1. VA AHEAD – Spring Conference March 22, 2013

2. Technologies of the Distant Past Gutenberg and Movable Type Presses… 1439 1650 to 1850 Kevin Eng, Brett Osteen

3. Current Print Technologies Source: Virginia Tech Photo Library

4. Assistive Technologies Give a person a fish and they will have one meal. Teach a person to fish and you will feed them for life. Enable students and employees with disabilities to read only when assisted by a service group that converts all print media to accessible formats. Enable students and employees to read independently by helping them convert their own print media to electronic formats and to use AT for a lifetime of learning. Paraphrased from an old Chinese Proverb ~ Lao Tzu

5. 1978 – OCR, CCD, and TTS In 1978 Ray Kurzweil invents first omni font (any font-recognition software) OCR, CCD flat bed scanner, and TTS Text-to-Speech voice synthesizer. Excerpt from The Age of Spiritual Machines (Viking, 1999), Ray Kurzweil.

6. Flat Bed OCR, Photo Scanners Current scanners offer high resolution photo and bundled OCR software. Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site

7. Sheet Feed, Portable Scanners Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site Flat Bed, Sheet Feed, and Portable Scanners all require book bindings to be guillotined.

8. Camera Scanners Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site Zoom-Ex, Zoom-Twix, and Eye-Pal cameras for people with Visual Disabilities or the Blind.

9. Camera Scanners Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site WYNN and OpenBook camera scanners for people with Print, Learning, Visual Disabilities.

10. WYNN Custom Toolbar Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site Easy to use for scanning, print, copying & importing Web content and various file types. Editing is easy Clean button.

11. WYNN Custom Toolbar Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site New files can be read aloud or magnified. Audio can be exported to MP3 files. Files can also exported to MS Word..