All our Windows products, including ClaroRead, Scan2Text, ScreenRuler and ClaroCapture.
Writing essays is a tricky skill to master, and not many of us come into the process without needing to experience it first hand, and develop the skill ourselves. Whilst every essay is different in content, structure, tone, audience and the themes it explores, the creation of every essay can Read more…
Video tutorials of how to use different features in ClaroRead Windows. ClaroRead lets you save the text from the Word documents, Adobe PDF files and text from any application selected and copied to the Windows clipboard to audio (sound) files. In Microsoft Word, you can use ClaroRead to check for Read more…
Video tutorials of how to use different features in ScreenRuler. The ScreenRuler allows you to add a coloured underline to your active screen, helping you to stay on the line you’re trying to read and concentrate on.
If the ScreenRuler splash screen remains on the screen when ScreenRuler is launched, use the following procedure to reset the settings for ScreenRuler.
When the ClaroView overlay does not cover the whole screen, e.g. maybe only a small area top left of the screen is tinted, follow the procedure below to reset the settings for ClaroView.
ScreenRuler Windows help files and user guides UK English ScreenRuler V3: Help File ScreenRuler V1: Help File Czech ScreenRuler V3: Help File Danish ScreenRuler V3: Help File German ScreenRuler V3: Help File Spanish ScreenRuler V3: Help File French ScreenRuler V3: Help File Italian ScreenRuler V3: Help File Dutch ScreenRuler V3: Read more…
If after opening ClaroRead you encounter a toolbar with no icons, here’s a guide on how to fix it. This problem usually happens when the bit depth of your computer is too low (6bpc or lower). To check this, type “View Advanced Display info” in the Windows search bar and Read more…
Video tutorials of how to use different features in Claro Writing Helper Windows.
(more…)The ClaroRead Edge Extension sits in your Microsoft Edge web browser. It lets you speak web pages, PDFs and Google Docs on Windows.
(more…)ClaroRead has a number of features that can help you to use Nuance’s Dragon speech recognition software (formerly called Dragon NaturallySpeaking).
(more…)Our licence key (or license key) versions of ClaroRead require a licence key before they will run. This is time-consuming to install by hand across many machines. (more…)
Versions of platforms we support with our software.
If you need to move your Claro software from one computer to another, follow the procedure below to release your licence key:
Latest release: Version 7 released November 2018
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ScreenRuler helps you with reading by colouring (tinting) your whole screen, or by providing a reading toolbar.
(more…)ClaroPDF Windows Version 1 released October 2018.
(more…)We have lots of programs for lots of users with disabilities, though nowadays we concentrate on print impairments like dyslexia with our ClaroRead range and Apps.
(more…)Download and print the PDF version of this guide here: Unlocking iPad and iPhone Apps with ClaroRead.
(more…)English ClaroPDF Windows V2: Help File ClaroPDF Windows V1: Help File | User Guide (PDF | Word doc)
If you need to re-locate your Claro licence key once your product has been activated, you can do so in the following ways: (more…)
ClaroCapture Windows Version 4 released December 2017
(more…)Creating a single MSI file for network installation.
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Find out what your licence key can get you by using our Licence Key Lookup. This tells you what your licence key is for, and gives download links and the number of times you have used your key. If you have activated your software and need to find out what Read more…
Windows 10 Support Statement ClaroRead and ScreenRuler are supported by Claro Software Ltd on the following editions of Windows 10 – Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Education, and Windows 10 Enterprise. ClaroRead and ScreenRuler are supported on the in-market supported servicing branches of Windows 10 including – Read more…
Our software uses Licence Keys to let you activate and use it on your machines while making it easy to distribute widely. You can look up your licence key and download the correct software by using our Licence Key Lookup: Licence Key Lookup If you have activated your software and Read more…
If you’re a system administrator (or partner) you might find yourself needing to install multiple MSI files onto a target computer. There are several technical ways to do this, but for simplicity here are some super-simple batch files that will install all of the MSI files in the folder where they find themselves. (more…)
Please see ClaroRead USB for how to create a ClaroRead USB.
Our software, powered by the world-class Omnipage engine, is great at handling a huge variety of PDF files. In the unlikely event of your coming across a PDF that does not scan/OCR well – we have identified three in ten years – then here is a technique that might help.
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ClaroUp is our automatic software update program. It only runs when you run a Claro program: it doesn’t run in the background, or when Windows starts up. So it’s quite unobtrusive.
It also doesn’t show itself if the current user is not an Admin on the machine, so it should not bother users on networks or locked-down machines.
However, you may want to disable it entirely. You can do this by writing a per-machine registry key: (more…)
You may need to disable the spellcheck features in ClaroRead, for example if you are using it for exams. You can disable it in Settings, or install ClaroRead SE instead (it has no spellcheck: contact Support to get a copy if you have ClaroRead Plus). But you might want to disable it and prevent the user from being able to turn it back on.
(more…)Summary: tells you where ClaroRead saves files on the network/user profile and warns you not to roam the %localappdata% folder.
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