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USER'S GUIDE
When the reading mode "Black-and-White Bitmap to Clipboard" or "Greyscale
Bitmap to Clipboard" is enabled, no output target can be selected: the scanned
images are always copied to the Windows clipboard for later pasting.
With the IRISPen Translator, the active application functions as the output
target when the source text must be saved. The translation appears in the “pop-
up” translation window, the "Copy" button of that translation window allows the
user to paste the translation.
To study foreign sentences and their meaning comfortably later on, the trans-
lation can be inserted in the same window where the scanned text is placed; to
save the original text and its translation separately, the translation can be inserted
in a different window.
The clipboard functions as the output target when the user wants to concen-
trate on the translation without inserting the source text. Clipboard translation
must be enabled with the command "Translate Clipboard" under the "Options"
menu if this is to work. All scanned text is then sent directly to the clipboard, and
translated automatically. The user can limit himself to inserting the translation in
his application with the "Copy" button of the translation window.
Multilines (IRISPen Executive - IRISPen Translator)
Enables the multiline reading mode, where multiple lines are “buffered” be-
fore they are inserted, spoken and translated.
It takes a click on the pen button to “flush” the scanned text. After each
scanned line, the status window displays the message "Press pen button to flush".
The user should only do so at the end of a sentence or paragraph. He does not
have to wait for this message to disappear from his screen to start scanning
another line.
When this option is disabled, the output of each scan is transmitted automati-
cally to the target application; the user does not have to press the pen button to
start the output process.
Multiline scanning is recommended when the user reads text excerpts and
when the speech synthesis is enabled. The multiline scanning mode ensures a
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