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The OCR technology
The IRISPen integrates the latest OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) engine developed by I.R.I.S. It is able to recognize
lines of text with top accuracy in up to
125 languages
. All
American and European languages are supported, including
Central-European languages. Greek, Turkish, the Cyrillic
("Russian") and the Baltic languages and Hebrew are also
supported. Optionally, the IRISPen reads Asian documents in
Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean.
The IRISPen reads virtually
any font
, in a wide variety of
styles
and
point sizes
(from 8 to 20 points), as well as
special characters
,
reading marks
,
special symbols
, and
formatting elements
such as
vertical lines separating table cells.
H
OW DOES IT WORK
?
The IRISPen functions as a camera that sends an image to the
computer. The image is recognized by the recognition routines. The
"read" data is inserted in the target application.
To scan the data with the IRISPen, you must simply
slide the pen
scanner over the line of text
or area.
Operate as follows:
•
Hold the IRISPen like a pencil
and place it a few millimeters
before the first characters or data to be recognized. The pen
scanner must be positioned so that the text line to be read is
right