MagniLink ChromeViewer - Portable Digital Magnifier for Low Vision & Reading Assistance | Ideal for Books, Newspapers, and Small Print at Home or Office

MagniLink ChromeViewer is an innovative software for Chromebook that is used to display the image from a MagniLink reading camera system. The software controls the reading camera's features, such as magnification, artificial colours and brightness, and provides the user with the facility to make individual adjustments for the best possible experience.

 

Features

• Different colour and brightness settings, e.g. natural and artificial colours.
• Different levels of magnification.
• Lockable autofocus.
• Take and view pictures.
• Record and view videos.
• Mirror, rotate and freeze pictures.
• Automatic updates (requires Internet).
• Various guiding lines to facilitate reading.
• Different ways to control functions. Either via menus, keyboard shortcuts or buttons on the reading camera's control panel.
• Configuration of individual shortcuts.
• Camera image positioned at top/front of all open applications.
• Select several active split modes and switch between them.
• Select OCR to get your text read alud.

MagniLink ChromeViewer is designed for Chromebooks and is easily downloaded from Chrome Web Store. 

 

Option OCR

To your software you can choose an option that allows you to OCR-process a text and get it read aloud. This gives a more relaxed reading, increases reading speed and you will also be able to read longer texts. To access OCR for MagniLink ChromeViewer^TM you make an in-app purchase in the MagniLink ChromeViewer app. The OCR feature is then connected to the Google Account used for the purchase. This means that you can use ChromeViewer and the OCR function at any Chromebook. 

See video about the in-app purchase:

The OCR-processed text is read by Google´s built-in reading program, ChromeVox. With ChromeVox running, you can step through all your OCR-processed documents and you can navigate row by line, word for word or letter by letter.

 

See video about the OCR function:

Recommended system requirements:

• 1 integrated USB 3.0-port
• Intel i5 processor
• 4 GB RAM

 
LVI has tested the software on a number of Intel-based Chromebooks without problems, but there is no guarantee that the system will work with all Chromebooks.

There is similar software, although not with exactly the same functionality, for PC and Mac respectively. When and MagniLink Pro are purchased, the software is included. The software can be purchased as an option for many of LVI's other reading cameras.