| | |  | Beverages | Home » » IRISPen Executive 6 | | | | | | | Description: | | The IRISPen Executive is a powerful text recognition pen scanner. It instantaneously retypes any printed information in your word processor, e-mail software, on-line databases, etc. and in any Windows or Mac applications. Simply slide the IRISPen over the printed text you need to retype! Extremely fast and accurate, the data entry is instantaneous and the accuracy rate near perfection! | | | Features: | |
• Good scan quality
• Reads text on coloured backgrounds
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 9.75 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.6 inches | | Product Height:
| 3.25 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.55 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 34 reviews |
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24 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 Pen scanner - better than typing text into the computerApr 25, 2008
By tyoder
I am a doctoral student in the humanities and I got this scanner because as I research, I like to copy passages on various topics into my computer for quick searching ability. This pen scanner has increased the speed with which I copy notes. There is a learning curve with this product. It takes a little time to get used to the feel of a scan that will turn out perfectly copied text. Also, I've found that if you take a few seconds to calibrate your pen before a copying session, it greatly improves the accuracy. I am a fairly fast typer 40 wpm, and I have typed out a passage, and corrected my errors, and then scanned the same passage and corrected the errors. I found that the pen was almost twice as fast. The software is aesthetically lacking and not completely intuitive, but it gets the job done.
While this product is not perfect in every way, it improves upon the other alternatives to digitize passages of text from books and reports.
I've used this product with both Mac and PC (XP). It has scanned text easily into Pages, and Word for me.
Customer service was a little difficult to contact, but eventually I was able to contact them, and they sent me the Mac version of the software free of charge via an e mail attachment. I don't really use the scanner for foreign languages, handwritten notes, etc so I can't really comment on those features.
31 of 33 found the following review helpful:
 Pen does not work on booksOct 07, 2007
By G. Loiselle
I am an academic and thought this product would be great for rapid scanning of book passages. Unfortunately, as is the case with earlier models both of Iris and other brands, about half of what I scanned was not correctly entered. I tried numerous positions and numerous books and numerous languages (English, French, German) but the same problem kept occurring. The bottom line: It is quicker and cheaper to type.
21 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 IRISPen Executive 6Jan 03, 2008
By L. Ball
About 30 minutes after opening the box I was able to scan with my pen and get very good accuracy. I have no idea what the other reviewers are doing, but mine worked well after less than 5 minutes of practice. I use my pen to copy a paragraph or two from books in order to discuss the author's viewpoint in MSN groups. I found that the speed of the scan is important in getting accurate results. Scanning at the speed I would normally read the text gives a result that needs very little cleanup using a spellchecker. I am not the greatest typist, and this product will ensure that I probably never will get much better.
Downloading the program from the enclosed CD was effortless, and I have not changed from the factory settings. IRISPen definitely gets a thumbs up from me. My wife says it looks like magic, and she is correct. As usual.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Left handed on a macMay 05, 2008
By Jonathan Dufault
I bought this originally to get some UPC information into my MacBook laptop without having to type. The first night I had this on my computer, I couldn't get it to work no matter how much I calibrated it. However, after finding out that I had to hold the pen still on a piece of paper while calibrating, it worked almost flawlessly afterwards.
In my classes, I can use it easily to quote essays with very good accuracy. For left handed use, they set it so I swipe the pen from the right side of the page to the left, which is much a much smoother motion. The only drawback happens when I get to the end of a line where the pen becomes creative. If the formatting n the paper that I quote off of puts a dash at the end of a line, the pen will try to make the partial word into a word in it's built in dictionary.
All in all, a GREAT value, and I am very pleased with this product.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
IRISPen Executive 6Feb 21, 2009
By M. S. Alter
I received my pen by mail late this afternoon. During the evening, while watching TV, I played around with the pen. Having read reviews here, I expected it to be difficult to use the pen at first but had no problem using the pen to scan. After a couple tries, I realized you have to line up the arrow and press straight and hard enough so the light stays on. I purchased this to enter info from receipts for tax purposes for my business. It took a bit to figure out how to place the info into a spreadsheet, but there are online places to seek help and the downloaded software has a lot of help, as well. I haven't figured out how to set the tabs to make entering the data easier, but, for the first time dealing with the pen, I think I learned to do much of what I want to do with it. The negative is that it doesn't seem to understand all characters. I would end up with a ! or - instead of a letter or number. Then I have to correct it, which defeats my purpose for buying the pen, but since I just received the pen, there might be something I can do about it. I hope. I also realized it seems to work best if set to a common font i.e. helvetica, palatino, etc. It is not perfect but will make doing a tedious task less tedious.
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