[misc.handicap] CBFB_ADDS arkensto.txt

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
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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