If you have a primary screen reader other than System Access, it is still quite easy to use DocuScan Plus, even while the other screen reader is running. If you are using a version of JAWS or Window-Eyes as your primary screen reader, there's nothing in particular that you need to do in order to make DocuScan Plus work alongside your current screen reader. This is because Serotek provides files with DocuScan Plus that will silence the speech of your primary screen reader when you are in a DocuScan Plus window. When you move away from a DocuScan Plus window and open something like Microsoft Word, for instance, your primary screen reader will speak as it normally would. One important thing to keep in mind is that, because your screen reader will be in "sleep mode' or "silent mode" in the DocuScan Plus windows, you won't be able to use your screen reader's hot keys to perform functions. Instead, you will need to use the hot keys provided in DocuScan Plus. For example, the hot key to read from the cursor to the bottom of the window in DocuScan Plus is modifier+down arrow. If your screen reader has a different hot key for this function, you will need to remember to use modifier+down arrow while in a DocuScan Plus window.
If you use ZoomText as your primary assistive technology, you have a couple of options for determining how DocuScan Plus behaves. When you first launch DocuScan Plus, the program will detect ZoomText if it is running. You will then be asked how docuScan Plus should read. If you want to maintain magnification in ZoomText but want the experience of high-quality voices reading menus, controls and documents, you should choose the "yes" button and DocuScan Plus will enter self-voicing mode. If ZoomText speech is also on and you begin hearing two voices speaking at once, you can temporarily silence ZoomText speech with the alt+shift+s hot key. If you want to exclusively use ZoomText and don't want DocuScan Plus to speak, choose the "no" button. In this case, DocuScan Plus will not speak, and ZoomText will behave as it always has. Please note that ZoomText features like App Reader, Doc Reader and Speakit may not work well in DocuScan Plus, and are not directly supported at this time.