ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <html> <head> <title>Pearl Portable Reading Solution @ Sensory Solutions - Access Technology Solutions for the Visually Impaired </title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../StyleSheets/NormalStyle.css" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="../../SSicon.ico"> </head> <body > <!--****************************************************************--> <div id = "banner" align = "center"> <img src = "../../Images/Menubar/Trial motif.jpg" alt = "Sensory Solutions Motif with Links - Press Ins + F7 to see the links"/> </div> <!--****************************************************************--> <div id = "menubar"> | <a href = "../../Blindness.htm" title = "Products">back to blindness products</a>&nbsp;| <hr/> <br/><br/> </div> <!--****************************************************************--> <div id = "productbodyleft"> <h1> Pearl Portable Reading Solution </h1> <h2>Lightning fast portable OCR with all the features of OpenBook</h2> The PEARL® brings blind and low vision users instant portable access to printed material with an array of human-sounding voices. The folding camera deploys in seconds to connect to your PC and snap a picture of your reading material. <br/><br/> With so many features for those with macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and other causes of low vision, you can tailor the appearance of text on your screen (font style, size, character spacing, and color), view with split-screen and compare your original document and OCR conversion results, use Masking and Word Spotlighting to help you follow text as it is read, and more. <br/><br/> The PEARL expands the features of OpenBook 9.0 to provide instant OCR. Press a keystroke to snap a picture, and hear your book read back to you with Eloquence or one of the human-sounding voices from RealSpeak Solo Direct®. You control the reading rate and voice. <ul> <li>Convert printed text to human-like speech in seconds </li> <li> Scan 20 pages per minute while reading </li> <li> Scan bound books and maintain pagination</li> <li> Enlarge and reformat text for easier reading</li> <li> Wrap text to fill the screen </li> <li>Export to other applications like Microsoft® Word or Notepad</li> <li>Fold it up and take it with you in its protective carrying case</li> </ul> <b>Requirements:</b> <ul> <li>USB 2.0</li> <li> OpenBook 9 or above</li> <li> 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, and Windows 2008 Server, and 32-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server operating systems</li> <li>OCR speed is dependent on PC processor</li> </ul> </ul> <br/> <b>Pair <a href = "OpenBook.htm" title = "Read more about Openbook" alt = "Read more about OpenBook">OpenBook</a> with the PEARL reading camera for a truly portable reading solution</b> <br/><br/> </div> <div id = "productbodyright"> <img src = "../../Images/Products/Blindness/Pearl.jpg" title = "Pearl connected to a Notebook" alt = "JPearl connected to a Notebook" /> <br/><br/> <img src = "../../Images/Products/Blindness/CollapsedPearl.jpg" title = "Pearl collapsed" alt = "Pearl collapsed" /> <br/><br/> <a href = "../../PDF/Products/FS/Pearl-flyer.pdf" title = "Click here for product brochure (PDF - 334 KB)" target = "blank">Click here for product brochure (PDF - 334KB)</a> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-8038367-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}</script> </body> </html>