A Pen That Reads to You Any Book or Printed Document

Scanmarker Reader

Empower your ability to read, understand and learn anywhere by using Scanmarker Reader. With a Chrome-based application build up your word recognition by viewing the highlighted words as it is reading.
Improve decoding and phonological processing by reading selected words and develop automaticity and fluency skills.

• Scanmarker Reader is the ultimate pen reader, portable, lightweight and convenient – connect easily to all your devices via Bluetooth.
• Edit, read aloud in real-time through our web application and translate on computers, smartphones, and tablets in more than 70 languages.
• Identify students at risk of reading failure and give them true independence.
• Gain and improve decoding and reading comprehension skills together with fluency in more than 70 languages.
• Add value to one-on-one tutoring and add significant gains in phonemic awareness, rapid naming, and phonological memory after start using the Scanmarker Reader Assistive Pen reader.
• Scanmarker Reader supports in addition to Mac,Win, Android and iOS also Chromebook! 
• Scanning to an external application will be available on mobiles as well very soon (in the coming April or even earlier).
• Although not required, the ruler helps focus on the line of interest and then supports the easy movement of the scanner along the text line. 

Features Include:

Bluetooth connection to any device- PC/Mac, tablet, smartphone

Choose reading speed, reading voice, word spacing, font size and more

Reads and translates to over 70 languages!

Full multi-lingual dictionary!

Benefits:

• Features of Assistive Learning – Scanmarker pen reader facilitates a clearer understanding of the scanned material. It enhances comprehension, reading ability, self-confidence, helping in the learning process, and ultimately empowers to achieve academic success.
• Integrated Text to Speech – Provide your students and faculty with an alternative to improve oral language skills with the text to speech feature that improves the ability to learn to read and spell using the sounds of the language.
• Integrated external – Scanmarker application allows users scanning to external documents when using Windows,MacOS, not mobile devices.
  Polish reading and writing in real-time in MS Word, PowerPoint, and other supported desktop applications.
• Speed Reading – Help your students with our speed reading feature to develop essential reading and writing skills, reinforce reading habits, and improve their speed of processing information.

Also included:

The Scanmarker Reading Ruler (Patent Pending). To improve reading comfort and speed.

Their newly designed reading ruler helps the reader follow along the lines of text and stay focused on the material they are scanning or reading. It improves tracking, comprehension and retention of the material. It also boosts reading fluency and promotes reading independence.

Here are some of the feedbacks from the people that have used the Scanmarker Reader

“The scan results are very accurate compared to other products”
“It can be used continuously for several days without the need to recharge frequently”
“The scanner can be held at a very wide range of angles (relative to others) for the convenience of the user”
“No need to scan slowly to get good results. The Reader facilitates fast and natural scanning”
“The ruler included in the kit helps, among other things, to scan the texts accurately without going out of line.”
“Allows multiple users to use the same scanner, each with their own username and password”
“It also allows left-handed users to scan naturally (right to left)”
“Users get full control over screen visibility and reading settings so the user experience is customized according to their individual needs”

The Scanmarker Reader Web App

To improve independent reading skills for people with reading difficulties. Their proprietary web app trains people with reading difficulties to read independently even without the scanner. For training purposes, you can have every word that you scan highlighted, read at faster or slower speeds, with different voices, and you can also change font sizes, colors and more. This method has been proven to improve independent reading skills in all ages.

Improve Oral language skills The Read Live feature improve oral language skills included for adapting the speed of reading to suit the individual preference helps in developing vocabulary and improve the level of higher-level language skills. Although students with dyslexia usually have strong higher-level language skills, they typically have problems (a deficit) in low-level language skills (see the following section “Phonological processing”). This deficit limits the ability to learn to read and spell using the sounds of the language.

Helps with Phonological processing. Users with dyslexia often have a slow speed of processing information (visual or auditory.
The Reading Speed feature implemented it helps in improve this skill.

Reading comprehension The editing features and learning mode typically will help users with dyslexia on reading comprehension both visually and as on listening comprehension.

More than 70 language capabilities in scanning and translating Regardless of whether your goal is to learn to read, study a new language, boost overall efficiency with the best help for reading disabilities. Our models have different features, and more than 70 language capabilities and meet very high demands, both on hardware and software.

What skills I can improve with Scanmarker Reader

• Oral language skills with Read Selected feature.
• Word recognition with the Read Live feature.
• Decoding with the dictionary feature.
• Phonological processing adjusting text spacing on lines, words and letters level.
• Automaticity/fluency skills with Speed Reading feature.
• Reading comprehension with the Read Live Voice adjusting feature.
• Vocabulary knowledge with Dictionary feature