Readit 5.5.1

System requirements

• OS: Windows 10 or later
• Processor: Intel Haswell 4400 or later
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Graphics: DirectX 11.0 or greater
• 2 GB available disk space, plus 2 GB per voice pack

Known issues

• Scholar HD may disconnect from USB if connected shortly after turning it on
• Scholar HD may, on rare occasions, capture a still image with a visual tear
• Inter-character spacing adjustment is disabled
• Subscript/superscripts are rendered as normal text in layout visualizations
• Page straightening is disabled when only Asian languages are enabled
• Single language detection does not detect Greek and Cyrillic scripts
• Screen magnifier support is disabled
• Air Camera v3 has incorrect hue if the software is started while camera is in the closed position
• Overview is disabled for virtual X/Y and image/overlay visualisations

Bug fixes

Version 5.5.1 (2023-09-11)

• Fix import dialog to allow selecting docx files
• Fix loading documents with annotations
• Fix colour combination option display
• Improve canceling operations in the pages dialog

New features

Version 5.5 (2023-08-21)

• Improved page split success rate
• Improved sentence & paragraph detection
• Improved language detection
• Allow additional languages to be enabled concurrently
• Allow Arabic and Thai OCR
• Signed installer
• Improve joystick calibration feedback
• Improved enhanced grayscale in live view
• Allow canceling multiple append/import from file
• Show word images when holding V

Version 5.4 (2023-03-03)

• Improved announcements and settings
  • Speak controls on mouse-enter
  • Detailed announcement settings
• Optional speech emphasis for stylized text
• Validate recognition language combinations
• Allow resetting import/export preferences
• Support Readit Zen MAX camera
• Add power line frequency setting
• Add camera resolution setting
• Document file size and performance improvements

Version 5.3 (2022-07-28)

• Import via virtual printer
• Paste to append/import
• Drag and drop to append/import
• Screenshot recognition
• Allow stopping all speech with Control key
• Allow open/show in folder on export
• Allow filtering low confidence text
• Improved page straightening
• Improved crop to document
• Support Readit Zen cameras
• Require Windows 10 2004

Version 5.2 (2022-02-22)

• Crop to document on import and capture (improves recognition accuracy and performance)
• Faster Microsoft Word, PDF and Rich Text Format export
• Optional export format retention
• Support for Readit wireless keypad v2
• Improved highlighting and boundary rendering
• Original image visible in visualizations
• Improved rendering performance

Version 5.1 (2021-09-30)

• On-line update check
• On-line error reporting
• Improved rendering performance
• Improved scanner compatibility

Version 5.0 (2021-07-31)

• Update to OmniPage CSDK 21
• Hardware accelerated rendering
• Improved high-DPI support
• Improved visualizations
• Improved video enhancement
• Improved performance
  • Faster document processing
  • Faster speech processing
• Improved video quality for Readit Scholar HD
• Supports larger documents
• Allow virtual X/Y with optical zoom cameras

Version 4.0 (2015-07-09)

• Update to OmniPage CSDK 19
• Allow page straightening for Asian languages

Version 3.6 (2015-02-13)

• Add single language detection
• Pause at line breaks in addresses
• Read Roman numerals as numbers
• Provide audio feedback when loading/saving large documents

Version 3.5 (2014-10-31)

• Support for Wand Live

Version 3.4 (2013-09-02)

• Support for Scholar HD
• Automatic camera targets
• Camera target profiles
• Accessible folder browser dialog
• Export/save multiple images

Version 3.3 (2013-07-03)

• Update camera support

Version 3.2 (2013-01-29)

• Support for WIA scanners
• Support extended phonetic letters
• Performance improvements to document view
• Allow splitting multiple pages in pages dialog

Version 3.1 (2012-07-26)

• Crop to text
• Pause on line breaks
• Pause on em dash
• Configurable word spacing in layout visualizations
• Configurable character spacing in layout visualizations
• Horizontal scrolling with shift and mouse wheel
• Original page orientation available in page information dialog
• Support for Readit 3.0 keypad

Version 3.0 (2012-06-12)

• Improved OCR accuracy (CSDK 18.1)
• Improved pronunciation
• Added facility to copy text to the clipboard
• Ability to speak punctuations
• Ability to look up words in a dictionary (English only)
• Customizable scroll bar size
• Add facility to make annotations
• Add new verbosity level (Very High – speaks control types)
• Added “Quick Export” facility to export and open documents in other formats
• Added informational dialogs for:
  • Document
  • Page
  • Position
• Added facility to provide customizable replacements for pronunciations

Version 2.4 (2012-01-25)

• On-line license activation
• Warn about temporary and invalid licenses on start up
• Warn about no voice packs being installed on start up
• Recent documents menu
• Ability to rotate virtual X/Y view
• Enhanced grayscale colour mode
• Accessibility improvements handling tables in dialogs
• Performance improvements to document handling
• Support for ZoomText 10
• Improved quality of images imported from text format documents
• Support different localizations for rebranded builds
• Discontinued Scorpius keypad support
• Removed “Fast Recognition” option
• New keyboard accelerators
  • Cycle open documents (Ctrl+Tab)
  • Delete current page (Delete)
  • Go to beginning of document (Ctrl+Home)
  • Go to end of document (Ctrl+End)

Version 2.3 (2011-06-09)

• Support for Readit Wand
• Selectable layout analysis accuracy
• Typeface selection and matching
• Font style matching
• Use anti-aliasing for font rendering
• Ability to reset contrast/saturation/threshold
• Scroll wheel scrolls document, control and scroll wheel zooms

Version 2.2 (2011-03-18)

• Improved progress dialog
• Custom file dialogs
• Scroll bars
• Hyphenation of long words on layout visualisations
• Phonetic letter and word navigation
• Progress announcements when viewing unrecognised pages
• Persistent colour modes and saturation/contrast/threshold
• Press and hold to zoom on toolbar

Version 2.1 (2011-01-10)

• Support for Readit, Readit PC and Readit Scholar
• Toolbar
• Go to page dialog
• Ability to manually rotate pages
• Improved multi-language recognition
• Improved overlay view
• Image saturation control
• Variable line spacing
• Support for Dolphin SuperNova 12
• Various performance improvements