WizCom Technologies Readingpen Basic Edition K-12 User manual

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Table of Contents
Table of Contents ..............................................1
Introduction........................................................3
Copyrights ........................................................4
Contact and Support Information......................4
Terminology......................................................5
Getting Started...................................................6
Setting up the Pen............................................6
The Pen Parts ..................................................7
The Pen Buttons...............................................8
Selecting options................................................... 8
Button Presses ...................................................... 9
Regular Press .................................................................... 9
Long-Press......................................................................... 9
Scanning...........................................................9
How to Scan........................................................... 9
If you are Left-handed:....................................................... 9
Scanning with the Trainer..................................................10
Scanning without the Trainer.............................................11
Troubleshooting .................................................. 12
Scanning Limitations.........................................................12
Causes of Incorrect Scanning Results...............................13
Solutions to Incorrect Scanning Results.............................13
Troubleshooting the Dictionary Lookup..............................13
Tutorials............................................................14

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Before Starting: Turning the Pen on...............15
Tutorial 1 - Scanning a Single Word ..............16
Tutorial 2 - Scanning a Whole Line................21
Tutorial 3 - Words with Multiple Entries..........24
The Pen Screens..............................................28
Menu Options...................................................30
Accessing the Main Menu ..............................30
Selecting a Menu Option................................30
Closing the Main Menu...................................30
The Main Menu...............................................31
Scanned Words.................................................... 31
View History......................................................................31
View Adjacent Entries .......................................................31
Reset History.....................................................................32
Settings ................................................................ 32
Voice Settings...................................................................33
Lock Dict. Access..............................................................34
Unlock Dict. Access...........................................................34
Forgot your Password?......................................................35
Highlight Spoken Words....................................................35
Word/Line Display First.....................................................36
View Battery Status...........................................................36
Set Right/Left Handed.......................................................36
Set Contrast......................................................................36
View Serial Number ..........................................................37
About ................................................................................37
View Training ....................................................... 37

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Introduction
Congratulations on your choice of the state-of-the-art
Readingpen® Basic Edition K-12 from WizCom
Technologies! The Readingpen® Basic Edition K-12 is a
simple, easy to use, portable, discreet, device that
provides immediate word support to the reader. It helps
achieve a smoother and more continuous reading flow
and provides quick and simple comprehension. The
Readingpen® Basic Edition K-12 lets the user read and
understand independently.
Just glide the Pen over the printed English word you
wish to learn. Then you can:
•Hear the word read out loud.
•View the word in large font.
•View the syllable division of the word.
•Hear the word spelled out loud.
•View the dictionary definition from The American
Heritage Dictionary. If a word within the definition
is unclear – just cross-reference from it to view its
dictionary entry.
•View synonyms from The American Heritage
Thesaurus.
•Translate the word to Spanish using the
EnglishSpanish dictionary.
•Hear the English dictionary and thesaurus entries
read out loud to you.
•Hear the whole line you scanned read out loud.

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Copyrights
The American Heritage® Children’s Dictionary by the Editors of the American Heritage®
Dictionaries, published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
The American Heritage® Children’s Thesaurus by Paul Hellweg, published by Houghton
Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 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®, Readingpen®, WizCom
SuperPen™, WizCom and Pen 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 owners.
ScanSoft and the ScanSoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of ScanSoft Inc.
used in the U.S. and/or in other countries. ScanSoft Text-to-Speech software © 2003
ScanSoft Inc. All rights reserved.
Contact and Support Information
For more information on your Pen please refer to the full
User Guide on the CD-ROM that came in the product
package.
If you still have any questions about this product or how
to use it, please feel free to contact us:
•Send an E-mail to:
[e-mail]
•Check our websites at:
http://www.readingpen.net
http://www.wizcomtech.com

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Terminology
Pen:
The Readingpen® Basic Edition K-12 scanning
device.
Scan:
To roll the Pen over printed text.
Highlighted:
When text, numbers or graphics appear inversed on
the Pen screen. For example, when text is
highlighted, it appears green with a black background
(instead of black text on the green background).
Select:
To ‘select’ an option means that you should scroll to
the option until it appears on the screen, or until it is
highlighted and then press the Pen button in
order to activate the option or enter a sub-menu or
screen.
EnglishEnglish Dictionary:
In this manual, this refers to “The American Heritage
Dictionary”.
EnglishSpanish Dictionary:
In this manual, this refers to the dictionary used to
translate English words into Spanish.
Thesaurus:
In this manual, this refers to “The American Heritage
Thesaurus”.
Dictionary Entries and Headwords:
Dictionary entries are the set of definitions,
translations, usage examples, synonyms etc. which
are provided in order to teach the meaning of a
single word – which is called the Headword.

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Getting Started
Setting up the Pen
To set up the Pen, insert 2 AAA batteries as shown in the
following illustration:
Important: please note the correct position and polarity
of batteries.

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The Pen Parts
The Pen contains the following parts:
Front view
Rear view
Important: before using the earphones please lower the
volume control on the earphones, to prevent ear irritation.
If your earphones do not have volume control, please
access the Set Volume option (see page33).

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The Pen Buttons
The keypad contains seven buttons for operating your
Pen:
•Power - used to turn the Pen on and off.
•Enter - used to enter a sub-menu or screen,
confirm a selection or perform an operation.
•Escape - used to navigate backwards, close a
screen, or cancel an operation.
•Arrows , , and - used for scrolling.
Note: Some buttons have additional functions which are
explained in other sections of this document.
Selecting options
To enter a sub-menu or select a menu option:
1. Scroll through the menu or list using and , until
the item you want is highlighted, or until it alone
appears on the screen.
2. Press .

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Button Presses
There are 2 types of button presses:
Regular Press
A single short press of the button. In this manual, when
you are instructed to ‘press’ a button – it means you
should perform a Regular Press.
Long-Press
To long-press a button, press the button and hold it down
briefly.
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. The
image is then processed using OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) to recreate the actual letters on the Pen.
How to Scan
Following are instructions on how to scan. To see a short
scanning demonstration, please access
http://www.wizcomtech.com/presentations/main_18.html.
When scanning – always be sure that:
1. The Pen is turned 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.
Note: for proper functioning confirm that the battery level
is not too low (see View Battery Status on page 36).
If you are Left-handed:
The Pen default is set to right-handed scanning. To
change it to left-handed scanning:

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1. In the Settings 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 helps maintaining the correct
scanning angle. Here is how to scan with it:
1. Slide the trainer on to the tip of the Pen (instead of
the cap) and press firmly into place.
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.

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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 ½
an inch before the text, and end ½ an inch 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 also
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. ½ an inch
before the beginning of the text, and roll the Pen over
the text until ½ an inch after the text.
3. Make sure that the white guidelines at the Pen’s tip
pass exactly over the middle of the scanned text.
4. Maintain the 90˚Pen angle you learned when
scanning with the trainer.

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5. When rolling the Pen over the text, do not press down
too hard.
6. Don’t scan too quickly.
Troubleshooting
After you scan text, the Pen processes the image of what
has been scanned and attempts to recognize the various
letters and words from it.
The recognized words are displayed on the Pen and
then you can perform any of the Pen’s functions on the
scanning results, such as: view words in the large font
display, hear words read out loud, lookup words in the
dictionaries, view the syllable division of words and hear
the letters of a word spelled out loud.
If you encounter problems using the Pen, please see the
following topics regarding typical problems you may
encounter and how to deal with them. For more
information, please refer to Contact and Support
Information on page 4.
Scanning Limitations
The Pen allows you to scan printed English text only, 6-
22 points in size, in a wide variety of fonts and in all dark
colors on light contrasting backgrounds, except for red

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on white. The Pen cannot scan inverse text (light text on
dark background).
Causes of Incorrect Scanning Results
Sometimes the Pen may have difficulty recognizing the
scanned words. Here are some examples of when this
could happen:
•When the page you are scanning is dark, dirty or
crumpled.
•When the printout is of low quality (for example,
when the page has been photocopied).
•When holding the Pen at the wrong scanning angle.
•When scanning the text too fast (this specific
situation will cause an error message ‘Scanned too
fast’).
•When scanning non-English text. Your Pen can only
scan English!
Solutions to Incorrect Scanning Results
•To achieve proper scanning results you must avoid
the situations listed above (in the Scanning
Limitations and Causes of Incorrect Scanning Results
sections).
•When the scanning results are not satisfactory, try
scanning again. You may get better results the next
time!
•When failing to recognize a word, the Pen may
display a list of similar words in the Word Selection
Screen. If the list contains the word you wish to look
up, simply select it from the list.
Troubleshooting the Dictionary Lookup
Even if the scanning results are identical to the text you
scanned, you may encounter problems in the dictionary

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lookup of the word you scanned. Here are some of the
problematic situations you may encounter:
•When the word you scanned is not included in the
dictionary, you will receive the “Word not found”
message. For example, proper names, like Joe or
Alice, are not included in the dictionary. You will still
be able to perform other functions on such words, for
example, read them out aloud and view them in the
Large-Type Screen display.
•Many times, the word you scanned has more than
one matching dictionary entry. In this case, the Pen
will automatically display a list of alternative entries,
prior to displaying a definition. This list (which is
called a Word List) may contain homonyms or
inflections of the scanned word. To continue and
view a definition, you must first select the headword
whose definition you wish to view.
Tutorials
Following are tutorials that will teach you how to use the
Readingpen® Basic Edition K-12.
Important Notes:
1. The following instructions are for a Pen set with
the original default settings and after performing
the Training.
2. The Pen default is set to right-handed scanning.
To change it to left-handed scanning, see Set
Right/Left Handed on page 36.
3. For basic instructions on how to scan, see How to
Scan on page 9.

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Before Starting: Turning the Pen on
The starting point for each of the following tutorials
should be turning the Pen on, as following:
Task:
oRemove the protective cover from the Pen & press
the power button to turn the Pen on.
The Pen display will show:
Input Screen

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Tutorial 1 - Scanning a Single Word
Step 1: Scan the word you wish to learn
Task:
oLet’s learn the word ‘device’: From the following
sentence, only scan the word ‘device’. Place the Pen
before the word and roll it over the word, using the
arrows as guides for where to start and stop:
Roll the scanning device over printed words
↑↑
Tip: If the scanning results displayed on the Pen are not
accurate, simply scan again.
The Pen display will show:
The word 'device' in the main display of the Large-Type Screen
Note: the word will be read out loud.
Step 2: Hear the word read out loud
Task:
oPress to hear the word spoken out loud.
Step 3: Hear the word spelled out loud
Task:
oPress to hear the word spelled out.
Note: Press if you wish to cancel the spelling out.
The Pen display will show:
Letters being spelled out in the Large-Type Screen

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Note: Each letter is highlighted as it is spoken.
Step 4: View the syllable division of the word
Task:
oPress to view the syllable division of the word.
The Pen display will show:
Syllable breaks in the Large-Type Screen
Task:
oPress to return to the to the word 'device' in the
main display of the Large-Type Screen.
The Pen display will show:
The word 'device' in the main display of the Large-Type Screen
Step 5: Translate the word into Spanish
(in the Dictionary Screen)
Task:
oPress to view the EnglishSpanish entry of the
word in the Dictionary Screen.
The Pen display will show:
The Spanish translation of ‘device’ displayed in the
Dictionary Screen
Tasks:
oPress to scroll through the entry.
oPress and to switch (toggle) the view back and

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forth from the condensed display and the full display.
More Information: When the scroll arrow is hollow ( )
it means the display is condensed. When the scroll
arrow is full ( ) it means the display is full, showing
all the available information for the scanned word.
oPress as many times as necessary in order to
return to the word 'device' in the Large-Type Screen.
The Pen display will show:
The word 'device' in the main display of the Large-Type Screen
Step 6: View the English Definition of the word
(in the Dictionary Screen)
Task:
oPress to view the EnglishEnglish dictionary
entry in the Dictionary Screen.
The Pen display will show:
The dictionary entry of ‘device’ displayed in the Dictionary Screen
Tasks:
oPress and to scroll through the definitions of
the dictionary entry.
oPress to switch the entry to the full display.
oPress to switch back to the condensed display.
Step 7: View synonyms of the word
Task:
The icon appearing at the top of EnglishEnglish
definition shows you that a Thesaurus entry is available
and that you need to press to view it.

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Note: If the icon appears, it means that you are
in the full display and you will need to press twice to
access the Thesaurus.
oPress to view the thesaurus entry (from the
American Heritage Thesaurus) for the same
headword.
The Pen display will show:
The thesaurus entry of ‘device’ displayed in the Dictionary Screen
Task:
The icon appearing at the top of the screen shows
you that you are currently in the Thesaurus and that you
need to press to return to the EnglishEnglish
definition (in the American Heritage dictionary).
oPress to return to the dictionary entry (from the
American Heritage Dictionary).
The Pen display will show:
The dictionary entry of ‘device’ displayed in the Dictionary Screen
Step 8: Activate the Highlight Mode
Task:
oWhen viewing an entry in the Dictionary Screen,
press to activate the highlight mode.
The Pen display will show:

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Highlight mode activated in the Dictionary Screen
Notes:
•You are now in highlight mode.
•Each highlighted word will be read out loud.
Step 9: Hear the sections read out loud
Task:
oWhen in highlight mode, long-press (until the
hourglass appears) in order to hear the whole section
read out loud, word by word.
Note: Press if you wish to cancel the reading out.
The Pen display will show:
The Pen is reading out loud the section in the Dictionary Screen
Note: Each word is highlighted as it is spoken. At the end,
the highlight moves to the next section.
Task:
oWhen done reading out loud a section, long-press
if you want to hear the next section read out loud.
Step 10: Highlight one word in the entry
Task:
oWhen in highlight mode, use , , and to
scroll through the words of the entry.
The Pen display will show:
The word ‘equipment’ is highlighted in the Dictionary Screen
Note: Each word you scroll to is highlighted and read out
loud.