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Welcome to the NanoPac Resource Hub! Discover customer success stories, find local organizations and state agencies specializing in visual services, learn about eye conditions causing vision loss, access training materials on assistive technology products, and explore other industry resources.

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Customer Spotlight: Fullerton Public Library

Customer Spotlight: Fullerton Public Library

In the small rural town of Fullerton, Nebraska, home to around 1,500 residents, the local library plays a vital role in supporting the community. When we spoke with Laurel Marlatt, Director of the Fullerton Public Library, she emphasized her mission to ensure the library meets the needs of everyone, including those with vision loss.

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Braille Printer Comparison Chart

Braille Printer Comparison Chart

Braille Printers NanoPac will be pleased to help you select the best Braille printer for your needs.  Braille printers, (Braille Embossers), work best with Braille translation software such as Duxbury. Click on one of the Brailler links below for more information:...

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Diabetic Retinopathy

Diabetic Retinopathy: Although diabetes does not necessarily lead to diabetic retinopathy, people with the diabetic retinopathy may experience a condition in which their diabetes causes blood vessels that feed the retina of the eye to break. The resulting damage may...

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Glaucoma

Glaucoma: Glaucoma is a serious eye disease caused by a build-up of pressure in the eye that damages the optic nerve which transmits impulses to the brain that create sight. Glaucoma affects side vision causing the edges of the visual field to fade, although glaucoma...

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Retinitis Pigmentosa

Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP): Retinitis Pigmentosa is actually a group of inherited diseases that affect the retina of the eye causing a degeneration of photoreceptor cells. These cells are what capture light enabling us to see. When these cells degenerate, patients...

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Cataracts

Cataracts: Cataracts are a clouding of the eye's lens that causes blurriness and loss of vision. The word cataract literally means waterfall and when a cataract is severe it's like trying to see through a waterfall. Cataracts occur when the protein that makes up the...

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Macular Degeneration

Macular Degeneration  or Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Macular degeneration or age related macular degeneration is a degenerative disease of the retina that causes progressive loss of vision in the center of the eye. There are two types of age-related macular...

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Index Braille Box V5

Braille Box V5 Production Embosser Braille Box V5 Production embosser for high quality braille. For fast, high-volume braille embossing from cut paper, BrailleBox V5 offers exceptional value. Internationally recognized for its design, quiet and affordable, printing...
PIAF - Pictures in a Flash - Braille Tactile Printer sitting next to a laptop with a math equation on the screen

PIAF – Pictures in a Flash

PIAF translates images into simple or complex tactile concepts like clockwork. Used in a variety of educational, professional and personal settings, it offers you a simple way to prepare tactile graphics, embossing any black lines, letters or shapes that are drawn or printed.

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Brailliant BI 20X

Brailliant BI 20X is the ideal portable 20–cell refreshable braille display that you can pair with your favorite devices or use with standalone applications.

Tactonom Reader Flex

Tactonom Reader Flex

The Tactonom Reader Flex enable blind and severely visually impaired people to independently access, understand and work with graphic learning content. By combining the sense of touch and speech explanation, even complex content becomes comprehensible.

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GuideConnect

Designed for people with visual impairments, GuideConnect helps people who are losing their sight stay independent for longer. It connects you to friends and family, and provides easy access to a range of entertainment.

Merlin Elite Pro with man reading

Merlin Elite Pro

  Full HD Video Magnifier & Full Page Text-to-Speech Merlin Elite Pro will read your favorite book or article aloud with a simple push of a button. Read along with ease as the magnified text is displayed and read to you. View photographs and other images in...
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Reveal 16i

Reveal 16i Overview Reveal 16i is a unique, smart, intuitive, and compact foldable magnifier. Designed with simplicity in mind, this new versatile digital magnifier is the perfect solution to help you stay productive in your daily life. Google Play Store accessible to...
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Merlin Mini

Merlin mini offers the same reading comfort, ease of use, and functionality as a desktop video magnifier – but in a compact and foldable design. The Merlin mini is available in your choice of a 15” or 17” screen. A 3-in-1 rotating camera allows you to magnify text and...
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ClearView+ Full HD 24″ (Speech)

Quick Overview Does reading your newspaper or favorite book become too tiresome with a video magnifier? Do you lose time searching through text? Now enjoy the Optelec ClearView+ Speech, a completly new approach for the integration of OCR and text-to-speech technology...
Explore 12 Video Magnifier Front View

Explorē 12

explorē 12 – Portable video magnifier Magnify your active lifestyle! explore 12 is an easy-to-use, portable electronic magnifier that offers HD image quality for improved near and distance viewing. As the largest portable magnifier in our explorē series, its 12-inch...