The Platinum version comes with OCR function, and has 6 Natural sounding voices.

What is OCR?

Optical character recognition (OCR) works with your scanner to convert printed characters into digital text, which allows you to listen to it on your computer or edit it in a word processing program.

There are many benefits of scanning your documents using OCR:

• No more retyping

If you would like to listen to the content of your text book, you don't have to retype it on your computer; instead just scan your book, and our software will upload it onto your computer and turn the text into speech.

• Edit text

Once you've scanned your document using OCR, you have the option to edit the text within a word processing program of your choice.

• Accessibility

OCR software is a useful Accessibility or Ease of Access tool. Users can scan books, magazines, incoming faxes, or other documents into a word processing programs to be used in conjunction with NaturalReader

OCR Samples:

1. Sample of scanned book: Pride and Prejudice

Original book picture

Recognized text

Audio file

2. Digital ebooks: The Advantures of Sherlock Holmes

Original book picture

Recognized text

Audio file

3. Pictures taken by digital camera: History book

Original book picture

Recognized text

Audio file

4. Pictures taken by a Cell Phone: Darwin

Original book picture

Recognized text

Audio file

Other Main Features

6 Natural Voices included

Education platinum has 6 Natural sounding voices for your choice.

Text to speech

Written text is turned into natural sounding speech, while words are highlighted as they are read.

Text to MP3

Convert computer text into MP3 files so you can listen anywhere.

Floating bar

Floating bar offers another option for you to listen to text without disturbing your reading on the screen.

Add-In Toolbar in MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Internet Explore and firefox

Integrate convenient add-in toolbars into MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Internet Explore and Firefox to offer a simple way of reading text directly without having to copy and paste.

eBook Reader

Convert your own ebooks to audio books and download them to your MP3 player.

1,000 free classic eBooks

Enjoy great literary classics from our free ebook library (booklist).

Typing Echo

Text is read as it is typed; by letter, word, or sentence.

Education Silver will display "word list" when you are typing.

Education Silver includes a 250,000 word spelling checker.

a) Play most common audio file formats.
b) Edit functions: cut, copy, paste, and insert other audio files and effects;
c) Merge multiple audio files into one single file;
d) Record your own voice or effects into an audio file.

Convert multiple text files to audio files with a single click.

Easily convert single or multiple MP3 files to WAV files or vice versa.

Allows voice changes and pauses within a single text by inserting speaker tags and pause tags.

System requirement:

Operation system: windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Win7
Processor: 500Mhz
Memory: 128 MB (256 recommended)
Free Disk Space: 50MB (Natural Voices may require 600MB free space)