Kurzweil 1000

Kurzweil 1000 is a scanning, reading and writing software program for use by people who are blind or visually impaired. 

It works on a personal computer in conjunction with a flatbed scanner and synthetic speech to convert the printed word into speech. 



The latest release of this software features include the ability to retain and display images, the ability to send scanned files to portable notetaking devices, a virtual Kurzweil printer driver that lets you read anything you can print, including PDF files, the ability to create MP3 audio file recordings from scanned documents, and more. 



Kurzweil 1000 incorporates the most accurate optical character recognition (OCR) engines: RTK and FineEngine and synthetic speech in an integrated package that is easy to use for beginners, yet powerful and flexible enough for advanced users. 

1. Kurzweil 1000 includes L&H RealSpeak™ human-sounding synthesized speech as standard, providing you with clear sounding speech.
2. Scan and recognize while reading or editing.
3. Two-page mode for treating two pages scanned together as two separate pages.
4. Rescan and insert scan feature -- useful for those occasions when scanning results are less than perfect, or if you missed a page while scanning a book or other lengthy document. 
5. Scan in background from within other applications such as word processors or spreadsheets.
6. Batch scanning and recognition for braille production.
7. Navigating of Kurzweil 1000 using a 17-button keypad or a standard menu interface.
8. Print your scanned document as a Grade 2 braille file
9. Text Summarization, a utility which allows documents to be shortened into a summary. 
10. Launch feature that lets one load and run other applications without exiting from L&H™ Kurzweil 1000.
11. Editable book-marking feature that lets one remember useful or interesting spots in the text to return to at a later time.
12. Built-in 175,000 word dictionary and thesaurus.
13. Large print settings for users with low vision.
14. Apply Corrections feature that skims through a scanned document correcting common optical character recognition (OCR) errors. 
15. Saving multiple corrections files -- useful for scanning in different languages.
16. Contextual online help and/or the entire user manual is available at the press of the keystroke.