Video Magnification and OCR Systems

This is a new offering from GW Micro/HIMS for our low vision customers. The Desktop SenseView Video Magnifiers come in either the 600 and 700 models, each of which have several configurations. Please read about them at: GW Micro - Desktop SenseView.

Pricing

Desktop SenseView 600 with no monitor:
$1,895.00 plus $50 shipping.
- connects to any LCD computer monitor and is most basic model and only serves as video magnifier.

Desktop SenseView 600 with 19 inch monitor:
$2,495.00 plus $75 shipping.

Desktop SenseView 600 with 22 inch monitor:
$2,795.00 plus $$75 shipping.

Desktop SenseView 700 with no monitor:
$2,395.00 plus $50 shipping.
- connects to LCD computer monitor and has advanced features such as the ability to split the view between the computer and video magnification.

Desktop SenseView 700 with 19 inch monitor:
$2,895.00 plus $75 shipping.

Desktop SenseView 700 with 22 inch monitor:
$3,095.00 plus $75 shipping.

Please call 651-636-5184 for prices, options, and accessories for this product.

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Eye-Pal for Blind and Deaf-Blind

Get up to speed with sighted people: use Eye-Pal to instantly convert printed material to refreshable Braille, speech, or text file. Eye-Pal is a one-pound foldable USB device that is faster than flatbed scanners – it takes only a few seconds from a single keystroke to speech or Braille output. At home or away, even in the dark, Eye-Pal allows you to browse through pile of letters and organize them either as paper or computer files, read bound books, newspapers, or professional magazines and save as text or sound with one click.

Ease of Use for the Blind

Blind users know exactly where to place the material to be scanned because they can touch and feel L-shaped edges. The foldable stand designed for the blind holds a digital camera over the printed matter. The camera is always at the exact distance needed to create a clear image. 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. 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. The saved text can be carried anywhere and used with iPod, key chain memory, CDs and more.

Features

• Instant Scanning.
• Output available as: Speech, Page layout description, Refreshable Braille display, Saved text file.
• Bound books scanning and saving.
• Screen reader.
• Voice support while scanning.

Specification

• Weight: 1 lb.
• Portability/foldability: Yes.
• Size while folded: 4 inches x 17 inches.

Please call 651-636-5184 for prices, options, and accessories for this product.

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Eye-Pal SOLO for all who need assistance with reading

Eye-Pal Solo will read for you on it's own – no other equipment or additional lights are needed, no buttons to push, no manuals to read. Eye-Pal Solo comes ready to use right out of the box. It is a self-contained motion activated reading device that instantly reads from any book or printed material. Just plug it in, place down a book or newspaper and it reads to you! If it is not the page you wanted to read, remove it. Reading will stop immediately - in a fraction of a second. If the phone or doorbell rings, wave your hand near the reading material and it will pause, pass your hand again and it resumes. Can reading be easier than this?

Want to read text on a monitor along with the Eye-Pal Solo? Simply connect the monitor and magnified text will be automatically displayed for you, the spoken words are highlighted.

Need more than just reading? The custom keypad allows saving and restoring pages, reading by word or by sentence, changing voices, customizing how text looks on the monitor, and a lot more.

Please call 651-636-5184 for prices, options, and accessories for this product.

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Eye-Pal SOLO LV for all who need assistance with reading

Having problems reading printed text? What kind of help do you prefer? How about text being read aloud? Or reading magnified text off the screen, lines are wrapped and never run off the screen? Maybe you’d like to listen and follow the text on the screen while spoken words are highlighted? Would you also like to write a check or fill out a form under magnification? Need to change a battery in a hearing aid and do hundred other everyday tasks without stressing your eyes or asking for help? Doesn’t it sound like wishful thinking?

Not Anymore! SOLO LV is a new appliance designed to help people of all ages who have difficulties with reading printed text and need magnification to do daily chores. SOLO LV is the easiest device to use – if you can turn on TV you can start using SOLO right out of the box. No training, no long manuals, it is easy and simple. Want to read a magazine? Place it under the camera and relax. In a few seconds SOLO will start reading to you. And YES, it is true – you do not have to push any buttons or turn any keys. Need a break to answer the phone? Wave your hand from left to right and reading will stop. Time to resume reading? Wave your hand again. SOLO will continue reading the page.

Features

Reader and magnifier in one easy to use device, works with both monitor and TV screen

• One button push to switch from reading to magnification
• Help at your finger tips – push a button, it will tell what it does

Eye-Pal SOLO LV as a reader

• Starts reading automatically
• Understands hand motions to stop and resume reading, and to go back for one sentence
• Fast and accurate
• Displays magnified text on the monitor, pronounced words are highlighted
• Allows to adjust font size and colors
• Navigates text by word or by sentence
• Saves up to four pages

Eye-Pal SOLO LV as a magnifier

• Magnifies in 3 increments up to 12 inch x on 19 inch monitor
• Allows adjusting brightness
• Provides enough space to magnify small things in hands – like hearing aid, syringe, etc.

Portable SenseView: $795.00

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Imagine if you could read a road map, a can of food while shopping in a grocery store, or a menu at a restaurant. With the Portable SenseView CCTV, you can do all of that and more. Are you worried that you are taking the wrong medicine because you are having trouble reading the text on a medicine bottle? Your worries are over.

The Portable SenseView makes life easier, and is simple to use. If you can press a button, you can use the Portable SenseView. The Portable SenseView CCTV is the world's smallest portable CCTV, and is packed with features. The Portable SenseView has a 4.3″ widescreen LCD display, and weighs a mere 7.8 ounces. The powerful magnification of the Portable SenseView is unmatched by any handheld portable CCTV; allowing even very low vision consumers to use the Portable SenseView. While other handheld portable CCTVs are limited to a maximum of 7x magnification, the Portable SenseView can digitally zoom in and out on an image with the simple press of a button from 4x all the way up to 22.5x. The Portable SenseView also offers four brightness levels and 6 different color modes for easy viewing. You can read print in color, black and white, or with one of the other 4 color choices.

With two foldable legs, the Portable SenseView provides multiple viewing configurations. The legs can be unfolded one at a time to tilt the screen toward you to making for a more comfortable reading position. The Portable SenseView even allows you to take a snapshot of the image displayed on the screen.

You can hold the unit close to your face, and zoom in on the image for an even closer view. Not only is the Portable SenseView the world's smallest portable CCTV, it also has one of the longest battery lives. While other portables only give you 1 to 4 hours worth of battery, the Portable SenseView provides you with an amazing 5 hours of continuous use. If you want to know when to recharge the battery, simply turn on the battery meter, and find out how much power you have left. No more guessing how much power is left, and no more worrying about the battery going dead while at the store or restaurant.

Optional riting attachment available soon.

Purchase online: Portable SenseView

Portable SenseView Duo: $995.00

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SenseView Duo combines a distance camera and a close-up & handwriting camera in one device. You don't have to carry many kinds of portable magnifiers for specific purposes. Use the SenseView Duo at home, school, while shopping, or out on the town.

Clear contrast image

Clear and high contrast image.

Easy handwriting

You can easily use handwriting functionz without additional devices.

Distance Viewing

View objects in the distance such as street signs or classroom chalk boards.

Dual camera

The SenseView Duo includes a close-up camera for reading and handwriting, in addition to a distance camera for objects 8 feet or further away.

Image storing

Store up to 20 images.

Various Magnification Rates

Minimum of 3x, maximum of 12x.

Camera light on/off

Camera light can be off for lighted objects such as ATM and computer screens.

Convenient screen interface

Menu and panning key for data management and battery level.

Image Panning

Still and stored images can be magnified and panned for a clearer view.

Technical Specifications

• LCD : 4.3 inches wide.
• Magnification : 3x ˜ 12x (close-up camera).
• Image storing : capture and storing up to 20 pcs.
• color mode : full color, black/white, white/black, yellow/blue, yellow/black, blue/white.
• brightness : 4 levels for the brightness.
• Battery : Lithium Polymer (rechargeable) 4.5 hours continuous use.
• Size : 7 inches (W) x 3 inches (D) x 1.1 inches (H).
• Weight : 0.57 lbs.

Specifications are subject to change without prior notice.

Purchase online: Portable SenseView Duo

Portable SenseView Light: $595.00

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The SenseView Light is one of the smallest portable CCTVs available on the market, allowing you to easily carry it with you wherever you go.

New Technology

The SenseView Light uses a new technology never before used in portable CCTVs. While the screen of the SenseView Light is a 3.4 inch flat screen, it does not use an LCD screen. Instead, it uses the new Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) technology for the screen. This means that the screen is brighter with true black, and unsurpassed color. It also means that it has an unlimited viewing angle, so you can look at the screen on the SenseView Light from any direction, and be able to easily see what is on the screen. This is one of the biggest advancements in portable CCTV technology history.

Easy to Use

The SenseView Light is extremely easy to use. The camera is located in the center, and it incorporates near-distance technology, which means you can hold the unit over top of what you are looking at, instead of having to put it directly on to the surface of what you are looking at. This makes using the SenseView Light as easy as using a magnifying glass.

Magnification, Color, and Brightness Options

Magnify images from 1.5x up to 10.5x with just the press of a button. Choose from several different color modes, including full color, black and white, enhanced black and white, white on black, and enhanced white on black. These color options make the SenseView Light perfect for customers with retinal degenerative diseases, such as macular degeneration.

For customers with eyes that are very light sensitive, you can adjust the brightness of the screen, as well as the brightness of the LED lights located on the bottom of the unit.

Snapshot - Make Things Easier to See

Do you have trouble seeing price tags in the grocery store? Use the snapshot feature on the SenseView Light to take a snapshot of a hard-to-see price tag on the shelf, and then bring the SenseView Light close to your eyes for simple and easy viewing.

Zoom-Ex: $2,395.00

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A small accessory that converts your computer into a powerful magnifier and the fastest reader.

Place the book under Zoom-Ex - One key stroke - You are reading or listening within 5 seconds.

Weighs only 1 lb, folds like an umbrella and fits in a small laptop bag.

• Versatile - All functions may be controlled by KEYBOARD or MOUSE.
• On Screen Formatted Text in the size and color you need, automatically word wrapped to fit your monitor at all times—no need for an X-Y table.
• Fast and accurate large print - document creation for printing.
• Fast and automatic capture of a single page or an entire book. Up to 24 pages per minute.
• Intelligent ZoomAbility means you can view a picture on a page while listening to the surrounding text being read to you.

Zoom-Twix: $3,495.00

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Zoom-Twix is A Tiny Accessory that uses two cameras at the same time.

ZoomTwix brings the usefulness of a near and distance viewing auto focus 360° swivel CCTV camera to the Zoom-Ex system.

• Scan and Format documents and books.
• View distant objects, presentations and classroom whiteboard notes.
• Zoom from the keyboard.
• Listen to your document as it is read to you.
• No external battery is needed.
• Quickly switch between viewing formatted text and distant objects.
• Two pound two camera solution.

Zoom-Twix uses two cameras at the same time:

Zoom-Frog Video Camera

- An all-purpose auto-focus optical zoom color camera for 360° viewing at any distance.

Zoom-Ex Still Camera

- A high-resolution digital camera that takes a snapshot of text for easy onscreen reading at up to 40x magnification.