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WizCom QuickLink Pen Handheld Scanner | List Price: $169.99
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Brand: Wizcom
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Fully portable handheld pen scanner
- Scans full lines of text in 8 languages
- Stores up to 1,000 pages of text
- Transfers text to PC, laptop, PDA, or cellular phone
- Supports memory upgrades
Device Fine, Software lousy [Posted on 2004-07-16]
I found the scan effectiveness worthy of praise, but trying to get the content to my laptop unbearable. The software wouldn't install well or access the scanned text on my Win XP laptop, or my Win2000 laptop, and when I went to my old Win98 laptop it worked fine...albiet with a lame interface. And then, when I deleted the desktop software from Win98 system, the OS got smeared and now only fires up in "Safe Mode". Again, the optics work fine, no complaints at all, but the software is puke.
Throwing money away [Posted on 2004-09-07]
This is one of the worst gadgets (if you could call it that) I have ever bought in my life. It is totally useless. Yes, I could scan, but I have spent 5 hours trying to get it to communicate with my computer. The program does not even attempt to communicate. I am now sending it back. You would be better off throwing your money out of the window. At least someone could pick it up and use it for something worthwhile.
It works, but very slowly [Posted on 2004-09-07]
I bought and used the pen for a while just to see if I liked the system. It does work as advertised, but it is too slow to really be of any use. A better choice would be to save the money and spend it on omnipage. I priced things after using the pen and realized that I could buy a better scanner 9x12" with omnipage for under $90. Even the lite version that came with the scanner is better then the pen. I was able to resell the pen to someone else since I had no use for it.
great for researchers [Posted on 2006-04-18]
The wizcom scanning pen is great for people who do a lot of reading and need to save 1-10 line passages every page or two.
It would be nice if the scanning accuracy were always 100% (I use foreign languages that have different characters thrown in sometimes) but it still saves enormous amounts of time since I don't have to type what I want into my laptop meaning I'm free to keep my eyes on the text without distraction.
If you don't care to have your laptop with you, just take the pen and store all the info to transfer over to your PC later.
If you want you can scan directly into your computer. I often scan directly into a little notecard program which means once I've finished my article or whatever. All my notes are saved together and are searchable. If you need to search for elements of text this is very handy.
It's good for humanities people like myself though I do think improving the technology could always continue.
Wiz- Com: Over- Hype, Under- Deliver [Posted on 2006-08-23]
Wiz- Com was one of the 1st to come out w/ a handheld pen scanner, and the idea is great...
The sell- point for me was convenience and the thought that I would be able to speed up processing data for school. Unfortunately, the software app. for this scanner sucked, the interface was a total pain in the a** to get functioning correctly, and text- editing was a nightmare. I ended up wasting more time trying to get it to work than it was worth. Total waste of my time and money.
Save your $$$ and wait until better models come out in the future. This was a case of rushing a great idea to market before the technology was ready for consumer application.
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