Presenter:
Steve Jacobs CEO of the IdealGroup
Thursday
March 23 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
InftyReader
is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application that
recognizes and
translates scientific documents (including math symbols) into
LaTeX, MathML and
XHTML!
Optical
character recognition (OCR) technologies are invaluable for
improving access to
printed materials by people with print disabilities.Most do
not work well with
scientific content. Scientific documents typically include
mathematical and
other special symbols that standard OCR does not recognize. In
addition, no
standard commercial OCR application can recognize a
two-dimensionally-structured math equation and convert it to a
standard
software format. The InftyReader OCR application can properly
recognize
scientific documents scanned from paper or in PDF format.
InftyReader recognizes
complicated math expressions, tables, graphs and other
technical notations and
converts them to accessible formats. InftyReader can be used
by people with
print disabilities in combination with the ChattyInfty
accessible scientific
editor application. ChattyInfty provides speech access for
reading and writing
math and editing the output of InftyReader. Sighted people can
use InftyReader
with the free Infty Editor to edit InftyReader output and
produce accessible
scientific content. InftyReader and ChattyInfty are sold by
InftyReader Group,
Inc.
Even if you have no need to handle advanced
math, you will
want to be prepared to help students who need these skills to
find and master
them.
Norm Coombs