IRISPen Express

by Iris

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 3.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000F7IXWU
• Item model number: USOA305
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,729 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #47 in Software > Business & Office > Communication
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

The IRISPen Express is the fastest most accurate pen scanner on the market! The new IRISPen Express has been redesigned making it lighter, more compact, and more ergonomically correct, for more comfortable use. Just hold it like a highlighter ¿ slide the pen over the printed text and figures you need and the pen will instantly insert the scanned data into any Windows or Macintosh application. This USB powered scanning pen easily connects to your laptop or desktop computer. With an accuracy rate above 99%, the IRISPen Express is the perfect tool for home, business, or school!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Good, November 27, 2006

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Denise "online shopper" (Long beach, ca) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: IRISPen Express (Office Product)

after about 1.5 hours of practice and recalibrating over and over again, this is what the first few lines scanned from the irispen manual look like:

'he IRISPen may be the biggest sensation in computeriand since the mouse \ As efficient as computers are, you have to encode your data first. If you've ever If y-u'veever rekeyed text, you kn(ng and time-consuming it can be.... The IRISPen, a unique product for every computer user, offers instantaneous vaI at your fingertips. Text rec-!nit-o-- -her; you.q want it, w-en 1 The IR nsist- oftw2 coE1P8--nts: a unique g--y-c-eHI'ell-si-e- scan=. ner and the powerful PCR-Il ("Pen Character Recognition") text recognition technology. The basic principle could hardly be easier: slide the IRISPen over a line of text and it is e :o your application in.st-ntJ-.as if-eyed in -ut up to 30 times fas!er. (JP to a 100 characters can be entered per second. Cut from paper, paste to Windows-: can you imagine a simpler way of entering text?

Is it worth it? Spell check couldn't even fix this disaster. I am a very computer saavy person, I don't think I am using it wrong, I think they just really haven't perfected the text recognition software. The one review above must be an irispen employee. I find it hard to believe right out of the box, that it worked perfectly...and then to encourage you to upgrade??? Laughable. You will spend more time fixing the scanning errors than if you just typed it yourself. Going back to amazon tomorrow!

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No customer support - worse product ever, January 26, 2007

By 

Antonio Lopez "(re)mediator" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: IRISPen Express (Office Product)

This worked once and then stopped calibrating, so it no longer functions. Iris claims to have customer support, but there is none. I have been calling and emailing them once a week for three months. I got one reply a month ago promising to replace it. I never got it. Their web site has little to no useful help. Iris ranks as the worse company I have ever dealt with. Pity anyone who gets a faulty pen! What a waste of money! I hate feeling ripped off!

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Accurate at All, May 17, 2007

By 

J. Huculak (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IRISPen Express (Office Product)

As a scholar who deals with a lot of rare material, I thought this pen would be a god-send in helping me transcribe material to my computer. The manufacturer boasts near-100% accuracy. I give it 40% at best. Sometimes, if you have a white piece of paper, clear, 12-point text, you can get 80% accuracy, but this is a rare occurrence.

I ended up spending more time "correcting" the text from the Iris Pen than I would have typing it out...so now my $70 "tool" sits unused on my desk.

I can't wait for the day that an actual pen-scanner works, but today is not that day.