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IRIS Pen II Executive Scanner | List Price: $199.00
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Brand: Iris
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Handheld pen-sized OCR scanner
- Scans up to 1,000 characters per second
- Supports up to 56 foreign languages
- Reads font sizes from 6 to 22 points
- Text-to-speech lets you hear what you've scanned
Bad, bad, bad [Posted on 2005-05-05]
Even if I carefully followed the instructions, it was impossible to get a clean text. Almost every word I scanned had one or two mistakes. The time to correct those mistakes amounts to the time it would take to type the text with two fingers, as I always type. In short, I have the Iris Pen "Executive" in the closet and I don't think I will ever use it again.
Better Than Expected for Macintosh User [Posted on 2005-08-24]
This is an early report after owning the pen for a week. I'm an OS X Macintosh user and while we are frequently forgotten when it comes to cool hardware, Iris remembered us...thank you! Frankly the pen works better than I expected it to, especially after reading the occasional negative reviews, which seem to be greatly exaggerated. I was tempted to give the pen a 5-star rating, because what the scanner attempts to do is quite complicated, compared to a flat-bed scanner. The pen scanner must be both smaller and much more intelligent. What holds me back from a 5-star is that the pen is not entirely plug-and-play. If the pen is disconnected from the USB hub, it's my experience that you must reconnect the pen and then restart the computer, or the pen is not recognized. Several times I've needed to restart to get the pen working for me again. The tilting of the pen (which some complain about) is easy, because there's a wide flat surface on the pen that guides the angle. What is important to remember is that you must calibrate in the same light as you scan. My initial frustration at inaccurate scanning was because I had calibrated under a bright lamp light, then proceeded to scan in a way that my hand cast a shadow on the text. After the obligatory restart, and being careful to keep the light consistent on the paper, scanning progressed smoothly, and it seems the unit scans faster than the recommended 1 inch per second. I could hardly believe the reviews that the pen would scan directly into MS Word, but it does, quickly and accurately. One particular font in a book turned a lot of the "e"s into "c"s but a spellcheck corrected those in short order, and I suspect I was going much faster than was recommended at the time. So far, this pen scanner excels at the difficult task of taking notes--a few here, a few there--from textbooks and magazines. A worthy research aid for writers and students.
Beware...it doesn't work as advertised [Posted on 2005-12-01]
This scanner makes too many errors and is pretty slow. I expected better after reading the other reviews.
Not worth the money [Posted on 2007-10-01]
I bought this pen to help me read text. It was so slow going and made so many mistakes I finally just gave up. I found that the best option was to purchase a program that does OCR, scan the pages I want read and use the OCR program to convert to editable text, and then get a text to voice translator. That did the trick for me and it was actually much cheaper and way faster. I can't recommend this product.
yes it work with vita , you have get vista soft at suport center. [Posted on 2007-12-15]
yes it work well with my vista .
it okay ,i use it some time.
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