Kurzweil 3000

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Kurzweil 3000

• Ron Stewart
• Access Technology Instructor
• High Tech Center Training Unit

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Kurzweil 3000

• Designed for individuals with vision
• Learning disabilities
• Low vision
• TBI/ABI
• ADD/ADHD

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Kurzweil 3000 Versions

• Kurzweil 3000 Professional
• Scans and reads
• Includes KESI Virtual Printer
• Reads all formats
• Required to read PDF documents
• Kurzweil 3000 Learn Station
• Handles KESI, Word, RTF, and TXT files
• Works with DAISY and NIMAS files

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Pricing

• Kurzweil 3000 Professional
• Color 1495
• BW 1095
• Learn Station 395
• Base price
• Site license prices less

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Pro Costs More

• Kurzweil 3000 Pro
• Scans
• Runs OCR (optical character recognition)
• Need Pro for alt media specialist
• To produce KESI files
• Good to have at least one copy of Pro where
  students have access
• Library and/or learning lab

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Licensing Options

• Lab Packs
• One pro station to many learn stations
• Network edition
• Log on to any networked computer
• License-to-Go
• Students install at home, times out
• Web license
• Installed on any computer, uses school license

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Mac Version

• Available
• Not as robust as the Windows version

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Kurzweil 1000

• Very different interface
• Designed for blind users
• KESI files work in both 1000 3000
• K1000 will open KESI files created in K3000

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K3000 K1000

• Can run together on same computer
• Hook to flatbed scanner for student use
• Nice to have in library
• Especially in reference section with books that
  cannot leave the library
• Also good in learning labs
• Students can scan handouts, articles, etc.

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Please note!

• KESI files on CD
• Will not allow student to save notes or
  annotations
• Cannot write to the CD
• KESI files that can be saved
• Hard drive or network
• USB drive

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K3000 is a tool for

• Individuals to scan and read
• Document reading
• Studying
• Writing support
• NOT a production scanner

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KESI Files from Scans

• Scan hard copy book to TIFF
• Use scanner software bundled with scanner
• Scanning Utility 5000, CapturePerfect
• Load TIFF into Kurzweil Pro
• File gt Open
• Or use KESI Automater
• Kurzweil Pro runs OCR
• Zone and edit as needed
• Save as KESI file

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KESI Files from PDF

• Obtain PDF from publisher
• Load into Kurzweil Pro
• File gt Open
• Use KESI Virtual Printer
• Kurzweil Pro runs OCR
• Zone and edit as needed
• Save as KESI file

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DO NOT

• Do not run TIFF or PDF through an OCR program and
  save to PDF to take into Kurzweil
• Kurzweil will run OCR a second time!
• Wastes time
• Adds OCR errors

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When to scan with KESI

• Individual students can use themselves for small
  projects
• Do not expect students to scan own books!
• Sometimes when doing color

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K3000 Premise

• See the picture
• Read the underlying text
• What you see on screen is not the text being read
• Text hides behind the picture

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Kurzweil Process

• Analyzes structure of page
• Determines zones
• Analyzes characters on page
• OCR
• Creates underlying text

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When Editing

• Edit zones first
• Remove headers/footers
• Set primary text
• Reads automatically
• Set secondary text
• Reads when selected

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Workflow

• Fix page numbers
• View gt Page gt Set Number
• Header/footer
• Ctrl F8 (under Scan menu)
• Edit all zones for entire book
• Ctrl F5 (under Scan menu)
• Edit underlying text (under Edit)
• Ctrl F10

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Reading Tool

• Document reader (looks like the page)
• NOT a screen reader
• Verbalizes and highlights text
• Can also just highlight to provide focus or push
  reading speed
• Can set primary and secondary text
• Can create MP3s

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Study Skills

• Highlighting marker tools
• Annotation and notes
• Written and auditory
• Extraction
• Dictionary/Thesaurus

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Writing Tools

• Speaks as you type
• Audible spell checker
• Word prediction
• Homonym support
• Drag and drop from reading document to writing
  document

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Test Taking

• Great test-taking tool
• Customizable levels of support
• Cannot accidentally change underlying text

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Kurzweil Support

• If you want to run a scanner with Kurzweil, need
  one that is compatible
• http//www.kurzweiledu.com/scanner_compatibility.a
  sp
• Online video tutorials
• http//www.kurzweiledu.com/vid_gallery.aspx