the General Settings properties page Press ALT E or click on Always Start In Edit Mode to place a check in the box Press ENTER or click OK to apply your changes and close this dialog box Open the Settings Menu again ALT G and choose Save the Settings S In the Save Settings dialog box press ENTER to make the changes part of the default settings For more information on this feature please see the book Using Settings Files Edit Mode is only available in the Text View To switch to Text View press CTRL SHIFT V 119 Basic Editing Commands While OpenBook 15 primarily used for acquiring and reading text it does include most of the commonly used editing features associated with other popular word processing applications You can find many of these features in the Edit Menu Undo The Undo feature CTRL Z is very handy for undoing the last command you performed Unlike many word processing applications this feature only reverts one command at a time Cut To cut selected text from a document and copy it to the Microsoft Windows clipboard press CTRL X To select text hold the SHIFT key down while pressing the ARROW keys or use the mouse to highlight the text Copy Copying selected text places it on the clipboard without removing it from the document Once
174. t View and Camera View OpenBook Feature Hotkeys Insert Bookmark CTRL F9 Delete Bookmark CTRL SHIFT F9 Insert Comment ALT CTRL M Delete Comment SHIFT DELETE 208 Edit Comment Say Comment Begin End Highlight Highlight Selected Text Cancel Highlight Remove Highlight Say Highlight Toggle Highlight Announcement Next Highlight Prior Highlight Copy to Clipboard Cut to Clipboard Edit mode Paste from Clipboard Edit mode Delete Current Page Delete Character Edit Mode Dictionary Edit Mode Read only Mode toggle Move Page Down in Exact View Move Page Up in Exact View Insert Page Break Edit Mode Delete Page Break Edit Mode Find text ALT ENTER ALT SHIFT APOSTROPHE CTRL F11 ALT F11 ESC CTRL SHIFT F11 ALT CTRL F11 ALT SHIFT F11 F11 SHIFT F11 CTRL C CTRL X CTRL V CTRL DELETE DELETE CTRL D or F8 CTRL E ALT PAGE DOWN ALT PAGE UP CTRL ENTER CTRL SHIFT DELETE CTRL F 209 210 Find next occurrence of text Replace text Edit Mode Spell Check Thesaurus Undo Decrease Voice Rate Increase Voice Rate Mute Synthesizer Close Document Window Document Toggle New File Open File Open Audio Directory Print Save Current Page Save Document Exit CTRL SHIFT F CTRL H F7 CTRL T CTRL Z ALT CTRL PAGE DOWN ALT CTRL PAGE UP CTRL F5 CTRL F4 CTRL F6 CTRL N CTRL O CTRL R CTRL P CTRL SHIFT S CTRL S ALT F4 Book 22 Laptop Keyboard Layout Reading Nu
175. t first select your embosser type in the Properties dialog box which is accessed from the Emboss dialog box ALT F E Setting Up Your Embosser 170 When you select your embosser many of the fields in the Properties dialog box automatically populate with your embosser s default settings This means you can immediately begin embossing your document or you can change the embossing settings 1 Press ALT F E to open the Emboss dialog box 2 Use TAB to move to the Properties button and press SPACEBAR to open the dialog box 3 When this dialog box opens your cursor is in the Embosser combo box This combo box lists embossers that are compatible with OpenBook Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select your embosser 4 Press TAB until you hear Connection combo box 5 Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select the port connecting your embosser 6 If you select Windows Device press TAB to move to the Windows Device combo box This combo box lists all the printers and embossers available to your computer 7 Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select embosser 8 Press ENTER or select the Ok button to return to the Emboss dialog box Embossing a Document Embossing a document is initiated from the Emboss dialog box To launch the Emboss dialog box you must open the File Menu ALT F and select Emboss E With the Emboss dialog box open you have several controls that allow you to change the way your document is
176. t provides Braille support such as JAWS the Braille features will be unavailable as the screen reader will handle the Braille output If you want to use the built in Braille features in you must disable the screen reader In addition you can not use Braille in OpenBook if MAGic screen magnification software is Currently running Enabling Braille To enable Braille press ALT G or click on the Settings menu and choose Enable Braille When enabled a check mark appears next to this option Repeat this process to turn it off If have a Freedom Scientific Focus Braille display or PAC Mate Portable Braille Display OpenBook will automatically detect the display and you can begin using Braille right away If you have a Braille display from another manufacturer you must use the Braille Manager to add the display so it will be recognized by OpenBook Adding a Braille Display If your Braille display was not automatically detected do the following to add your display Press ALT G or click on the Settings menu and select Braille Manager to open the Braille Manager dialog box When this dialog box opens you are placed in a tree view that lists the Braille displays currently installed if any Press TAB to move to the Add Remove or Change Devices button and press ENTER In the list view use the arrow keys to select your display and press the SPACEBAR to check it You can add as many disp
177. taker to your computer using the serial cable supplied Launch ActiveSync from your computer On your BrailleNote press U DOTS 1 3 6 to open the Utilities Menu From the ActiveSync File Menu ALT F select Get Connected G Then on your notetaker press C DOTS 1 4 to connect to ActiveSync Setting Up OpenBook Before using OpenBook with your notetaker you must first define your notetaker communication parameters with OpenBook 181 From the File Menu ALT F select Notetaker T This opens the Notetaker submenu which has two items Open from and Save to Use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to select a menu item then press ENTER This launches the Setup your Notetaker dialog box With the Notetaker combo box active use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to select your notetaker Then press ENTER on the Setup your Notetaker dialog box to complete the connection If you own a Pulse Data HumanWare Product be sure to complete the steps outlined above Using Auto Detect If you own a Freedom Scientific Product you can use the Auto Detect Freedom Scientific Notetaker button ALT A This button automatically detects your notetaker type and communication parameters Manually Setting Up OpenBook Or if you prefer follow the rest of these steps to manually set up your communication parameters 182 1 2 Press TAB to move to the Connection combo box Use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to select the Com Port to which
178. te Emphasis Text 4 Press the SPACEBAR to check the box 5 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Extra Pause After Each Line 106 If you need extra time to absorb the information that you reading during a Say All with OpenBook then adding an extra pause after each line may be helpful To adjust how long OpenBook pauses at the end of each line do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press P or select Speech Settings to open the Speech Settings properties page Next press TAB until you hear Extra Pause After Each Line combo box or press ALT X Use the UP or DOWN ARROW keys to make your selection The default setting is No extra pause Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Hide Spotlight for Braille Tracking For those who read using a refreshable Braille display this item should be activated because the text spotlight decreases the responsiveness of refreshable Braille devices To activate Hide Spotlight for Braille Tracking 1 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press V or select Visual Settings to open the Visual Settings properties page Next press TAB until you hear Hide Spotlight for Braille Tracking check bo
179. ted by the active cursor Braille Follows Active When set as you move through OpenBook the information at the active cursor is displayed in Braille For example when you move through the controls in a dialog box information about the active control is displayed in Braille Active Follows Braille When set the active cursor follows the Braille Cursor However the Braille Cursor cannot move where the active cursor cannot go For example with this option set you cannot move the Braille cursor to the title bar of the active window To change these settings Press ALT G or click on the Settings menu and select Braille Basic Settings to open the Braille Basic Settings dialog box Press TAB to move to the Advanced button and press ENTER Press TAB to move to the Active Follows Braille and Braille Follows Active check boxes and check or uncheck these options depending on your preference Status Cells For those Braille displays that have Status Cells they are generally located on the left of the display These cells greatly enhance your Braille viewing and understanding of text formatting The number of status cells in your Braille display determines the type and amount of information displayed 196 Along with Status Cells DOTS 7 and 8 of each cell indicates the current state of text relative to your Braille display For instance lf DOTS 7 and 8 up on all cells of your display then the current line of text is c
180. the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Text View Text View shows the text of an acquired page after it has been recognized by OpenBook Text View is the primary view and is where you perform most editing functions such as adding or deleting text and spell checking as well as selecting copying cutting and pasting text This primary view is also where you can employ various OpenBook tools such as highlighting text adding bookmarks inserting comments and applying various low vision features such as font size type character spacing and text and background color Text View is always active by default after every acquisition To change Text View elements 1 Press ALT G or click the Settings Menu 2 Press V or select Visual Settings to open the Visual Settings properties page 3 Press TAB or click on any of the controls make the changes necessary for reading 4 Press the OK button to exit this properties page Note To quickly change the Text Size Color Spacing Font or spotlight color of your Text View you can use the quick Low Vision Menu on the Menu Bar 147 Exact View 148 Exact View is the acquired page displayed exactly as the original document You activate Exact View by opening the View menu ALT V and choosing Exact View You can also press CTRL SHIFT V to cycle between Text View Exact View Split View and Camera View If the current page d
181. the Previous Heading or Audio File UP ARROW Expand a subheading in DAISY files only RIGHT ARROW Close a subheading in DAISY files only LEFT ARROW Say Current Heading or Audio File Move to the First Heading or Audio File Move to the Last Heading or Audio File Fast Forward Five Seconds Rewind Five Seconds Increase audio Rate for DAISY Files 202 INSERT NUM PAD 5 CTRL HOME CTRL END RIGHT ARROW or RIGHT SHIFT LEFT ARROW or LEFT SHIFT ALT CTRL PAGE UP Decrease audio rate for DAISY Files Navigation Back Space Go To Bookmark Open Go To Dialog box ALT CTRL PAGE DOWN BACKSPACE F9 CTRL G Go To Next item page comment or highlight as specified in Go To dialog box 5 Go To Prior item page comment or highlight as specified in Go To dialog box Say Next Character Edit Mode Say Prior Character Edit Mode Say Next Word Say Prior Word Say Next Line Say Prior Line SHIFT F5 RIGHT ARROW moves by word in Read only mode LEFT ARROW moves by word in Read only mode CTRL RIGHT ARROW INSERT RIGHT ARROW or RIGHT ARROW when in Read only Mode CTRL LEFT ARROW INSERT LEFT ARROW or LEFT ARROW when in Read Only Mode DOWN ARROW UP ARROW 203 Say Next Sentence Say Prior Sentence Say Next Paragraph Say Prior Paragraph Next Page Prior Page Page Down Page Up End of File Top of File Help Context Sensitive Help Help Keyboard Help Where Am Text Selection
182. the type of page being acquired If this option is unchecked you can then use the contrast slider to manually adjust the contrast from 0 to 16 Lower numbers make it darker while higher numbers make it lighter Setting it to 8 is considered normal contrast You should only manually change the contrast if a particular page is not being recognized correctly on automatic contrast If the acquisition source is the PEARL camera the contrast settings are ignored Scan Initiated If you are using a scanner to acquire pages and this check box is checked OpenBook will announce scan initiated when you start a scan Uncheck this option if you do not want to hear this message in a particular workflow This option is ignored if the PEARL camera is selected as the acquisition source Acquisition Tones When this check box is checked OpenBook plays tones during the acquisition process Uncheck this option if you do not want to hear acquisition tones in a particular workflow Image Acquired When this check box is checked OpenBook plays a camera shutter sound when an image is acquired Uncheck this option if you do not want to hear this sound in a particular workflow Page Placement Use this combo box to specify where in the document OpenBook places the acquired page Your choices are Append to Document New page s are placed at the end of the document e _ Insert After Current Page New page s are inserted consecutive
183. to have OpenBook lay the text of the table out as rows with space between the column items Select Organize by Column to OpenBook lay the text the table out as columns with space between the row items Action When Pages are Recognized This group of radio buttons controls where the reading cursor is positioned after a new page is recognized Selecting Move to New Page moves the cursor to the top of the newly recognized page and begins reading If you want to be able to continue reading at your current position in the document even after the new page is added select Remain at Current Reading Position Start Speaking Automatically This check box specifies whether OpenBook automatically begins speaking or not when the first acquired image is recognized When checked OpenBook automatically begins reading from the top of the newly acquired page as soon as text becomes available If is currently not reading when the first page of a new acquisition is added to a document and the particular workflow is configured to remain at the current position you will be moved to the top of the newly acquired page where OpenBook will automatically begin reading Uncheck this option if you do not want OpenBook to automatically begin reading when a new image is recognized In this case you will need to use OpenBook s reading commands or begin a Say All INSERT DOWN ARROW in order to read the text By default this check
184. ts to any location in your document Teachers can create comments containing messages questions or assignments for students Students can use comments to answer the teacher s questions create reminders or ask questions about the text they are reading To add a comment to your document 1 Navigate to the location in your document where you want to insert the comment Press ALT E or click the Edit menu and select Insert Comment to open the Add Comment dialog box Alternatively press ALT CTRL M to open this dialog box Enter the text of your comment into the edit box You can also choose the Paste button or press CTRL V to paste text from the clipboard Press the Read button if you want OpenBook to read the comment back to you When you have finished the comment select OK 115 116 If you have vision you will see a comment icon where you added the comment Double click this icon to view or edit the comment you rely on speech feedback OpenBook will announce each comment as you navigate the document with the arrow keys For instance when you reach the first comment you will hear comment 1 followed by comment 2 for the second comment and so on To have OpenBook speak the text of acomment press ALT SHIFT APOSTROPHE To edit a comment make sure you are first positioned on the comment Then press ALT E to open the Edit menu and select Edit Comment Alternatively press ALT ENTER In the edit box make your
185. type in a value or press ALT DOWN ARROW to open a list box The list contains suggestions for the contents of this field Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to move through the list and use ALT UP ARROW or ESC to close the list box If you do not find your choice in the list box type it in the edit field 33 Combo Box A plain combo box differs from the edit combo box You must make your selection from suggestions provided by the program Either press DOWN ARROW to move through the choices or press the first letter of the choice you want to make Edit Spin Box The edit spin box is also a combination of two controls You can type in this field or use the arrow keys to move through the list of suggestions Edit spin boxes are common for fields that require numeric values Left Right Sliders Left right sliders are oriented horizontally You can use your LEFT and RIGHT ARROW keys to adjust this control For some left right slider controls you can use PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN to move by larger increments Check Box A check box can be checked or unchecked OpenBook announces the current state of a check box when you move to it Press SPACEBAR to check or clear a check box Buttons Buttons are common to most dialog boxes When you encounter a button press the SPACEBAR to activate the button 34 Tree View In a tree view items are presented in a hierarchical format which is organized vertically on the screen Press UP or D
186. udio files and 0 subfolders Press SHIFT TAB to move back to the list view and press ENTER to open the drive or folder or navigate to a different one Once you open the drive or folder containing the file s you want to listen to select a file then activate the OK button You are placed in a tree view containing the audio files in the current folder with the file you previously selected as the current item ready to be played If you have opened a DAISY book the tree view displays chapters or topics To select a file or topic press UP or DOWN ARROW To expand a topic in a DAISY book pres RIGHT ARROW and to close it press LEFT ARROW To begin playing the selected item press INSERT DOWN ARROW Press CTRL to stop If you use the arrow keys to select a different file while audio is currently playing the audio is automatically stopped and you will need to press INSERT DOWN ARROW again after making your selection During playback press LEFT ARROW or LEFT SHIFT to rewind five seconds or RIGHT ARROW or RIGHT SHIFT to fast forward by five seconds If you are listening to a DAISY book you can adjust the speed of the narration by using ALT CTRL PAGE UP increase the rate and ALT CTRL PAGE DOWN to decrease the rate When you change the rate it is saved for the current OpenBook session even if you close and open a different file If you close and restart OpenBook the rate will revert to the default setting Note If you are playing aud
187. utomatically wrap to the next line when you reach the right edge of the image This item is check by default Press TAB to move to the Point Size spin box and select a point size The point size indicates the height of one line If Line Wrap is enabled this setting determines how far OpenBook needs to wrap in order to get to the next line The default point size is 10 Press TAB to move to the Line Delay edit field and Enter the number of seconds you want OpenBook to pause when wrapping to the next line The default is one second Press TAB to move to the Forward Speed spin box and choose a value between 1 fastest and 20 slowest that represents the panning speed to use when panning to the right The default setting is 5 Press TAB to move to the Vertical Speed spin box and choose a value between 1 fastest and 20 slowest that represents the panning speed to use when panning up or down The default setting is 5 9 Press TAB to move to the Reverse Speed spin box and choose a value between 1 fastest and 20 slowest that represents the panning speed to use when panning to the left The default setting is 5 10 Press the OK button to exit the Camera View Panning properties and once more to exit the Image View Settings properties page Scrolling the View You can use the mouse scroll wheel to scroll the text in the Text View help window or Exact View In addition when in Exact View you can use ALT CTRL UP DOWN LEFT
188. vailable Acquire from Word When OpenBook is installed it adds an Acquire Using OpenBook option to the File menu in Microsoft Word Selecting this option causes OpenBook to acquire a page from the scanner or camera OCR the text and display the resulting text in Word Freedom Import Printer 77 78 The Freedom Import Printer is used in OpenBook to provide OCR access to documents which either consist of images only or cannot be read by a screen reader in their native application You can initiate the Freedom Import Printer by opening a document through the Select a File to Open dialog box which is not natively supported in OpenBook or by printing the document from its native application and choosing Freedom Import Printer as the printer You can only modify process settings for this specialty workflow For more information refer to Managing Files Opening Files with the Freedom Import Printer Recognize Image File This specialty workflow attempts to OCR image files opened from the Select a File to Open dialog box If OpenBook is unable to process the particular image file you are asked if you want to use the Freedom Import Printer instead If you choose Yes OpenBook switches to the Freedom Import Printer specialty workflow and resumes processing Selecting No cancels the recognition and the file is not opened You can only modify process settings for this specialty workflow PDF File This specialty workflow is used when you
189. w 157 158 e Default Instantly zooms to the default setting The default zoom in Exact View is set to Page Width To change the default zoom level for Exact View do the following 1 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu 2 Press Wor select Image View Settings to open the Image View Settings properties page Inthe Exact View Default Zoom combo box choose the zoom level you want to use when an image is displayed in the exact view 4 Press the OK button to exit this properties page 5 Open the Settings Menu again ALT G and choose Save the Settings S 6 Inthe Save Settings dialog box press ENTER to make the changes part of the default settings For more information on this feature please see the book Using Settings Files The default zoom in Camera View is set to Page Height To change the default zoom level for Camera View do the following 1 Press ALT G or click the Settings Menu 2 Press Wor select Image View Settings to open the Image View Settings properties page 3 Press TAB to move to the Camera View Default Zoom combo box and choose the zoom level you want to use when images are displayed in Camera View 4 Press the OK button to exit this properties page 5 Open the Settings Menu again ALT G and choose Save the Settings S 6 Inthe Save Settings dialog box press ENTER to make the changes part of the default settings For more information on this feature please see the boo
190. w voice samples and then download and install voices directly from the Web page Getting Started 16 Launching OpenBook OpenBook gives you a variety of ways to launch the program Press the hot key ALT CTRL 0O which is automatically assigned when you install OpenBook You must restart your computer after OpenBook is installed in order for this hot key to work correctly Using your mouse double click the OpenBook 9 0 icon on your desktop e Go to the Start menu and select Programs Select the OpenBook 9 0 program group and choose OpenBook 9 0 Once launched OpenBook opens with a blank untitled document from which you can begin working and announces whether the document is in Read only or Edit Mode If you prefer you can change the startup document to be the document you were working on last To do this go to the Settings Menu and select General Settings ALT G G In the General Settings Dialog box press TAB until you arrive on the Open Untitled Document on Startup radio button Press the DOWN ARROW key to select the Open Last Document on Startup radio button If you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Next to change the settings so that OpenBook is always in this Mode open the Settings Menu again ALT G From the Menu choose Save the Settings In the Save Settings dialog box press ENTER to make the ch
191. want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER Synthesizer 38 The Synthesizer combo box lists the different speech drivers you can choose from The following choices are available RealSpeak Solo Voices OpenBook includes the RealSpeak Solo Direct voices which can be installed from a separate disc These voices offer responsive high quality human like speech and will appear in the Voice Name combo box when you select this option This selection is not available until you have installed at least one RealSpeak Solo Direct voice SAPI 5 Selecting this option lets you use any SAPI 5 compatible voice installed on your computer This includes the Microsoft voices that come with Microsoft Windows as well as third party synthesizers that you purchase Once you select this option the available SAPI 5 voices are listed in the Voice Name combo box Note that other assistive technology products may have SAPI 5 synthesizers that are only authorized to operate with those products If such synthesizers are on your computer OpenBook may not work with those specific voices Eloquence Voices Selected by default uses the Eloquence speech synthesizer which is automatically installed with OpenBook You can only select a synthesizer for the Reading and Menu voices If the Emphasis voice is selected this combo box is not available When you
192. x or press ALT H If necessary press the SPACEBAR to place a check in the box Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button and press the SPACEBAR Or exit this properties page by pressing ENTER 107 Book 10 Navigating Documents Go to Navigation 108 The Go To dialog box allows you to move to the next or previous page Bookmark Highlight or Comment in a document To open this dialog box press CTRL G Alternatively you can press ALT E or click on the Edit menu and choose Go To In the Go to what list box choose the element you want to navigate by Page Bookmark Highlight or Comment Use TAB to move through the controls in this dialog box If you choose Page enter the page number you want to go to in the Page Number edit box and then activate the Go To button to move to it and close the dialog box OpenBook will announce the page number along with the word that is currently spotlighted If you choose Bookmark in the Bookmark name combo box use the UP or DOWN ARROW to locate the bookmark name and then activate the Go to button to move to it OpenBook will announce the bookmark name along with its associated word Activate the Close button to return to the document the current bookmark If you choose Highlight in the Highlight type combo box use the UP or DOWN ARROW to select the highlight color and then activate the Next or Previous button to go to the text high
193. x Press TAB until you hear Contracted Braille checked A check in this box means the document will emboss in contracted Braille To emboss in computer Braille press SPACEBAR to uncheck this box 173 Once you have selected the Braille translation mode you can change more emboss parameters or press TAB to move to the Ok button and then press ENTER to emboss your document Selecting an Emboss Range The Emboss Range area of the Emboss dialog box is composed of 2 radio buttons All Pages and Pages from _ to _ Unless you specify a range OpenBook will emboss all pages contained within a document To specify an Emboss Range 1 2 3 Press ALT F E to open the Emboss dialog box Press TAB until you hear All Pages checked Use your UP or DOWN ARROW keys to make your selection If you choose Pages to _ be sure to TAB to the Edit boxes and type in a number Once you have selected your new page range you can change more emboss parameters or press TAB to move to the Ok button and then press ENTER to emboss your document Mark Emphasis Text Emphasis text is text that is bold underlined and or in italics This item enabled by default and only available when embossing in contracted Braille indicates when text has emphasis 174 To disable Mark Emphasis Text 1 2 Press ALT F to open the Emboss dialog box Press TAB until you hear Mark Emphasis Text A check in this box me
194. x and press SPACEBAR to uncheck this option Select OK to close the Workflow Properties multi page dialog box and once more to close the Workflow Settings You could also create a new custom workflow and turn off the Apply OCR Corrections option You can then switch to this custom workflow when ever you do not want OCR corrections automatically applied to acquired documents For more information on workflows see the book Workflows Book 12 Managing Files Most of the routine tasks of managing and maintaining your document files can be accessed directly from the File Menu ALT F If you sign in as an individual user OpenBook uses C Program Files Freedom Scientific OpenBook 9 0 Users default Library as the default file location If you have signed in using the Multi user feature OpenBook creates an individual subfolder in your name In this case the location that your files are saved in is C Program Files Freedom Scientific OpenBook 9 0 Users username Library If it is more convenient for you to save or open your files location other than the Library follow these steps 1 Press ALT G or click the Settings Menu 2 Press Gor select General Settings to open the General Settings properties page 3 Press ALT C or click on Default File Location to place your cursor in the edit box 4 Type the new default location 5 Last if you want to make more setting changes press ALT A or TAB to the Apply button
195. you have selected the text you want to copy press CTRL C You can then paste the text into another part of the open document into a new OpenBook document or into another application such as Microsoft Word 120 Paste Choose Paste when you want to insert text from the Microsoft Windows clipboard into your document Find the location where you want the text inserted then press CTRL V The text is then inserted into the document Delete Unlike cutting selected text from a document deleting does not copy the text to the Microsoft Windows clipboard Once you use the DEL key the selected text is permanently deleted and cannot be pasted Press CTRL Z to undo the delete Select All on Current Page This item selects all text in Read only Mode and in Edit Mode The shortcut key for Select All is CTRL A Renumber Pages This feature allows you to change the page numbers of an open document as well as maintain the original page numbering in an acquired document To renumber pages 1 From the Edit Menu select Renumber Pages or press ALT E A 2 brings up the Renumber Pages dialog box and places your cursor in an edit field OpenBook prompts you with the current page number and asks you for the new number you want to assign to that page Type in a number then press ENTER or TAB to the Ok button 121 4 You cancel the operation at any time by going to the Cancel button or by pressing the
196. you might want to configure a particular workflow to use the Most Accurate strategy instead To do this you would either create a new workflow or modify an existing workflow uncheck the Use Default Recognition check box from the Process page then choose the Most Accurate strategy This change would only affect the current workflow Keep Exact View When this check box is checked the original image is kept as part of each page after recognition Unchecking this option discards the original image once recognition is complete Keep Exact View must be enabled if you want to use the Re recognize feature To see the original document image press CTRL SHIFT V to switch to Exact View or Split View 85 86 Announce Orientation Enable this check box to have OpenBook announce the orientation of the page being acquired The orientation is only announced as long as OpenBook is not currently reading While OpenBook will automatically orient the page correctly during processing announcing the orientation is helpful if you are sorting pages and you want to make sure they are all oriented correctly You would not want to have some pages right side up and others upside down Despeckle Select this check box to correct a page that does not have a clean clear background such as paper that has been photocopied several times newspapers or paper with speckled shading on it Discard Blank Pages Enable this check box if you want OpenBook t
197. your notetaker is connected to your computer Press TAB to move to the Baud Rate control Select the baud rate that matches the one set on your notetaker Note 5 Press TAB again to move to the Always Prompt for Notetaker check box Place a check in this box if you use more than one notetaker with OpenBook Any communication parameter changes that need to be made should be done from the Notetaker Properties page which is accessed from the Settings Menu Press ENTER to activate the Ok button Changing Settings 1 2 Press ALT G or click on the Settings Menu Press N or select Notetaker Settings to open the Notetaker Settings Properties page With the Notetaker combo box active use your UP or DOWN ARROW key to select your notetaker Press TAB to move to the Connection combo box and select the Com Port to which your notetaker is connected to your computer Press TAB to move to the Baud Rate control Select the baud rate that matches the one set on your notetaker Press TAB again to move to the Always Prompt for Notetaker check box Place a check in this box if you use more than notetaker with OpenBook Press TAB to move to the Apply button then press SPACEBAR to activate the button Press ENTER to activate the Ok button This exits the properties page Opening Files To open files from your notetaker 183 From the File Menu ALT F select Notetaker T This opens the Notetaker submenu which has
198. yth Ithaca New York BuckScan technology is copyrighted PDS and appears OpenBook thanks to the courtesy of Noel Runyan of Personal Data Systems Inc Portions of this product were created using technology licensed from Inso Corporation Portions of this product were created using LEADTOOLS 1991 2000 LEAD Technologies Inc All rights reserved Important Notice to All Users of Freedom Scientific s Recognition Products Freedom Scientific s recognition products including OpenBook permit a user to read and store almost any document available today Most printed materials are copyrighted under the laws of the United States and foreign countries It is illegal to copy or reproduce on disk or paper by use of this machine or any other means materials for which you or your company do not own the copyright unless you have the permission of the copyright owner or unless your activity comes within some of the limited exceptions of the copyright laws Copyright infringement carries with it serious civil and criminal penalties under the law Do NOT use this device to copy materials illegally Your license to use the software in or with this machine also prohibits such activities This system is intended solely for copying and reproduction of files for which you have the legal right to make copies If you have questions about what you can legally copy consult your attorney or the owner of the copyright in question Table of Contents Introdu
199. ywords in the titles or author names Repeat this process for the second edit box Choose one of the following options Ignore Ignore books with titles or authors containing the keyword specified in the second edit box Search for all keywords you enter in both edit boxes Or Search for books with titles or authors containing keywords in either the first edit box OR the second edit box Press ALT S Choose the online book providers you want to include in the search by selecting the corresponding check boxes Clear the check boxes next to the providers you do not want to include in the search Note In order to download copyrighted books from BookShare org you must establish a Bookshare org user account If you have an account press ALT L to select the Login to Bookshare org check box When you begin the book search OpenBook will ask you to enter the e mail address and password for your Bookshare org account If you do not select the Login to Bookshare org check box OpenBook will only search Bookshare org for books that are not copyrighted Activate the Begin Search button or press ALT B to search for books Choose and download books just as you would during a Quick Search 179 Book 17 Using Your Notetaker Supported Notetakers You can access your notetaker files using OpenBook as the interface Currently Braille Lite Type Lite Braille n Speak Type n Speak Braille Note and Voic
200. ze pages containing bookmarks comments or highlights you have added you are given the choice to continue the re recognition and overwrite any mark ups or cancel the process This gives you an Opportunity to save your marked up document using a different filename and then re recognize without losing your marked up copy 61 62 To re recognize the current page open the Acquire menu navigate to the Re recognize submenu and choose Page The current page is replaced with the newly recognized text and the page begins reading from the top If the current page does not have an Exact View image this menu item will be inactive To re recognize the entire document open the Acquire menu navigate to the Re recognize submenu and choose Document If none of the pages have exact images this menu item will be inactive If you attempt to re recognize a document containing pages with and without exact View images you are told that not all pages contain exact View images and that these pages can not be re recognized You are then asked if you wish to continue If you select Yes all pages with exact View images are re recognized Selecting No cancels the re recognition When re recognizing pages the settings from the currently active workflow are always used with the exception of Recognize Columns For example if Recognize Columns is enabled for the current workflow and you think you might get better results re recognizing the page with it of

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