IRIS Pen Executive Handheld Scanner

by Iris

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001E5UDC
• Item model number: USOA149
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 26, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The IRISPen Executive is an outstanding and professional pen scanner solution which allows an instantaneous data entry into any Windows or Mac OS application (such as a word processors, e-mail software, on-line database, spreadsheet, accounting software, and so on).

The IRISPen Executive is compact and portable and installs in just 5 seconds by a simple plug-and-play USB interface. USB powered, it doesn't need an additional battery, allowing you to easily connect it to your laptop, desktop, or tablet PC and to use it wherever you go.

Simply slide the IRISPen Executive over the text you want to scan into your application, and it is instantly encoded with nearly perfect accuracy. Use the text-to-speech function to audibly confirm recognized data in 10 different languages: English and British English, Brazilian, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Mexican, Russian, and Spanish.

The Executive version offers unique and advanced features to meet the needs of professionals:

• Reads not only text and figures but also handwritten numbers and bar codes
• Reads the scanned information aloud for a comfortable auditive control
• Scans multiple lines before "retyping" them into your application
• Provides high image quality for better recognition accuracy

You can enable specific character sets to increase the recognition quality when you're scanning technical documents. The dot-matrix mode lets you scan poor-quality printing.

The IRISPen Executive recognizes up to 3.15 inches or 1,000 characters per second. Support is provided for scanning up to 55 languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, American English, Basque, Brazilian, Breton, British English, Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Catalan, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Lithuanian, Luxemburgh, Macedonian, Malay, Mexican, Norwegian, Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish (Gaelic), Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian English, Byelorussian English, Greek English, Macedonian English, Russian English, Serbian English, Ukrainian English, and numbers.

The scanner comes complete with companion software—Cardiris Limited Edition and a 30-day trial version of Readiris Pro.

Product Description

IRISPen Executive - You scan, it types! Make scanning easy with this text recognition pen scanner! This outstanding professional pen scanner allows instant data entry. Using word processors, e-mail, spreadsheets and other software tools are now easier than ever to use - save yourself time by stepping away from the keyboard! Extremely fast and extremely accurate -- an effective way to stop the never-ending typing & retyping of documents Dot matrix mode accurately reads poor quality documents Compact and portable -- attaches & gets powered through a USB port

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not that great, October 1, 2004

By	P. Anthony (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: IRIS Pen Executive Handheld Scanner (Electronics)

After two days with the IRISpen, and many, many attempts trying to make it work properly, I found I could type my notes from my textbook much faster than dealing with the IRISpen. The pen does what it says, but can also make a mess of what you are trying to scan. When you are reading and studying, you need a flow of concentration. You can get a flow of concentration by highlighting text and/or typing what you see as important in the text. However, if you are using the IRISpen, you are concentrating on seeing if it did its job and fixing its mistake.

The pen also lockups and causes Windows and Word to act funny, which is not reassuring.

I gave it a shot and decided to stop wasting my time and just type my notes the old fashion way. I even conducted a little test, and sure enough my notes were clearer and took less time when I typed the same information I was struggling to scan.

I am thinking about looking into the hand-held scanners... but sadly those don't look much better.

Think twice... and be ready to return if things don't work out. Mine is going back in the morning.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Believe it!, December 25, 2004

By	Garth Heckman (Minneapolis) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: IRIS Pen Executive Handheld Scanner (Electronics)

I did hours of research on hand held scanners and almost did not purchase ANY do to all the confusion. I took a chance and Bought the IRISpen Executive scanner. In only a few minutes I had the software loaded (painless) and was scanning material from everything I could get my hands on. Once I learned how to hold it for my hand posture (5 minutes)it was a snap. I have read other reviews and can not figure out why anyone would not want this... it is fantastic. It is much faster then typing. In a few minutes I had scanned pages of material that I had collected for over a year. I am not a techy kind of guy so this was awesome. I give it 5 stars! I can only scratch my head If someone cannot figure this out.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Iris Pen Executive, December 18, 2005

By	H Peelle "avid reader" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IRIS Pen Executive Handheld Scanner (Electronics)

I found the orignal Iris Pen II under Windows 2000 far superior to the Iris Pen Executive under Microsoft XP. Both the Iris Pen II and this new design does not integrate as well with Microsoft XP. Aligning the executive type pen with the text is far more difficult than with the II-type pen. The device does function and is faster than typing. However, the performance of the product has degraded under the XP operating system.