By Claro Software Limited

Use Claro ScanPen to read your printed text for you.

App is designed for both iPhone, iTouch and iPad

App Costs €6.99

Category: Education

Updated 04 August 2017

Size 119MB

Works with 21 Languages:

English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese

Use the Claro ScanPen Reader to carry out ‘Text to Speech’ on:

• Printed text books
• Handouts
• Printed presentations
• Newspapers
• Letters
• Workbooks
• Exam papers
• Instructions
• Signs

Great for independent access to learning.

Claro ScanPen Reader does not need an internet connection.

It does not have any reference material like dictionary or thesaurus, so is perfect to use as a read aloud tool under exam and test conditions, helping students who cannot read text very well (e.g. students with dyslexia) to listen to the exam test paper questions and information.

Download the App from the iOS App store

Tap on the App icon on the home screen to open the App

The first time you open the app you will be asked if the app can access the Camera. Tap OK

The camera will turn on automatically. 

You must take a photo of the text you want the app to read.

The clearer the photo the better the text to speech.

ScanPen Reader will perform OCR* to allow it to identify the words.

You must wait for the tick to appear.

*Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is a technology that enables you to convert different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files or images captured by a digital camera into editable and searchable data.

With your finger or stylus select the text you want to hear read out.

Tap, hold and drag your finger from just above the first word until after the last word.

Lift your finger, and the Claro ScanPen app will perform ‘text to speech’.

Lift your finger and the text will be spoken immediately.

Tap the screen if you want to stop the audio.

Tap on Settings wheel to change speed voice and activate advanced settings.

You can change the speed in which the text is spoken by tap, hold and drag the slider.

You can change the voice and select between a word or line selection.

You can also change the highlight colour to support those affected by visual stress and have identified a colour overlay that works for them.

Turn on the advanced settings from the settings screen to access the advanced features; multi-image, image edit, copy text, show share button.

The share button lets you export your image to other apps, email and other destinations.

You must first allow Claro ScanPen to access your photos and tap OK

Selected text can be copied to the clipboard once it has been enabled in the advanced setting. Open up any text editor tap, hold and select Paste