Scanning Pen: IRISPen Executive 6

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Summary

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The IRISPen 6 Executive is an intuitive text recognition handheld scanner that scans directly into your PC or Mac, so you have images and editable text. Use it like a highlighter to scan text, images, bar codes, and other items from printed sources. The Executive also has image adjustment features, a multiple lines option, speech synthesis. It can also recognize the CMC7 font and hand-printed letters.

How it works

You scan, it types.

The I.R.I.S. Pen 6 scanning pen allows you to capture text and images directly into your computer, via USB connection. Use it just like a highlighter to electronically transfer any printed text into any Windows or Mac application.

Specs

Interface		OS requirement
Runs as a Windows application on your PC	Yes	Windows 98SE and higher (W2K, XP, etc.)
Runs as a Mac application on your Mac	Yes	Mac OS

Dictionaries		Speech
English dictionary preloaded	No	Speaks stored notes by paragraph	No
Thesaurus preloaded	No	Speaks word or line of text	No
Dictionary word history	No	Speaks dictionary definition	No
Foreign language preloaded	No	Defines words	No

Included applications		Text handling
Storage limited by hard drive space only	n/a	Transfer to PC or Mac	Yes
Image capture	Yes	Scan directly into Windows applications	Yes
Address book: If installed on your computer	Yes	Scan non-English text	Yes
Onboard tutorial	No

Languages

The IRISPen recognizes 128 different languages. What this means: The OCR (Optical Character Recognition) can recognize the characters of those languages. This is not at all the same as translating words in that language.

All American and European languages are supported, including Central-European languages.
Greek, Turkish, the Cyrillic ("Russian") and the Baltic languages and Hebrew are also supported.
Optionally, the IRISPen reads Asian documents in Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean with the Asian edition.

User interface languages

English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Traditional & Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic.

Recognition languages

American English, British English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Afaan Oromo, Afrikaans, Albanian, Asturian, Aymara, Azeri (Latin), Balinese, Basque, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Latin), Brazilian, Breton, Bulgarian, Bulgarian-English, Byelorussian, Byelorussian-English, Catalan, Cebuano (also called "Visayan"), Chamorro, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, Frisian, Friulian, Galicain, Ganda, German (Switzerland), Greek, Greek-English, Greenlandic (also called "Eskimo" and Innuit"), Haitian Creole, Hani, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish Gaelic, Javanese, Kapampangan, Kazakh, Kicongo, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luba, Luxemburgh, Macedonian, Macedonian-English, Madurese, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx (Gaelic), Maori, Mayan, Mexican, Minangkabau, Moldovan, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nahuatl, Norwegian, Nyanja, Nynorsk, Occitan, Papamiento, Pidgin English (Nigeria), Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Roman, Romanian, Rundi, Russian, Russian-English, Samoan, Sardinian, ScottishGaelic, Serbian, Serbian (Latin), Serbian-English, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sotho, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tatar (Latin), Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Ukrainian, Ukrainian-English, Uzbek, Waray, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Zapotec, Zulu.

Mixed alphabets

You can activate a mixed alphabet of Greek or Cyrillic and Western characters. This is useful if Western words pop up in Greek of Cyrillic texts (this is often the case with proper name, brand names, etc.). The IRISPen will automatically switch languages whenever needed.

Features

These features are included in both the Express version and Executive version

See the next tab for the additional features that are on the Executive version.

High recognition performance Reads colored text and numbers. Reads wavy and distorted images. Reads text on colored backgrounds. Scanning & recognition speed Recognizes up to 3.15 inches / 8 cm per second. Improved image stability at varying speeds. Wide compatibility Cross platform products: Windows and Mac. Compatible with nearly any application (e.g., office suite). USB connection Directly connected to the USB port of a PC, notebook, Tablet PC, and Macintosh. Easy Plug & Play installation. Powered by the USB port, no need for batteries or an external power supply. Idle mode reduces the power consumption. Scanner size: 1 (W) X 0.6 (D) X 4.9 (H) in. Scanner Weight: 1.8 Oz. USB cable: 69 in. Printed information Text (numeric). This includes alphanumeric characters, punctuation marks, and numeric data. Numbers. This includes special characters, mathematical symbols, punctuation marks, and currencies. The IRISPen reads virtually any font, in a wide variety of styles and point sizes (from 8 to 20 points), plus special characters, reading marks, special symbols, and formatting elements such as vertical lines separating table cells. Image scanning (to clipboard) Greyscale image to clipboard. Black and white image to clipboard. The image will be sent to the clipboard before they can be pasted in a chosen application	Small print You can use the option Small Print to get optimized results when reading small printed text, with a font size smaller than 10 points. Wizard The IRISPen wizard offers the quickest and easiest way of defining your settings. It proposes a series of templates with pre-defined settings means for the reading of certain types of data: text, text from columns, numeric tables, etc. These templates can be either used as such, or modified to fit more particular needs. User presets templates / profiles Up to 3 (modified) templates can be further assigned to a preset button directly accessible from teh application window. When it comes to actually capture a certain type of data, all you need to do is press the right preset button. By default, the preset buttons are already assigned to the reading of Text, Text from columns, text from tables. Set keyboard function to pen buttons. The IRISPen is equipped with two buttons. Each of the two buttons ca nbe programmed so as to execute an operation. By simply pressing the pen buttons, you will thus be able to execute 5 operations: Null, Enter, Space, Tab, Undo Last Scan. Dot Matrix The option Dot Matrix is used to make the pen read dot matrix symbol, i.e. symbols that are made isolated, separated dots. (eg: draft, 9 pin). Delimiters With the delimiters you can indicate how the scanned lines must be delimited for the reading. How should hyphens be interpreted when occurring at the end of a line? Enhanced interface Look & Feel Windows Vista / Mac OS X Image quality check window.

Expr V Exec

You'll find the features of the Express version on the Features tab. The Executive version has those features, plus the ones described below.

Executive version features

Handprinting

You can read handprinted numbers and / or handprinted letters

CMC 7

You can recognize the banking font CMC 7.

Speech synthesis

Thanks to the speech synthesis, you can make the IRISPen speak out the recognized data for you. Just scan some data and the computer reads it out for you!

The following languages are available: Brasilian (Portuguese), British English, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian. The speech synthesis feature is available in the language that was chosen at the installation for speech synthesis.

Scan multiple lines

The option Multiple lines is used to scan multiple lines at at time.

It is particularly to scan full excerpts from book, magazines, etc. The various lines of text arefirst kept in the IRISPen, then released with the click on a pen button.

Image adjustment

The image adjustment features enable to optimize the image generated with the pen for the recognition process. These options will be particularly useful if you scan very bad quality documents, or low-contrast documents where the background virtually has the same color as the text.

Barcodes

The IRISPen Executive supports all widespread barcode standards and types, including the 2D barcodes PDF 417 and QR barcode.

The IRISPen supports bearer bars drawn around the barcodes.

List of barcodes: EAN 13, EAN 8, UPCA, UPCE, Codabar, D2OF5, I2OF5, code 39, code 39 ext, code 39 HIBC, code 93, code 128, MSIPH, PDF 417, QR Code, Out-of-Spec

Barcode types

By default, the application is set to automatically detect and read any of the barcodes supported by the IRISPen (see: Learn how to... Read barcodes). All barcode types are thus selected by default.

You can limit the recognition to specific barcode types, if you wish. This will help avoid any possible errors when reading a certain type of barcode. To limit the reading to certain barcodes, (de)select the corresponding buttons in the proposed list.

Verify checksum

This feature allows you to make the software automatically verify the barcode check character(s) when reading certain types of barcodes. To enable this verification, simply select the button Verify checksum in front of the barcode(s) concerned.

Strip checksum

Should you wish to, you can also have the barcode's cheksum stripped out from the recognition result. To exclude the checksum from the recognized barcode(s), simply select Strip checksum in front of the barcode(s) concerned.

More about barcodes and the Scanning Pen: IRISPen Executive 6

Barcode quality

If you notice that the quality of the barcodes to be read is rather poor, you should make some adjustments manually. The software will use additional intelligent routines to try and read the barcode. To indicate that the quality is poor, slide the quality indicator to the left. If necessary, make several tests using the Scan test window (see: Starting up, The Scan Test window).

Allow out-of-specs barcodes

It may happen that some barcodes have been generated without respecting the barcodes specifications. The IRISPen can be tuned to try and read such barcodes. Simply tick this option if you suspect the barcodes are "out-of-specs".

Partial read

It may be that only part of a barcode can be scanned. This may be the case if the end of the barcode is unavailable or of insufficient quality, etc. If you desire it, the partial scan can render a partial read, rather than no read at all: tick Partial read and indicate the limit under which the reading will not be accepted (in number of characters). If the number of read characters is below the limit, no result will be given. If it is superior to the limit, only the required characters will be recognized.

Comes With

Box contents

Grayscale pen scanner.
CD-ROM.
Quick Installation Guide.
Register card.
Electronic manual.
Test sheet.
Calibration sheet.

Uses

Archiving from hardcopy to electronic storage.
Importing hardcopy data to any Windows or Mac application.
Research of any kind: college research papers, legal work, engineering applications, scientific research.
Saving family recipes and other information that would otherwise be lost on paper.

Who needs this scanner? Anybody who is researching, archiving, retrieving, transporting, converting, updating, combining, or doing a host of other tasks with hard copy materials will benefit greatly from this pen. You may need this scanner if you are a(n):
Analyst Archivist Attorney Doctor Educator Executive	Historian Journalist Librarian Lobbyist Nurse Paralegal	Presenter Reporter Researcher Secretary Soldier Student	Teacher Trainer Webmaster Writer

Benefits

Faster than ever. Retype information 30 times faster than manually.
Extended output applications. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, � you name it! If you can type it in, you can scan it in with the IRISPen.
Read text and numbers. Capture words, sentences, paragraphs, from any printed material into your computer.
128 OCR languages. Extensive foreign language support enables it to accurately recognize an incredibly vast number of foreign languages.

Thus:

Save time, save money.
Slash the time needed to conduct research.
A great tool for eliminating scraps of paper, without rekeying tons of information.
No need to copy or retype printed documents.
No need to lug a laptop around, or hassle with coins for library copy machines.

FAQs

How accurate is it? Answer: It's 97% accurate
How hard is it to use? Answer: If you have good dexterity, it's easy to use. How much dexterity do you need? Here's a simple test. Grab a text highlighter, and see if you can draw a straight line of highlighting in a newspaper or magazine. If so, you are good to go! If not, you are going to find the pen difficult to use.

POs

Many of our customers need to use Purchase Orders. We are happy to have such customers.

To purchase using a PO number:

Proceed through checkout, as if using a credit card.
For Bill To, enter the e-mail address of your Accounts Payable Department (or someone in it).
At the payment method dropdown, select "Purchase Order" and proceed through checkout.

Vendor Information

If you need a physical address for us so you can create your Purchase Order:

Mindconnection, LLC
4806 Wedd St
Merriam, KS 66203-5414

Note: As an Earth-friendly company, we don't do faxes. We don't need to see your PO, so don't worry about sending it.

Terms. Our terms are Net 0, with the discount provided in the regular price. Your invoice is delivered immediately when you place your order, so just process it for payment and you're all set. If you need more time, the rates below apply

Extended payment rates:

Period	Fee
After 21 days	5% of order total
After 30 days	10% of order total
After 40 days	15% of order total

Manual

Right mouse click to save and read the manual (don't left click, as that will cause your browser to hang while trying to load a large document):

Windows users	Mac users
PDF of the Executive version	PDF of the Executive version
PDF of the Express version	PDF of the Express version

Customer Reviews

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Average Customer Review: 5 out of 5

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Just plug and play, 1.7.2011

Reviewer: Nick Foster (Tempe, AZ)

Thanks for recommending the Iris scanning pen. It is so simple to operate, yet it's fast and efficient to use.

Easy to use, very versatile, 10.29.2010

Reviewer: Nancy Klein (Redmond, WA)

This is by far the best computer tool I have ever purchased. It has saved me many hours of work, because I can just scan and like the demo says it does the typing for me. I used to wake up at night with pain in my fingers and wrists. No more. And it is SO FAST.

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