Penpower Technology WorldPenScan, User Manual

Page 1: ...WorldPenScan User Manual Release November 2010 Version 3 2 Edition 1 ...

Page 2: ... prohibited You may not sell lease dissemble reverse engineer copy translate adapt or derive the Software or obtain the source code of the Software by any other means You may not use the Software for any purposes other than those permitted under this Agreement 4 Business Users If you need to install or use the Software on more than one 1 computer please contact Penpower or our local distributor to...

Page 3: ...eady paid to Penpower in respect of the Software Under no circumstances will Penpower be held liable for the possibility of loss notwith standing Penpower may be aware of the possibility of such loss 8 Prohibition Against Sublicense You are prohibited to assign the license in respect of the Software granted to you under this Agreement or to grant a sublicense to another person 9 Jurisdiction With ...

Page 4: ...ar 3 1 3 2 Scan Mode 3 3 3 2 1 Sentence Scan 3 3 3 2 2 Word Scan 3 3 3 2 3 Image Scan 3 4 3 2 4 Business Mode 3 5 3 3 Balloon Interface 3 6 3 3 1 Candidates 3 6 3 3 2 Phrase Correction 3 7 3 3 3 Split Character 3 8 3 3 4 Merge Character 3 8 3 3 5 Original Image 3 9 3 3 6 Punctuation 3 9 3 3 7 Previous Characters and Related Charactesrs 3 10 3 3 8 Translation 3 11 3 4 Online Translation 3 11 3 5 Or...

Page 5: ... 3 6 5 Online Translation Settings 3 18 3 6 6 Interface Language Settings 3 18 Chapter 4 Penpower Voice Reader 4 1 4 1 Open Penpower Voice Reader 4 1 4 2 Voice Reader Setting 4 2 4 3 Turn off Penpower Voice Reader 4 2 Chapter 5 Penpower Translator 5 1 5 1 Open Penpower Translator 5 1 5 2 English Character Dictionary Lookup 5 1 5 3 Chinese Character Dictionary 5 3 5 4 English Phrasal Dictionary 5 4...

Page 6: ...chitecture allows you to scan continu ously without pause while recognition is being done on the fly Recognize 193 Languages The WorldPenScan can scan and recognize 193 languages including English French German Italian Spanish Japanese Korean Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese and etc For the detailed recognition language list please refer to the appendix Automatic Tilt Calibration Auto detect...

Page 7: ... or Cantonese of any articles You can use it as a tool for fast proof reading or in teaching the correct Mandarin Cantonese pronunciation Bidirectional Chinese to English Document Translation Come with translation software Transtar which can translate phrases or characters from English to Chinese or vice versa and have your complete Chinese document translated into English right away with a read b...

Page 8: ...s Pentium II 300 CPU or above 256MB of RAM 250MB of available hard disk space Windows 7 Vista XP OS CD ROM Drive USB port 2 2 Hardware Specification Dimensions 130mm x 37mm x 18 5mm Weight 30g excluding USB Adapter Interface USB 2 0 Scanning speed 15 cm sec Character size 5 22 pt ...

Page 9: ...sed to send the next word Note The hardware pictures in the manual are for reference The color of the hard ware may be different due to the version differences Tip You can refer Section 3 6 4 to configure the function button as Enter Tab Space Click or Double click Scan tip Function Button USB Port Scan Button 2 2 2 WorldPenScan Pro Scan tip Function Button Scan Button USB Port 2 2 1 WorldPenScan ...

Page 10: ...omatically Click WorldPenScan to install WorldPen Scan 3 Click Next to install 4 Please read the License Agreement select I accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next to continue 2 Please select an installation language and click Next to install Tip WorldPenScan includes OCR and Transtar You can install them after installing WorldPenScan ...

Page 11: ...ll the driver 7 When the installation is finished please restart your computer Click Finish to restart your computer 5 Select a destination folder to install the software to Click Next to continue 6 Choose the program folder that you want to install WorldPenScan to If left as default the software will create a new folder for you Click Next to continue ...

Page 12: ...an pen into your computer s USB port and a win dow will appear Select No not this time and click Next to continue Note Some computers may shut down accidentally after connection This is due to the lack of power to sup port several USB devices To avoid this problem connect your World PenScan and other USB devices to an extra powered USB hub 2 Select Install the software automati cally and click Nex...

Page 13: ... You can also click Register later to close the reminder When you need to register click the Tools button and select About from the toolbar and then click on Registration If you ve registered please click Already Registered Tip If you do not need to be reminded again you can check Don t show this regis tering window at startup A Scanning Guide will appear after the registration reminder Use the Wo...

Page 14: ...acy Scan Mode Language Recognition Tools To Tray Icon Online Translation Minimize Balloon Interface Voice Reader Translator 2 Scan Mode Provide Sentence Scan and Word Scan modes Sentence Scan Sentence Scan mode is the default scan mode for scanning an article or a sentence directly The scanned article or sentence will be recognized into text and sent to your computer Please refer to 3 2 1 Sentence...

Page 15: ... 7 Tools Provide Image Scan Business Mode Original Image Settings Help and About Image Scan Select the Image Scan option the scanned image or word will be sent to your computer in image format Please refer to 3 2 3 Image Scan for more detailed information Business Mode Select the Business Mode option the scanned digits will be sent to the cursor position Please refer to 3 2 4 for more information ...

Page 16: ...lighter During the scanning please make sure the white auxiliary light is on 5 Stop applying pressure to the pen to stop scanning The scanned text is displayed in your word processor immediately Note Penpower WorldPenScan is able to scan and recognize one row of characters at a time Please place the scan tip arrow at the center of the line 3 2 2 Word Scan 1 Click the Scan Mode button to select the...

Page 17: ...ck the Online Translation button to open a translation website And then click the location where you want input 4 Place a document on a flat surface and place the scan tip in front of the word you de sire to check Aim the arrow at the center of the desired word then press and drag the WorldPenScan pen in a straight line across a word or sentence During the scanning please make sure the white auxil...

Page 18: ...provides the Business Mode function 1 Click Tools button and select the Business Mode option from the drop down menu 2 Open a word processor that is able to input images for example Microsoft Word Click the location where you would like to input the scanned words 3 Place a document on the a flat surface and place the scan tip at the starting digit or letter Aim the scan tip arrow at the center of ...

Page 19: ... suggested corrections will be presented to you This will enable you quicker correction and a faster way of in putting characters into your desired application Tip You only need to leave your cursor on the character you do not need to click any buttons When the pop up window appear you will have a list of suggested corrections character combination buttons or hover your cursor over the display ori...

Page 20: ...n button The system will examine the four characters before or after this particular character to guess what you meant and make the change 1 When entering an idiom in Full Screen mode such as 拔苗助長 if you are not sure of how to write the character 拔 you can enter the character 一 instead to input 一苗助長 2 Move the mouse over the character 一 and pause for a moment to bring up the Candidate Characters W...

Page 21: ...a window will pop up with a list of buttons Click on the second button and you will have the separate characters combined into a single character 棟 3 3 3 Split Character On the contrary when the strokes in 2 characters are too close to each other they may be recognized together as 1 character The character split function can be used to split the strokes into 2 separate characters Scan the characte...

Page 22: ...l text when scanned 3 3 6 Punctuation Click on and a panel listing of punctuation marks will be displayed ac cordingly allowing you to input half shaped or full shaped punctuation marks Leave your cursor on the character for 1 2 seconds and a window will pop up with a list of buttons Hold down the third button from the left and you will see the original text being displayed ...

Page 23: ...he first character is the second character s uplink while the second character is the first character s downlink For example 科技 where 科 is 技 s uplink while the character 技 is 科 s downlink 1 When using the WorldPenScan the recognition results will be directly transferred to the desired application 2 As shown in the illustration the character 恬 has been recognized incorrectly as 恰 as well as 科 which...

Page 24: ...hen select any online translation Website The online translation Website will be opened and WorldPenScan will be switched to the Word Scan mode automatically Tip You can organize Website Links from the Translation Settings function Please refer to 3 6 3 Online Translation Settings for more detailed information 3 Place a document on a flat surface and place the scan tip at the starting word Aim the...

Page 25: ...s Tip You can right click on the original image to save the image to bmp or pcx file 4 The translation result of the first recognized word displays in the Website Note If the Website does not support the enter function please manually click the translate button on the website with your mouse 5 If you scan more than one word you can press the Function button on the scan pen to see the translation o...

Page 26: ...ccu rate recognition results When choosing Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese Japanese or Korean as the language recognition you can ac cord to the document you want to scan to choose the scan direction manually Scanning Horizontal Text When scanning horizontal text you can choose the Horizontal option Place the pen on the text or image move the pen left to right or right to left when scanning...

Page 27: ...e recognized word in Mandarin or Cantonese When choosing English as the language recognition you can choose to listen the rec ognized English word 3 6 2 Recognition Settings In the Recognition Setting page you can set up the recognition results recognition contents and at the end of scan insert a space automatically Recognition Results When choosing Chinese Traditional or Chinese Simplified as the...

Page 28: ...S level 2 Kanji characters please do not check it for higher recognition accu racy At the End of the Scan Insert a Space Automatically When choosing English French German Italian or Spanish as the language recogni tion you can check the At the end of the scan insert a space automatically While scanning text the system will automatically add a space at the end of the scan For example when the docum...

Page 29: ...left column contains 193 recognition lan guages for you to choose The languages appear in the right column will all appear on the recognition language drag down menu on the tool bar In this tab you can select the recognition language in the left column and click add to add it into the right column If you want to remove a language from the right column you can select the language you want to remove...

Page 30: ...Button Configuration Settings The default function of Function Button is Enter You can replace Enter by Tab Space Click or Double Click Select the Button Configuration tab and then you can select which function you want the Function Button to be ...

Page 31: ... You can also modify or remove a website by clicking the Modify button or the Remove but ton You will find the changes when click ing Online Translation button from the toolbar In the Interface Language setting page you can choose the interface version as Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese or English After choosing a language check the description area underneath If the description sentence do...

Page 32: ...ader 1 Click Voice Reader button from the toolbar or Penpower VoiceReader from the tray icon menu to run Penpower Voice Reader 3 Choose a paragraph click and select Start Stop Text to Speech the selected para graph will be read out Check your speaker if there s no sound 4 During reading click and selecting Start Stop Text to Speech it will stop reading 2 When it starts up there will be an icon on ...

Page 33: ...ill appear Speech Speed Adjust speak speed Speech Tone Adjust tone level Speech Volume Adjust speak volume 4 3 Turn off Penpower Voice Reader 1 Click select Exit 2 When you see the following image the Penpower VoiceReader is turned off and the icon on the upper right corner disappears ...

Page 34: ...glish English Chinese phrasal translation 5 1 Open Penpower Translator Click Translator button from the toolbar or Penpower Translator from the tray icon menu to run Penpower Translator 5 2 English Character Dictionary Lookup 1 Click on 2 On the top left hand corner enter the English word that you want to look up in the dic tionary and hit Enter The explanation in Chinese will pop up almost immedi...

Page 35: ...f the next character or the previous one Click Copy button to copy the se lected contents Click System Setting button to invoke the Setting window for setting recognition language recognition results document Property and Interface language Tip Due to the pre emptive nature of the Translator you do not need to input the char acters completely Hitting Enter will usually let the system complete the ...

Page 36: ...ed Chinese please select the translation option 2 In similar fashion input the Chinese character that you want to look up in the text field in the top left hand corner Hit Enter and the system will present the explanation in English Click to listen the pronunciation Click Previous Item Next Item buttons to check the meaning of the next char acter or the previous one ...

Page 37: ... phrasal translation avoid inputting Chinese half shaped punctua tion to increase the translation accuracy Click Read button to read all information from window you selected Click Save button to save the translated information to text file Click Cut button to cut the selected contacts Click Copy button to copy the selected contents Click Paste button to paste the selected contacts Click Delete but...

Page 38: ...If the Chinese sentence you wish to look up is Simplified Chinese please select the translation option 2 In the above frame input the phrase or paragraph where appropriate and click on to start the translation The result will be displayed in the frame below Click Read button to read all information from window you selected ...

Page 39: ...he word with Scaneye will let you input the complete phrase Every push on the button on the pen will incur the translation on the next word and so forth Clicking on the Previous Word or the Next Word button will allow you to scroll through to the next or previous character in Translator s dictionary database allowing you to look up on more meanings on the word s variants You can zoom in or zoom ou...

Page 40: ...n by clicking on which will in turn translate whatever you have scanned into the opposite language You can perform the translation phrase by phrase or choose to have the translation done to the whole paragraph at one time You will not be able to use the Previous Word Next Word buttons when you are in phrasal translation mode ...

Page 41: ...5 8 WorldPenScan ...

Page 42: ...nian Eastern Armenian Grabar Armenian Western Avar Aymara Azerbaijani Cyrillic Azerbaijani Latin Bashkir Basq Belarusian Bemba Blackfoot Breton Bugotu Bulgarian Buryat Catalan Cebuano Chamorro Chechen Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Chukchee Chuvash Corsican Crimean Tatar ...

Page 43: ...gan Dutch Belgium Dutch Netherlands English Eskimo Cyrillic Eskimo Latin Estonian Even Evenki Faroese Fijian Finnish French Frisian Friulian Gagauz Galician Ganda German German Luxembourg German new spelling Greek Guarani Hani Hausa Hawaiian Hungarian ...

Page 44: ...h Italian Japanese Jingpo Kabardian Kalmyk Karachay balkar Karakalpak Kasub Kawa Kazakh Khakass Khanty Kikuyu Kirghiz Kongo Korean Koryak Kpelle Kumyk Kurdish Lak Latin Latvian Lezgi Lithuanian Luba Macedonian Malagasy Malay Malaysian ...

Page 45: ...hawk Moldavian Mongol Mordvin Nahuatl Nenets Nivkh Nogay Norwegian Bokmal Norwegian Nynorsk Nyanja Ojibway OldEnglish OldFrench OldGerman OldItalian OldSpanish Ossetian Papiamento Polish Portuguese Brazil Portuguese Portugal Provencal Quechua Rhaeto Romanic ...

Page 46: ...g Rwanda Sami Lappish Samoan Scottish Gaelic Selkup Serbian Cyrillic Serbian Latin Shona Slovak Slovenian Somali Sorbian Sotho Spanish Sunda Swahili SwedishTabasaran Tagalog Tahitian Tajik Tatar Thai Tok Pisin Tongan Tswana Tun TurkishTurkmen Tuvinian ...

Page 47: ...ur Latin UkrainianUzbek Cyrillic Uzbek Latin Vietnamese Welsh Wolof XhosaYakut Zapotec Zulu Esperanto Ido Interlingua Occidental Arabic numbers Arabic Indian numbers Basic C C COBOL Fortran JAVA Pascal Simple chemical formulas ...

Page 48: ...Penpower WorldPenScan V3 2tw User Manual Penpower Technology Ltd Release November 2010 Edition 1 ...