OpenBook Scanning and Reading Software Quick Start Guide VERSION 7.0 Freedom Scientific, BLV Group, LLC September 2003 PUBLISHED BY Freedom Scientific 11800 31st Court North St. Petersburg, Florida 33716-1805 USA http://www.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 - 2003 Freedom Scientific BLV Group, LLC. 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 software to copy materials illegally. Your license to use the software in or with this hardware 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. JAWS is a registered trademark of Freedom Scientific BLV Group, LLC in the United States and other countries. Microsoft, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me and Windows XP are registered trademarks™ of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. OpenBook contains technology licensed and/or developed by ScanSoft Corporation ©. FineReader? recognition technology ©ABBYY(tm), Moscow, Russia. OpenBook is an IBM Independence Series Partner Solution. IBM Independence Series Partner Solution trademark is an International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) owned trademark and is used by Freedom Scientific, Inc. under license. OpenBook uses an encoding engine developed by L.A.M.E. to convert OpenBook supported files into .wav or .mp3 file formats. L.A.M.E. website http://www.mp3dev.org The Sentry Spelling-Checker Engine Copyright © 1999 Wintertree Software Inc. Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary Thesaurus Copyright Wordsmyth, Ithaca, New York. BuckScan technology is copyrighted © PDS and appears in 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. **Table of Contents Welcome to OpenBook 1 System Requirements 1 Installing OpenBook 2 Installing Connect Outloud 2 Registering OpenBook 3 Initial Registration 3 Changing Your Registration 4 Uninstalling OpenBook 4 Uninstalling Connect Outloud 4 Getting Started 5 Launching OpenBook 5 Closing OpenBook 5 Scanning and Reading 5 Getting Help 7 Online Help System 7 Context-Sensitive Help 8 Technical Support 8 About OpenBook 9 **Welcome to OpenBook OpenBook is an application that transforms your personal computer and scanner into a full-featured reading machine. Use any of today’s popular scanners to scan your favorite magazine, book, or newspaper article, and let OpenBook read that page aloud to you. Or open and edit an electronic file from any of today’s most popular applications. With OpenBook nothing is left inaccessible, and better yet, you are in control of how a page is read and presented. **System Requirements The recommended system requirements for OpenBook include a personal computer with Windows 9x, Me, NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6, 2000, or Windows XP Pro/Home. Specification Minimum Requirement Processor speed 166 MHz RAM 32 MB Available hard disk space for typical installation 460 MB Video Super VGA display Sound Windows compatible sound card and speakers Keyboard 104-key Keyboard Scanner A supported TWAIN-compatible scanner or a supported Hewlett-Packard flatbed scanner CD ROM Drive **Installing OpenBook 1. Insert the OpenBook CD 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: Have your software serial number handy. The serial number is located on the outside of the box and on the outside of OpenBook’s CD jacket. When you type in your serial number be sure to include any dashes. If your OpenBook installation CD does not start automatically, go to the Start menu, select Run, and type D:\setup. If your CD-ROM drive is not D, substitute the correct drive letter. The OpenBook setup program will then begin. Choose to run the Typical or Custom installation of OpenBook. The Typical installation assumes that you want to install the default files along with ViaVoice™ Outloud and RealSpeak™ speech software, that you approve of OpenBook’s default location on your hard drive, and that you want to install the standard launchable programs. Use the Custom installation if you want to install additional synthesizers, specify which languages are installed, and/or specify where OpenBook is stored on your hard drive. Note: When you install OpenBook 7.0 your scanner is automatically detected. **Installing Connect Outloud During OpenBook installation you will be asked if you would like to install Connect Outloud. Installing Connect Outloud with OpenBook provides you with speech and Braille access to the Windows Operating System and many components installed as part of that system including Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. The new Connect Outloud also provides speech support for Adobe® Acrobat Reader. If you currently have a screen reading product installed, it is recommended that you do not install Connect Outloud without consulting the manufacturer of your screen reader. **Registering OpenBook **Initial Registration Once you have completed the installation of OpenBook, you are ready to register your software license with Freedom Scientific. We encourage you to register your software. Registering your software costs you nothing, takes just a few minutes, and is the best way for you to receive quality service. Failing to register your software prevents us from providing you with technical support. To register: 1. Place the Registration disk in your disk drive. 2. Start OpenBook if it is not already running. 3. Go to the File Menu and select Open or press CTRL+O. 4. In the Filename edit box, type a:\registration.ark and then press ENTER. 5. The registration document will open. 6. Press CTRL+E to toggle to Edit Mode in OpenBook. 7. Use your ARROW keys to move down the screen and enter the information requested. 8. When finished, save the information by pressing CTRL+S. Note: To save a copy of this form on your computer, press ALT+F, A (for Save As) and then press ENTER. This saves a copy of the same file in the default folder on your hard drive. 9. If you live in the United States you can send the disk to Freedom Scientific in the self-addressed diskette envelope included in the software package. (This cardboard diskette envelope has the name Freedom Scientific embossed in Grade 2 Braille.) **Changing Your Registration If you need to change your registration information, such as your address or phone number, open the Registration.ark file located on your hard drive under C:\OPENBK7. The same questions appear as your initial registration. Change the necessary information, save it to a 3.5” floppy and send it to Freedom Scientific. **Uninstalling OpenBook To uninstall OpenBook go to the Programs menu and select OpenBook 7.0. In the Tools submenu select the Uninstall OpenBook option. Uninstalling OpenBook does not uninstall Connect Outloud. If you choose to leave Connect Outloud on your system, it will run as a demo. **Uninstalling Connect Outloud To uninstall Connect Outloud go to the Programs menu and select Connect Outloud 2.0. In the Tools submenu select the Uninstall Connect Outloud option. Getting Started **Launching OpenBook OpenBook gives you a variety of ways to launch the program. * Press the hot key, ALT+CTRL+O, which is automatically assigned when you install OpenBook. * Double-click the OpenBook icon on your desktop. * Go to the Start menu and select Programs. Choose OpenBook 7.0 from the OpenBook 7.0 menu. Once launched, OpenBook opens with a blank untitled document from which you can begin working or 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, 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. **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. Scanning and Reading OpenBook 7.0 combines the best in scanning 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. When you install OpenBook, IBM’s ViaVoice Outloud and ScanSoft’s RealSpeak speech software are also installed. You can scan, edit, or read a document. Additionally, you can customize the scanning, reading, and display properties of OpenBook. Here are a few shortcut keys to get you started with OpenBook. * To have OpenBook read to you, press NUM PAD ENTER, F10, or F12. * To scan, press NUM PAD INSERT or F4. * To toggle between Edit Mode and Read-only Mode, press CTRL+E. * To silence speech press the CTRL key. * To read faster, press CTRL+2. * To read slower, press CTRL+1. **Getting Help **Online Help System OpenBook’s Online Help System is composed 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 automatically begins reading the contents of the Text View. To stop reading, press the CTRL key. To move from the Text View to the Tree View of books and topics, press F6. To return 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 its topics, while the LEFT ARROW key closes books. When you find the topic you want to read, press ENTER on the standard keypad. OpenBook Help displays that topic and automatically begins reading the contents. Note: To display the selected 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. 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 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 three times activates the Text View where the topic contents are displayed. Here you can press F12 to read or the ARROW keys to navigate the contents. **Context-Sensitive Help When you are in a dialog, press SHIFT+F1 or the NUM PAD MINUS key to read the context-sensitive help message for the current item. You can also access context-sensitive help by right-clicking with your mouse or by clicking on the ? (question mark) symbol at the top right corner of the dialog box. **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. * Product name and version number. * Type of computer hardware you are using. * Software version number of Windows. **About OpenBook Select About OpenBook from the Help menu to view the version number of OpenBook you are currently running and its serial number. **OpenBook Keystrokes **Reading Keys Read Dialog CTRL+B Read Status Bar CTRL+SHIFT+F10 Reading speed -- decrease CTRL+1 or SHIFT NUM PAD ASTERISK Reading speed -- increase CTRL+2 or NUM PAD ASTERISK Read (Say All) F10, F12 or NUM PAD ENTER Speech On/Off toggle CTRL+F5 **Scanning Keys Toggle Recognize Columns CTRL+SHIFT+Z Scan (Edit Mode) F4 or NUM PAD INSERT Scan (Read-only Mode) SPACEBAR, F4, or NUM PAD INSERT Scanning Status SHIFT+F4 or NUM PAD SLASH **Movement Keys Find text CTRL+F Find next occurrence of text CTRL+SHIFT+F Go To Bookmark F9 Go To Page CTRL+G Where Am I NUM PAD 7 Move Up One Line UP ARROW Move Down One Line DOWN ARROW Move Forward One Character (Edit Mode) RIGHT ARROW Move Back One Character (Edit Mode) LEFT ARROW Move Forward One Word (Read-only Mode) RIGHT ARROW Move Back One Word (Read-only Mode) LEFT ARROW Move Up One Page NUM PAD PAGE UP Move Down One Page NUM PAD PAGE DOWN Move Up One Screen PAGE UP Move Down One Screen PAGE DOWN Highlight Next Word in the Unit CTRL+DOWN ARROW Highlight Prev. Word in the Unit CTRL+UP ARROW Move Spotlight to Previous Unit CTRL+LEFT ARROW Move Spotlight to Next Unit CTRL+RIGHT ARROW Move Spotlight to beg. of doc CTRL+HOME Move Spotlight to end of doc CTRL+END Select Line Down SHIFT+DOWN ARROW Select Line Up SHIFT+UP ARROW Select Page Down (view page) SHIFT+PAGE DOWN Select Page Up (view page) SHIFT+PAGE UP Select word to the right (Read-only Mode) SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW Select character to the right (Edit Mode) SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW Select word to the left (Read-only Mode) SHIFT+LEFT ARROW Select character to the left (Edit Mode) SHIFT+LEFT ARROW Select to beginning of Word (Edit Mode) CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW Select Word to the left (Read-only Mode) CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW Select to end of word CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT (Edit Mode) ARROW Select to beginning of page CTRL+HOME Select to end of page CTRL+END Select to beginning of line SHIFT+HOME Select to end of line SHIFT+END **Editing Keys Copy text CTRL+C Cut text (Edit mode) CTRL+X Delete Current Page CTRL+DELETE Delete Character DELETE Dictionary CTRL+D or F8 Edit Mode/Read-only Mode toggle CTRL+E Move Page Down in page order ALT+PAGE DOWN Move Page Up in page order ALT+PAGE UP Page Break, Insert CTRL+ENTER Page Break, Delete CTRL+SHIFT+DELETE Paste text (Edit mode) CTRL+V Replace text (Edit Mode) CTRL+H Select All text on current page (Edit Mode) CTRL+A Spell Check F7 or CTRL+K Spell Word CTRL+L, F3 twice, or NUM PAD 5 twice Spell Word Phonetically CTRL+SHIFT+L, F3 three times, or NUM PAD 5 three times Thesaurus CTRL+T or SHIFT+F8 Undo CTRL+Z **Page Layout Keys Start Page Description CTRL+SHIFT+Y Enter Guided Layout Mode CTRL+SHIFT+F5 Exit Guided Layout Mode ESC Enter Explore Layout Mode CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER Enter Explore Layout Mode from Guided Layout Mode ENTER Exit Explore Layout Mode ESC Exit Explore Layout Mode and place cursor at current element in editor ENTER Pause/Resume Reading in Guided Layout Mode NUM PAD ENTER Read Element Contents/ Pause Reading/Resume Reading element contents in Explore Layout Mode NUM PAD ENTER Exact View / Text View Toggle CTRL+SHIFT+V Move to Next Element CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW Move to Previous Element CTRL+SHIFT+UP ARROW **Other Useful Keys Bookmark, go to F9 Bookmark, insert CTRL+F9 Bookmark, delete CTRL+SHIFT+F9 BuckScan money identifier CTRL+M Classic menus toggle On/Off F2 Close current document CTRL+F4 or CTRL+W Document Properties CTRL+R Exit OpenBook ALT+F4 Help F1 or NUM PAD MINUS Help, context-sensitive help SHIFT+NUM PAD MINUS or SHIFT+F1 Key Describer toggle NUM PAD 1 or CTRL+F12 Menu key (Classic menus) NUM LOCK New File CTRL+N Open File CTRL+O Print current document CTRL+P Properties (of open document) CTRL+R Save current document CTRL+S Status Bar toggle On/Off SHIFT+F5 Start Open Book ALT+CTRL+O Toggle Windows CTRL+F6 Word Count SHIFT+F7 **Using the NUM PAD on a portable PC 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 OpenBook NUM PAD functions. Menu F2 Scan F4 or SPACEBAR Delete Page CTRL+DELETE Speak F10 or F12 Select ENTER Escape ESC Key Describer CTRL+F12 Where Am I? SHIFT+CTRL+F12 Help F1 Voice Rate CTRL+1 and CTRL+2 Scanning Status SHIFT+F4 Move Up UP ARROW Move Down DOWN ARROW Move Left LEFT ARROW Move Right RIGHT ARROW Page Up PAGE UP Page Down PAGE DOWN **JAWS Keyboard Layout Shortcuts **General Key Describer INSERT+NUM PAD 1 Where am I? INSERT+NUM PAD 3 Beginning of Line NUM PAD 7 End of Line NUM PAD 1 Beginning of File CTRL+NUM PAD 7 End of File CTRL+NUM PAD 1 Beginning of Page ALT+NUM PAD 7 Delete DECIMAL Page Up NUM PAD 9 Page Down NUM PAD 3 **Reading Text *reading by character is possible only in edit mode Read Previous Character NUM PAD 4 Read Current Character NUM PAD 5 Read Next Character NUM PAD 6 Read Previous Word INSERT+NUM PAD 4 Read Current Word INSERT+NUM PAD 5 Read Next Word INSERT+NUM PAD 6 Read Current Line INSERT+NUM PAD 8 Read Previous Sentence ALT+NUM PAD 8 Read Current Sentence ALT+NUM PAD 5 Read Next Sentence ALT+NUM PAD 2 Read Previous Paragraph CTRL+NUM PAD 8 Read Current Paragraph CTRL+NUM PAD 5 Read Next Paragraph CTRL+NUM PAD 2 Read from Beginning of Line INSERT+NUM PAD 7 Read to End of Line INSERT+NUM PAD 9 Read Continuously INSERT+NUM PAD 2 **Selecting Text *selection by character is possible only in edit mode Select Prior Character SHIFT+NUM PAD 4 Select Next Character SHIFT+NUM PAD 6 Select Prior Line SHIFT+NUM PAD 8 Select Prior Word INSERT+SHIFT+NUM PAD 4 Select Next Word INSERT+SHIFT+NUM PAD 6 Select Next Line SHIFT+NUM PAD 2 Select to Beginning of Line SHIFT+NUM PAD 7 Select to End of Line SHIFT+NUM PAD 1 Select to Beginning of File CTRL+SHIFT+NUM PAD 7 Select to End of File CTRL+SHIFT+NUM PAD 1 **Window-Eyes Keyboard Layout Shortcuts **General Where am I? DECIMAL Speak Key ENTER Beginning of Line NUM PAD 7 End of Line NUM PAD 1 **Reading Text *reading by character is possible only in edit mode Read Previous Character NUM PAD 4 Read Next Character NUM PAD 6 Read Current Character NUM PAD 5 Read Previous Line NUM PAD 8 Read Next Line NUM PAD 2 Read Current Line ALT+NUM PAD 8 Read Previous Word ALT+NUM PAD 4 Read Next Word ALT+NUM PAD 6 Read Current Word ALT+NUM PAD 5 Read from Beginning of Line ALT+NUM PAD 7 Read to End of Line ALT+NUM PAD 9 Read to End of Screen ALT+NUM PAD 2 440100-001 Rev. C