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The IRISPen Executive also offers recognition of dot matrix printed docu-
ments. Dot matrix symbols are made up of isolated, separate dots, and highly
specialized recognition routines are required to recognize them.
Multiline scanning increases the “user-friendliness” of the IRISPen: it is
most useful when the user reads text excerpts. Several scans get “buffered”
before the reading result is inserted: the user presses the pen button to send entire
paragraphs consisting of several lines to his Windows applications at once. The
multiline reading mode also ensures a natural prosody: when the text-to-speech
module has to pronounce individual lines, rather than full sentences, the intonation
may be somewhat less than “human”.
The IRISPen Executive is equipped with advanced imaging features to ad-
just the scanning to the color tones of the documents to be scanned. As the user
optimizes the images generated by the pen scanner, a much larger range of docu-
ments becomes legible. Think for example of documents where the colored back-
ground would otherwise render the recognition impossible.
The software-only upgrade to the IRISPen Translator offers the following
major add-on capabilities: speech synthesis in two languages, bidirectional sen-
tence translation of a language pair and multiline scanning.
The IRISPen Translator was designed for language learning and translation
aid: the user encodes and translates foreign language texts by scanning them, and
he hears the words spoken.
The IRISPen Translator provides bidirectional, real-time sentence transla-
tion of all scanned text. The translation is displayed in a “pop-up” translation
window.
The IRISPen Translator software also offers clipboard translation: the user
translates texts without scanning, any text to be translated is simply copied to the
clipboard. Think of texts entered on the keyboard, wordprocessor files, e-mail
messages, Internet web pages etc.
The IRISPen Translator English-French translates English into French and
vice versa. Extra translation libraries can be installed. The currently available
versions are: English-French, English-German, English-Italian, English-Portuguese
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