Kurzweil 1000
Product Category
Optical Character Recognition Systems
Product Type
- Software
Converts print into speech. Scans books, articles and bills, and reads the information out loud. Scanned text can be saved for future reference and modification. Can be used to open and read a variety of electronic text formats and search, download, and read electronic books and magazines directly from sites such as Bookshare.org, Web-Braille and other electronic repositories.
Manufacturer
Kurzweil Educational Systems
Task
- Handling Money
- Magnifying Text on a Computer Screen
- Reading Electronic Books and Other Material
- Reading Print
$995
Maintenance/Technical Support
Available by e-mail or by telephone.
Technical Support (Phone)
(888) 995-9905
Documentation Format
- Electronic
Recognizing and Rewarding: A Review of OpenBook and Kurzweil 1000
More Than One Way to Read: A Review of Kurzweil 1000 and OpenBook
Self Contained Unit
No
Compatible Operating Systems
- Windows 2000
- Windows 98
- Windows ME
- Windows NT (SP 6)
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP Home
- Windows XP Pro
- CD-ROM Drive
- IBM Compatible PC
- Intel Pentium @400 Mhz Equivalent or Higher
- Keyboard
- PCI or AGB Graphics Card
- Sound Card
- TWAIN - Compatible Scanner
500 MB
Memory Requirement
64 MB RAM
Installation Options
- Speech Output
- Full-Sized Keyboard
- Monitors
- Speech
Yes
Available with Braille Display
No
Scanner Type
- Flat-Bed
- Hand-Held
- Sheet-Fed
Yes
Recognizes and Reads PDF Files
Yes
Recognizes Currency
Yes
Searches Online for e-Books
Yes
OCR Engine
- FineReader
- RTK
- Advanced
- Intermediate
- English (American)
- Finnish
- German
- Italian
- Spanish (Castilian)
- Dictionary
- E-mail Capabilities
- Speech Synthesizer
- Spell Checker
- Thesaurus
- DAISY
- HTML
- Microsoft Word
- MP3
- text
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