Scanning Devices > Full page scans > Portable Scanner: IRISCan 2 Express Asian

No computer needed to do the scans! Store on the SD card and transfer later, or if you want to scan directly into a Window or Mac application you can also do that. Fits in your briefcase, but scans full pages in color.

More specifications:

• American and European languages are supported, including Central-European languages.
• Greek, Turkish, the Cyrillic ("Russian") and the Baltic languages and Hebrew are also supported.
• The IRISCan 2 Asian edition reads Asian documents in Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean (see below).
• Optionally, the IRISCan 2 reads documents in Arabic, Farci & Hebrew characters with the Middle East version.
• Optionally, the IRISCan 2 translates in 11 languages with the Executive version.

Recognize four Asian languages:

Simplified Chinese


Traditional Chinese

• Chinese script is derived from picture writing. It is written with thousands of distinctive characters called “ideograms” or “pictograms” which have no relation to the sound of a word.
• The earliest Chinese characters were pictographs, such as a crescent for the moon, or a circle with a dot in the center to represent the sun. Gradually these gave way to non-pictorial ideograms which, in addition to standing for tangible objects, also represented abstract concepts.
• The majority of Chinese characters consist of two elements: a “signific”, which indicates the meaning of a word, and a “phonetic”, which indicates the sound.
• In a large dictionary there are 40,000 to 50,000 characters, while the telegraphic code book contains nearly 10,000 symbols. Some 3,000 symbols are used on a daily basis.
• Simplified Chinese is a simplified version of the “traditional” Chinese; the 500 most common symbols were simplified. Simplified Chinese is used on China’s mainland and Singapore; Traditional Chinese is used by Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau and the overseas Chinese communities.

Japanese

• The Japanese writing system actually uses a mix of alphabets: the phonetic character sets are called Hiragana and Katakana, and the ideograms, Chinese in origin, are called Kanji. In normal Japanese writing, Hiragana and Kanji are used, while Katakana is used for words borrowed from the (non–Chinese) foreign languages.
• Japanese is generally written vertically and from right to left, but many texts today are written horizontally to permit the inclusion of English numerals and mathematical and chemical formulas.
• An educated person can read about 10,000 Kanji symbols; the government has published a list of 1,850 that it considers basic.

Korean

• Korean is not related to Chinese, although it has used the Chinese characters, together with the Korean alphabet, for many centuries.
• The Korean alphabet (“Hangul” script), invented in the years 1443-46, is the only true alphabet native to the Far East.

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.). This scanner will automatically switch languages whenever needed.

• Portable scanner.
• Software suite.
• Travel case.
• Cradle.

• Quickly scan entire pages, while traveling--without packing a flatbed.
• Save time, save money.
• No need to copy or retype printed documents.

1. What's the difference between a mobile scanner, flatbed scanner, and portable scanner?
   
   A mobile scanner can store scanned text for later transfer to computer. A flatbed scanner is large and heavy and the most powerful of the three. In between mobile and desktop, you have the portable. It makes good, fast scans directly to your computer.
    
2. Is it accurate?
   
   Yes. The accuracy question for today's scanners doesn't come into play until you get to the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) part. It's a function of the software. This device comes with a software suite that is widely recognized for its quality.
    
3. Can I use it in place of a desktop scanner?
   
   For most applications, yes.

1. Turn it on.
2. Insert paper.

It does come with software you can use later, and the guides are included in the programs. The device will automatically charge when you plug it into your USB port or any USB-output AC adapter (like the one for a USB digital camera or smart phone).