robertj@tekgen.bv.tek.com (Robert Jaquiss) (05/11/91)
Index Number: 15485 Here is the latest Arkenstone Reader brochure. In the first few months of 1991, Arkenstone has released their new ArkScan 2.0 software, announced the HOT Reader, the fastest reading system available, and had another price cut on the E/AT Plus system, Arkenstone's best selling Reader. The new software offers many new features as requested by our users, including four-way automatic orientation analysis and quick speech. To get access to print documents not already available in accessible form, we think Arkenstone offers the best system and the best prices! Give us a call at 1-800-444-4443 to get a demonstration of the Reader reading your documents. Jim Fruchterman --- The Arkenstone Reader with TrueScan You can now acquire the most advanced reading product available, for significantly less than comparable systems. With the Arkenstone Reader, you will have: - The ability to read almost any machine printed text: books, magazines, manuals, memos, your mail and many other documents - The ability to read whatever you want, whenever you want to read - The ability to read the material you need to read for work, home or school The Arkenstone Reader is a tool for your PC/AT or PS/2 MCA computer that gives you equal access to information in its predominate form: paper documents. The Arkenstone Reader is: - Accurate - Flexible - Easy to Use - Affordable The Arkenstone Reader has the highest accuracy recognition technology available today: the TrueScan scanner recognition card from Calera Recognition Systems. TrueScan gives you the capability to read the broadest range of real world documents (no recognition product can read everything, be sure to try your documents on the Reader). Arkenstone provides additional software and documentation that customizes the Reader for the visually impaired user. Flexibility is a chief design goal for the Arkenstone Reader. We give you the power to choose your own personal computer, speech synthesizer, braille display or printer, application software and image scanner. We will provide some recommended configurations, but we want to ensure that you can choose the system that matches your needs and budget. If you already own a PC-AT, PS/2 MCA or compatible, we want to make the Reader work in your existing environment. You can even attach an automatic document feeder to the scanner to automatically scan in many pages. Institutions can use the Reader to create Braille versions of publications with a fifth or less of the effort formerly required to enter them manually. The Reader comes with EasyScan. To start reading a document using EasyScan, just press the space bar on your keyboard. You can quickly browse through a document, reading at your leisure. EasyScan supports output to the most popular braille printers and screen access programs. Finally, the Arkenstone Reader offers you capabilities that formerly cost three or more times as much. We feel we have pushed the Reader to the point of being affordable to the individual user. Best of all, the Arkenstone Reader is available now! What does the Reader do? The Reader has an electronic computer board that plugs into your PC-AT (or 286/386 AT clone or IBM PS/2 MCA system) and gives it the ability to convert images scanned by an image scanner into text information. This information is typically transferred to your PC as a file: either in ASCII or in more than forty available PC application formats, such as WordPerfect, Microsoft Word or Lotus 1-2-3. Once it is on your computer, there are many fine products designed to put the information out the way you like it. Most users use a voice synthesizer product to speak the text aloud. You can also use a Braille display or printer. How much does the Reader cost you? Through special arrangements with Calera and Hewlett Packard, we are able to make the Reader available for considerably less than the commercial price of the commercial products which make up the Reader. The basic system includes the Hewlett Packard ScanJet and the PLUS systems include the Hewlett Packard ScanJet Plus (U.S. scanner models). ARKENSTONE READER PRICES Commercial Arkenstone List Price List Price Arkenstone Reader Model S/AT* $ 3,885 $ 2,495 Arkenstone Reader Model E/AT* $ 5,785 $ 3,695 Arkenstone Reader Model E/MCA* $ 5,785 $ 3,695 Arkenstone Reader Model S/AT PLUS $ 3,985 $ 2,840 Arkenstone Reader Model E/AT PLUS $ 5,885 $ 3,845 Arkenstone HOT Reader Model AT PLUS $ 8,485 $ 4,495 Arkenstone Reader Model E/MCA PLUS $ 5,885 $ 3,845 HP ScanJet ADF* (30 sheet feeder) $ 595 $ 395 HP ScanJet Plus ADF (30 sheet feeder) $ 595 $ 495 * Limited quantities available, please contact your dealer. Arkenstone Reader components are available separately, contact your dealer for details and prices. These prices are available through our dealers only to individuals who are visually or reading impaired or to institutions serving such individuals. The HP ScanJet products being offered are brand new and purchased directly from HP. The Reader has a one year warranty. We have an international network of dealers who will deliver and support your reading system. Call us to find out more about our new ability to read French, German and other european languages. We hope that we have convinced you that Arkenstone Reader has the potential to be a major equalizer, giving you the power of independent access to information. We back up our belief that the Reader is the best reading product available by giving you a thirty day money back guarantee. This ensures that the Reader will work on your documents, the ones you need to read. Arkenstone was founded as a non-profit organization to make reading technology as accessible as possible to the people who need it. Talk to one of our users about how the Reader has helped them. Please call us with your questions and for the name of your local dealer for a personal demonstration. Arkenstone is in existence to help you read easily! ARKENSTONE, INC. 1185 BORDEAUX DRIVE, SUITE D SUNNYVALE, CA 94089 TEL: (800) 444-4443 (408) 752-2200 FAX: (408) 745-6739