The IRISPen™ Executive is the full-featured OCR scanning pen. This scanning pen works just like a highlighter: simply slide it over printed information from newspapers, magazines, faxes, letters, etc... What you get is real and editable text, right at your cursor.
Unique Pen Character Recognition technology
- Optimizes the OCR accuracy and speed
- Reads wavy and distorted images
- Contains a unique line tracking technology
High recognition performance
- Up to 100% accuracy rate
- Reads colored text and numbers
- Reads text on colored backgrounds
Scanning & recognition speed
- Recognizes up to 3,15 inches / 8 cm per second
- Improved image stability at varying speeds
Unique and wide compatibility
- Cross platform products: Windows and Mac
- Virtually compatible with ANY applications (Office suite, etc)
- Directly connected to the USB port of a PC, notebook, Tablet PC and Macintosh
- Easy Plug & Play installation
- Powered by the USB port, no need for an external power supply
- Idle mode reduces the power consumption
The IRISPen reads virtually any font, in a wide variety of styles and point sizes (from 8 to 20 points), as well as special characters, reading marks, special symbols, and formatting elements such as vertical lines separating table cells.
- Text (numeric). This includes alphanumeric characters, punctuation marks, numeric data, etc.
- Numbers. This includes special characters, mathematical symbols, punctuation marks, currencies, etc.
Image scanning (to clipboard)
The image will be sent to the clipboard before they can be pasted in a chosen application
- Greyscale image to clipboard
- Black and white image to clipboard
Barcodes – IRISPen Executive only
The IRISPen Executive supports all widespread barcode standards and types, including the 2D barcodes PDF 417 and QR barcode. The IRISPen supports bearer bars drawn around the barcodes.
List of barcodes
EAN 13, EAN 8, UPCA, UPCE, Codabar, D2OF5, I2OF5, code 39, code 39 ext, code 39 HIBC, code 93, code 128, MSIPH, PDF 417, QR Code, Out-of-Spec
By default, the application is set to automatically detect and read any of the barcodes supported by the IRISPen (see: Learn how to... Read barcodes). All barcode types are thus selected by default. You can however limit the recognition to specific barcode types. This will help avoid any possible errors when reading a certain type of barcode. To limit the reading to certain barcodes, (de)select the corresponding buttons in the proposed list.
This feature allows you to make the software automatically verify the barcode check character(s) when reading certain types of barcodes. To enable this verification, simply select the button Verify checksum in front of the barcode(s) concerned.
Should you wish to, you can also have the barcode's cheksum stripped out from the recognition result. To exclude the checksum from the recognized barcode(s), simply select Strip checksum in front of the barcode(s) concerned.
If you notice that the quality of the barcodes to be read is rather poor, you should make some adjustments manually. The software will use additional intelligent routines to try and read the barcode. To indicate that the quality is poor, slide the quality indicator to the left. If necessary, make several tests using the Scan test window (see: Starting up, The Scan Test window).
Allow out-of-specs barcodes
It may happen that some barcodes have been generated without respecting the barcodes specifications. The IRISPen can be tuned to try and read such barcodes. Simply tick this option if you suspect the barcodes are "out-of-specs".
It may be that only part of a barcode can be scanned. This may be the case if the end of the barcode is unavailable or of insufficient quality, etc. If you desire it, the partial scan can render a partial read, rather than no read at all: tick Partial read and indicate the limit under which the reading will not be accepted (in number of characters). If the number of read characters is below the limit, no result will be given. If it is superior to the limit, only the required characters will be recognized.
CMC 7 – IRISPen Executive only
You can recognize the banking font CMC 7.
Handprinting – IRISPen Executive only
You can read handprinted numbers and / or handprinted letters
Recognition languages (OCR)
The IRISPen recognizes 128 different languages. All American and European languages are supported, including Central-European languages. Greek, Turkish, the Cyrillic ("Russian") and the Baltic languages and Hebrew are also supported. Optionally, the IRISPen reads Asian documents in Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean.
List of the recognition languages:
American English, British English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Afaan Oromo, Afrikaans, Albanian, Asturian, Aymara, Azeri (Latin), Balinese, Basque, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Latin), Brazilian, Breton, Bulgarian, Bulgarian-English, Byelorussian, Byelorussian-English, Catalan, Cebuano (also called "Visayan"), Chamorro, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, Frisian, Friulian, Galicain, Ganda, German (Switzerland), Greek, Greek-English, Greenlandic (also called "Eskimo" and Innuit"), Haitian Creole, Hani, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish Gaelic, Javanese, Kapampangan, Kazakh, Kicongo, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luba, Luxemburgh, Macedonian, Macedonian-English, Madurese, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx (Gaelic), Maori, Mayan, Mexican, Minangkabau, Moldovan, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nahuatl, Norwegian, Nyanja, Nynorsk, Occitan, Papamiento, Pidgin English (Nigeria), Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Roman, Romanian, Rundi, Russian, Russian-English, Samoan, Sardinian, ScottishGaelic, Serbian, Serbian (Latin), Serbian-English, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sotho, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tatar (Latin), Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Ukrainian, Ukrainian-English, Uzbek, Waray, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Zapotec, Zulu.
You can activate a mixed alphabet of Greek or Cyrillic and Western characters. This is useful if Western words pop up in Greek of Cyrillic texts (this is often the case with proper name, brand names, etc.). The IRISPen will automatically switch languages whenever needed.
Speech synthesis – IRISPen Executive only
Thanks to the speech synthesis, you can make the IRISPen speak out the recognized data for you. Just scan some data and the computer reads it out for you! The following languages are available: Brasilian (Portuguese), British English, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian. The speech synthesis feature is available in the language that was chosen at the installation for speech synthesis.
Image adjustment – IRISPen Executive only
The image adjustment features enable to optimize the image generated with the pen for the recognition process. These options will be particularly useful if you scan very bad quality documents, or low-contrast documents where the background virtually has the same color as the text.
Scan multiple lines – IRISPen Executive only
The option Multiple lines is used to scan multiple lines at at time. It is particularly to scan full excerpts from book, magazines, etc. The various lines of text arefirst kept in the IRISPen, then released with the click on a pen button.
You can use the option Small Print to get optimized results when reading small printed text, with a font size smaller than 10 points.
The IRISPen wizard offers the quickest and easiest way of defining your settings. It proposes a series of templates with pre-defined settings means for the reading of certain types of data: text, text from columns, numeric tables, etc. These templates can be either used as such, or modified to fit more particular needs.
User presets templates / profiles
Up to 3 (modified) templates can be further assigned to a preset button directly accessible from teh application window. When it comes to actually capture a certain type of data, all you need to do is press the right preset button. By default, the preset buttons are already assigned to the reading of Text, Text from columns, text from tables.
Set keyboard function to pen buttons
The IRISPen is equipped with two buttons. Each of the two buttons ca nbe programmed so as to execute an operation. By simply pressing the pen buttons, you will thus be able to execute 5 operations: Null, Enter, Space, Tab, Undo Last Scan.
The option Dot Matrix is used to make the pen read dot matrix symbol, i.e. symbols that are made isolated, separated dots. (eg: draft, 9 pin)
With the delimiters you can indicate how the scanned lines must be delimited for the reading. How should hyphens be interpreted when occurring at the end of a line?
New redesigned interface
- Look & Feel Windows Vista / Mac OS X
- New image quality check window
User interface languages:
English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Traditional & Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic
- Mac & Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/NT/Vista/Windows 7 & 8
- CD ROM drive
- Available USB port
- Grayscale pen scanner
- Quick Installation Guide
- Register card
- Electronic manual
- Test sheet
- Calibration sheet