Students have to spend a lot of time essay writing and revising, working with documents and managing lots of text. This can be a challenge. To help, Claro Software created ClaroCapture, a study skills tool that lets you capture text and images from Word, PDF and web pages and organise Read more…
Use Extras Editor to make ClaroRead the launchpad for all your assistive technology! One of the things we hear a lot is that users like having one place to go for their assistive technology: it’s simpler and they can get on with what they want to get done. Another thing Read more…
We’re steadily developing our new ClaroPDF Windows App: now you can choose your preferred text-to-speech voice – male, female, which language and accent. You can also decide how fast it should speak: many people like to slow down voices to take in things more slowly, or speed up voices to Read more…
ClaroRead reads PDF files in Adobe Reader (and Acrobat) and that suits most people very well. However, having our own PDF reader has some advantages: ClaroCapture can capture highlights from it, and we can make it self-voicing so that it can be used in exams or on its own as Read more…
We now have a (basic) dedicated ePub Reader! ePub is an ebook format: in plain English, that means things like Amazon Kindle, or iBooks on iPad, and services like Bookshare all use it for the electronic versions of print books. In theory you can also find .epub files, but in Read more…
Have you ever been given an assignment to write an essay but not known where to start? Starting with a title, a word count, a deadline, and maybe a reading list, you are expected to go away, and put together a clear, well-argued perspective on the issues. Perhaps you are Read more…
ClaroRead 9 is now out! This is the last of our blog posts on new features and changes. We’ve made some tweaks to how ClaroRead 9 works to make it easier for hard-working admins to deploy and use. If you are using multiple languages in ClaroRead you had to use Read more…
ClaroRead 9 for Windows is out now! This is the second of three posts about our new version. Most of our users are in education, but we have many in the workplace, and it’s hard to get away from Microsoft Outlook for your email. In ClaroRead 9 you can now read Read more…
ClaroRead 9 for Windows is out now! This is the first of three posts about our new version. Spellcheck and word prediction are super techniques for helping you get your writing just right, especially where speech recognition isn’t an option. What’s new? Spellcheck and homophone check People with dyslexia find Read more…
The process of taking pictures of absolutely everything has become a very important and popular activity. People are taking pictures to eternalize special moments – and things like last night’s dinner and another picture of their cat – and events they’ve been to. These are then shared on popular social Read more…