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C Pen 600 Handheld Scanner | List Price: $149.99
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Brand: C Technologies
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - Portable one-handed scanning
- Scans printed text fonts in 5 to 22 points
- Includes C Dictionary software
- Infrared communications port for handheld, PC, or similar IrDA device
- 100 MHz processor; 2,000-page memory capacity
Not worth the price; purchase a used cheaper one instead [Posted on 2001-04-17]
When I decided to cough up the $150 dollars, I expected to be amazed by it's power. I was definately wrong. The only thing I found it useful for, was containing addresses and amusing myself. If you are considering purchasing this product, I would suggest you buy it from an Amazon user for a cheaper price.
Thanks for the Great Advice! [Posted on 2002-06-11]
I had all intentions of purchasing one of these pens to use next college semester. After reading all of the good advice from the ones that have purchased it..I'm sure everyone knows that i will order one just as soon as i am finished writing in this comment box! If it would do what it was intended on doing it would be great for all of these notes that i have to keep up with. And running Windows Me to find that it is not compatible saved me alot of headaches!
So easy to use should be banned! [Posted on 2003-06-30]
I used to had to manually copy excerpts and text from books while doing reasearxh, one day I saw this kid at the library come in, pulled a stacjk of bboks and started driving this small pen accross it... I asked him whart that was he showed me the C pen 600 scanner and how it worked, ten minutes later he left and I was still on my first book! Now I have a life again! Could not live without this little device; I wonder why doesn't everyone else that does reasearch use one. What a time saver and no mistakes is the best!
Good, but with drawbacks [Posted on 2003-09-30]
I like this gadget, although it's far from perfected yet. I use it mainly to look up words in foreign books as I go along. For that purpose it usually works great and saves me a huge amount of time leafing through paper dictionaries or poking at the keyboards of electronic pocket dictionaries. (Note that the C Pen only looks up words in dictionaries. It cannot "translate", as the promos claim it can.) It takes a little time to get skilled at scanning text, and in a recent book I was reading it couldn't recognize the frequent German letter combination "sch" in a relatively normal typeface. Usually, however, it presents no serious difficulties.
For scanning large amounts of text, I don't think it's very convenient, because it's just too slow and not very accurate. You can, however, transfer the text to your computer and run a spellcheck on it in Word or some other program. That helps a bit. One nice thing is that it's smart enough to know that when it hits a hypen at the end of a line it probably needs to join the divided word.
It's sad that C Pens are so hard to get. It has the potential for great popularity, but in my experience Swedish companies let their popular items just get rare, rather than meeting market demand.
DON'T WORRY... it's worth the money! [Posted on 2005-08-10]
I received my c-pen 600c this morning and, within only an hour or so, it was up and running. A couple of trial goes with the pen and you are soon scanning like a pro.
DON'T WORRY IF YOU HAVE WINDOWS XP - some of the previous reviewers of the 600c and 800 have complained about compatibility with windows XP but I had no problems. You go to the c-pen website and just download the update - easy!
My 'first-timer' advice - do a trial scan with the pen and remember you have to 'exit' and it will then give you the option to 'save'. Save it (file name 'test' or whatever). Then go online and download the update. The 'my c-pen' icon will show on your desktop. Connect your pen to the computer via cable of IFR and make sure the pen is ON. ONLY then, go into 'my c-pen' and the 'test' file should show.
DON'T WORRY IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS - I sent an email to the c-pen support team (just about the possibility of getting a USB cable instead of the COM port cable - one feature of the c-pen that isn't so good) and had an answer within a couple of hours.
ACCURACY - it is hit and miss which you sort of expect with this kind of gadget. Sometimes it is brilliant and other times it just can't get it! Be vigilant - check the screen reads correctly before doing the next line - and you'll be fine. It's really easy to delete the last line scanned and try again. A flat surface seems to be a must.
IS IT WORTH IT? - I got a pretty good deal on my pen - I wouldn't really have liked to spend over £100 for this. However, it is an investment if you spend a lot of time typing out text (I'm a postgraduate student doing research and I know this is going to be an invaluable tool). I am also impressed with the amount of text memory (1500 pages) - great for long days in the library.
In closing, I would like to urge you not to be scared off by the previous reviews - in my experience it isn't so bad at all!
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