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7.3 The specification of C-Pen 20 and Quicktionary TS

C-Pen, from C Technologies AB, is a mobile information collector that reads, remembers,

processes and transfers printed text into digital format. Users can read and save text

from printed materials. Your saved text files can later be transferred to the computer. It

is also possible to use C-Pen to read text directly into a Windows application.

The C Pen 20 has a built-in dictionary, C Dictionary, which shows instant translation on

computer screen by one stroke. It is claimed to be good for study and small office/home

office. In scanning mode, users can scan the text with one stroke and the content pops

up in editable format in Word, PowerPoint, Excel or other similar applications. In

translation mode, users scan text, and the result shows on the C Dictionary application

simultaneously. Thus, the product is marketed to be people’s reading friend, as it is

promoted on C Pen’s homepage.

C Pen is designed to be used as a highlight pen. Place the tip of the pen before the first

character to be read with two supporting legs positioned above and below the text line

separately. It starts to read when the automatic trigger under the leg is pressed onto

the surface, and will continue to read until the automatic trigger is released. It is also

good for left-handed, as it can move either left-to- right or right-to-left over the text.

Although C Pen makes the transferring printed text into electronic format much easier,

it is not perfect. According to user reviews on amazon.com in 2006, the defect is as

below: It requires a computer connected, otherwise it doesn’t run. It doesn’t handle

older typefaces, and sometimes symbols (such as footnotes). It doesn’t recognize

handwriting and doesn’t work well on texts with colored background. Although C Pen is

good for extracting pieces of texts, short passages, it can only scan one line of text at a

time, so it won’t be effective if users need to copy many pages of text33

Researchers and students find the most benefits of using C Pen. They use it to take

notes from books. The process of transforming printed data into digital format saves a

lot of time. Although not everyone can handle it correctly to get text scanned accurately,

the idea of C Pen convinces users and most of them give it a good credit.

Quicktionary TS

Quicktionary TS( QTS) from WIZCOM is a pen scanner especially for translator market. It

has a 5-way button for navigation, a touch screen, a speaker, an earphone socket and a

stylus. It scans a word or a full line of text and provides immediate word-by-word

translation, including idioms and phrases, on the screen. It provides audio

pronunciation with Text- to-Speech technology for selected languages, and included

word games to practice vocabulary. It has history option that can retrieve last 80

reviewed words. The good thing about QTS is that it doesn’t need to connect to a

computer to run, instead, the translation result shows on the device. The QTS focuses

T.Bryan, An essential tool for students and researchers,Dec.30, 2006

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