C Technologies C-Pen User manual

USER’S MANUAL
English

C Pen
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Second edition (April 1999).
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Part No. AM 251 022 R1A
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Contents
C PEN............................................................... 5
The Battery ..................................................................................6
How C Pen Works .......................................................................7
The Buttons .................................................................................9
Turning On and Off .................................................................10
The Main Menu ........................................................................11
Reading text..............................................................................14
Reading another line ...............................................................16
Stop reading .............................................................................16
NOTES............................................................ 17
The Command menu ...............................................................17
Creating a new file or folder...................................................18
The Text menu ..........................................................................18
The Edit menu ..........................................................................19
C Write .......................................................................................22
Closing a text ............................................................................29
Leaving Notes ...........................................................................29
SETTINGS ....................................................... 30
Text Language ..........................................................................31
Read Mode ................................................................................31
Text Quality ...............................................................................31
C Write Feedback .....................................................................33
System Settings.........................................................................34
STORAGE ....................................................... 35
INFO............................................................... 35
C ADDRESS ................................................... 36
Enter a new contact .................................................................37
View a contact ..........................................................................39
Edit a contact ............................................................................40
Find a contact ...........................................................................40
Delete a contact........................................................................41
Exit C Address ...........................................................................42

C Pen
C DICTIONARY ............................................... 43
Dictionary license key ..............................................................43
Introduction ..............................................................................44
Translation screen .....................................................................45
Word selection list ....................................................................46
Word selection screen ..............................................................47
Word edit box ..........................................................................48
Word references .......................................................................48
Text Language ..........................................................................49
DICTIONARIES button..............................................................49
INFO button ..............................................................................50
Removing dictionaries.............................................................50
Exiting C Dictionary .................................................................50
CONNECTING TO A PC ................................... 51
Installing software ....................................................................51
Getting help ..............................................................................53
C Pen viewer..............................................................................53
Transferring files .......................................................................53
C Address ...................................................................................54
C Dictionary...............................................................................54
C Direct ......................................................................................55
C Pen Edit ..................................................................................55
Storage ......................................................................................56
Closing the connection ...........................................................56
TROUBLESHOOTING ....................................... 57
CARE & SAFETY ............................................. 59
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ......................... 60
Warranty....................................................................................61

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C PEN
Congratulations - you have just bought
yourself a photographic memory! C Pen is
a Mobile Information Collector that reads,
remembers, processes and transfers printed
text cordlessly to your Windows-equipped
PC. C Pen is in essence an electronic
highlighter that remembers the text that
you are marking.
C Pen is equipped with 8 MB of memory,
of which 6 MB can be used to store about
3,000 standard size pages. C Pen communi-
cates with your PC via a built-in infrared
interface, using the IrDA standard. When
C Pen is connected to your Windows PC, it is
recognized as a standard drive. C Pen contains
a digital camera, OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) technology and a powerful
computer, yet weighs no more than 100 grams.
Carry it with you wherever you go.

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C Pen
The Battery
Attaching
1. Place the battery as shown below.
2. Push down until you hear a click.
3. Secure the battery by pushing the locking catch
forward.
To remove the battery, press the locking catch away from
the reading end of the pen and lift the battery upwards.
Charging
1. Connect the charger to C Pen.
2. Plug the charger into a mains socket.
When the battery is fully charged, the charging stops
automatically. You cannot overcharge the battery. While
charging, you may use C Pen as usual, but the charging
time will be longer. The normal charging time is 12
hours.
Locking catch

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How C Pen Works
As C Pen is moved over the text, C Pen’s internal light
source illuminates the characters and a camera takes
pictures of the text. These images are transformed to
computer-readable text by an OCR-system.
WhatisOCR?
Optical Character Recognition is the process of turning
an image into computer-readable text. During OCR,
C Pen analyzes the images taken by its camera and
translates them into text characters.After OCR, you can
transmit the resulting text to your PC and use it in your
Windows applications.
However, you cannot always expect C Pen to achieve
100 % correct character recognition. The result depends
on a number of circumstances:
• The quality of the printed text you want to read with
C Pen.You can calibrate C pen to optimize its
performance under difficult conditions. See Calibra-
tion under Settings/Text Quality, p. 32. High-quality
printed text produces, of course, maximum OCR
accuracy. With lower-quality pages, e.g. poor fax
copies, OCR accuracy will be poorer.
• How you hold and move C Pen over the original text.
Please read the Quick Start folder to learn how to use
C Pen correctly. It is crucial that you follow these
instructions in order to get optimal results.
• The language of the text C Pen is reading. The text
language should be set in Settings.

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C Pen
• Anything that is not a printed character, and any
character distorted by a mark or smudge on the paper
could be unrecognizable.
• Characters in the text should not overlap.
• Underlined text is difficult for C Pen to read because
the underline changes the shape of descenders of the
letters q, g, y, p, and j.
• C Pen can’t read red or yellow text on a white or red
background, or white text on a red background.
• The size of the characters should be 7–20 points.
Read more about settings in the Settings chapter on
p. 30.
NOTE: C Pen only recognizes machine-printed charac-
ters such as laser-printed or typewritten text. C Pen does
not recognise handwritten text.
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The Buttons
Nav Turn the navigation control left or right to
move in menus and text. Press it to select an
item or option.
Trigg Press and hold down to read text.
On/Off This button is used to turn C Pen on and off.
ESC It also closes menus and cancels text.
Turn to navigate
the menus
Press to select
an item
Navigation
control (Nav)
Trigger button
(Trigg)
On/Off and
Escape (ESC)
button

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C Pen
Turning On and Off
To turn C Pen on and off, press and hold down the
On/Off button until the display is activated/deactivated.
C Pen turns off automatically after 4 minutes of non-use.
To change the automatic power-off time, see Settings,
p. 30.
Press to turn C Pen on.

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The Main menu
The Main menu is what you see when you turn C Pen on.
It displays C Pen’s different applications.
Notes contains the collected texts; see p. 17.
CAddress is an address book, where you can store and
search for information about your contacts; see p. 36.
C Dictionary is an application where you can translate
words from one language to another; see p. 43
Settings contains parameters you can change like power-
off time and reading options; see p. 30.
C Direct contains information on how to enter text from
C Pen directly into Windows program by infrared
communication; see p. 55.
Info contains information like C-Pen’s serial number, OS
version number, free memory space, etc; see p. 35.
Storage is a storage area that can be used like a floppy
disk when C-Pen is connected to a PC. In Storage you
can store any kind of file. See Connecting to a PC, p. 51.
Move the cursor using Nav. Press Nav to start an applica-
tion.
Move the cursor
withNav

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C Pen
Usingdialogs
C Pen uses a number of graphic elements on the display
to give information. Some of these require interaction
from the user. The graphic elements are:
Dialogs A dialog box appears when you need to
make selections or enter information. A
dialog box contains one or more
elements like buttons, list boxes or edit
boxes.
DialogButtons An on-screen button, e.g. OK, CAN-
CEL, YES or NO. To select a button
that appears in a dialog, use the
navigation control; turn Nav until the
button you want to select is marked
with inverted colors, then press Nav.
CANCEL will cancel any changes and
close the dialog.
Statusfield
The area on the left is called the status field. This field
displays the time, the current text settings and the battery
indicator. Text settings are described in Settings, p. 30.
Text language (see Settings)
Current timeText quality
(see Settings)
Battery power

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List Box A list box contains a list of items that
can be selected by the user.
Edit Box It is possible to enter and edit text in an
edit box. Select the box and the text
will be highlighted. Use your C Pen to
read a text or press Nav to enter edit
mode. In edit mode you can use the
Edit menu or C Write for editing text,
see p. 19 and p. 22.
Checkbox Check a box by clicking the item with
Nav. Normally, only one item in a list
of check box items can be selected.
Usingmenus
Menus provide you with different options. Move
between different menu items by turning Nav and select
an item by pressing Nav.
A scroll bar indicates if there are more menu items above
or below the borders of the menu box.
Selecting an item marked with a will display further
alternatives. Selecting Cancel will only close the menu.
Scroll bar

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C Pen
Reading text
Please follow the instructions in this chapter in order to
get the best results from your C Pen. Take a few minutes
to learn how to use C Pen correctly.
To read a line, follow the steps below.
1. Turn C Pen on. Make sure that the text settings are set
for the appropriate values. The text settings are Text
Quality, Text Language and Read Mode. There is
also a possibility to calibrate C Pen for best perfor-
mance. Refer to Settings, p. 30, to read about the
different settings and how to
modify them.
2. Place C Pen over the first
character you want to read.
Hold C Pen with the nose
opening flat against the
surface.Aim at the center of
the line. C Pen reads one line
at a time.
3. Press and hold the trigger.

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4. Move C Pen over the line of
text. Keep the trigger pressed
as you move C Pen over the
text.
5. Release the trigger at the
end of the line.
The text will appear on the display.
The collected text is placed in a new text file in Notes;
see p. 17.You can also select New... and then File in
Notes. This creates a new, empty text file.
NOTE:You can move C Pen either left-to-right or right-
to-left over the text.
You can read up to 15 cm/second.
0-15 cm/s
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C Pen
Reading another line
Read the second line the same way you read the first.A
space or a line break is inserted between the lines (see
Read Mode under Settings, p. 31).You can also insert a
line break by clicking Trigg once.
The most recent line read is shown as negative text, i.e.
white text on a black background.
To cancel the last line collected, press ESC briefly.
Stop reading
Press Nav to open the text menu (see Notes, p. 17) and
choose Exit. The Save As dialog box appears. Choose
YES if you want to save the text, NO if you want to
discard the text or CANCEL if you want to return to the
text. The dialog also contains an edit box with the file
name. See p. 12 how to use dialogs and edit boxes.

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NOTES
Notes contains the text files you have read. Enter Notes
by moving the cursor to the Notes icon in the main
menu and by pressing Nav. Inside Notes, move between
items using Nav.
The Command menu
The Command menu contains commands for handling
texts. Open the menu by selecting a text file and pressing
Nav.
The options in the Command menu are:
Open Opens a file.
Rename Renames a file. A dialog with an edit box
appears; see Using Dialogs, p. 12.
Delete Removes a selected file.
Properties Displays the creation date, the date of last
modification and the file size.
Cancel Cancels the Command menu.
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C Pen
Creating a new file or folder
To create a new file, close the open text, if any, and read a
line.You can also create a new file with the command
New… in Notes. Select FILE in the dialog box and press
Nav. The new file is placed in Notes.
Create a new folder with the command New... in Notes.
Select FOLDER in the dialog box and press Nav. A
dialog box appears. Select the edit box if you want to
edit or read a folder name. Use your C pen to read a name
or press Nav to enter edit mode. To save the folder, select
OK and press Nav. The folder is placed in Notes.
The Text menu
In an open text you move the cursor line by line with
Nav. You can insert a new line at the cursor position (the
flashing triangle) by reading a new line with C Pen.
Press Nav if you want to edit the text, change text
settings or stop working with the text. Pressing Nav
opens the Text menu.
The items in the Text menu are:
Exit Closes the text. If the text has been changed
you are prompted to save it before it is closed.
Press Nav to open the text menu

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Edit Enters edit mode.You can edit text either by
using the Edit menu (see below) or by using
C Write (see p. 22).
Settings Sets the text settings of the text you are
reading; see Settings, p. 30.
Select Selects a read line/word.After selecting a
reading, you automatically enter edit mode.
Cancel Closes the text menu.
The Edit menu
In edit mode you move the cursor one character at a time
by turning Nav. Move the cursor to a position where you
want to edit the text. Press Nav to open the Edit menu.
The items in the edit menu are:
QuitEditing Leaves the edit mode.
Change Changes the character
to the right of the
cursor.
Insert Inserts new characters at the cursor’s
position.
Cut Cuts a selection (available only if
characters have been selected)
Copy Copies a selection (available only if
characters have been selected).
Paste Pastes a cut or copied selection (avail-
able only if a selection has been cut or
copied).

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Delete Deletes a character or a selection.
Select Selects characters or a whole text.
Settings Sets the text settings of the text you are
reading.
Cancel Closes the edit menu.
Change
Place the cursor to the left of the character you want to
change and choose Change from the menu.
Turn Nav to select the new character from the character
frame and then press Nav.
Insert
Move the cursor to the place where you want the
insertion and select Insert from the menu. When pressing
Nav you can choose between inserting a space, a line
break, one character or multiple characters.
To insert one character, select Character and press Nav.
Then turn Nav to select a character from the character
frame and press Nav. The character frame closes auto-
matically after the insertion.
To insert more than one character, select Multiple
Character and press Nav. Turn Nav to select a character
from the character frame and pressNav. The character
frame remains and you can continue inserting characters.
The character frame