The IRISPen is a pen sized scanner that allows you to enter data (text, barcodes and hand-written numbers) into any Windows or Mac application. What you get is real editable text, right at the cursor position. You save time and you even enjoy that tedious data-entry. Simply slide the IRISPen over the text you want in your application! The IRISPen is a fully portable solution. It can be hooked up to any desktop or portable computer without any additional interface boards. Install the IRISPen software, connect the pen-scanner to your system and you are set to go! The IRISPen Translator software reads, translates and speaks: ?English <-> French ?English <-> Spanish ?English <-> German ?English <-> Italian ?English -> Japanese.