Wizcom Technologies WRPBEK-12 Readingpen Basic Edition K-12 Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this for my daughter who is in the first grade to assist her with learning to read. I read a number of positive reviews. I now wonder if those reviews were plants by the manufacturer. The product does a very poor job of scanning and is difficult for an adult to use, much less a child. It comes with a devise you must attach to it in order to "practice" before it will effectively scan. The worse thing about it is the speaker, which is barely audible. Great concept but poor quality. Definitely not worth the price. If you buy one, be sure it is from a vendor that will allow returns.

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IRISPen Express Review

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(More customer reviews)after about 1.5 hours of practice and recalibrating over and over again, this is what the first few lines scanned from the irispen manual look like:
'he IRISPen may be the biggest sensation in computeriand since the mouse \ As efficient as computers are, you have to encode your data first. If you've ever If y-u'veever rekeyed text, you kn(ng and time-consuming it can be.... The IRISPen, a unique product for every computer user, offers instantaneous vaI at your fingertips. Text rec-!nit-o-- -her; you.q want it, w-en 1 The IR nsist- oftw2 coE1P8--nts: a unique g--y-c-eHI'ell-si-e- scan=. ner and the powerful PCR-Il ("Pen Character Recognition") text recognition technology. The basic principle could hardly be easier: slide the IRISPen over a line of text and it is e :o your application in.st-ntJ-.as if-eyed in -ut up to 30 times fas!er. (JP to a 100 characters can be entered per second. Cut from paper, paste to Windows-: can you imagine a simpler way of entering text?
Is it worth it? Spell check couldn't even fix this disaster. I am a very computer saavy person, I don't think I am using it wrong, I think they just really haven't perfected the text recognition software. The one review above must be an irispen employee. I find it hard to believe right out of the box, that it worked perfectly...and then to encourage you to upgrade??? Laughable. You will spend more time fixing the scanning errors than if you just typed it yourself. Going back to amazon tomorrow!

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Wizcom QuickLink SuperPen Review

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(More customer reviews)The product description glosses over the problems you may encounter trying to connect this thing to your PC. It only supports a male 9-pin serial port. If you do not have one, you need to buy an adapter. Even then, you may be unpleasantly surprised. I bought a 9- to 25-pin serial adapter at Radio Shack only to burn an hour trying to set it up, and finally found, deep on the company web site, an explanation that it would only support a male 25- adapter. Now I have ordered a $20 +$5 shipping USB adapter off the Wizcom website. (Don't be fooled by the "optional USB" nonsense in the product description. It is optional in the sense that you can buy the $20 adapter later, after wasting half a day wading through the poorly documented material.) I feel that this company has been deliberately vague about the issues a customer is likely to encounter in setting this thing up. Oh, and I forgot to mention the UI's on both the pen and the desktop are wack.

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The Super Pen is a pocket-size scanner with optical character recognition that lets users scan lines of text and store them for later use. The Super Pen can also translate single words from English to more than 15 other languages, including Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Korean, and Japanese. No longer will you need to scribble notes on random pieces of paper or tear pages out of phone books. The Super Pen helps organize your life by storing and uploading up to 1,000 pages of text into your PDA, cell phone, or computer via serial, infrared (IrDA and IrObex), or optional USB connections.
This lightweight scanner also allows users to scan directly into supported applications in real time and recognizes a wide range of text styles and sizes including bold, underlined, italic, and inverted. The Super Pen weighs 3 ounces and measures 6 inches by 1.5 inches by 1 inch. Compatible with Win 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, and XP, this advanced device can easily be upgraded, with additional applications such as bar code recognition and eGems information-organizing software available. The Super Pen comes backed by a one-year limited warranty.

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Wizcom ReadingPen TS Portable Reading Tutor (WRPTS) Review

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(More customer reviews)The ReadingPen TS works as specified.
I purchased this device for someone who has a reading disability. Their comprehension and retention is much better when something has been first read to them. After the first reading, they often can re-read text without difficulty.
What isn't immediately obvious from the product description/technical specifications is that you can only scan one line of text at a time. Therefore, if you're needing an entire page or paragraph read, you'll have to pause after each line and listen to that line being read before moving to the next line. This makes it a very slow and tedious process. I returned it because of this limitation.
The reading voice is a standard computer type voice. Nothing earth shattering but, once you get used to the voice, you can hear the words fairly easily. For me, this is acceptable since it pretty much represents the current technology capabilities of most all retail devices that read "text".
With regular frequency, I did find that a scanned line got completely messed up and had to be re-scanned. You have to be very steady and smooth when scanning a line.
We didn't look much into the other capabilities (i.e. translation, games, dictionary, etc...) since that wasn't the primary purpose for buying the device.
It didn't have any problems with different font sizes/styles.
I definitely could see where the pen could be of great use to someone with greater needs.
IMPORTANT NOTE: No problems with returning the ReadingPen and folks at J&R (vendor) were very helpful with the return.

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IRISPen Executive Review

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(More customer reviews)I had read the reviews before purchasing this item - saw the warnings and thought they wouldn't apply to me. Sometimes it pays to listen to the little warning voice in your head. I tired very hard to learn to use this scanner and never got a complete sentence out of it correct. The product simply does not do what it claims to do. You will find yourself taking more time to get a decent scan than to type what you want on your keyboard. So be warned: This is not a time saving device to typing on your keyboard! One additional thing. Read the return policy. The company Amazon uses DOES NOT allow returns. Shortly after clicking "yes" to purchase this item - the request was sent. I had second thoughts about purchasing and tried to cancel the order before the product was even sent, but could not reverse the purchase. A painful and costly lesson.

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You scan, It TypesThe IRISPen™ Executive Scanner is an outstanding and professional text recognition pen scanner that instantaneously retypes any printed information into your word processor, e-mail software, on-line databases, or other compatible program.
The IRISPen Executive works just like a highlighter. Simply slide it over the desired printed information from books, newspapers, magazines, faxes, letters, spreadsheets, or other media and that information is instantly transferred to your favorite Windows or Mac application.
Fast scan and retyping speeds The IRISPen Executive Scanner recognizes up to 3.15 inches per second and can retype translated text at up to 1,000 characters per second into a Microsoft Word document, Microsoft Outlook e-mail, or other compatible applications. Since the IRISPen is USB powered, batteries are never needed and the quick USB connection lets you capture characters at incredible speed, from a wide variety of documents.
How does it work? Simply slide the IRISPen over printed information from books, newspapers, magazines, faxes, letters, spreadsheets, or other documents. The scanned text is instantly transferred, or retyped, it into your favorite compatible Windows or Mac application--the IRISPen Executive is virtually compatible with most Windows or Mac applications. The IRISPen Executive can also read the scanned text back to you for auditive feedback or to help with language pronunciation.
Where and when to use the IRISPen?The IRISPen Executive is great for those daily tasks like copying tables with figures into a spreadsheet, scanning bar codes, copying technical text or other content for professional or scholarly use. Just slide the pen over printed information and it is automatically retyped into a Word document or e-mail 30 times faster than retyping the same information manually.
The IRISPen Executive is also useful for road warriors or graduate students. With the IRISPen Executive you can capture phone numbers, e-mail address, passages from books or manuals, bar codes, and many other types of content.
Unique pen character recognition technology The IRISPen Executive Optimizes OCR accuracy and speed, can read wavy and distorted images, and contains a unique line tracking technology. Due to its high recognition performance it can easily read text and numbers, especially those when printed on colored backgrounds. The IRISPen also boasts foreign language support, recognizing up to 55 languages and has seven user interface languages that include English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German and Dutch.
What's in the BoxGreyscale pen scanner, CD-Rom, quick installation guide, product registration card, electronic and paper manual, test sheet

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Wizcom Infoscan 3 Lite Review

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(More customer reviews)I was a bit skeptical buying this device at first because the reviews of similar models were not too complementary. I found that this pen scanner is VERY accurate. I use it to copy lines from photocopies and even books. You don't even have to put the book on a table as long as you scan in a relatively straight line. There is even a plastic guide to put on the tip of the pen to help beginners. It is very fast at processing each line and you get an immediate preview of what you just scanned. It is much smaller than you might think and is relatively light. It is like using an electronic highlighter. There are no wires to get in the way and it automatically shuts off. It is easy to transfer the data to your PC via the USB cable or to your PDA via the infrared. I am very satisfied with its performance and the price.

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Wizcom Infoscan TS Elite Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a professor who spends extensive times taking notes from books and papers. This has increased my productivity manifold. Yes, like any other device of this sort it is not always perfect, but the errors are few once you get a hang of how to use it. I think the people complaining about the product wrote the review before really learning how to use it. Every technology out there, including your new TV, nowadays requires a learning curve and this is no different. For me, it is now my indispensable research assistant! I recommned the product enthusiastically if you are willing to bear few hours of teething pain.

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The InfoScan TS Elite is the ultimate mobile scanner for data transfer, ideal for scanning, storing, defining, hearing and transferring printed text to a PC, laptop or PDA. The InfoScan TS Elite can scan up to 500 pages of text at a time, provide word definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and read scanned text aloud in English from within the notes application. The InfoScan is the perfect tool for students, researchers and business people who need to scan data when they are away from their computers. The pen can also be used to scan text directly into any Windows-based applications.

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Ectaco C-Pen 3.5 BT Bluetooth Handheld Scanner Review

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(More customer reviews)After seeing all the positive and negative reviews for the Ectaco C-pen 20, I decided to take the dive and buy the Bluetooth version of Ectaco's handheld text scanner for my wife. I was apprehensive because there are no reviews for this product, but figured we could return the scanner if it didn't work.
My wife uses the scanner pen to scan text and notes from her law school classes. She stinks at typing, so being able to scan all the text she needs into her class outlines is a *huge* timesaver for her.
Caveats: we are on Vista as our operating system.
Pros:
Easy setup (make sure you follow the directions; DO NOT plug in the scanner prior to loading the software).
Scans accurately and quickly when plugged in via USB; see Cons for the story on Bluetooth mode.
Picks up the following kinds of text without problems: highlighted texts, text in books (make sure the pages are flat, though), or underlined text (provided your underline doesn't go through the text; see Cons)
Picks up kooky symbols, like the ones I found in some of my wife's textbooks (deltas, ampersands, etc.)
Cons:
Doesn't scan text well if you have underlined text and some of your underlining moves up through the printed text.
Doesn't scan very well in Bluetooth-only mode. Essentially, you have about 2-3 seconds to scan your line of text before the light on the scanner goes out and it transmits to your computer. I have no idea what the heck the deal is, but if the Bluetooth part of this scanner is really what you're looking for, I would recommend you *not* buy this product.
Scanner doesn't seem like the most well-constructed thing in the world, *but* it has held up well so far, so that might be a non-issue.
Overall: This text scanner does just fine when it's plugged in to the computer via USB cord. My wife really does save a lot of time in her studies. But, as I mentioned above, the Bluetooth really doesn't function very well at all. I originally gave this product 5 stars because it did exactly what it promised, but I'm changing my rating to (a very generous) 3 stars now that we've found out that the Bluetooth part of the show is so bad. Hopefully Ectaco will fix this in their next system update?

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WizCom SuperPen Professional, Portable Business Library Review

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(More customer reviews)The Wizcom SuperPen Professional because it could scan many pages of text and had an on-board dictionary that can pronounce words. The SuperPen Professional concept is fantastic, but it did not work as easily as I would have liked. (...), I would expect the SuperPen not to be so cumbersome to operate.
My first problem was getting the SuperPen Professional to link to my computer using the included Serial connector cable so I could upload scanned text to my computer. Although I loaded the software from the included CD-ROM on to my new Windows XP computer which had very few other applications or devices loaded on it, the computer could not connect to the pen. I followed the instructions to set both the pen and computer's baud rate to 115200, but this didn't resolve the problem. The Wizcom website suggested downloading the latest software version, but I couldn't find a link to download the applicable software. An email to Tech Support explained that the lastest software version is available at:
http://www.wizcomtech.com/Wizcom/support/updates.asp?fid=139&pfid=177&mid=10
and scroll down to Install or upgrade your Desktop by downloading and running the QuickLink Desktop installation program (4.9 Mb). Click on the link and save the file to your hard drive.
Once the file is saved to your hard drive, double-click it's icon and follow the instructions.
A call to Tech Support resolved my connection problem. It turned out that I needed to have the flow control on my computer's serial port set to hardware flow control. This was easy enough to do. I just wish that this advice had been published in the manual or on the web site. Ultimately, I did get the computer connection to work with the included serial port.
When connecting, I got an error in the Quicklink Desktop software until I disabled an option for Microsoft Outlook on the QuickLink Desktop application.
I'm having difficulty getting accurate scans with this pen when scanning articles in trade magazines. The articles have fairly small text that is divided into three narrow columns. Since I have to scan each short line separately, it is quite time-consuming to scan selections from an article. I often have to scan three lines to capture a complete sentence. When I couple the slowness of the scanning process with the effort needed to correct mis-spelled or incorrectly read scans, it becomes faster to use a computer to re-type my notes than it is to scan them. The user interface on the pen for making corrections on this device is awkward.
The dictionary feature is nice, but it was more of a hassle to properly scan the word in question than what I wanted to go to to get a definition. Perhaps a separate electronic dictionary where you could type in the word would be easier.
I got the best results when holding the SuperPen at a 90 degree angle to the text.
I used the scanner to scan content from a book, and found that the scanner was more efficient when scanning pages with longer lines of text than it did when I scanned magazine articles.
The SuperPen Professional is a great concept, but I prefer that it was easier to operate.

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The WizCom SuperPen Professional is a completely mobile device, which instantly provides users with the English definitions of over a quarter of a million words. SuperPen Professional comes complete with a selection of dictionaries from the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Collection including:

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WizCom QuickLink Pen Handheld Scanner Review

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(More customer reviews)I just purchased this handheld scanner because, as a PhD student and full-time manager, I have tons of reading to do. Before I purchased QuickLink, I either had to hand write or type notes into my PC, spend hours at a copier, or spend lots of time using a full-sized scanner to save the quotes and important text that I needed. Now, this WizCom scanner allows me to easily and quickly scan articles, books and other text no matter where I am (on a plane, in a hotel room, at work, or by the
pool). Then I can quickly upload the text into Word or WordPerfect (or other software programs) when I have the chance. Or, if I want, I can scan directly into a specific file.
Though it takes a while to get used to the pen and its menus, a previous reviewer was right on the money when they offered this tip - "Put the pen in the "left-handed" mode, turn the material upside down and then scan from right to left. This lets the user "look ahead" along the desired pen track (printed line) and helps keep the scanning down the center of the line." THIS REALLY DOES WORK and makes scanning much faster and more precise. (I'm not sure, but if you are left-handed, the reverse directions might work for you.)
Now that I have the knack of using the QuickLink pen, I love it! It saves me tons of time and I can now scan only the text I want instead of copying the entire page. For the price and convenience, it's great.

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The QuickLink Pen is a state of the art, portable, optical scanner with stand-alone OCR capabilities. The pen's open platform supports any application based on the Quicktionary OS API. Up to 1000 pages of scanned text can be stored in the pen and transferred to PC, laptop, PDA or cellular phone. The OCR engine enables the unit to store large quantities of information by converting the image to text.The QuickLink Pen comes equipped with the following applications: Notes and Data - capture, store, edit and transmit free text directly to any word-processing application. Address Book - Scan business cards. Use the QuickLink Pen as your address book or transmit the information to Outlook or other application. Tables and Charts - Transfer printed tables, schedules and charts directly to a spreadsheet application. Internet Links - Collect URLs and transfer them directly to your favorite browser Bookmarks or Favorites. Scan to Fax - Capture printed data, transmit it to your mobile phone and fax it. Language Tool - QuickLink Pen users can easily upgrade their product to include any of over 100 electronic dictionary databases, specially formatted to suit the Pen.

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Topscan Scanner Reading Pen, HandHeld Pen Scanner Text Scanner and Text Reader, Scan Text Directly to the Computer with Extra Features (Text to Speech, Free Languages, Dictionary and More) Great christmas gift Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this scanner to replace a spare Ectaco C-Pen 20 Handheld Scanner that had hit the floor one too many times. The scanmarker is much cheaper - less well built, and the actual OCR (Optical Character Recognition) function is pitiful in comparison to the CPen. The one function which does make great sense and works well is the text to speech - which allows you to scan chunks of text and to hear whether the text has made it in OK. Unfortunately, the OCR itself is so bad that any time saved by the text to speech function is lost due to the extensive corrections which must be made to the scanned text for it to be readable.
AMAZING UPDATE: I was contacted by the founder of Topscan on 2.14.11 in response to this review! The problems I experienced are a known issue which the company is in the process of resolving. The problem is that if you scan too much text, the "buffer" gets full and the algorithm does not work well. This explanation precisely matches the issues I was having. The first two or three lines would always scan perfectly, but then a bunch of garbage would seep in making the rest of the scan unusable. If you only scan a few lines at a time or scan slowly, this product will work well for you, and it is much more affordable than the CPEN.

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Wizcom InfoScan IS1000 Pen Scanner Review

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(More customer reviews)I recently purchased the infoscan and must say that it pales in comparison to its competitors. I own 2 C-Pens that are similar to the infoscan and they are much better. The essential problem with the infoscan is that the turnaround time (ie. the time required for the scanned information to be stored into the pen's memory) is too long. It takes 2-3 seconds per line of scanned text which is frustrating when scanning any amount of text (in contrast, the C-Pens (600C and 800C) only take about a second). The character recognition is average (about 90-95% versus the 95+% with the C-Pens). The screen is of lower resolution and quality. The ergonomics are not as good (poor button placement and a larger overall device).
One additional note, the manufacturer will not accept returns of their product if not bought directly from them.
In summary, most of these issues are minor with the exception of the turnaround time which makes this item pale in comparison to the C-Pen product line. These devices are great when they work well (C-Pen) and frustrating when they work poorly (Wizcom).


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InfoScan is like a yellow highlighter for your computer. It enables you to store and transfer up to 500 pages of printed data to a PC, laptop, PDA or any Windows application. This completely mobile device offers users a quick and easy way to take notes from almost any printed document, creating fully editable documents in a snap. Scan to PC Mode scans text into the active cursor of any application that accepts it, in real-timeTransfer data easily using Infra-red (IRDA) or USB Size -6 x 1-1/2 x 1 Weight -3 oz.

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IRIS Pen II Executive Scanner Review

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(More customer reviews)I did a lot of due diligence before buying the IRIS Pen II Executive Scanner, including all the other pen scanner products on the market. I was initially a little put off by the fact you had to attach it to a computer via a USB cable to work. FWIW, I am using it with MacOS X 10.2.6 and a iBook.
I have had it for over a month now, purchased in July 2003, and I LIKE it. I have primarily used it to scan text from photocopies of journal articles. These are clearly not the highest quality text material from which to scan, but nevertheless, the IRIS pen handles them acceptably. By that, I mean, I get around 85% accuracy. This clearly means, I have to go back and retype things, but still, I am able to capture large quanities of text to use *in a very rapid fashion*. Like one of the previous posters, I do tend to use it like a highlighter.
As a word of instructive advice...it may be difficult to figure out how to hold the pen. Just try different positions and your hand will develop 'memory' in holding it correctly, such that it captures text.
I guess my overall experience is neither the 100% success that others have had, nor the despair that a few have faced. I would certainly buy this product again.

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This portable, handheld scanner provides a wide range of time-saving conveniences. With up to 1,000 characters recognized per second, the IRIS Pen II Executive Scanner is suited for rapid scanning of small samples of text or for taking notes and scanning tables. It can also scan directly into any Windows or Mac application starting at the position of the cursor. Plus, the text-to-speech option lets you hear what you scan, and in a relatively natural voice.
The IRIS Pen II recognizes data on many types of documents, reading 6 to 22 point size fonts with text, numbers, handwritten numbers, and bar codes, as well as reading dot-matrix letters. It supports foreign language uses (up to 56 languages) and is programmable, letting you define two functions that are triggered by single and double clicks (tab, enter, space).
The Pen II provides improved image stability at varying speeds and offers gray scale document recognition. Additional features include left-to-right and right-to-left scanning, central line tracking, multiline mode, recognition of wavy or distorted characters, a line skew tolerance of 10 percent with a word slope tolerance of 20 percent, clear scanning of inverse text (white letters on dark background), and automatic input of tables (like invoices and price lists) into your database or spreadsheet. The idle mode reduces power consumption.
When directly connected to the USB port of a PC or notebook, the scanner supports plug-and-play operation and is powered by the USB port, so there's no need for an external power supply. Support for serial/parallel port is available.

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DocuPen X05 Bluetooth Scanner - 1 x USB - PC, Mac Review

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(More customer reviews)This product is, in a word, useless. In two words, useless and expensive.
I am a PhD student in History. I do most of my research in libraries. Some of these libraries do not have copy machines or scanners available, so when I found this product, I thought I had found a perfect solution for scanning multi-page articles from books and periodicals from non-circulating libraries. I am guessing this product was not designed with someone with my needs as a user.
For brevity's sake, I will stick to 3 fatal problems:
- Does not scan as .pdf. Why does this *document* scanner only scan to formats primarily meant for *images* formats (i.e. jpeg, tif)? I have no answer. WHAT THIS MEANS: you will NOT be able to scan multi-page documents as a single document. You will have to scan each page as a separate file. But wait, it gets better...
- The scanner stays "on" only as long as it takes to scan and save. After each file is done saving, it automatically turns off. WHAT THIS MEANS: Any time you have to scan more than one page in a row, you will have to turn on the scanner and wait for it to initialize. "Wow, that's crummy, but I can deal with that," you say...it gets better:
- Do you have a Mac by any chance? (I'm not sure whether this applies to PCs). You know that pesky message that pops up whenever a USB device is pulled out without ejecting it properly? The one that says you may have corrupted the information? WELL, since the device automatically shuts off about 5 seconds after the last active command, as soon as it mounts to your desktop, you have 5 seconds to get any files off of the device, or it will TURN OFF, resulting in an IMPROPER DEVICE REMOVAL error message, not to mention, you will not have your files.
THE SOLUTION: If you are a user with my needs, just use a digital camera. If you have a steady hand, the quality will be virtually the same. You will be able to take images of documents WIDER THAN 10 inches, and while you may not be able to capture them as .pdfs either, you will save a lot of time (I forgot to mention, each file takes 5-10 seconds to save with the DocuPen after scanning). Heck, I've been using my iPhone camera, and it's worked about a lot better than this product.

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WizCom E04087 QuickLink-Pen Elite Scanner Review

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(More customer reviews)I received QuickLink Elite pen today and have been testing it for the past 6 hours. Now I am finished, I would like to share my thought about this device with you. The box came with the content as described by Amazon. My surprise was that the 135 page color manual, I thought those were extinct! That is in addition to the PDF one in the CD.
Installation on Windows XP Pro. SP2 (Tablet edition) went smoothly, the instructions on the self run CD were easy to follow. You basically install the driver for the cable [serial at the device connector to USB (II in my case) at the PC end], then you install the desktop application which is a very basic utility that lists the files on your pen, and allows you to communicate, change settings, transfer data, and add software to your pen. Once you install the software, you will be asked to connect the device to the computer to start the communication. Initially I had a problem connecting to the device because it conflicted with Bluetooth serial ports. So I disabled the Bluetooth serial ports and removed some extra unused serial COM ports from the computer device manager. I reinstalled the pen drive from the CD, restarted the computer but before I connect again I did one more IMPORTANT step that is not mentioned anywhere. You Baud rate on the pen (go to settings, communications, baud rate) must be the same as your computer COM port (go to device manager, right click on the new COM port), choose a rate, in my case 57600 worked best. After that I managed to exchange files, install software to the pen. In addition, It tried the IrDA with my laptop, the text file was transferred instantly. PDA (iPAQ) recognize the device but transfer of files needed third-party software (Peacmaker $15). In their website, they say there will be an upgrade where third party will not be needed.
After that scanning the text went smoothly, I also scanned small image ( max 8 mm wide), installed the tables software on the pen, scanned directly on the PC ... all went very well. I scanned a type font 10 textbook, out of the total 543, 24 were mis-recognized (some missing one letter, some had capital letter in the middle, while others were just a mess). That is about 95.5% accuracy, not bad, considering that I get about 85% with a flatbed scanner. It takes me about 5 to 6 seconds per line (about 5 minutes per page), so this is truly for text snippets rather than a whole page scanning. Image scanning is useful for signatures, Greek letters, etc. Quality is just OK, you can also scan tables, business cards (to outlook), URLs (get sent to favorites) with the included add-ins on the CD, and bar codes (additional downloads from the wizcom website). All in all I will recommend this device for students, researchers, & people who type slow or rather collect different set of texts from books, journals, etc. It fits 1000 pages internal memory, besides scanning directly to your word processor. It has built in English dictionary, good for language students. It also read aloud any text that is scanned (I do not see the use of this one) but the pen comes with earphone with volume controls.
All in all, this pen turn out as it was described and I think it is a keeper. Thanks for reading this long review and I hope it helped someone.


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The QuickLink-Pen Elite is an updated version of the very popular and successful QuickLink-Pen, providing users with new and improved electronic note-taking capabilities. The QuickLink-Pen Elite reads notes and definitions aloud, beams to smart phones as well as to PDAs and PCs, includes English dictionary definitions, and connects via USB to your PC.
Used just like a yellow highlighter, the QuickLink-Pen Elite lets you collect electronically notes from any printed text–anytime, anywhere. The QuickLink-Pen Elite is ideal for students, doctors, business people, or researchers who need the ability to quickly and easily take notes whenever and wherever they might be–in a library, on a plane, or in a business meeting.
The QuickLink-Pen Elite comes complete with several useful applications. The scan and store feature allows you to store up to 1,000 pages of text; transfer stored text to PDAs (PalmOS and WinCE), Smart phones (PalmOS and Windows Mobile 2003), or PCs via IRDA Infra red connection; transfer stored notes to PCs via USB connection (and automatically create Microsoft Word documents); and read the scanned notes aloud using the text to speech function, either through the built-in speaker or headphones. Additional scanning languages are supplied on CD-ROM and include German, Swedish, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and French. Scan and define allows you to display the definition of any word in the notes, using the included American Heritage Concise Dictionary, while the scan to PC function allows real-time scanning directly via the USB connection into any Windows based application, with the scanned text appearing at the cursor point. With image capture, you can scan and store small images that can then be transferred to a PC at a later time.
Handy applications are supplied on CD-ROM for optional installation. Address Book scans business cards and synchronizes with a desktop or PDA address book, such as Outlook. Table Builder scans data in spreadsheet format and transfers it directly to Microsoft Excel on a PC. Internet Links scans URLs (web addresses) and transfers them directly to your Internet Explorer favorites list.
What's in the Box QuickLink Pen Elite, USB cable, getting started guide, user's manual, CD-ROM (includes installations for add-ons, QuickLink-Pen Elite Desktop application, USB driver, and free CharacterEyes software), Pen case with Opticard, two AAA batteries, earphones with volume control

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Ectaco C-Pen 3.0 Handheld OCR Scanner Portable with USB Cable Review

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(More customer reviews)I have been using the C-Pen 20 scanner since 2007. I teach university classes and engage in research, and this scanning "pen" is a great convenience. It is light, fast, and easy to use. It speeds up note-taking incredibly. With a small light in the tip of the pen, I just run the pen across type that I want to record and the text is automatically scanned into my word processing document. It is very accurate, but not quite 100%, so I need to watch and correct some of the text. It only works on standard typefaces, so italics, underlining and hand-written notes tend to confuse the scanner. Still, using the scanner is far faster than typing notes by hand. A button on top of the scanner serves as a hard return or a mouse click, and several functions can be programmed onto an optional menu / pad. The C-Pen 20 plugs into a computer's USB slot, and does not require a separate power source. It comes with its own software, and updates are available from the C-Pen web site.
As a final comment and recommendation, I will say that the C-Pen did not come with a carrying case. Since the C-Pen is all-plastic, I bought a large eye-glass case which is just the right size for the C-Pen and its cable. Now I put the C-pen in my computer case or brief case without worrying about it being damaged.
If you do a lot of note-taking or transferring information between documents then you owe it to yourself to give this a try.

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Baracoda BP0002 BaracodaPencil 2 Scanner Review

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(More customer reviews)The bluetooth works very well. I had no problem pairing the Pencil2 to my Nokia N800 and to my Sony Vaio laptop. The barcode scanning is rather sub-par. Many densely printed barcodes require multiple scans to register, some are never read. An inexpensive Metrologic scanner had no problem with those. The touted use as a stylus is somewhat marred by the very short point on a wide body - edges of the screen are not accessible, otherwise it is quite handy.
The (Windows only) software that comes with it is rather poor, the upgrade available on Baracoda site is effectively broken. The tech support is nonexistent, as in no answer to e-mails. The support and an upgrade of firmware are realy needed, because Pencil2 forgets the settings on wake-up. If you want a CR suffix, you get to scan the setup barcodes from the programming manual every time the device wakes up.
I use the Pencil2 to scan internally printed barcodes and to capture signatures. It performs those functions very well.

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