IRISPen Express 6 Pen Scanner
$94.99
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Description
Price: $94.99
(as of Sep 23, 2024 12:47:54 UTC – Details)
The Iris USOA400 IRISPen Express 6 Pen Scanner is a portable, hand-held scanner that works just like a highlighter. You simply slide the scanner over virtually any printed text, and the text is automatically scanned directly into your computer. Ideal for remote research projects or any task in which a flatbed scanner would prove too cumbersome, this pen-sized
Portable, pen-size scanner with OCR recognizes 128 languages
Recognizes alphanumeric characters, numeric data, mathematical symbols, currency symbols, and much more; scans small images
Scans up to 3.15 inches per second
Mac and PC compatible; powers off USB port
Automatically recognizes mix of Western and Greek or Cyrillic languages; optionally reads Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean
Customers say
Customers appreciate the accuracy of the scanner. They mention it’s easy to get the hang of and is accurate considering what it’ll be doing. However, some customers have issues with lag and lighting. Opinions are mixed on functionality, time saving, and text recognition.
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Deb’s Guy –
Terrible Pen
I wanted to update my scanning pen, having been frustrated by trying to use a Quik-Pen for several years. It was bad, but this I.R.I.S. pen was completely useless. I believe it is the software that is faulty, but I cannot be sure because the pen never activated. The user interface would never come up. I uninstalled and reinstalled four times with no success. I have a quad-four computer with 3g of memory so I know it is not my hardware.Perhaps I just got a bad one, but after waiting a week for it to come from Arizona to Atlanta, it was a great disappointment. It is in the box and on its way back. I am going to try the Penpower World Pen scanner and see if it works.
R. Byrne –
Review for Mac Users (law student perspective)
I’d like to set out a review for mac users.1. I am a law student trying to use the scanner to consolidate information from book to print. The books I use have writing in them, over the words, and lots of highlighting and underlining.2. I was extremely reticent to buy the pen because of the negative reviews.3. I am using a Macbook Pro (2010) with the pen.The bottom line is that the pen really does work when you are using it with written text. Reviews that mention otherwise (I have noticed) are mainly PC users. The pen really is helpful in getting down all of the information you want.A. Dealing with books (exclusively with typed print)The pen works wonderfully. It works BEST with a book on a flat surface. (I have only had problems with very thick book in the beginning chapters (where the binding is not flat on the table. It can read over yellow highlighting without a problem. It has a 60-70% success rate with underlined words. It obviously works best with clean text.B. Mac experienceI have a feelign that the OCR engine for the mac software is somewhat different (though I could be wrong) than the PC version. The far and few between Mac users have seem to have positive experiences.C. Realistic ExpectationsIn an ideal world, the pen would work perfectly… of course, it does not. But you can definitely optimize the experience to make it work best for you.1. Somehow it depends on the light. Insufficient lighting with not allow the text to be read. Too much lighting on the other hand, seems to overwhelm the pen and writing does not get recognized (so don’t hold have your friend hold a flashlight above the book… like we did last weekend). Second, the pen can recognize text REALLY quickly. But when it’s underlined or highlighted, slow down. I usually do an entire line (flat, good lighting, clean text) in a quarter of a second. And it’s 99% always right. I slow down on highlighted text and that seems to work well.Lastly, I typically run into problems when I try to only get particular words from the page instead of a whole line. this might be due to my beginner level use, though.Just realize that this technology isn’t perfect, but it is pretty good. For the price, it will save you thousands of keystrokes. I just hope this review presents an objective approach that might explain some of the more negative ones. If you find any questions or issues, comment and I’ll try my best to address.-Rob
Kraig Meyer –
Does not even remotely do what it claims
We bought this scanning pen for an extremely simple task: scanning crisply laser-printed black numbers off of a white sheet of paper into a spreadsheet. Three of us read the instructions and attempted to scan numbers. None of us were able to successfully scan more than 10% of the time. Most of the time the scan of a number like “123456” would get input as something like “1~#!@#—=+” Looking at the image (pre-OCR’d) version of the scan, it was obvious why the OCR software could not convert this to numbers, as the images were uniformly blurry and garbled.We contacted the customer support group for this product and they said “just turns option x on in the software” and that will fix everything. Further research indicated that option x was actually for a different product than this. I think this is the first product I’ve ever returned to Amazon in years and years of buying from them.
J. Regier –
IRISPen express 6: Tall Claims, Small Product
This product works alright, so long that one is willing to put up with plenty of grief. The IRISPen express 6 promises to scan printed text and numbers “with an accuracy of up to 100%.” Technically, this is accurate, since anywhere from 1% to 99% of the time can be considered “up to 100%,” but it is also misleading, given the experience of use. About 40% of the time, the scanner interprets chicken scratch from printed text, and the result is completely unreadable. Another 40% of the time, the text is readable but not accurate. One must spend a good deal of time determining what the scanner meant. (“W” often shows up as “V” and “to” often becomes £o,” spaces do not necessarily scan at all, soyourtextlookslikethis, and other similar inaccuracies.) Completely accurate text appears perhaps 15% of the time. With this in mind, the scanner handles highlighting fine, and serves as a good replacement for sticky notes and highlighting in books, and is usually faster than typing notes. Forget scanning underlined text, though. The pen shows almost no recognition for it.The percentages above totaled 95%. The other 5% of the time, the pen will freeze. Although this product advertises full compatibility with Macintosh–one of the few products to do so–there are several technical glitches that need to be worked out. When the pen freezes, it is completely unresponsive to the “force quit” feature and remains unusable until the computer is restarted. Do not bother trying to do the safe restart. The pen blocks anything short of flipping the switch. I have sought technical support on this issue, but have yet to receive a response.
R. Juneau –
Once you get the right angle and speed, you will get – almost – 100% reproduction of text. I’ve used it both in english and french. Left side pages of small books is a little tricky, because when you come to the middle of the book, it’s hard to keep the same angle, as it would be on the right side of pages where you can go in one smooth movement, off the page.It does save time in typing, even though you may have to make small corrections, once in a while.
Muna Manji –
Does not work as advertised.It is very tricky to get the scanner over the writing you want to scanEven if do manage to do that ,the scanned result is nothing but bunch of useless symbols