To take notes away from homeI've thought of a "Pen" scanner such as the QuickLink Pen-Shaped Handheld OCR Scanner or the C Technologies C-Pen 200. The idea seems great in theory but I know of no one who has actually used them. Any body had experience with them? For taking notes for later OCR use have you encountered any problems?
In article <875d1i$h3 @nnrp1.deja.com>, Communipaw <communi @my-deja.com> wrote: a "Pen" scanner such as the the C Technologies C-Pen notes for later OCR use Depot among other places for $200. It worked well, at least 90% accuracy or better. The controls are crude: there are two buttons used to navigate through menus. It has the capacity for 100 pages of storage. It requires an infrared adaptor that costs at least $40, so the C Pen plus the adaptor is $240, while the Quicklink Pen is $150, has 1000 pages of memory, and includes the cable link to the PC. I did not get the C Pen only because it is more expensive than the Quicklink pen. If I find that Quicklink is not accurate, I would get the C Pen 600, which costs $250, and has 1000 or 2000 pages of memory and more text on the screen. Bottom line - at least the C Pen works.
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posted on Aug 10, 2005
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In article <875d1i$h3 @nnrp1.deja.com>, Communipaw <communi @my-deja.com> wrote: a "Pen" scanner such as the the C Technologies C-Pen notes for later OCR use
The QuickLink Pen works just like it's advertised. It's best features are the notes and tables programs. Notes lets you created files on the pen with automatic or manualy entered names that you just scan into -they go to your PC as MS Word format DOC files. Tables does the same but you scan into cells to create a table/spreadsheet and these are saved in Excel format. It also has a big database for addresses and a small one for links, but I don't really use them.
The only possible problem is if your serial port isnt' set up right (comes with a cable and IR).
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