Nexxus tells Web page readers to "Feed your head" with its hair products.

On those pages readers can learn how to grow flowers from seed, and the importance of donating money to charities.

The Parallel Page Reader breaks ground in more ways than marketing.

This is an intellectual novel in every sense - by one and about one, intended for page readers rather than page turners.

There is even Class 2000, an escort service that urges Yellow Pages readers, "Let us take you to the next millennium!"

Home Page Reader (Hpr) was a computer program, a self-voicing web browser designed for people who are blind.

As a result, the Parallel Page Reader's page recognition is as fast as, or faster than, the scanning.

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The 1288 'page reader' could handle up to legal size OCR font typewritten pages, as well as handwritten numerals.

That is, the user feeds the printed documents into a scanner, and the Parallel Page Reader converts them into word-processing or data-base files.

Home Page Reader (HPR) from IBM (recently discontinued)

Solid Gold was voted "Best Rock Band of 2011" by the Minneapolis City Pages Readers' Choice awards.

With a price in the same range as a high-end PC and configured to be added easily to a company's local area network, the Parallel Page Reader breaks new ground.

His name, his smile, his mannerisms, and his driving record made every sports page reader below the Mason-Dixon line take notice of the Southern brand of motorsports.

Most recently, he won the City Pages readers' poll for "Best AM Radio Personality" in the 2004 Best of the Twin Cities awards.

Because reading an image usually takes longer than scanning it, some users of high-end page readers scan all the documents at once, during the day, and then process the images at night or on weekends.

Called Home Page Reader, the software, which costs $149, uses a speech synthesizer not just to read the text on a given Web page but also to describe the graphics and even advertisements.

Larry Miller, director of sales and marketing for Caere, said the Parallel Page Reader was developed as part of a special project for the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Parallel Page Reader is essentially an enlarged eight-slot personal computer powered by the Intel 80386SX microprocessor and backed with one megabyte of RAM and a 40-megabyte hard disk.

It re-presents web pages as text with a caret, allowing users to use their existing screen reader or assistive technology to read it, but is not self-voicing, unlike (for example) Home Page Reader.

In summer 2002 a non-scientific study concluded that various web browsers like the IBM Home Page Reader did not make any distinction between the built in keyboard shortcuts and access keys available in websites.

But Paul Luther, a manager with International Business Machines' special-needs unit, said the Home Page Reader was designed specifically with the Web in mind and tailored to reading pages built in HTML.

If Caere's performance claims are accurate - and analysts who have seen the device say they appear to be - it would take 25 tireless secretaries, each typing 100 words a minute, to match the output of a single Parallel Page Reader.

"Both of these are examples of technology that provide better access to Internet and Web pages," said Prof. Gregg Vanderheiden, director of Trace, speaking of PW Telephone and Home Page Reader.

With the Caere Parallel Page Reader, Mr. Miller said, each of the four Motorola chips can attack a full page at once; in the rival systems, he said, each chip attacks a different part of the same page.