Summary
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Watch the video to see how this scanning pen saves you time, reduces frustration, and optimizes your productivity.
Run the IRISPen Translator 6 across a word or line of any printed material and transfer editable, translated text into any Windows application. Get your text read aloud after you have captured information to quickly verify the translation. Bidirectional language pairs (English to/from): French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
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How it works
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You scan, it types. And translates!
The IRISPen Translator 6 scanning pen allows you to capture translated text directly into your computer, via USB connection. Use it just like a highlighter to to electronically translate and transfer any printed text into any Windows application. |
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Specs
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OS requirement |
| Runs as a Windows application on your PC |
Yes |
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Windows 98SE and higher (W2K, XP, etc.) |
| Runs as a Mac application on your Mac |
Yes |
Mac OS |
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| Dictionaries |
Speech |
| English dictionary preloaded |
No |
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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 |
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| Included applications |
Text handling |
| Storage limited by hard drive space only |
n/a |
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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 |
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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.
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Features
| In addition to text translation, this scanning pen has these features: |
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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
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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.
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Comes With
| Box contents
- Grayscale pen scanner.
- CD-ROM.
- Quick Installation Guide.
- Register card.
- Electronic manual.
- Test sheet.
- Calibration sheet.
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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.
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| 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 scanner. You may need this pen if you are a(n):
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- Analyst
- Archivist
- Attorney
- Doctor
- Educator
- Executive
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- Historian
- Journalist
- Librarian
- Lobbyist
- Nurse
- Paralegal
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- Presenter
- Reporter
- Researcher
- Secretary
- Soldier
- Student
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- Teacher
- Trainer
- Webmaster
- Writer
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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| 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: |
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Fee |
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| After 21 days |
5% of order total |
| After 30 days |
10% of order total |
| After 40 days |
15% of order total |
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Pretty easy to use, 2.21.2011
