Study Tools
Professionals and students find Kurzweil 1000's comprehensive
time-saving study tools extremely useful. Add bookmarks, text notes,
and annotations; skim, summarize, and create outlines for your work,
and have your documents open to the last position read. Plus, you'll
have access to eighteen bilingual dictionaries.
Simple Forms Recognition and Completion
Our software provides easy access to most
printed forms and presents them with the
fields, labels, boxes, and text areas in the
appropriate reading order. Fill in the fields,
edit, save, or even insert your
handwritten signature into any
Kurzweil 1000 document, once it's scanned
into your computer.
Choices for More Accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Two OCR engines, ScanSoft© OCR 18 and ABBYY FineReader 10, provide the most accurate OCR available. For the best possible scanning results, Kurzweil 1000 also has the ability to correct many errors. A noise filter option lets users ignore regions near the edge of a page that were incorrectly identified as text.
State-of-the-Art Speech Options
Clear, natural-sounding VoiceTextTM voices from Neo Speech and
ETI-EloquenceTM voices from Nuance deliver the highest quality
text-to-speech (TTS), making your reading a pleasure to hear.
Microsoft Speech Platform delivers access to more than a dozen additional voices in a variety of languages.
You can choose and adjust our many voice options to suit your individual
preference.
Appointment Calendar with Audible Reminders
Keep track of your schedule with our easy-to-use calendar application.
You can add, edit, and delete your calendar entries simply from the
desktop taskbar, as well as set audible reminders that will play any
sound file on your computer you choose.
Online Information Search and Retrieval
Enjoy quick access to information from a variety of sources, including
e-books, magazines, encyclopedias, and the Merriam-Webster medical dictionary. Based on your criteria, Kurzweil 1000 will search select
Internet repositories such as Bookshare.org, NLS Web Braille,
AccessWorld, Talking Newspaper Association of the United Kingdom,
NFB Publications, and Wikipedia (in multiple languages), and present you with your download choices.
Read Files Away From Home & Burn CDs
Kurzweil 1000 can send your files to a wide variety of hand-held devices so you can read and reference important material when away from your home or office computer. You can also create CDs of your files within
Kurzweil 1000 if you have a CD burner.
Broad Range of File Access
Any file type that you can print through an application installed on your
computer can be opened with Kurzweil 1000 (including PDF), which
greatly expands your reading choices.