The WintextCom Reader is a comprehensive reading facility built into the WintextCom Personal Information Manager(tm). It enables you to display text files and information captured from documents displayed in other programs. Some other features of WintextCom also use the reader to display information.

When you open a file in the WintextCom Reader, pressing the Escape key will close it and save your current reading position as a bookmark to resume reading at a later stage. When you next open the file, it is displayed where you last saved your position. Pressing the ENTER key while reading will close the file without bookmarking. The purpose of this scenario is that if you are browsing a list of files in File Manger or the Library, you can press ENTER to toggle between the file list and a file's contents, to get a quick look at a file without bookmarking it.

To capture the contents of a document in another application, open it in its own program and press WindowsKey+F9. The WintextCom Reader opens showing the text of the document. When you are displaying captured information, the above scenario is reversed. Pressing Escape closes the reader and puts you back in the application where you captured the information, without saving it in WintextCom. This allows you to read e-mail messages, web pages, word processor documents, etc., with the WintextCom Reader instead of their native application, which can be especially useful to visually impaired people if using the WintextCom Reader makes for much easier reading than the application itself. Pressing ENTER while reading captured text opens the library to enable you to save it to a file. You can save it to a new file, overwrite an exiting file, or append it to an existing file. If the captured information is saved in a file of its own, a bookmark is saved so that when you subsequently open that file, you can resume reading from where you were when you decided to save it. If captured information is appended to an existing file, the bookmark for that file, if any, is unchanged.

The WintextCom Reader's ability to save text from any application provides a generic means of information retrieval as you work. Advanced users and technical support personnel can use script languages to extend this capability still further, to capture the output from a scanner or retrieve reports from a database, for example. You can capture the text on the Windows clipboard by pressing WindowsKey+F8. In particular, the clipboard feature allows you to capture selected text rather than a whole document.

If preferred, you can replace the WintextCom Reader with an external reader program of your choice. Such a program is referred to as the Document Reader. The WintextCom Reader is the default setting for the Document Reader. If you are using a different Document Reader, the reading functionality will be specific to that program, but the information capture features to save information in the library are still available. The use of an external Document Reader is fully discuss in its own chapter. Some features will always use the internal WintextCom Reader irrespective of your settings, and it is still possible to open a file in the WintextCom Reader by pressing Shift+ENTER in the library instead of just ENTER.

The WintextCom Reader is ddesigned specifically for Braille users. Future releases of the software will be fully integrated with WintextCom's visual display window to enable is to be used just as effectively by sighted people or visually impaired people using speech output. It enables Braille readers to read continuously through files and captured text by just pressing the Advance key, or Back key to read back. The Advance key is the Down Arrow or Tab key on the computer keyboard, and the Back key is the Up Arrow or Shift+Tab. Users of the JAWS for Windows screen reader can use the Advance and Back keys on their Braille display unit for WintextCom Reader Advance and Back, respectively. You can also use the Braille Advance and Back keys if you are using a supported Braille display that does not require a screen reader for Braille communications.

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