The Plustek Book Reader is a unique combination of a scanner text to speech program and text magnification software. Using the included scanner at the touch of one button your book is scanned using highly accurate software and then read back to you through your own computer. The text to speech software provides highly lifelike speech output to make your listening experience more enjoyable. Reader speed can be controlled using simple hot keys. Once the scanned material is on your computer you can use the text management tools to magnify the text or provide color contrast for improved reading directly on your computer. Multiple pages can be scanned at one time and saved as one document. Scanned documents can be stored as text or Word documents or even as MP3 or WAV files that you can transfer to a portable listener and take with you.