Technologies for teaching, learning and research
Laurie Parker Availability: Download ABBYY FineReader is an optical character recognition (OCR) software that converts paper documents, PDFs and digital photos of text into editable files. Documents can be scanned, saved or exported out to Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe Acrobat formats. The software can also convert text into editable formats from smartphone or digital camera photos of a document.
Availability: Faculty/Staff Adobe Animate CC is an animation tool within Adobe Creative Cloud that replaces Adobe Flash Professional. Users can create advertisements, multimedia content, vector animations, and games in a timeline-based authoring environment. Animate incorporates native HTML5 Canvas and WebGL support. Projects published in HTML5 canvas support HiDPI and Retina displays.
Availability: Faculty/Staff Adobe Bridge helps organize files and assets for creative projects. Files can be renamed, color coded or assigned star ratings through batch processing. Users can also locate assets by file type, ratings, or camera type.