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Making Documents Accessible

OrbitNote allows students and educators to interact with PDF files. Users can access speech to text, text to speech, highlighting and drawing tools, and more.

OrbitNote includes an OCR scanner and converter. It will automatically check your document to ensure it is readable and can be used with the OrbitNote features.

Many of the OrbitNote tools are the same as tools you may know from Read&Write. All of these and more are demonstrated in the videos below.

Convert Your Text

A few simple steps will change an "unreadable" file into one that can used in OrbitNote.

Making Documents Accessible - Splitting PDFs.pdf

Splitting a PDF

Use OrbitNote Dashboard or Adobe Acrobat Reader to split a larger PDF into manageable chunks for students.

Text to Speech

Text to speech tools used to listen to text on the page, either in a pre-created text, or as playback to review student writing.

Screenshot Reader

Allows any text on the screen to be selected and read aloud.

Text Tool

Add text to your PDF - includes speech to text and word prediction tools.

Adjust the Settings

Dictionary/Picture Dictionary

Dictionary gives definitions and picture dictionary shows a picture or symbol to explain the word.

Freehand Drawing

Vocabulary List

Build a list of highlighted words, definitions and picture definitions in a Google Doc.

Highlight Tools

Highlight words or phrases and then collect them into a Google Doc.

Screenmask

Blocks distractions while you read by highlighting a small band of text.

Translate

Translates single words into another language.

Full Tutorial

Google Classroom Integration

Share PDFs with your students through Google Classroom with a few easy steps.

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