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| Iris USOA400 IRISPen Express 6 Pen Scanner |
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List Price: $129.99
Our Price: $109.97
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Manufacturer: IRIS
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Iris
EAN: 0765010103270
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Feature: Portable, pen-size scanner with OCR recognizes 128 languages
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: IRIS
Manufacturer: IRIS
Model: USOA400
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: IRIS
Release Date: 2007-08-01
Studio: IRIS
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Portable, pen-size scanner with OCR recognizes 128 languages
Recognizes alphanumeric characters, numeric data, mathematical symbols, currency symbols, and much more; scans small images
Scans up to 3.15 inches per second
Mac and PC compatible; powers off USB port
Automatically recognizes mix of Western and Greek or Cyrillic languages; optionally reads Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean
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Editorial Reviews:
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The IRISPen Express 6 is the most intuitive electronic highlighter. Simply slide the pen over text and numbers from letters, newspapers, magazines, faxes, etc. and they are instantly retyped right at your cursor in your favorite application. The IRISPen recognizes 3.15 inches (8 cm) per second and retypes 1,000 characters per second. The IRISPen scans and recognizes 128 languages and features the Smart wizard, which assists you with blurry text, numbers or small images. Whatever you need to scan, the intuitive wizard guides you through the process. The efficient USB connection enables you to capture characters from the largest variety of media at the fastest speed. USB powered, it doesn't require any battery.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Terrible
Comment: I got this thinking that it would be great for college. Well now I am trying to see how fast I can return it. This was so difficult to use. You had to angle it just right or it would not work and it was even harder to get the whole word. I tried doing it out of a textbook and it was impossible. I would not suggest spending any money on this at all.
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Summary: Does the job
Comment: I used to use Optical Character Recognition software in Mac OS9 but haven't for years. Usually the result wasn't much better than typing the material from scratch. Professional OCR software for OS X was way beyond my budget. I hesitated to buy this product because of the negative reviews but finally did so anyway. Setup took less than 5 minutes and I was soon scanning with about 90% accuracy if I followed the directions, which took about 2 minutes to read. If I was careful and the text didn't have weird characters, I could get close to 100% accuracy. The "learning curve" was almost zero - open the program, put the cursor where you want the text in your document and just hold the pen scanner like a pencil as you trace over the text. You do have to hold the scanner solidly to the text. I think people have an unrealistic idea of OCR - it will never be perfect. I think this is a great little gadget that is going to save me a lot of work. If a 60+ year old lady can do this with no problem, anyone ought to be able to.
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Summary: Doubtful but pleased
Comment: After reading some of the reviews I wasn't going to purchase but one said it worked. So I decided to give it a try, glad I did. Right out of the box it worked great on regular type on white or book paper. Doesn't do well with text on color paper. As long as the arrow is on the text line and it is moved at a steady pace it performs well. It has saved much time over typing or flat scan into a document. Well worth the cost. Learning curve 5 minutes.
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Summary: High Quality - IRISPen Express 6 Does What It Says It Does
Comment: I bought the IRISPen Express 6 to lessen the demand of compiling information from several written sources during my research for my doctorate. There is a learning curve, but once I practiced, the IRISPen became a wonderful tool that reduced the time I would have spent retyping my research. With practice, I can scan references in APA style with few errors. One warning...be vigilant. There are a few small glitches that can foil your attempts for perfection (an errant dash or period).
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Summary: "A" for effort
Comment: Although not seamless (like voice recognition typing) it gets a "A" for effort. Given the proof reading and editing that you will have to do; you could say it's easier and quicker to type the text in. But for me, it's not to unlike the ritual of tea drinking - sure I can just grab the tea and take a shot etc and go about my business. But instead, I get to use technology to surgically craft my typing (Farfugnugen) giving me a temporary "reprieve" from my intensive studying.
The bottom line is - is that some letters get lost in translation - and of course you gotta then go through what you just scanned (word for word) comparing it to the book you just scanned from, because you "of course" want it to be a carbon copy (otherwise, why are you scanning in the first place).
Now, would that whole process be faster than typing? I don't think so - but - dose it give you a break from intensive concentration on you're studying? Yes, it dose that - kinda like - stop and smell the roses and enjoy technology. And of course, someday who knows what they will have that will blow everybody's mind away. So in closing, will it be something your life revolves around (probably not) but will it make a nice addition to your toy chest? YOU BET, right on, the thing is, like, pretty cool in it's own way - my toy chest wouldn't be caught dead without it....
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