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IRIS Pen Executive Handheld Scanner

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3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)


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Technical Details

  • Text-to-speech technology in 10 different languages
  • Scans up to 3.15 inches or 1,000 characters per second
  • Supports up to 55 languages
  • CardIris Limited Edition and ReadIris Pro trial software
  • USB interface, PC and Mac compatible
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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

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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Iris Pen Executive, December 18, 2005
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.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy--no future software upgrades
Do not buy this. They will never give you a software upgrade. You will have to buy a new pen for any major new OS version. The company is not very honest. Read more
Published 5 months ago by S. Jones

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Accuracy, Simple, And Works As I Do
I recently received this product as a gift and find that the accuracy of OCR is quite high and intuitive on my Mac. It works much better than I expected it would. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Jonathan Schalliol

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Accuracy, Not Really Portable
This review is on the IrisPen Executive model.

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Published on November 27, 2007 by Rebecca St Martin

4.0 out of 5 stars Works Like a Dream
As a pastor, I frequently have need to copy text such as prayers from one rite to another. I also prepare versions of all the rites I use in large type so that I can read them... Read more
Published on January 25, 2007 by John A Lee III

3.0 out of 5 stars Works Well with German but Not Russian
I purchased this pen to help with Translating some books.
If you use German you should have no problem but if you use Russian you will have to switch back and forth between... Read more
Published on March 13, 2006 by Joshua C. Lee

1.0 out of 5 stars installation on Windows XP or Mac OS 9.2
The technical specs page claims this product can run on
Windows XP, ME, 2000 or 98
Mac OS X up to 10.3 and Mac OS 9. Read more
Published on December 3, 2005 by Richard Kenney

5.0 out of 5 stars great product!
First, I hesitated to buy this product because of a few bad reviews. But then I wanted to take a chance and I'm very glad I bought it finally! IRIS Pen Executive works great!
Published on September 3, 2005 by OzKay

2.0 out of 5 stars Not impressed!
I have yet to get this pen to scan one complete, readable sentence and believe me I have tried. I tried calibrating it on different shades of white paper to see if that helped... Read more
Published on June 19, 2005 by L. L. Hickman

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT PRODUCT!!!
I have had this for over a year, and after a little getting practice, it works great. It is almost like highlighting text, and it works with any application.
Published on September 26, 2004 by C. James

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