ZoomText Magnifier

Flexible Magnification

Full range of magnification levels up to 36x (up to 60x in Windows 8). Levels include: 1x to 8x in steps of 1, 10x to 16x in steps of 2, 20x to 36x in steps of 4, and fractional powers of 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x and 2.5x. 30 levels of magnification in ZoomText 10.1: 1x to 2x in steps of 0.2; 2.25x, 2.5x, 2.75x, 3x, 3.5x, 4x, 4.5x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x; 10x to 16x in steps of 2; 20x to 36x in steps of 4; 42x, 48x, 54x, and 60x.

xFont Magnification

xFont technology displays high-definition text that’s easy to read at all magnification levels. Smooth, bold and condense settings allow you to fine-tune the thickness and spacing of text for added legibility.

With other screen magnifiers, the clarity of text is degraded in the magnified view. As a result, many fonts (text characters) are difficult to read, including small fonts, serif and italic fonts, and cursive fonts.

With ZoomText’s revolutionary ‘xFont’ technology, you’ll see amazingly clear text at all magnification levels. All types and sizes of text are displayed with high-definition clarity, in all of your applications. Once you’ve seen xFont, no other screen magnifier will do.

Standard Magnification
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xFont Magnification
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Support for Touch Screen Devices

ZoomText 10.1 features support for touch screen devices including tablets, laptops and desktop monitors. ZoomText follows along as you tap, drag and swipe your way through all of your applications. And you can instantly access key ZoomText features using the ZoomText Touch Icon and gestures. Note: Requires a 5-point or greater multi-touch device.

Exclusive to ZoomText 10.1 for Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

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Powerful Zoom Windows

8 different zoom windows allow you to choose which part of the screen is magnified.

A zoom window displays a magnified view of the computer screen. You can think of a zoom window as a magnifying glass held in front of the screen. A zoom window only displays a portion of the screen at any one time, but by scrolling its magnified contents, you can view any area of the screen.

ZoomText provides eight zoom window types: Full, Overlay, Lens, Line and four Docked positions. Each of these windows offer a unique way of viewing what is on the screen. At any time, you can switch zoom window types to accommodate a different task or application environment.

Full Window
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Overlay
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Lens
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Line
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Docked Top
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Docked Bottom
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Docked Left
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Docked Right
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Enhanced Screen Colors

Innovative color controls improve screen clarity and reduce eyestrain. Special effects include color dyes, two-color modes and replacement of problem colors.
Learn more about color enhancements.

Visible Pointers and Cursors

Size and color enhancements make it easy to see the mouse pointer. Special locators make it easier to follow the mouse pointer and text cursor as they move across the screen.

Focus Enhancements

Makes it easy to locate and follow the control focus when you navigate through application menus, dialogs and other application controls.

Smooth Navigation

Navigating your applications and scrolling the view is always smooth and comfortable. Constrained mouse movement allows you to examine rows and columns, and keeps you within the active window.

Multiple Monitor Support

ZoomText’s Multiple Monitor Support allows you to see more information in a variety of ways. ZoomText’s unique MultiView modes—MultiView Local and MultiView Global allow you to simultaneously view multiple applications or multiple locations within the same application.

ZoomText Camera

The ZoomText Camera feature allows you to use any high-definition (HD) webcam to view and magnify printed items and other objects right on your computer screen—including bills, magazines, photographs, medicine labels, craft items and more.

Application Settings

Save unique settings for each application that you use. As you switch applications, ZoomText automatically loads the desired settings.

Full Windows Logon Support (with ZoomText Logon UI)

ZoomText’s logon support provides essential magnification and screen reading features when logging into Windows.

New Smart Invert

See photos as they were meant to be seen in Internet Explorer 11. With ZoomText’s new Smart Invert feature, photos are displayed in their natural colors when ZoomText’s Invert Brightness and Invert Colors are active. No it’s not an illusion, it’s Smart Invert.

New Unified Finder Tool

Locating what you are looking for is easier than ever with the new Finder Tool. Finder lets you search and skim through documents, web pages and email to instantly find any word or phrase you are looking for. You can search through all of the text or only within specific items like headings, forms, links and images. It’s simple, you type and the Finder finds.

Finder Page Search

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Finder List Search

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New Zoom to 1x

The Zoom to 1x feature lets you instantly toggle between your zoomed-in view and the 1x view, without having to zoom out and zoom back in one zoom level at a time.

New Command Keys

ZoomText has a system of “Command Keys” that are easier to learn and use. The new command keys also eliminate conflicts and compatibility issues that existed in older versions of ZoomText. Don’t worry, making the transitioning from your previous version of ZoomText is a quick and easy.

New Modern Toolbar

ZoomText has a brand new toolbar with a fresh clean look. We’ve streamlined the modernized the layout to make it easier to learn and fast and fluid to use. You can access and operate the entire toolbar with the keyboard or the mouse. Go ahead, drive it around.

Magnifier Toolbar

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Reader Toolbar

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Tools Toolbar

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New Geometric Smoothing

ZoomText now smooths the edges of text (and graphics) in places where xFont magnification can’t go. Hint… your magnified PDF documents never looked this good.

New Consolidated AppReader

We’ve made automatic reading more efficient and flexible by combining ZoomText’s legacy reading tools into one new AppReader. With the new AppReader you can read right in the target application or switch on-the-fly to the high contrast text view that’s better for visual reading. You can start and stop continuous reading or skim read by word, line, sentence or paragraph. As reading occurs, each spoken word is highlighted. You can also spot read blocks of text by clicking and dragging the mouse. So sit back, relax your eyes, and just listen.

Using AppReader App View in Microsoft Word

Using AppReader in Microsoft Word

Using AppReader Text View in Ticker Mode

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Using AppReader Text View in Prompter Mode