The Ultimate version (Pro OCR) 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
2. Digital ebooks: The Advantures of Sherlock Holmes
3. Pictures taken by digital camera: History book
4. Pictures taken by a Cell Phone: Darwin
Main Features
6 Natural Voices included
Ultimate version has 6 Natural sounding voices for your choice.
Text to speech
It can convert any written text such as MS Word, Webpage, PDF files, and Emails into spoken words with Natural sounding voices.
Convert to mp3
It can also convert any written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV for your CD player or iPod.
Audio Editor 
Displays a waveform image of audios and allows option to cut, copy, paste, and insert other various audio effects.
Batch File Converter
Converts a large number of text files to audio files simultaneously.
MP3/WAV File Converter
Converts single or multiple MP3 files to WAV files or vice versa.
Audio Files Merge
Merges multiple audio files into one single file.
Audio Recorder
Records your own voice and saves it on your computer.
Conversation Control
Allows voice changes and pauses within a single text by inserting speaker tags and pause tags.
Floating bar
Floating bar offers another option for you to listen to text without disturbing your reading on the screen.
Change reading voices and speed
A speaker menu and speed control slider is available.
One-Click technology
You don’t have to copy and past text like other text-to-speech software. Just select any text and press one hot key.
Add-In Toolbar in MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Internet Explore and firefox
We 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.
** As MS Word, Outlook and PowerPoint, Office 2000 plus version is required to make the add-in toolbars functional.
 Differences between NaturalReader Personal, Professional and Developer versions.
NaturalReader Peronal Version has all the basic features: Such as text to speech, Microsoft Word Add-in toolbar, Microsoft Outlook Add-in toolbar, Microsoft PowerPoint add-in toolbar, Microsoft Internet Explorer add-in toolbar, Firefox add-in toolbar, Create and modify Pronunciation.
Personal Version comes with 2 free natural sounding voices.
Professional Version includes all the features of Personal Version, while has some additional versions: such as Batch File Converter, Conversation control,Audio File Editor, Recorder, Audio File Merger.
Professionall Version comes with 4 free natural sounding voices.
Developer version includes all the features of Professional Version, and one of important feature is that it can be called by command lines in other applications to convert text to audio files.
Developer Version comes with 8 free natural sounding voices.
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)
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