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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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Smart Reader HD OCR

Smart Reader HD OCR The Smart Reader HD is a lightweight, portable reader/scanner with large built-in user friendly tactile control buttons. A fully integrated solution, the Smart Reader HD offers the advantage of a built-in HD camera and OCR (optical character...
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QBraille XL

The QBraille XL replaces the need for special keystrokes with the intuitively placed function keys found on all QWERTY keyboards.

PowerMag Handheld Magnifier 3.5x

PowerMag Handheld Magnifiers

Clear and Sharp Image The PowerMag Handheld Magnifiers provide high-quality, lightweight and scratch-resistant magnifying lens ensures a sharply defined image, while the integrated lighting provides evenly dispensed clear white light for high contrast and high...
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Explorē 5

Explore 5 Handheld 5" Video Magnifier Quick Overview HD image quality: Brilliant 5˝ LCD screen and sharp HD autofocus camera 2X-22X magnification: Sharpness and clarity at the touch of a button Customizable: More than 18 enhancement modes The smallest, lightest 5˝ HD...
Pebble HD handheld video magnifier reading Pill bottles

Pebble HD

Pebble HD Hand Held Magnifier The Only HD Hand Held Magnifier You'll Ever Need! HD • Lightweight • Portable Pebble HD boasts a new HD camera providing a crisp, clear, colorful, high definition picture. A new ergonomic lightweight compact design makes it the perfect...
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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...
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Connect 12

Connect 12 – Smart portable HD magnifier A smart, ultra-portable magnifier for the connected classroom Combining the power and connectivity of mainstream technology with the efficiency and ease of use of assistive technology, Connect 12 is a unique, powerful, and...
TOPAZ XL HD Video Magnifier

TOPAZ XL HD

The TOPAZ XL HD is the most versatile desktop video magnifier available – with the clarity and crispness of high definition plus PC compatibility. The TOPAZ XL HD uses a high definition camera to produce a clearer picture with sharper images and crisper text even at...
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Taptilo

Taptilo is a smart braille learning device that makes braille learning fun and easy! 

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Splay

The world’s first big screen, portable desktop magnifier – Splay portable foldable monitor and projector works as a mobile magnifier camera. Simple plug and play any device with HDMI connection anywhere – magnifying on the go!