Ectaco C-Pen Handheld Scanner
The Ectaco C-Pen scanner is an amazingly convenient handheld data entry tool for use with the NTL-2Ch, NTL-2F, NTL-2Gm, NTL-2I, NTL-2K, NTL-2P, NTL-2Pg, NTL-2R, NTL-2S, Alpine-2Ch, Alpine-2F, Alpine-2Gm, Alpine-2I, Alpine-2K, Alpine-2P, Alpine-2Pg, Alpine-2R, Alpine-2S, Deluxe NTL-2Ch Deluxe NTL-2F, Deluxe NTL-2Gm, Deluxe NTL-2I, Deluxe NTL-2K, Deluxe NTL-2P, Deluxe NTL-2Pg, Deluxe NTL-2R, Deluxe NTL-2S and Partner 850 series devices. Letting you capture the text you need, just scan the pen over your favorite book, restaurant menu, newspaper, or anything else you can think of and the text will automatically be uploaded on to the device and translated to your language choice.
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Ectaco C-Pen Handheld Scanner Reviews
I do a fair amount of scanning and use this pen for spot scanning. When that happens, I simply go back - highlight the garbage - and rescan a bit slower and it seems to pick it up fine. The only challenge I have is when I'm trying to scan near the spine of a book. Someone else complained about having to carry the driver disk around with them. I give it about 95% + accuracy (closer to 99% without spine pages). I don't have any problem with this either and use the pen on both a desktop and a laptop.
It is even good enough that I have found myself using this pen to scan multiple pages, although that's not what it is best at. Let me just give my opinion of how I like the performance of this pen. Lots of other reviews get into the details, so I won't bother. I don't know what they expect from a pen scanner, but all in all this picks up very well, is extremely accurate, and is fast. Some have said it is not that fast. When the surface is not flat, the scan can go off into left field. Keep the pen angle about right and you can scan up a storm.
I find it almost as fast as I can scan a line.
Useful and genererally works BUT the DC needs to be loaded each time the pen is used making it impossible to use on a laptop unless you carry the CD with you.
I gotta admit it does make some mistakes, but it is a lot easier to use this product than to have to write evrything out.
I haven't tried the Mac version, so can't tell you about that. That means I spend a lot of time reviewing mental health & legal records. You don't have to scan the whole page, and you can scan from bound or stapled documents without disassembling them. I'm a psychologist and consult frequently on criminal forensic cases. The C-Pen is a Godsend for capturing the essential information in those documents. The automatic OCR conversion lets you scan directly into your word-processor or into a specialized note-taking program like WordPerfect Lightning. As of this writing, there is a beta version of the C-Pen software for the Mac, which you can download from their site. It's incredibly accurate, very fast, convenient, easy to use, and selective.
Can read many languages, and has convenient set-up options selectable from a good interface. Fully functional with Vista. It takes a few minutes to get the hang of it, but after that it is great for text entry. Trade hours of typing for CPen's few text errors. CPen is amazing.
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