WizCom Technologies Pen Scanner User manual

Table of Contents
Familiarizing Yourself with the Pen.................................................... 3
The Pen Buttons (keypad)............................................................. 4
Scanning ....................................................................................... 5
What is on the Pen........................................................................ 9
The Notes application................................................................ 9
The Scan to PC application ....................................................... 9
Scanning Languages................................................................. 9
Interface Languages.................................................................. 9
Set Up Product on PC..................................................................... 10
Tutorials........................................................................................ 11
Tutorial 1 – Notes ........................................................................ 11
Tutorial 2 – QuickLink.................................................................. 16
Tutorial 3 – Scan to PC ............................................................... 20
Product Specification....................................................................... 22
Worldwide Limited Warranty ........................................................... 23
WEEE ............................................................................................. 24
Registration.....................................................................................25

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Copyrights and Trademarks
© 2006 WizCom Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved.
WizCom Technologies Ltd. uses the Ligature OCR-on-a-Chip copyright
© 1995-2006, Ligature Compression Technology copyright © 1996-2006, and
Ligature reverse inflection and derivation technology copyright © 1997-2006
under license from Ligature Ltd. All rights reserved.
WizCom InfoScan, QuickLink-Pen, Quicktionary, Reading Pen, WizCom
SuperPen, WizCom and Quicktionary pen shaped design are trademarks or
registered trademarks of WizCom Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved.
All other brands and product names appearing here are registered
trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.

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Familiarizing Yourself with the Pen
The scanning device (‘Pen’) contains the following parts:
• Pen Tip with optical scanning head
• Protective cover
• Power button
• Keypad
• Display
• Battery compartment cover
• Battery compartment
• Flash memory card socket

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• PC link connector (for connecting the plug of the USB cable used for
Pen-PC Communications).
The Pen Buttons (keypad)
The keypad contains seven buttons for operating your Pen:
• The Power button is used to turn the Pen on and off.
• The Enter button is used to enter a sub menu or screen, confirm a
selection or perform an operation. In addition, the button has special
functionalities on text in an open Notes file:
a. Long pressing will open the Hebrew translation for the current
English word.
b. Double-Click on will open the Character Bar.
• The Escape button is used to navigate backwards, close a screen,
or cancel an operation.
• The Arrow buttons , , and are used to scroll through a text,
menu items, etc.

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Scanning
Scanning means to roll the Pen over printed text. When scanning, the optical
head of the Pen scans the surface and creates a bitmap copy of the scanned
text. In all applications the image is processed resulting in the actual letters
by using OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
How to Scan
Following are instructions on how to scan.
For a short movie, demonstrating scanning, please access
http://www.wizcomtech.com/presentations/main_18.html.
Always make sure that:
1. The Pen is on.
2. The Pen Cap has been removed.
3. The Pen is in scanning mode – denoted by the red blinking light at
the tip of the Pen.
If you are Left Handed:
The Pen default is set to right handed scanning. To change it to left handed
scanning:
1. In the Preferences menu, scroll using and until the option
Right-/Left-Handed appears on the screen and press .
2. Scroll to the mode you prefer by using or .
3. Press .
Scanning with the Trainer
The transparent trainer is used for the initial scan practice:
1. Slide the trainer on to the tip of the Pen (instead of the cap) and
press firmly into place.

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2. Place the trainer flat and steady to the right of the text you wish to
scan. Notice the 90˚angle that is created. This is the angle you
should preserve whenever scanning, even without the trainer.
3. The text should be positioned at the center of the opening of the
trainer.
4. Glide (‘scan’) the Pen from right to left in a straight line over the text.
The area you scan should start 1cm before the text, and end 1cm
after it. Make sure that the text always appears between the 2 arrows
on the trainer, as if being “fed” into the trainer.
Scanning without the Trainer
Once you get accustomed to scanning, you can scan without the trainer:
1. You can scan from right to left or from left to right.
2. Place the Pen rollers on the page, approx. 1 cm before the beginning of
the text, and roll the Pen over the text until 1 cm after the text.
3. Make sure that the white guidelines at the Pen’s tip pass exactly over the
middle of the scanned text.

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4. Maintain the 90˚Pen angle you have learned when scanning with the
trainer.
5. When rolling over the text, do not press down too hard on the Pen.
6. Don’t scan too quickly.
Scanning Limitations
The Pen allows you to scan printed text (in all other applications, such as the
Notes) 6-22 point font size (up to 8mm) in a wide variety of fonts and in all
colors on contrasting backgrounds except:
• Red on white
• White on red
• Blue on black
• Black on blue
Tips for Good Scanning
If you scan text, but the scanning results on the Pen (i.e., the recognized
text) are not satisfactory, simply try scanning again.
To ensure optimum scanning results:
• When scanning text, always make sure the Scanning Language is set to
the language you are scanning.
o In Notes application: check the scanning language set in the Edit
Menu (to view the Edit Menu press from within an open Notes
file).
o In Scan to PC application: check the scanning language set in the
Settings menu.
• Make sure that the Scanning Options settings (Inverse, Numeric)
match the type of text you are scanning.
• Make sure you are holding the Pen in the correct 90˚angle.

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• Place the book/page on a flat surface.
• The page must be light while the text or image you scan must be dark.
• Make sure the printout is of good quality and the page is not creased.
Note that poorly photocopied materials may provide bad results.
• Do not scan too fast.
Editing Text (without Scanning)
In addition to scanning, the Character Bar can be used as input method –
that do not involve scanning.
They can be used to edit scanned text and are also useful to enter text
manually (when words or phrases cannot be scanned because letters are too
large, handwritten, or are on a type of background that the Pen does not
scan, see Scanning Limitations on page 7).
The Character Bar
The Character Bar enables you to enter text manually by overwriting or
inserting characters. The language of the Character Bar is the same as the
current Scanning Language set in the file you are editing.
Accessing the Character Bar
To access the Character Bar:
1. When inside an open Notes file, double click to access the
Character Bar.
The Latin Character Bar
The Hebrew Character Bar
2. The Character Bar opens and the string of text you are editing is
displayed above it. The first letter of the active character sequence is
highlighted on the Character Bar and appears in the string of text where
it will be entered if you select it.

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3. Press or to scroll along the Character Bar. As you move from
character to character, each character is highlighted and appears in the
string of text.
4. Press to select the highlighted character. The character is entered
into the text string (the character is inserted – when in insert mode, or
the character overwrites the highlighted character – when in overwrite
mode).
5. If you are in Multiple Character mode ( ), you can add additional
characters. To do so, repeat steps 3 and 4. When you are done, press
to close the Character Bar. If you are in Single Character mode
( ), the Character Bar automatically closes.
What is on the Pen
The Pen is preloaded with the following:
The Notes application
Used for scanning printed text in various languages, and storing the text in
files on the Pen. Stored Notes files can be:
• Sent to your computer (using the QuickLink option)
• Sent to a PDA or Smartphone (using the Beaming options).
In addition, stored English text can be translated into Hebrew.
The Scan to PC application
Used for scanning text and sending it directly to applications on your
computer.
Scanning Languages
Printed text can be scanned in English, Hebrew, French, German or
Spanish according to the selected scanning language.
Interface Languages
The Interface Language is the language in which the menus and
messages appear. The Pen is provided with 2 interface languages –
English and Hebrew.
Important: If for some reason software has been erased from your Pen, use
the CD-ROM Restore Pen option to restore the Pen’s original software.

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Set Up Product on PC
To allow Pen-PC communications (for transferring data from the Pen to the
PC), you must set up your PC.
The set up procedure on the CD-ROM will install the USB driver, install the
WizCom InfoScan Desktop application and establish the Pen-PC
communications.
To run the set up procedure:
1. Insert the WizCom InfoScan CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive of your
computer.
2. The Main Menu appears.
Note: If the Main Menu does not appear automatically, please do the
following:
a. Click the Windows Start button and select Run.
b. Type x: \setup.exe (where ‘x’ is your CD-ROM drive letter), then
click OK.
3. Click on the Set Up Product on PC button and follow the online
instructions of the 3 stage setup procedure provided.
Note: You will only have to do this setup once.