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Zoom-Twix

Four powerful tools in a single 2 lb device

Zoom-Twix = Zoom-Ex + Zoom-Frog distance camera.

World's first instant book-to-speech tool.
Scanner.
Magnifier with no need for an X-Y table (lines wrap).
CCTV video camera turns 360° to view objects in the distance.

Image of Zoom-Twix with captions describing Zoom-Ex camera and distance Zoom-Frog camera

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Zoom-Twix as The World's First Instant Book-to-Speech Tool

Two leaps in speed:

Instant scanning by photographing.
Fastest OCR (image-to-text) to date.

Zoom-Twix Book-to-Speech Features:

Synthetic voice of your choice.
While text-to-speech reads text, the screen may differ from the text being read, e.g. you can view the picture whose printed caption is being read. Alternatively, the pronounced text can be the same as that shown; and (Yes!!!) the pronounced word is being highlighted. FF and REW are available. You can save books as text and/or image on your PC hard drive, a CD, a DVD, or key chain memory. Once the texts are saved, you can take them anywhere. Then at any time, without Zoom-Ex, you can view them or listen to them. You can print them, making you own "large print books". The camera field of view is easily felt by contact with a right angle edge.
Voice indicators and instructions assist the blind and visually impaired.

Zoom-Twix as a Scanner

Scanning 20 pages per minute while books stay bound

Instant capture with a still camera (Zoom-Ex).
Our patented motion detector allows scanning 20 pages per minute without pushing a button, virtualy hands free. All you do is turn pages. Once a flat page, held at 4 corners, is sensed as still, its image gets saved. You turn the next page and hold it flat with both hands. And so on. You can scan odd pages separately from even ones (isn't your life getting easier?), even upside down – the software will order the pages properly. You can even capture both pages at a time.
The camera field of view is easily felt by contact with edges at a right angle.
You can save books as text and/or images on your PC hard drive, a CD, a DVD, or key chain memory.
Once the texts are saved, you can take them anywhere. Then, at any time you can view them, or listen to them without Zoom-Twix.
You can print them, making your own "large print books".
Voice indicators and instructions assist the blind and visually impaired.

Zoom-Twix as a Magnifier

As a magnifier, it first scans a whole page near-instantly, by photographing it. Then it magnifies the captured text and wraps the lines on-screen for easy reading. Just scroll-down, no need for an X-Y table. Lines no longer run off the screen.

Demonstration of ZoomEx wrapping text at different magnification levels

This is not OCR! Any character set will wrap, even curved lines, unavailable for OCR. It works by recognizing spaces between characters treated as images.

Zoom-Twix: Magnifier with no need for an X-Y table (lines wrap)

See your text in any color combination, e.g. reverse color, etc.
Print your own "large print books", in any language, without lines running off the page. Zoom-Ex recognizes multiple columns as such. They are processed correctly. Zoom-Twix separates pictures from text and presents them separately, with separate adjustable magnification.
With the whole page in the memory, you can magnify and view the page "as is", without any image processing. Unlike a CCTV, which needs an X-Y table, you move around the page using keyboard arrows or your mouse. In this mode Zoom-Twix is more like a conventional magnifier, but with "no moving parts".

Zoom-Frog

The smallest CCTV camera - The ultimate flexibility for visually impaired people

Zoom-Frog Automatically Focuses on objects and printed matter be they one foot or one hundred feet away from the user and projects images magnified up to 50 times onto a computer screen.

Keyboard keys control: zoom, brightness, contrast, colors

Zoom-Frog Features

Zoom-Frog is a 1 lb video CCTV camera in Zoom-Twix (absent in Zoom-Ex, which has a still camera).
Zoom-Frog allows the user to view either close or distant objects, for example, the blackboard or a book text.
Zoom-Frog rotates 360° around both axes.
The Zoom-Frog (video) image can be shown side-by-side with the Zoom-Ex (still) image. Alternatively, each mage takes the full screen.
The Zoom-Frog video camera has auto-focus.
Keyboard keys control the optical zoom from 1X to 50X.
Snapshots can be saved on your PC hard drive, a CD, a DVD, or key chain memory.
You can take the snapshots anywhere. Then at any time, without Zoom-Twix, you can view them.

Zoom-Twix System Requirements

An IBM compatible personal computer
1.3 GHz Pentium or equivalent AMD processor
256 MB RAM Memory or more
30 MB free space on Hard Drive
Microsoft Windows XP (strongly recommended) or Vista.

Zoom-Office

Zoom-Office is software that is seamlessly integrated with the Zoom-Twix and allows you to use the Zoom-Twix with your computer. When you buy the Zoom-Twix you get the Zoom-Office software at no extra charge. Zoom-Office is an accessible software application that has built in text-to-speech synthesizers for spoken access to the menus and dialogues.

When you buy Zoom-Twix you get the entire Zoom-Office. Our policy is that when an individual buys the device he or she may install Zoom-Office on any number of personal computers at home and at work. When an institution like a school or library buys our device, they need to buy a license for each computer on which they install the software.

Zoom-Twix comes with a two year manufacturer's warranty.

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