Eye-Pal

Eye-Pal will instantly convert printed material to refreshable Braille, speech, or text. The Eye-Pal is a one-pound foldable USB device that is faster and more accurate than traditional applications that use a flatbed scanner – it takes only a few seconds from a single keystroke to speech or Braille output. Eye-Pal’s patented motion detector allows scanning a bound book at 20 pages per minute. You turn a page over; wait half a second for the shutter sound, turn again and again, it’s that easy.

Eye-Pal: Converts print into speech and Braille for deaf blind

Eye-Pal Tutorials

Faster than a flatbed scanner and weighing in at just 1lb, Eye-Pal is an extremely portable USB scanner that instantly converts printed material into speech, text files or refreshable Braille. Eye-Pal may be used with the most popular braille displays from Freedom Scientific, Optelec, and Handytech.

Eye-Pal’s Intelligent Design & Engineering: It Doesn’t Get Much Easier Than This.

We designed simplicity and ease of use into all facets of this instant scanner. Eye-Pal has two lightweight legs pivot into a L-shaped position from their compact carrying position. The L-shape configuration securely supports the Eye-Pal, assures that its scanning camera is always at the exact distance to obtain a crystal clear image and serves as a tactile guide for blind users to precisely position the material to be scanned. No camera focus adjustments are ever necessary.

The Eye-Pal Works Fast To Push Your Productivity Up

At home and at the office, even in the dark, Eye-Pal allows you to quickly browse through piles of letters and organize them either as paper or computer files. With Eye-Pal you can read bound books, newspapers, professional magazines and even instructions on the frozen dinner box. Listen to our Human-Like Synthetic Voices Kate | Paul

Save text as MS document for future editing. With the press of a single key, Eye-Pal will describe a page layout as a sighted person sees it. You can instantly read text placed under the camera using one of the most popular braille displays from Freedom Scientific, Optelec, and Handytech.

Eye-Pal’s patented motion detector can scan up to 20 pages per minute in a bound book. Just turn a page in your book and wait for the shutter sound. After you hear the shutter sound turn the page again. It's that easy. With a single keystroke you can easily start and stop scanning or reading or get the description of the page layout spoken as a sighted reader sees it. Click here to view the demonstration and see more details.

Bring your saved audio with you anywhere by uploading it on to your iPod, or key chain memory, and burning it onto CDs and more.

Less is more. Eye-Pal’s intelligent design aligns your text.

Minimum System Requirements

An IBM compatible personal computer
2 GHz Pentium or equivalent AMD processor
1 GB RAM Memory
1 GB free space on Hard Drive
High Speed USB 2.0 port
Microsoft Windows® XP, Vista (32 and 64 bit), Windows 7