Portable OCR Solutions — Easily Access Text Again (Assistive Technology Webinar - ACVREP CE Approved)

Optical character recognition (OCR) technology provide persons who are blind or visually impaired with the capacity to scan printed text and then have it spoken in synthetic speech or saved to a computer file. There are three essential elements to OCR technology—scanning, recognition, and reading text. During this webinar, we will be discussing the difference between stand-alone OCR products, combination OCR technology and software-based access. Join Ian Ramos from Access Ingenuity and Joseph McDaniel from Vispero as they explain this amazing capability of OCR to the visually impaired. Note that everybody is welcome and can benefit from this presentation. Teachers of the visually impaired (TVI) can earn ACVREP continuing education credit by attending this approved presentation.

• What is OCR and how it works.
• Standalone Vs. Software-based application.
• What type of OCR technology provides the best assistive benefit for you.