Features 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 Only compatible with Windows Virtually compatible with ANY applications (Office suite, etc) Scanner USB connection Directly connected to the USB port of a PC, notebook, Tablet PC Easy Plug & Play installation Powered by the USB port, no need for an external power supply Idle mode reduces the power consumption Scanner size: 1 (W) X 0.6 (D) X 4.9 (H) in Scanner Weight: 1.8 Oz USB cable: 69 in Scan type Printed information Text (numeric). This includes alphanumeric characters, punctuation marks, numeric data, etc. Numbers. This includes special characters, mathematical symbols, punctuation marks, currencies, etc. 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. Image scanning (to clipboard) Greyscale image to clipboard Black and white image to clipboard The image will be sent to the clipboard before they can be pasted in a chosen application Translation Thanks to the @Promt Office Translator translation software integrated into the IRISPen Translator, you can directly translate your scanned text lines into any of the two languages chosen at the installation. You scan the text and the translation pops up in a separate translation window. Supported language pair With English interface  English < >French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, With French interface French < > English, German, Russian, Spanish With Spanish interface Spanish < > English, German, French, Russian With German interface German < > English, French, Spanish, Russian Direct translation The scanned text is instantly translated into @Promt Office Translator Speech synthesis Thanks to the speech synthesis, you can make the IRISPen speak out the recognized data or its translation for you. Just scan some data and the computer reads it out for you! The speech synthesis is available for both the scanned and translation languages. Integration with MS Outlook & MS Office Translation functions can be integrated into applications of Microsoft Office. An additional toolbar along with commands in right-click menu appear in these applications. 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. Mixed alphabets 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. Features Small print You can use the option Small Print to get optimized results when reading small printed text, with a font size smaller than 10 points Wizard 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. Dot Matrix 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) Delimiters 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 New image quality check window User interface languages English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Traditional & Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic