Zoomtext – Product information

Zoomtext – Product information

About

  1. ZoomText is a software magnification product originally offered for MS-DOS by Ai Squared and developed by Ai Squared. In the mid 1990s they released a Windows version of the software which was developed by Ai Squared until 2017. ZoomText afterwards was absorbed into Freedom Scientific who to the present sell and support it.
  2. ZoomText provides advanced magnification, cursor and colour enhancement capabilities beyond that provided by the Microsoft Magnifier built in product. It will also work across multiple monitors. The ZoomText family consist of three main products; Magnifier, ZoomText Magnifier/Reader and ZoomText Fusion which provide support escalating from magnification through to screen reader and Braille output in addition to magnification.

Supported OS

  1. Windows only

Supported processor architecture

  1. Intel x86
  2. ARM64 (from version 2025 onwards)

Product page

  1. https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/zoomtext/

Download

  1. https://support.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/ZoomText

Documentation

  1. https://support.freedomscientific.com/downloads/documentation

License

  1. ZoomText is available in a variety of different licenses from single user to multiuser and network license options.
  2. Each new software license is activated via a 20 digit ILM key for the license which can be activated over the internet via challendge/response architecture to grant licnese on a specific computer.  The license can be identified using the serial number displayed in the About Zomtext dialogue.

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