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OpenBook 6.0

by Brenda O'Sail

Help-F1 or Numpad minus Open book has an excellent help file which includes all these keyboard commands and step by step instructions. Context-sensitive help is Shift + minus or Shift + F1.

Scanning

Position paper on the glass plate of the scanner.

• Adapt by placing piece of Velcro or spot of puff paint in the corner
• Feel for print
• OpenBook announces orientation information

Activate OpenBook scanning software

• Ctrl+Alt+O

Scan document

• Numpad insert or F4 or spacebar (toggles to cancel scan)

Book Scanning

Two pages of an open book can be scanned together if they both fit on the glass. Scanning will need to be set to two-page mode.

• Enter the scan menu with Alt + S
• Arrow to 2-page scanning and strike the spacebar or move directly by striking the number 2 on the keypad.

Reading Document

Continuous Reading

• Numpad enter or F10 or F12

Move by line

• Down-Numpad 2 or down arrow
• Up-Numpad 8 or up arrow

Move by word

• Current word-Numpad 5 or F3 (toggles to spell word and spell word phonetically)
• Forward a word-Numpad 6 or right arrow
• Back a word-Numpad 4 or left arrow

Move by page

• Page up or page down
• Home-top of document or End-bottom of document

Adjust reading speed

• Faster-Numpad * or Ctrl+2
• Slower-Shift + Numpad * or Ctrl+1

Special Features

• Activate dictionary-Ctrl+D or F8
• Activate thesaurus-Ctrl+T or Shift + F8
• Edit mode-Ctrl+E (toggles between read and edit modes)
• Buck Scan-Ctrl+M

Delete a scanned page with Ctrl+delete

Saving Scanned Documents

Open file menu with Alt+F. Arrow down to Save as or type a to move directly to the Save as option.

Name your file, select file format, select location to be saved, then strike Enter to save the file.

The Save as box opens with the cursor in the "name file" box, ready for you to name the file. You can type in the location before the file name (a:\notes) then strike Enter to save.  This is an easy method when saving to disk but can become complicated if saving to folders on the hard drive.

You can move around the dialog box by striking Tab to move forward or Shift + Tab to move back. The arrow keys will move you through choices in list boxes or combo boxes or you can strike the first letter of what you want. The space bar will select a file choice in the list control box. Holding the Alt key down and striking the underlined letter will move you directly to an option. Striking Enter at anytime will save the file as defined.

Settings Menu Quick Keys

Alt + G to go to settings menu then arrow down to choice and strike Enter or type:

• G for general settings
• P for voice settings
• V for visual settings
• C for scan settings

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Last Revision: November 4, 2002