Creating Large Print with OmniPage

One of the challenges of creating large print documents is getting the text into a word processing program so you can edit it.  If your students are only reading individual sentences or short paragraphs from textbooks, it is easiest to just type these into a word processing program.  But what if a student needs entire essays or novels in large print?  That's where OCR software comes in!

OmniPage is an optical character recognition (OCR) program.  This piece of software can take any scanned document, such as pages from your favorite textbook, and convert the scan to selectable text.  Once you have text, you can create large print, translate to Braille, or use a screen reader to listen to the text.

• Purchase for $149 at http://www.nuance.com/imaging/products/omnipage.asp

• Download a 15 day trial at http://australia.nuance.com/omnipagetrial/download/download.asp

The video links below are a first attempt to create some training videos on how to use OmniPage.  Higher quality videos with better sound are soon to follow. 

Video Tutorial: Scanned files to changeable text.


Video Tutorial: formatting large print