[. . . ] Table of Contents Copyrights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 1 Introducing the IRISPen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 How does it work?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The steps to follow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 2 Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] All you need to do is push your pen on a white piece of paper for a few seconds. The software indicates when the calibration is complete. Caution: If the ambient light changes - imagine you get from natural to artificial lighting or conversely, imagine you move to a much lighter or darker place, or even move to a completely different environment, etc. , you may need to re-execute the calibration of your pen scanner. Tip: Check the scanning quality You can always check the scanning quality in the Image Quality Check and the Scan Test windows (see: Starting up, User interface). If the image quality appears degraded, please re-execute the calibration of your pen scanner. 23 IRISPen Express 6 - User's guide To re-execute the calibration: · Select Calibrate from the Options menu in the Application window or, from the Scan Test window, press the Calibrate button, then push again your pen on a white piece of paper for a few seconds. The software indicates when the calibration is complete. CHANGING THE USER INTERFACE LANGUAGE The user interface of the IRISPen is available in a wide range of languages. To change the user interface language: · Select User Interface Language from the Settings menu in the Application window. · Select the needed language from the drop-down list, then click OK to confirm. The user interface automatically appears in the newly chosen language. 24 CHAPTER 3 - STARTING UP THE SCAN TEST WINDOW The Scan Test window displays the black-and-white version of the image you generate with the pen scanner. Thanks to the Scan Test window, you can test your first scans and check the results before you start with definitive scanning. You can save your images, load and recognize previously scanned images, access the calibration dialog box, etc. 25 IRISPen Express 6 - User's guide Bad quality images As you will notice, the IRISPen is able to recognize data on bad quality images, e. g. on low-contrast documents where the background nearly has the same color as the text, on highly distorted images with wavy, skewed or even contracted lines (see above figure). However, if the recognition result is not satisfactory, you should use the Scan Test window to make a few more tests. To access the Scan Test window: · In the Application window, click the Scan Test button on the toolbar or select Scan Test from the Options menu. As soon as you scan some data, the image produced appears in the upper part of the window. Any unrecognized character is marked with the rejection symbol "~" (the rejection symbol can be modified - see: Learn how to. . . Define the symbol for unknown characters). Load image: this option allows you to load prescanned images and perform character recognition on them; the supported file format is the Windows bitmap (*. bmp) format. Save image: this option allows you to save the images you generate; the available file formats are: black-and-white and grayscale Windows bitmaps (*. bmp). Calibrate: allows the user to re-execute the pen's calibration. Fit to window The option Fit to Window ensures that the entire image is displayed in the window, whatever the length of the scanned line may be. When a long line of text is being scanned, you can deactivate the option. If you do so, the scanned line will no more be compressed horizontally and only a portion of the line will be displayed. You can use the image scroll bar to view the scanned data entirely. 26 CHAPTER 3 - STARTING UP Recognize The Recognize option is activated by default. Note that in the text zone, you can get directly to the end or the beginning of the recognized text: place your cursor in the text zone, then press the End or Home key from your keyboard. If you have selected Grayscale image to clipboard or Black&White image to clipboard in the Application window, the Recognize option will be replaced by Image to clipboard. THE IRISPEN WIZARD The IRISPen Wizard offers the quickest and easiest way of defining your settings. It proposes a series of templates with pre-defined settings meant for the reading of certain types of data: text, text from columns, numeric tables, etc. [. . . ] Default character subset used: To read numeric data: · In the Application window, select the Numeric scan type. See: Basic settings, Reading options, Scan type. · Slide your pen over the numeric data. 44 CHAPTER 6 - LEARN HOW TO. . . SCAN FROM RIGHT TO LEFT By default, the pen scanner is set to operate from left to right, but you can adapt the scanning direction and scan from right to left. You will also operate this way if you intend to read right-to-left text like e. g. [. . . ]