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lines, rather than full sentences, the intonation may be somewhat less than “hu-

man”.

HOW DOES THE IRISPEN WORK?

The pen-sized scanner functions as a greyscale camera that sends an image

to the computer. To recapture printed or typed information, you simply rule the

pen over a line of text. You start scanning as soon as you press the IRISPen onto

the paper; the scanned text is lit up by the scanner. As you scan the text, an

image consisting of intense points (so-called “pixels”) on a lighter background is

generated and transmitted to the PC.

When you stop scanning by lifting the pen from the paper, the software takes

over. Intelligent routines convert the greyscale images into black-and-white im-

ages. The text recognition software converts these images into editable charac-

ters and sends the recognized text promptly to the target application where it is

inserted at the current cursor position.

As you are operating a “hand-held” scanner, you will inevitably get wavy,

distorted images. The highly specialized character recognition software PCR-II

is nevertheless able to cope beautifully with this low-quality “material”.

This proprietary technology was designed specifically for pen scanners. It

allows real-time text recognition despite wavy, low-contrast and poor quality im-

ages containing highly distorted font shapes, and incorporates advanced image

processing techniques and unique artificial intelligence routines to this end.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introducing the IRISPen .......................................................................................... III

On to the IRISPen Executive! ................................................................................... IV

How Does the IRISPen Work?.................................................................................. VI

Table of Contents ....................................................................................................VI

Credits and Copyrights .......................................................................................... XII