Irispen Executive 6

List Price: $199.99 Discount Price: $165.99

Features:

• Text recognition, with the best accuracy ever! - Enter words, sentences, excerpts off printed materials into your computer with less error rate than any previous versions. Up to 100% accurate
• Smallest size and biggest scanning quality ever reached
• Excel, Word, Emails, Text Edit, Page, ? you name it! If you can type it in, you can scan it in with the IRISPen.
• Smart wizard - Text, numbers or small images? Whatever you need to scan, the intuitive wizard guides you through the process.
• 128 languages recognized - The IRISPen scans and recognizes an incredibly vast number of foreign languages.

Customer Reviews:

I agree don't waste your money! [Posted on 2007-11-28]
Irispen Executive 6

I spent hours trying to get this pen to work! The position you are required to hold the pen is awkward, at least it was for me. Extremely difficult to get the text to read properly or not go uphill etc. For the amount of money don't buy it.

S.Luis

IRISPen Executive 6 [Posted on 2008-01-03]
About 30 minutes after opening the box I was able to scan with my pen and get very good accuracy. I have no idea what the other reviewers are doing, but mine worked well after less than 5 minutes of practice. I use my pen to copy a paragraph or two from books in order to discuss the author's viewpoint in MSN groups. I found that the speed of the scan is important in getting accurate results. Scanning at the speed I would normally read the text gives a result that needs very little cleanup using a spellchecker. I am not the greatest typist, and this product will ensure that I probably never will get much better.

Downloading the program from the enclosed CD was effortless, and I have not changed from the factory settings. IRISPen definitely gets a thumbs up from me. My wife says it looks like magic, and she is correct. As usual.

Irispen is a real timesaver [Posted on 2008-02-21]
I got my Irispen, installed it, calibrated it and then was puzzeled about what to do next. I called tech support ( these guys give away for free!! ) and they gave me a walkthrough and explanation about how it all worked. They explained it was like moving a camera over a piece of paper and I was a big part of the equation. Further I didn't have to worry too much about where it was going since it would send the results to what ever program had the blinking curser. I used the scan test mode to practice and now I use it everyday. I find that it is important to use a table top or other sturdy surface to brace the material against since the roller at the bottom is what starts the scanner. It's not perfect and makes mistakes but so do I when I type. Bottom line it saves me time and that is what matters to me.

Pen scanner - better than typing text into the computer [Posted on 2008-04-25]
I am a doctoral student in the humanities and I got this scanner because as I research, I like to copy passages on various topics into my computer for quick searching ability. This pen scanner has increased the speed with which I copy notes. There is a learning curve with this product. It takes a little time to get used to the feel of a scan that will turn out perfectly copied text. Also, I've found that if you take a few seconds to calibrate your pen before a copying session, it greatly improves the accuracy. I am a fairly fast typer 40 wpm, and I have typed out a passage, and corrected my errors, and then scanned the same passage and corrected the errors. I found that the pen was almost twice as fast. The software is aesthetically lacking and not completely intuitive, but it gets the job done.

While this product is not perfect in every way, it improves upon the other alternatives to digitize passages of text from books and reports.

I've used this product with both Mac and PC (XP). It has scanned text easily into Pages, and Word for me.

Customer service was a little difficult to contact, but eventually I was able to contact them, and they sent me the Mac version of the software free of charge via an e mail attachment. I don't really use the scanner for foreign languages, handwritten notes, etc so I can't really comment on those features.

Left handed on a mac [Posted on 2008-05-05]
I bought this originally to get some UPC information into my MacBook laptop without having to type. The first night I had this on my computer, I couldn't get it to work no matter how much I calibrated it. However, after finding out that I had to hold the pen still on a piece of paper while calibrating, it worked almost flawlessly afterwards.
In my classes, I can use it easily to quote essays with very good accuracy. For left handed use, they set it so I swipe the pen from the right side of the page to the left, which is much a much smoother motion. The only drawback happens when I get to the end of a line where the pen becomes creative. If the formatting n the paper that I quote off of puts a dash at the end of a line, the pen will try to make the partial word into a word in it's built in dictionary.
All in all, a GREAT value, and I am very pleased with this product.

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