Wizcom QuickLink SuperPen

by Wizcom

Product Details

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• Item Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000067BLF
• Item model number: SP1000P
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 9, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Super Pen is a pocket-size scanner with optical character recognition that lets users scan lines of text and store them for later use. The Super Pen can also translate single words from English to more than 15 other languages, including Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Korean, and Japanese. No longer will you need to scribble notes on random pieces of paper or tear pages out of phone books. The Super Pen helps organize your life by storing and uploading up to 1,000 pages of text into your PDA, cell phone, or computer via serial, infrared (IrDA and IrObex), or optional USB connections.

This lightweight scanner also allows users to scan directly into supported applications in real time and recognizes a wide range of text styles and sizes including bold, underlined, italic, and inverted. The Super Pen weighs 3 ounces and measures 6 inches by 1.5 inches by 1 inch. Compatible with Win 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, and XP, this advanced device can easily be upgraded, with additional applications such as bar code recognition and eGems information-organizing software available. The Super Pen comes backed by a one-year limited warranty.

Product Description

The Wizcom SuperPen Professional is a portable hand-held scanning translator and dictionary that can scan a word or a full line of text and provide immediate word-by-word translation, including idioms and phrases, as well as definitions from professional fields such as medicine, finance, economics, computers & internet, science, and geography. It is ideal for anyone in need of professional support such as students, travelers, scientists, researchers and professionals in various fields.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Set Up a Major Pain -- Make sure you have the right port, March 25, 2003

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Ian Toll "Rufus Watson" (San Fran, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wizcom QuickLink SuperPen (Office Product)

The product description glosses over the problems you may encounter trying to connect this thing to your PC. It only supports a male 9-pin serial port. If you do not have one, you need to buy an adapter. Even then, you may be unpleasantly surprised. I bought a 9- to 25-pin serial adapter at Radio Shack only to burn an hour trying to set it up, and finally found, deep on the company web site, an explanation that it would only support a male 25- adapter. Now I have ordered a $20 +$5 shipping USB adapter off the Wizcom website. (Don't be fooled by the "optional USB" nonsense in the product description. It is optional in the sense that you can buy the $20 adapter later, after wasting half a day wading through the poorly documented material.) I feel that this company has been deliberately vague about the issues a customer is likely to encounter in setting this thing up. Oh, and I forgot to mention the UI's on both the pen and the desktop are wack.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Money, June 5, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Wizcom QuickLink SuperPen (Office Product)

This pen is an absolute waste of money. It just does not work. I was trying to scan in some addresses and phone numbers but what scanned in was nothing but rubbish. For example, I scanned in a phone number which was 956-7535, but what the pen picked up was 9:5&T585. IT DOES NOT WORK. The OCR technology is not there. Don't buy this. You won't be able to get your money back. They'll just do an exchange for another pen that does not work.

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Superpen not so super, January 6, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Wizcom QuickLink SuperPen (Office Product)

This pen was a gift and if I had bought it, I would try to get a refund especially after discovering that it costs so much! it is useless. First of all, scanning is tedious and slow.This would probably work fine for scanning inventory numbers etc. But for text paragraphs, too much trouble.I am a computer systems analyst and this thing was a pain in the neck to get working.