EasyConverter is designed for use in schools, colleges, universities and organisations. EasyConverter is simple to use for those with no altformat creation experience, and is equally suited to experienced professionals looking for a single flexible high quality altformat creation tool to meet the needs of dyslexic, visually impaired and learning disabled students.

Key Benefits:

• Offering students the formats of their preference ensures that you meet the growing legislation on inclusion.
  
• Popular materials can be stored for future years and simply converted to specifically meet the needs of new students in their preferred format.
  
• Why not make EasyConverter available in your library and let students scan their crucial library books, output to MP3 and walk away listening in the format that suits them and their lifestyle?
  
• Significant time saving benefits allow you the tutor to concentrate on teaching the curriculum.
  
• EasyConverter ensures that you remain adaptable, and able to convert from a wide range of file formats including printed handouts to downloaded PDFs, Word files and html documents.
  
• Create the average textbook in 90 seconds, compared to a lengthy 2 hours when narrating onto audio tape.
  
• EasyConverter ensures that students ‘Choice’ remains top of the agenda, by offering a range of natural sounding synthsisers, the large print size of preference and the option to add audio descriptions and information for otherwise inaccessible graphics and diagrams.
  
• Improve disabled students success rates, by not only ensuring they receive their learning materials in their preferred format, but that they receive them when their peers receive their print version and not after.
  
• EasyConverter ensures you able to cater for a broad spectrum of accessibility needs via DAISY, MP3, Braille, large print and plain text.
  
• Experienced altformat professionals can quickly create their same high quality learning materials, but retain the flexibility to edit their work to suit specific materials or students needs.
  
• A logical and easy to use interface offers a simple learning curve for novice users that wish to concentrate on the needs of their students and not on mastering new software.
  
• Midway through a Large Print maths handout? EasyConverter is designed for busy staff with hectic timetables, as it allows you to store you work and return at you convenience.
  
• Intuitive to use, EasyConverter has been designed with the expert input of experienced altformat creation professionals that ensures it exceeds the expectations of all education professionals
  
• Non Braille readers can quickly and confidently create high quality grade 2 Braille with ease.
  
• Your alformat learning materials can be shared on the network or internet, burnt to CD, sent to an MP3 player or sent to the Braille embosser or printer.

Full Technical Specification:

EasyConverter quickly & easily converts documents from…

• Word Documents
  
• Adobe PDFs
  
• HTML
  
• Text
  
• Scanned paper
  

EasyConverter can generate the following ‘Altformats’

• DAISY
  
• MP3
  
• Large Print
  
• Braille
  
• Text
  

Your newly generated altformat materials can be…

• Saved to a folder
  
• Burnt to CD
  
• Copied to MP3 player unit
  
• Printed (large print, Braille)
  
• Preview in the new formats associated application

Minimum System Requirements:

Windows

OS Compatibility:

• Microsoft Windows 2000
  
• Microsoft Windows Vista
  
• Microsoft Windows XP Home
  
• Microsoft Windows XP Pro

Minimum System Requirements:

• Pentium III 700 MHz or equivalent.
  
• 256 MB RAM
  
• Microsoft Windows 2000 SP2, Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1, Microsoft XML 4 (if not already present on the system, this will be installed as part of the Dolphin EasyConverter installation).

Recommended System Requirements:

• Pentium IV 2Ghz or equivalent.
  
• 512Mb or higher.
  
• 500Mb Free hard disk space
  
• Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Microsoft Word 2003, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, Microsoft XML 4 (if not already present on the system, this will be installed as part of the Dolphin EasyConverter installation).

Supported systems:

• Microsoft Office Word: 2000, XP (2002), 2003 or 2007

Optional extras:

• Scanner: a TWAIN compatible scanner will enable the input of printed documentation.
  
• SAPI 5 compliant TTS synthesiser: a software text-to-speech synthesiser that will allow for the automated recording of text into an MP3 format. Dolphin EasyConverter will install a compatible TTS as part of the installation process.
  
• Braille translator program: software to convert text to Braille.
  
• Braille embosser: hardware device to print Braille documents.
  
• Printer: hardware device to print large print documents.
  

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