Home

I.R.I.S. IRISPen II

Contents

1. EXECUTIVE USER S GUIDE RIS Document to Knowledge 2001 LR I S All rights reserved OCR and Linguistic technology by IR LS PCR II recognition technology PBR bar code reading PHR handprinting recognition technology and Read amp Speak by LR LS Speech technology by Lernout amp Hauspie 2001 LR I S All rights reserved USER S GUIDE INTRODUCING THE IRISPEN The IRISPen may be the biggest sensation in computerland since the mouse As efficient as computers are you have to encode your data first If you ve ever rekeyed text you know how boring and time consuming it can be The IRISPen a unique product for every computer user offers instantaneous text retrieval at your fingertips Text recognition where you want it when you want it The IRISPen consists of two components a unique greyscale pen sized OCR scanner and the powerful PCR II Pen Character Recognition text recogni tion technology The basic principle could hardly be easier slide the IRISPen over a line of text and it is entered into your application instantly as if keyed in but up to 30 times faster Up to a 100 characters can be entered per second Cut from paper paste to Windows can you imagine a simpler way of entering text Imagine you have to write a report The IRISPen copies excerpts from books magazines newspapers and typed or printed matter and enters them directly in your wordproces
2. The capability to translate any text sent to the clipboard has far reaching 1m plications It allows the user to translate any text he highlights on his screen and copies to the clipboard text entered on the keyboard wordprocessor files mail messages received in a foreign language Internet pages displayed with a web browser etc The user can also send the scanned text directly to the clipboard the recog nized text will not be inserted in the active application by selecting the clipboard as Output target with the setting Output Target in the IRISPen Translator appli cation window The text to be translated is scanned but the source text is not retrieved as only its translation is considered relevant Related Command The setting Language in the application window of the IRISPen Translator indicates the source language the setting Translate to in the application window of the IRISPen Translator indicates the target language Greyscale Image Refer to the command Greyscale Image on the IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar Uf Status Window Refer to the command Status Window on the IRISPen control on the Win dows taskbar Save Settings on Exit This option guarantees that the current settings are saved as default settings when the user quits the IRISPen software These settings will be loaded into memory at the next startup The default settings are saved in the file DEFAULT IPC When this file is eras
3. O eh S SQ n M mw BI I hope that this information has been useful Yours truly Cn Gs k Goop OCR For BAD IMAGES Back to text Although we rightly emphasized the importance of steady scan ning it should be noted that the OCR software is very powerful Given the un stable scanning by the human hand holding a greyscale pen scanner the recogni tion technology has to cope with images of very bad quality 4 N IAlSPen Greyscale Image The greyscale image window allows you to see exactly how bad the image quality can be Colors are a first factor think of low contrast documents where the background virtually has the same color as the text Furthermore the images can be highly distorted wavy and skewed lines contracted stretched and rotated characters the raw material the IRISPen has to process Scan Test i iilh Caney and Cal te MI a Cony Hla 4 F feel Camey and Callan thought that their next site at Canary Wharf Brightness Despeckle off f Automatic Manual W Smoothen Image lighten i darken I Fit to Window Load Image OF Cancel I Recognize i 0 Save Image RE PEEEEEEELECCEeee ELE EEE EE EEE EEE LICE PEELE EEE Eee et USER S GUIDE So the IRISPen offers OCR at its best the unique PCR II technology PCR is short for Pen Character Recognition executes character recognition despite every handicap imaginable THE IRIS
4. Chapter INSTALLATION This chapter discusses the system requirements and installation of the IRISPen the IRISPen Executive and the IRISPen Translator The IRISPen consists of a hardware component and a software package SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS This is the minimal system configuration required to use the IRISPen LI a 486 based Intel PC or compatible A Pentium based PC is recom mended Q 16 MB RAM LJ 50 MB hard disk space for the Standard software 60 MB for the Ex ecutive software and 80 MB for the Translator software Substract 10 MB when you leave the electronic manual on the CD ROM Q a 256 color monitor It is recommended that you dispose of a 256 color monitor to display the greyscale images generated by the pen scanner LI the Windows ME 2000 or 98 operating system Q a free USB port to connect the IRISPen scanner The speech synthesis of the IRISPen Executive and the IRISPen Transla tor requires that your PC is equipped with a Windows compatible sound card For quality sound preference is given to a 64 bit sound card All Windows com patible audio cards are supported Creative Labs SoundBlaster and compatibles etc To install additional speech modules 5 MB of free hard disk space is re quired per language Ten languages are currently available English and British English Brazilian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Span ish To install additional translation pairs 15 MB of free hard dis
5. When you are reading text excerpts it may be a good idea to enable the option Multilines in the IRISPen application window This option is limited to the IRISPen Executive and the IRISPen Translator M Multilines The scanned lines are buffered until they are inserted in the target applica tion or sent to the clipboard The user presses the pen button to trigger the output process After each scanned line a blinking status window displays the message Press pen button to flush for a few seconds Only do so at the end of a sentence or paragraph Click pen Button to flush Note that you can start rescanning immediately you can ignore this warning entirely EXTRACTING KEY WORDS An additional cropping function Ignore Rejected Characters in First and Last Position is useful when the RISPen is used to capture key words M Ignore rejected characters in first and last position In this case you will scan with more precision If you start or stop a bit too early you have erroneously scanned part of a previous or following word giving you an unrecognized symbol This option sees to it that these rejected characters are ignored by the IRISPen When the gutter between two columns is narrow or when wordspacing is reduced this feature comes in handy Unrecognized characters are by default represented by a tilde the sym bol but you can select a different symbol with the command Unknown Symbol
6. ASAP TTS Dr e g etc Ltd Bros Jr Set Lt Col Gen Mr Mrs ca St Eng mm cm Tel Inc excl er kg 1 Dept Hr AV Ave Pres The abbreviations for months are recognized Jan Aug Oct Dec Context rules Dr Johnson lives in Elm Dr Doctor Johnson lives in Elm drive St Peter s St Saint Peter s street Dr Johnson lives in St Peter s St Doctor Johnson lives in Saint Peter s street Acronyms Acronyms are pronounced as normal words NASA IRIS UNESCO Initialisms Initialisms are pronounced letter by letter EEC BBC VAT TV MP Ph D MBA USSR GMT GQ BC BSc GB UK CEO PC PR LP CD MC OK VP VIP DUTCH SYNTAX RULES Numbers Cardinal numbers of up to 15 digits are pronounced as full numbers longer digit strings are pronounced digit by digit Periods can be used to separate the digit groups Leading zeros are pronounced separately 123456789012345 Honderd drie ntwintig triljoen vier honderd 123456 Honderd drie ntwintig duizend vierhonderd zesenvijftig 1234567890123456 E n twee drie vier vijf zes zeven acht negen nul n 007 Nul nul zeven Periods may be used to separate groups of three digits 123 456 Honderd drie ntwintig duizend vierhonderd zesenvijftig 1234 56 789 012 345 Honderd drie ntwintig triljoen vier honderd Decimal numbers may contain up to 15 digits before the comma and up to 15 digits after the comma Periods may be used to separate groups of three digits before the comma Th
7. PRES Pew uninstall Prose latiitcss siscisassscoseccentesancaptssanenctsaseanasinccsonsabancaeaseqnessseennesaiaenisannenesiasennasateesoseasenaia 7 Windows un install wizard eeessseeseseeeerrrererrrrrrrrrrrrtrrrrrrttrtttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt ttrt ttt t ttttrttretrtrrerrrereee 8 ING SISTEE 10 V Ole pired r aa ca Scio ce sh mas N E 9 Sette Product SUP POMC escra ea aue ee cee Lats eae E e E Eaa ii eK ES l1 Gettns in POUCH With LRE S serenas E T EES 12 Chapter 2 Guided Tour Havne a Look althe Pen SCanner ie T tdalndseuemiradebndiewelaes 1 Slane SS OW ATC UP een e R R 3 Setune pp the Necessary Parameters enisi ader a 6 Reading Mode sssnesssseesssssessssrossssessssresssseosssressssresssressseresssreesssresssresssresssoressstessoresssoressstessseressseeesssresssres 6 Language tetera ese os eae x sec ve se mua ete eseueaateubeaaetouseeian uci SSS eS SSPE eS SSES SSP essnee essnee sst esss eesse eessoeesseressse res 6 Translate to IRISPen Translator 0 cccccccccccsssssssssssssssssssssssesssssssssssesssesssssesesssseeesssesseeeseseeeeseeeeeeeees 7 Bar Codes IRISPen Executive 0 ccccccccsssssssssssssssssssssssssssesesssesesessssseesessssesssesesseeeeseeeeseeesseeseeeeeeeeeees 7 Dot Matrix IRISPen Executive ssssssssssssssssssssseseseste tettetett etete settee eese seee EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE eeens 7 Output Target meme nme ere renee me ne aC en na OP 7 Multilines IRISPen Executive and Translator 0
8. There s another feature of major importance to the scanning of tables of fig ures the detection of table cells as you find in the example below Cells Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 European 1 462 3 912 10 1 1 American 1 689 37 353 55 3 5 The command Table Frame Conversion under the Settings menu offers the key Some common keyboard commands are presented by default but you ze see can also enter user defined characters keyboard commands and any combina tion of these Table Frame Conversion Mull Character Conversion Enter Unknown Symbol lt Space gt Bar Codes Se Handprinting SO Raa Cursor Dowre Cursor Lett Cursor Aight Home gt lt Cursor Dowre Output Subset Custom For instance when you select lt Tab gt the IRISPen will execute a lt Tab gt when ever it encounters a vertical bar As a lt Tab gt moves your cursor to the next cell scanning this table into a spreadsheet will put the individual figures in separate cells Add lt Home gt lt Cursor Down gt as ending code to relocate the cursor on the next row USER S GUIDE E1 Microsoft Excel Book B File Edit wiew Insert Format Tools Data Window Help 8 x Desana f e 2 Arial 2 AS OOo ee ee 1462 3 912 1 1 1 16869 37 363 55 39 Numeric Application EE aie Ready oy Nm Pe El bal Lr T jk In other words you can recre
9. a A CR a SF a e ty A a Se Seeesteeuaertae QAO BOSS wes Eo Vege e E E E gas Deselect 0 Le Deselect Al SOCET ASEA Eee SOCCCHAHTCTMHAHABAEA Be eSaceeecgeecegcse A 23 ES SeSeSesoEseEeeLugug BOI SeSeSeePeaeeeos k Cancel Deselect 4 2 GOOLLL Character enabled Character disabled When a limited number of symbols should be recognized the IRISPen s accu racy and speed can be improved by narrowing down the output subset The user could for instance enter serial numbers and product codes where the numerals are completed by a few alphabetic symbols in a database This is all the more important as OCR may generate recognition errors for those symbols with very similar characteristics When errors do occur they usu ally concern B and 8 O and 0 I and 1 etc The user adds and removes symbols by clicking them Some buttons are avail able to add and remove entire ranges of characters simultaneously Select Al Select 0 9 etc A concrete example is creating an OCR B character set which limits recog nition to the numerals and the symbols lt gt and OCR B is at the same time a highly specialized typeface used only in financial documents such as printed Ii checks bank statements etc I R I S has a specialized version of the IRISPen for the financial market It should be stressed that the IRISPen does not recognize all characters as are displayed in this window Som
10. for instance English French and Dutch the pronunciation of figures varies when you are dealing with a year and not a normal figure The number 1 999 becomes one thousand nine hun dred and ninety the year 1999 is pronounced as nineteen ninety six Next all idiosyncrasies of the recognized text are identified to determine the correct pronunciation This means that the word Dr will be correctly inter preted as doctor and drive in sentences as Dr Spencer visited a patient on Roosevelt Dr All common abbreviations are solved with a specialized dictionary the sys tem knows that Corp stands for Corporation Bros for Brothers etc Lin USER S GUIDE guistic rules are applied to all other abbreviations depending on their structure NASA is pronounced as any normal word but abbreviations such as Ph D and MBA will be pronounced letter per letter Abbreviations composed of the first letter of each word and pronounced as normal words are called acronyms IRIS short for Image Recognition Inte grated Systems is an example Jnitialisms such as PC and VAT are also composed of the first letter of each word but are pronounced letter by letter To ensure that a word is read letter per letter it suffices to insert dots between the letters N A T O for example yields a different result than NATO Next the conversion of spelling to phonetics takes place Using a rule based method the let
11. MASAYOSHI SON 42 president and CEO is the master Net empire builder His con glomerate holds stakes in 300 Internet Thanks to its powerful intelligent routines the IRISPen even solves tough cases here s how our difficult image gets binarized MASAYOSHI SON 42 president and CEO is the master Net empire builder His con glomerate holds stakes in 300 Internet Please note that the IRISPen handles changes gradual and other in the background beautifully To cope with varying colors and varying color intensity in images the binarization is adaptive The software chooses the optimal black and white threshold locally a different threshold can apply to each small region of the image IAlSPen Greyscale Image Uh Scan Test SIVULLT TE WUTTITYOU The huge Euronet operated FTP server contains many popular sites which can he tecelved at whopping 2Mbps megabits per second The service tells you the speci EE Ee Brightness Despeckle off f Automatic Manual W Smoothen Image lighter 12 darken i I Fit to Window Load Image I Recognize Save Image Should this be necessary you can optimize the image further for the OCR process The IRISPen Executive uses some complicated concepts here and we need to discuss them in detail The option Smoothen Image renders the greyscale images more homoge neous by flattening smoothing out relative differences in int
12. ccccccccccccssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssessssssessessesseseseeees 8 POD OUL TIMES CANIS Window nonda e Sarees Gael A E dah ceradodndmmaasacetaia 8 andthe IRIS Pen C ontrolon the Taskbar sii sectiussicesedenadutee asconsaleaudscaines sensutaundatancoletes 9 Panam 10m A ele eea 9 Acque SeS PEO TAA iesh jst ton bond dash dashed A l1 The IRISPenand Direct Image Scam i esisiini a E 16 Good OCR Tor Bad lima ces asee E EE E E 19 TRSIRISPemisa Line S Cane eiie a a a A 21 NE EIN OTN Bie MIECSS eene ote e lace dee bam eos tasiengamnbostonddinasanudeshaamdetslds 22 Blackis Black and White is W AIG uneen 30 Pichi HOMUNn SEX CELpIS ua a a tactile 3 Reading Dot Matix DOCUMENTS aessa a a i a aE 32 Scannin Parao rapis ete ea E a dlemloouteadan see 33 ESO late FoX EN CIO MY e E E 36 Scama Mulhipie LINES ranes e e etdehal atid alee Uedielads 37 Ta VIII Extracting Key Words ite sededssinheniecantssivindieuiubdciushuls SeedsniahtnleShulnsbsudpalelalecuntnsttaipnieScdniualnidiredaniash 37 Cut from Paper Paste to WiIndOWS ccccececccseeccceeeeceeneeeaeeeeeeneeeseeeeseeeeseeeeeeneeeaes 39 Completing Databases ccccccseccccseeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecseeeeseeeeeeeeeeseueeeseeeeseneeeaeeeeeeaeesaes Al Add the Currency ort Drop li issinticaccsoiuriawadennapenenendwwosdienniassninabenoawenaiiemadvadwantavonsieouseuns Al Of ROWS and Columns ccccccceccccnesecceeeeaeseceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeaeeeseseesaseeseeeeseneeeaes 43 More P
13. menu Save Settings Saves the current IRISPen settings in a configuration file for future use USER S GUIDE Save As Ei x Save in SU IRISPen e amp c EJ Mo ny My Computer Pt k FI 7 My Met WOT Save as type JIRISPen Configuration 1PC Cancel Settings files contain all operational parameters the reading mode the docu ment language the target language for the translation IRISPen Translator whether dot matrix reading mode IRISPen Executive and the mixed reading mode with secondary bar code reading is enabled IRISPen Executive the out put target whether the multiline reading mode is enabled IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Translator the programming of pen button clicks and hotkeys table frame and character conversions the output subset alignment options in cluding starting and ending codes the bar code and handprinting settings IRISPen Executve whether the speech synthesis IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Trans lator or system sound is enabled whether the clipboard translation IRISPen Translator the left handed scanning and the image inversion are enabled This command is primarily used to save specific IRISPen settings However it also allows the user to modify the default configuration To do this the user saves the current settings in the file DEFAULT IPC Uf Related Commands An easier way of saving the current settings as default is enabling th
14. narrow bar width 12 mils Bar height 0 4 narrow bar width 18 mils Bar height 0 5 narrow bar width 24 mils 0321548 0354368 EAN 13 EAN 13 is a numeric fixed length bar code for 13 characters The bar codes are composed of two characters for the country digit followed by ten data char acters and a check digit The user encodes 12 digits The check digit is verified but filtered from the reading result when the option Verify and Erase Check Digit is enabled otherwise it is read and included in the output Ie Apart from the check digit there is a left center and right guard pattern and there are odd and even parity digits EAN 13 EAN stands for European Article Number is the standard of the publishing industry for the ISBN numbers on books and publications EAN 13 is actually a European version of UPC A See above Bar height 0 3 narrow bar width 12 mils Bar height 0 4 narrow bar width 18 mils Bar height 0 5 narrow bar width 24 mils 123456789110 987654321014 95103578920 MSI PHARMA MSI also called Plessey in some literature is a variable length numeric bar code that allows to encode up to 13 characters Historically speaking MSI was one of the first symbologies ever to be devel oped Nowadays MSI is used mainly in the grocery industry for shelf labels and inventory control This is no surprise because
15. offers a unique solution The IRISPen as a 3D OCR product you might say Or you could call the IRISPen the first true handy scanner THE IRISPEN AND DIRECT IMAGE SCANNING Clicking the button Save Image saves the scanned image in a graphic file Three file formats are available black and white and greyscale Windows bitmaps BMP and a proprietary black and white graphic format called IRISPen im age IRISPen graphics should be used for diagnostic purposes only Save As Save irr 2 My Pictures a ff ft E History De z ktop hy Computer TAE My Network PI save as type Black and white Windows bitmap bmp Cancel Black and white windows biman bmol k Z Greyscale Windows bitmap bmp IAS Pen image ipg Windows bitmaps can also be used to save images use them to scan small graphics such as logos signatures etc USER S GUIDE Scan Test 1237 Despeckle off Brightness f Automatic C Manual W Smoothen Image 0 lighten 12 I Fit to Window Load Image I Recognize Save Image darken Cancel Bitmaps and IRISPen graphic files can be loaded into memory with the button Load Image The option Recognize sees to it that all images you scan or open are recog nized When the scan test mode is used to save graphics instead of scanning data you can disable this option scanning a graphic the IRISPen software won t find a
16. the country will be added and for others it won t some contacts have an e mail address while others don t etc To encode these data efficiently the single pen button click is programmed as lt Tab gt even though lt Tab gt already functions as ending code The suffix lt Tab gt moves the cursor to the next field automatically and the pen button is clicked once when a database field should be skipped To start a new record when an address was completed the user normally clicks a button with his mouse but given the pen button he can program the double click to corre spond to that button s shortcut To encode forms with an address alphanumeric data and coded numbers numeric data where the data must be distributed among different database fields the single button can be used to move the cursor to a new database field and the double button click to toggle between the alphanumeric and numeric reading mode To encode data in a spreadsheet where no vertical bars separate the columns the figures are read one by one and the single click is programmed as lt Tab gt to move the cursor to the next cell the double click is programmed as lt Home gt lt Cursor Down gt to move the cursor to the next row When data of varying nature printed or typed text printed and handprinted numerals is mixed on the page the pen button can be programmed to switch reading modes When the user has selected Alphanumeric as his reading mode and h
17. under the Settings menu Unknown Symbol E3 Please specify the symbol for unknown characters Cancel H Entering less than a line of text is certainly a major application of the IRISPen Think of scanning contacts and addresses from brochures catalogs business cards in a database contact or personal manager etc The IRISPen is the easiest and most practical highlighter imaginable USER S GUIDE Pile Es GE Ivo Vynckier Contact Eile Edit Wiew Insert Format Tools Actions Help E Save and Close kal vy Ep gt General Details Activities Certificates All Fields Full Mame Ivo Yynckier cp Job title Technical writer Home Company LR 1S Business Fax File as Vynckier Ivo Mobile Address Rue du Bosquet 10 E mail gt fivo vynckier iristink com E 1348 Louvain la Neuve z Business Belgium Web page address http www jrislink com er J This is the mailing address Alphanumeric English Application Y contacts Categories Private CUT FROM PAPER PASTE TO WINDOws Wordprocessors are indeed just a single example of software the IRISPen complements Actually the IRISPen will output to any Windows application spreadsheets databases office software with e mail and electronic agendas personal and contact managers text editors encoding utilities bookkeeping soft ware etc The list of supported applications is r
18. English German English Italian English Portuguese and English Spanish Contact I R I S to learn the availability of new language pairs The speech feature is available for all source and target languages The IRISPen Translator has sufficient linguistic intelligence to translate ab breviations normalized character strings such as 1st phrases consisting of sev eral words such as state of mind tat d esprit and take away wegnehmen etc However the user should be aware that computer aided translation gives an imperfect first draft an information only translation Should a translation be published it will need to be refined by a human translator The IRISPen Transla tor should be used to translate business like non emotive language As comput ers do not cope well with connotation metaphor and irony literature poetry and some advertizing literature do not translate well and often lead to humorous ef fects Related Commands The option Translate Clipboard under the Options menu allows the user to translate texts copied to the clipboard text entered on the keyboard wordprocessor files mail messages received in a foreign language Internet pages displayed with a web browser etc Dot Matrix IRISPen Executive Determines whether the user recognizes normal or dot matrix printed docu ments Setting this parameter correctly is mandatory draft or 9 pin dot matrix symbols are ma
19. Greyscale Image under the Options menu and by loading IRISPen settings with the command Open Settings under the File menu Status Window Enables the status window Refer to the section Status Window for an extensive discussion of the status window Uf Related Commands The user can also enable the status window with the command Status Win dow under the Options menu and by loading IRISPen settings with the com mand Open Settings under the File menu Scan Test Enables the scan test mode where the user displays a black and white version of the greyscale images generated by the pen scanner and the reading results Refer to the button Scan Test on the toolbar for an extensive discussion of the scan test mode Related Commands The user can also enable the scan test mode with the button Scan Test on the toolbar and with the command Scan Test under the Options menu The user can enable the greyscale image window by right clicking the IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar and selecting the command Greyscale Image under the Options menu and with the command Greyscale Image under the Options menu Help Topics Allows to navigate through the on line help Refer to the command Help Topics under the Help menu for further infor mation Related Command The user can also access the on line help system with the command Help Topics under the Help menu Exit Closes the IRISPen softw
20. IRISPEN APPLICATION WINDOW The IRISPen application window contains the basic IRISPen settings the reading mode the document language the target language for translation the enabling of bar code reading as secondary reading mode the target output and the multiline reading mode er IRISPen Il Executive g x File Settings Options Register Help Reading Mode Alphanumeric Language English Translate to None S Bar Codes Dot Matrix Output Target Clipboard f Application Multiines The selected values are displayed in the IRISPen status window Whether the status window is displayed or not depends on the option Status Window under the Options menu The OK or Minimize button is clicked to have the IRISPen application running in the background To restore the IRISPen application the user can right or double click on the status window and he can right click on the IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar and select the command Open He can also define a shortcut key to this end with the command Hotkeys under the Settings menu Such a shortcut USER S GUIDE restores the IRISPen application window from within the user s active applica tion Reading Mode Determines the reading mode The options alphanumeric black and white bitmap to clipboard greyscale bitmap to clipboard and numeric are available For the IRISPen Executive two reading modes are added bar codes an
21. OS version L version for Mac OS platform available Q cross platform compatibility of IRISPen hardware with all Macintosh desktop computers IRISPEN STANDARD Font support proprietary omnifont PCR II Pen Character Recog nition technology self learning technique based on contextual analysis Linguistic support 55 languages American English British English Afri kaans Albanian Basque Brazilian Breton Bulgarian Byelorussian Catalan Corsican Croatian Czech Dan ish Dutch Estonian Finnish French Frisian German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Gaelic Italian Lithuanian Luxemburgh Macedonian Malay Mexican Norwegian Nynorsk Polish Portuguese Ro manian Russian Scottish Gaelic Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog Turkish and Ukranian 7 mixed language modes Bulgarian English Byelorussian English Greek English Macedonian En glish Russian English Serbian English and Ukranian English Character modes Character sizes Graphics Scanning features Scanning speed linguistic modules using knowledge about syllables and a 150 000 word lexicon per language alphanumeric and numeric customized character sets character conversion table frame detection 8 to 22 point 0 11 to 0 31 or 0 28 to 0 78 cm greyscale and black and white Windows bitmaps BMP and proprietary IRISPen graphics copying of graphics to clipboard for direct pasting an
22. One hundred dollars 25 DM Twenty five Deutsche marks 88 Schil Eighty eight Schillings Other currencies must be written in full and follow the numeral Alternatively you can program the IRISPen to for instance replace F by francs with the Character Conversion command under the Settings menu 20 francs 100 liras Abbreviations A standard dictionary includes all common abbreviations Ambiguous abbre viations are solved based on the linguistic context Dr 1s pronounced as doctor when followed by a capital letter and as drive in all other cases St is pronounced as saint when followed by a capital letter and as street in other cases Dictionary contained abbreviations ASAP TTS Dr e g etc Ltd Co Corp Bros Jr Set Lt Col Gen Mr Mrs Ms ca St mm cm Tel Inc excl gr kg 1 Dept Hr Mer AV Ave c o Pres NY N Y L A Br WWW The abbreviations for months are recognized Jan Aug Oct Dec USER S GUIDE Context rules Dr Johnson lives in Elm Dr Doctor Johnson lives in Elm drive St Peter s St Saint Peter s street Dr Johnson lives in St Peter s St Doctor Johnson lives in Saint Peter s street Acronyms Acronyms are pronounced as normal words NASA NATO IRIS UNESCO Initialisms Initialisms are pronounced letter by letter FBI CIA IRS FDA EPA NCO CDC TV Ph D MBA USSR GMT GQ ABC BC BSc CEO PC PR LP CD MC OK VP FCC PD VIP GOP BRAZILIAN SYNTAX RULES Numbers Car
23. Scan Test from the Op tions menu of the IRISPen software Open w Greyscale Image w Status Window Help Topics Exit The image you generate will now be displayed in conjunction with the recog nized data The scan test window displays a black and white version of the scanned image while the image window displays the actual greyscale scan USER S GUIDE Scan Test Lea how towne Ml il your IMP 4 F p how to write again with your IAISFenl Despeckle off Brightness f Automatic C Manual W Smoothen Image lighten 12 darken I Fit to Window Load Image I Recognize Save Image Cancel The option Fit to Window ensures that the entire image is displayed in the scan test window whatever the length of the scanned line may be This option is enabled by default With this option disabled the image isn t compressed horizontally when the scanning is completed Use the scroll bar to display various parts of the image successively The example below offers an illustration a long line was scanned as the recognized text indicates nevertheless only a small portion of the image is displayed E y Te Scan Test je sample document shows how the IAlSPen accurately recognizes a wide variety of Brightness Despeckle off f Automatic Manual W Smoothen Image lighter Jer darken T Fit to window Load Image TE I Recognize Save Image The line l
24. address while others don t etc To encode these data efficiently the single pen button click is programmed as lt Tab gt even though we already have lt Tab gt as ending code The suffix lt Tab gt moves the cursor to the next field automatically and you click the pen button once when a database field should be skipped To start a new record when an address was completed you normally click a button with your mouse Here you can program the double button click of the pen button to correspond with that button s shortcut USER S GUIDE WS Fr d ric Floor Contact Of x Eile Edit View Insert Format Tools Actions Help Ged Save and Close i ka F Egr General Details Activities Certificates All Fields amp Full Mame Fr d ric Floor 2 J Business Job title Internet Sales Manager Home kd Company LRLS Business Fax File as Floor Fr d ric Mobile Address Rue du Bosquet 10 ay E mail oy Frederic floor iristink com BS 1348 Louyvain la Weuve Business Belgium Web page address Jwwirisinkeom OO de 4 Iv This is the mailing address Alphanumeric English Application F Contacts Categories Private E In this example we can skip the empty fields with a single button click and start a new record by programming the double pen button click as Alt S the shortcut for the Save and Close button Or you have to encode forms with address
25. are separated and the recognition software has an easier job to isolate the individual characters Drset eF Aoquion To strengthen the recognition results further the IRISPen limits recognition to the numeric symbols the numeral 8 cannot be mistaken for a B 0 cannot moet be confused with an 0 or o etc The dot comma and hyphen symbols are also recognized for banking appli cations However spaces are ignored in the output The characters are glued no word concept is used when handprinted symbols are read On the other hand telephone numbers bank account numbers dates etc are recognized by the speech module When the speech feature is enabled the word area code is added in telephone numbers pauses are inserted where dashes occur in bank account numbers etc USER S GUIDE FINE TUNING THE OPERATION The IRISPen Executive software allows you to fine tune the operation of handprinting recognition Click on the button Handprinting on the toolbar to modify these settings FE Hed Clicking on this button enables the reading mode Handprinting at the same time If you want to activate this reading mode and adjust the handprinting set tings simultaneously a click on this button suffices You have full control over segmentation and the rejection level Handprinting Segmentation 42345 Contiguous handprinting 423 Spaced handprinting Rejection level First you can tell the
26. elements which must be added with native speaker based models are a natural prosody intonation and insertion of pauses of each phrase and the length and pitch of each sound And that s why we recommend you to enable the multiline reading mode Here again native speaker based models are used for optimal results In most languages at least one important word in a sentence gets an accent Think of sentences such as John went home where we mean it wasn t Peter and John went home and not elsewhere USER S GUIDE The length of a sound depends on many factors the intrinsic length of the phoneme the length of the oo sound in book and groovy is very different the stress stressed syllables are higher in pitch and longer and some other factors Important syntactic borders are marked by a higher intonation sounds are longer just before a syntactic border The type of sentence also plays a role it makes a substantial difference whether a sentence ends on a question mark an exclamation mark or point as in declarative sentences Additionally the characteristics of spoken words are identified providing sepa rate pronunciations for rough cough dough plough though thought through and thorough Turning Speech Patterns into Sound Waves The last phase of acoustic processing takes care of the actual speech pro duction the processed speech patterns from the phon
27. feature is that you can switch between the reading modes with equal comfort The command Hotkeys under the Settings menu again offers the solution USER S GUIDE When you have selected Alphanumeric as your reading mode and you ex ecute the hotk the IRISPen switches to the mode Bar Codes When you repeat the hotkey a few times you switch to Black and White Bitmap to Clipboard Greyscale Bitmap to Clipboard Handprinting Numeric and back to Alpha numeric MORE ABOUT THE PEN BUTTON And why not use the pen button to switch modes You can program a button click to switch between the reading modes To encode documents where text and figures are mixed on the page just clicking the pen button can do the job Fen Button Single Double Mull Enter oO 2 lt pace lt Tab gt Cursor Up lt Cursor Dower Cursor Left Cursor Aight Homer lt Cursor Dorm Custom O S gt ee 6 0 eeeeeeee Switch reading mode ry Cancel D an The fact that the single and double click of the pen scanner button are pro grammed separately adds all the more flexibility Let s give some illustrations Imagine you are encoding addresses from business cards brochures catalogs etc you collected during a trade show in a database Depending on the addresses some fields will be skipped For some addresses the country will be added and for others 1t won t some contacts have an e mail
28. hyphens are deleted and the ending code 1f one is defined is ignored When two lines are read The new presi and dent waved from the balcony the resulting output is The new president waved from the balcony The end hyphen of presi is ignored and so is the normal suffix lt Space gt If the two following lines are His lovely wife and had joined him the output will be His lovely wife had joined him with the space after the word wife added as suffix by the IRISPen software This option is mandatory for the IRISPen Translator to avoid ungrammatical and therefore intranslatable text it restores the sentences by recomposing hy phenated words and adding the suffix lt Space gt only where it is needed The IRISPen Translator does more here than recognize text the recognized text is contextually adjusted or pre edited as other translation solutions would call it to allow correct translation Related Command The alignment options can also be enabled by loading IRISPen settings with the command Open Settings under the File menu Output Subset Allows to define customized character sets This command complements the alphanumeric and numeric character modes as selected in the IRISPen application window When the alphanumeric reading mode is active the set of recognized symbols is obviously influenced by the se lected language USER S GUIDE Output Subset JOAN Gee eegeeeeaqeleees GF
29. it is a robust bar code that stands up to well to tear and wear Each character of the bar codes consists of 8 elements 4 bars and 4 spaces MSI bar codes are not self checking the use of a check digit is therefore highly recommended The IRISPen Executive supports MSI Pharma a variation that is used by pharmaceutical companies Most other bar code readers do not provide support of the MSI symbology USER S GUIDE Cope 128 Support of Code 128 a specialized bar code symbology for the banking world is not included in the IRISPen Executive software Contact I R I S to learn how to obtain this software option C 10 USER S GUIDE Appendix D HANDWRITING AND FORM DESIGN RULES Where less than optimal reading results are obtained with the handprinting recognition of the IRISPen Executive it may be useful to adapt your writing style and optimize your forms to maximize your productivity A few simple rules can teach you why substitutions occur and how to avoid them THE WRITING IS IN THE PEN The first and most important rule is that you should use a sufficiently thick ballpoint Thin ballpoints do not provide acceptable images scanning always im plies some degrading of the image and zones which aren t sufficiently dark may not be detected Black pens yield better results than blue pens Do not use pencils the grey images they produce are not always contrasted enough to be picked up by the pen scanne
30. numbers precision and speed are of major importance Text to speech reduces the need to read infor mation on the computer screen to a minimum you can go ahead and scan without hardly looking up to the screen to verify the result Encode addresses and your sound card will pronounce them enter figures into a spreadsheet or encoding utility enter invoices into your bookkeeping software and the IRISPen Executive software reads the figures aloud for verification Secondly the speech feature opens a world of multimedia applications to the IRISPen Executive users You could for instance scan a text and proofread it at the same time With the RISPen Translator speech synthesis has a special meaning to learn how to speak a language you can just scan a text and hear the PC pronounce the words Summing up your IRISPen uses a truly human way of interfacing After all isn t speech the most natural way of interacting with a machine D As is to be expected of a multilingual system up to 10 languages can be supported PREPARING FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS Click on the Speech button on the toolbar or enable the option Speech under the Options menu to activate the speech synthesis ABC Doing so disables the option Sound automatically it doesn t make any sense to mix real speech and system sounds Evidently your PC must be equipped with a Windows compatible sound card if the speech synthesis is to work Do not enable
31. select English as the document lan USER S GUIDE guage in the IRISPen application window enable a cropping option to read the middle column comfortably have the paragraphs restored and add a space as ending code with the Alignment command and finally program the single pen button click to execute lt Enter gt and start a new paragraph To scan a table of figures in a spreadsheet you could combine the following features limit recognition to the numeric characters in the IRISPen application window or enable a custom character set with the Output Subset command filter the currency from the output with the Character Conversion com mand execute a lt Tab gt when vertical bars are met with the Table Frame Con version command to put the scanned figures in separate cells and program lt Home gt lt Cursor Down gt as ending code with the Alignment command to start a new row automatically THE LAW OF INERTIA Correctly setting these operational parameters doesn t take much time Still the IRISPen software allows you to save them in settings files This 1s accom plished in two ways First you can save settings as default configuration by enabling the option Save Settings on Exit under the Options menu w Save Settings on Exit When you quit the application the current settings will be saved in the file DEFAULT IPC When this file is erased the factory settings apply These settings will take effect as so
32. space is required per language support of bar code symbology Code 128 USER S GUIDE Appendix B SYNTAX RULES SPEECH SYNTHESIS I R LS test sheets are provided with the IRISPen Executive and the IRISPen Translator to get a better idea of the highly advanced nature of Read amp Speak They allow you to experiment with the text to speech capability of your IRISPen and get aware of the linguistic rules you should respect when you want to cor rectly read normalized character strings such as telephone numbers bank ac count numbers date and time indications etc To ensure that the speech feature will produce correct results for such char acter strings you should respect these rules when your documents forms labels etc are designed and produced In other words these syntax rules tell you how English dates French telephone numbers and German bank account numbers should be composed to be recognized as such These rules are discussed below per language it is obvious that such writing rules differ per country One general rule is this insert periods between the let ters of a word to have the word read letter per letter N A T O for example yields a different result than NATO The speech synthesis of the IRISPen Executive is limited to a single language of your choice the IRISPen Translator is equipped with the speech libraries of the two languages in the language pair You can extend your system effortlessly b
33. speech synthesis is limited to a single language of the user s choice but speech modules for additional languages can further extend the user s system Ten languages are currently available English and British English Brazilian Dutch French Ger man Italian Mexican Russian and Spanish Bar code reading opens a world of new applications to IRISPen owners as their pen scanner becomes an ergonomic and compact bar code scanner for the office environment Information desks marketing surveys customer identifica tion order picking and many other examples of high accuracy data entry in the office environment can benefit highly from a bar code reading solution All widespread bar code standards are supported Code 39 Code 93 Codabar EAN 8 EAN 13 UPC and Interleaved 2 of 5 Support of the Code 128 symbol ogy is optional The user can but does not have to specify the symbology the user friendliness is such that the IRISPen automatically detects which bar code standard has been scanned There is no programming or parameter setting in volved in its operation its use is automatic and transparent The user can even enable a mixed reading mode where bar codes are read alongside other data for instance normal text The IRISPen auto detects which type of data is being read The user can for instance scan address labels where the printed data is complemented by a bar code without ever changing the reading mode Encoding
34. symbols Lit LIT and Pts must follow the numeral L 40 000 40 000 Lit 100 000 LIT 40 5 DM 7 50 120 95 Other currencies must be written in full and follow the numeral Alternatively you can program the IRISPen to for instance replace F by franco with the Character Conversion command under the Settings menu Abbreviations A standard dictionary includes all common abbreviations Ambiguous abbre viations are solved based on the linguistic context km is pronounced as chilometro when preceded by the number 1 and as chilometri in all other cases Dictionary contained abbreviations ecc dott es sig USA p zza km Acronyms Acronyms are pronounced as normal words RAI SIP Initialisms Initialisms are pronounced letter by letter CD PC LSD BMW MEXICAN SPANISH AND SPANISH SYNTAX RULES Numbers Cardinal numbers of up to 8 digits are pronounced as full numbers longer digit strings are pronounced digit by digit Leading zeros are pronounced sepa rately 12 345 678 1 234 123 456 007 Periods may be used to separate groups of three digits in which case up to 15 digits can be pronounced as full numbers 1 234 123 456 789 012 345 Decimal numbers may contain up to 8 digits before the comma and up to 8 digits after the comma When periods are used to separate groups of three digits before the comma the decimal number may contain up to 15 digits before the comma and up to 8 digits after t
35. system if the characters are well spaced or contiguous Two examples make the difference clear The example below shows a spaced character string eo aS ESITTEET The second example illustrates contiguous spacing The space between two characters is considerably reduced some characters may occassionally touch each other and the zones covered by a single character may overlap Neverthe less the IRISPen recognizes the bank account number perfectly Scan Test N40 0394646 AhO 4 Fk f 40 0394646 20 Brightness Despeckle off f Automatic Manual W Smoothen Image lighten 12 darken I Fit to Window Load Image E I Recognize Save Image It is mandatory to set this parameter correctly When you try to read contigu ous handprinting with the segmentation set to spaced some characters may be skipped by the system The easiest way of enforcing spaced printing is by developing forms where the individual numerals must be placed in predefined blocks To ensure that these USER S GUIDE predefines zones are not picked up by the IRISPen the invisible or drop out colors red and yellow should be used Zip Code NIRI HBe L Secondly the user has influence over the rejection rate Drag the slider bar to adjust the rejection level When the rejection threshold is increased characters will be marked as unknown symbols quicker there will be less substitutions when the rejection rate is decre
36. the recognized text entirely He places the cursor in the text zone and presses the End key to go directly to the end of the recognized text he presses Home to return to the beginning The option Recognize sees to it that all scanned or opened images are rec ognized When the scan test mode is used to save graphics instead of scanning data this option can be disabled scanning a graphic the IRISPen software won t find any text anyway When the reading mode Black and White Bitmap to Clipboard or Greyscale Bitmap to Clipboard is selected in the IRISPen appli cation window the option Recognize is replaced by the option Bitmap to Clip board Ii Related Commands The user can also enable the scan test mode by right clicking the IRISPen control on the Windows toolbar and selecting the command Scan Test and by selecting the command Scan Test under the Options menu The user can enable the greyscale image window by right clicking the IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar and selecting the command Greyscale Image and by selecting the command Greyscale Image under the Options menu Pen Button Allows the programming of the single and double click of the pen scanner button The single and double click of the pen scanner s button can be programmed to execute any combination of characters and keyboard commands and to switch from one reading mode to another As is the case with a computer mouse the single a
37. the two languages in the language pair You can extend your system by installing text to speech modules for additional languages Ten languages are cur USER S GUIDE rently available English and British English Brazilian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Spanish Secondly the IRISPen Executive supports all widespread bar code symbolo gies but support of Code 128 a specialized bar code used in the financial world is optional The same goes for the recognition of the specialized banking fonts OCR A OCR B E13B and CMC 7 This reading capability is offered by the special software version for the financial world Contact I R I S for more information Scan Test OOOO im JB FG ew 0950525500 gg 369 62 1035152550 gt Scan Test meee MLVLNENCAN IEE al 4672182 000000004001 2 14 USER S GUIDE Chapter 3 READ amp SPEAK If you feel the IRISPen should not only read but also talk your problems are over The Read amp Speak speech synthesis as integrated in the IRISPen Ex ecutive and the IRISPen Translator brings spectacular new applications to all IRISPen owners Where the IRISPen is by definition a hands and eyes busy data entry de vice text to speech provides clear natural sounding auditive feedback of all recognized data When you are scanning bar codes figures and structured character strings such as bank statements telephone and social security
38. to 16 data characters There is a leading and trailing quiet zone and a start and stop character A B C D This standard is used primarily for numeric applications you can encode the digits and six special characters The digits and the and symbol are printed with one wide bar and one space The start and stop characters A B C and D are printed with one wide bar and two white spaces Bar height 0 3 narrow bar width 12 mils narrow to wide ratio 2 5 Bar height 0 4 narrow bar width 18 mils narrow to wide ratio 2 0 Bar height 0 5 narrow bar width 24 mils narrow to wide ratio 2 5 A123456B D001100A UPC A UPC A is a fixed length numeric bar code that allows to encode 12 charac ters The bar codes are composed of a number system digit encoded in odd par ity the manufacturer s code encoded in odd parity the product code and a check digit The user encodes 11 digits Ie The check digit is verified but filtered from the reading result when the option Verify and Erase Check Digit is enabled otherwise it is read and included in the output Disable this option to support the variation of UPC which does not contain a check digit Apart from the check digit there is a left center and right guard pattern The first half of the bar codes uses odd parity digits the second hal
39. tor Banking World sesssisrininaniia ca ai E E a s 9 IRIS PerOpHONS erionenn e aE EEEE EA TESE 9 Appendix B Syntax Rules Speech Synthesis American English Syntax Rules wis ccnsecredanebanhoecteavedenvecudsanvatedaneatedeasvaQdenssatodeda varies 2 Brazihan Syntax RULES eorernieo sirene EEN EEE AOA EE AET E 7 British English Syntax Rules osnessnensneeseensssesssessrrssrresreesreesssesssesssessresssressresseessee l1 P teMsyntax RUIS arch tered eve sa E E a SNOT 16 Frenc kS ynu RU OS rene eee e E N 19 CGEA Syak RUES eree a EE Uar eae 23 kanan SS Vita RUES eee a a a a 26 Mexican Spanish and Spanish Syntax Rules s essenssensseesseesssessserssersserssersseesseesssee 28 Russian Syntax RUICS ssid aee iie i ea i E E detec adeeart 3 Appendix C Bar Code Symbologies CoE Be ete me eee EL ET a PETOMIE UPI OEIO a a FEEL HET PLETE FETE OEE Oe E 1 Code I Piinia tht tattle eet ctl pte eda sel a eae ccna tapenade E isda steels 3 MTN PC AY CO o iine O oan een aaseasneoae 4 COCA DAL sictscdehatucyusbbounlimabneicuchdsncnecenasndaslbaricseubnetacs adidas danndcel a 5 MTN ai sate a a tones ch penme on autonea td a a a a aaa 5 EAN tases rieseclas Suede hue aaa orelea Sessa a N custo bee ihe Gt alll patie Cue abe ugeiuert inet 6 TINS ia seis soecdo a a do ecinmadoe senedote enact sede tossciniesae 7 SOUS 28 seid uri eras ieisdedk aa hock zenssasteluodd tertudatel a a 8 Appendix D Handwriting and Form Design Rules Thewntne sin CN GM 3 Ft ates e
40. undoubtedly offer a great solution The IRISPen Executive bar code reading is a powerful but very user friendly data entry solution offering seamless integration of bar code reading into any Windows application Identify ing customers and products with laserprinted or inkjet printed bar code labels becomes a cinch As bands of about 0 4 1 cm high are scanned the IRISPen is more flexible than other bar code reading pens You do not have to position the IRISPen with great precision to read bar codes correctly skewing and image distortion are dealt with beautifully Also note that the IRISPen is a greyscale pen scanner that allows you to adjust the scanning brightness a unique feat for bar code scanners As a result a wider range of bar codes can be read including bar codes on a colored background Although all common symbologies are supported its use is transparent no programming or parameter setting is necessary How Doers THE IRISPEN Work ON BAR CODES This much we already know the pen sized scanner functions as a greyscale camera that sends an image to the computer To recapture printed or typed infor mation you simply glide the pen over a line of text As you scan an image con sisting of intense points so called pixels on a lighter background is generated and transmitted to the PC The IRISPen software now takes over All this applies to bar codes as well The one difference is in the processing the image cap
41. 0 the option Left Handed Scanning can be disabled but the user can still scan right to left The enabling of left handed scanning is indicated in the status window It is disabled by default Related Command The right to left scanning direction can also be enabled by loading IRISPen settings with the command Open Settings under the File menu Negative Image Inverses the scanned image The image in the greyscale image window is left untouched The inversion is only visible in the black and white image black pixels become white white pixels become black As a result light data on a dark background becomes leg ible This scanning mode can also be used to generate negative inverted graph ics sent to the clipboard or saved in a graphic file The enabling of image inversion is indicated in the status window Related Command The image inversion can also be enabled by loading IRISPen settings with the command Open Settings under the File menu USER S GUIDE Translate Clipboard IRISPen Translator Enables the clipboard translation mode When clipboard translation is enabled the user is prompted to translate all text copied to the Windows clipboard The translation window displays the button Translate Clipboard as soon as text is copied to the clipboard Graphics cop ied to the clipboard are simply ignored The user clicks this button to generate a translation for the contents of the clipboard
42. 14 Chapter 5 Handprinting Recognition Preparing for Handprinting Recognition s esssesssesssessserssersserssersssessserssersserssersseess l Handprinting or Handwriting cece ccecccceeseceeneeceeeecceneeesesccseneecsseesseeeseneesensesaenes 2 Pinte mome The Operio pnas E a 3 A Word about the Technology ccccccccescccesseccseeccnesccceuseceesseceusccseusesauscensuseseeass o Mixing Handprinting and Other Data 0 0 0 0 cecccceecccseeeeceeeeceeneecaeeeesenseeseseesaneesaanes 7 Adding Auditive Feedback cccccccccsssccceseccenscccenseceeececescceeuseseuscessusessuseensnseseegss 9 PCA OI OE Citebase eon dees nau nsatacane E E EEA smectic tu asenmataleden 10 Chapter 6 Command Reference PETS Pei Aol 6 At OMe W MN OW seisin a E EET 1 Bee UH WON ModE oeer enn rE seed snpurnsuranout ani Seoncasaueusearsennertseustaaseanene 3 Mo AVP W Ae sedstocdaoddasansdascessaisaansedadsedaaasnansoosaceaauoarseaueaesseonsaeauaseasseea sass seueporseoaransavunaarseuarasuseansanananessanearsessnasone 5 Translate into I RISPen Translator us sssssssssssssssssssssesssessssvesvevvvevseveveevvevvvvvvvvvvvvvvvevvsvevwvvvwvevvevwweewsssnnareag 8 Dot Matrix IRISPen Executive oo cececessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssesssesssesessesesessesseeeesseeseeseseeeeeeeees 10 bar Codes CURIS Pet execu ye oirrn E 10 O eo EEn E S 10 Multilines IRISPen Executive IRISPen Translator 0 cccceeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
43. 6 Fas 33 160 13 66 96 I R I S on the Internet Gives access to the I R I S home page www irislink com The user can also access the application icon I R I S on the Internet in the submenu I R I S Applications IRISPen under the Programs menu to get direct access to the IL R LS home page About the IRISPen Opens the IRISPen title screen where the current version and the copyrights are mentioned The user can get direct access to the I R I S home page by clicking on the URL www irislink com 6 60 ak USER S GUIDE Appendix A PRODUCT DESCRIPTION This appendix gives a detailed product description of the IRISPen the IRISPen Executive and the RISPen Translator IRISPEN Propuct RANGE Standard version Executive version Translator version Banking version IRISPen options pen sized OCR scanner basic version multifunctional reading pen a software only upgrade from the IRISPen Standard and from the IRISPen Translator is available translation and language learning tool a software only upgrade from the IRISPen Standard and from the IRISPen Executive is available contact I R I S to get more information speech synthesis libraries for extra languages bar code reading of Code 128 symbology Ie SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS IRISPen Standard LI a 486 based Intel PC or compatible A Pentium based PC is recom mended Q 50 MB hard disk space 40 MB of disk space suffi
44. ASCII table set the special and accentuated symbols from 128 onwards such as and 6 are not included Code 93 is also slightly more compact than Code 39 This standard is used in an alphanumeric context as you can define the com plete 128 ASCII character set bSo Sa t AAA A Bar height 0 3 narrow bar width 12 mils Bar height 0 4 narrow bar width 18 mils Ie TSO 5 4b Bar height 0 5 narrow bar width 24 mils INTERLEAVED 2 OF 5 Interleaved 2 of 5 is a numeric self checking variable length and highly com pact bar code A character is defined by five black bars and five spaces two black and two white bars are wide all others bars are white There is a leading and trailing quiet zone a start and stop character and an optional check charac ter The encoding is interleaved as the odd position numbers are encoded in the bars and the numbers in even positions in the spaces These bar codes must by necessity contain an even number of digits The length is often used as a check in itself Bar height 0 3 narrow bar width 12 mils narrow to wide ratio 2 5 Bar height 0 4 narrow bar width 18 mils narrow to wide ratio 2 0 Bar height 0 5 narrow bar width 24 mils narrow to wide ratio 2 0 031225 1234567890 USER S GUIDE CODABAR Codabar is a primarily numeric self checking and variable length bar code for up
45. ESSE SEEEEEEE EEEE SESSE EEE EEEE EEEE eseese eee 19 Pen Button EII 22 Alignment Ui ante eecue saan eassaeseauecaqcasdarseswessuceusiaeseuueanscoaaiaesvaceseseeuesaseasdseseawesenocesdarseewesancemsarsemeeannoemaccesoaccnrseee 26 Output Subset ene er re 28 Bar Codes IRISPen Executive cccccccccssessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssessesesessseecesesseeseesseseeeesesseseeeseeeeees 31 Ww X Handprinting IRISPen Executive ccsssscnsasessccxnossscsasannavassassasasasecssvessnssssasssessanonssssasssessasossasensssansssonnnests 33 Speech IRISPen Executive IRISPen Translator cxsssvsssssvcccisscccssssicccsisacssssssececsssisdcsisssssssssesdssisacsess 35 SOUN e ee een nT en NER Mn ne one nen ne nen een ae 36 FeV TMS aU E N E E via tonne westamcaniacnqsemesore saci iemmdeaniermeestocs 37 OG hr SC D A T E EEEE 37 SAE AE T E EEEE 38 aea E testeeaeiasstee ns prnoseosnonnon penne reenpe anes penonnoerensonnenpenbe spe ppnnsnostonnonpesaenrenprnpenpenppnospeanonnonpespenrenpansnpsioniees 40 BAG EC tld a 52 teccenesecocnnsnnsncneansacnnsnaapsnsnnsacnnsnanaenenonacnnnnanrenenesesnrepassensnasnensapasrepsnaspsnenpasenpsnanaenenesscnnesaneersniied 41 S N en ee E A S te ee ee ee re 4 HOKEY S Arsscxscirsaeasc E E E 42 Pen BULON sae 43 AUS nmMment ccna es 43 Table Frame Conversion cic 44 Character Conversion satis 45 Unknown Symbol Uncen 46 Bar Codes IRIS Pet EXECU IVE Jorrit iiitr t irtir TET errr EAA AAAA A TY 46 Handprinting IRISPen Executiv
46. ETTING IN TOUCH WITH I R LS You can contact I R I S to learn more about complementary software and related products the command Contact I R LS under the Help menu of IRISPen details in which ways you can get in touch with LR LS USER S GUIDE E IRISPen ya E mi aa a A Eo Hide Back Forward Home Print Options Contents Index Search Contacting I R I S 2 Welcome to the IRIS Fen help Introducing the AISPen Using the IAIS Pen How to 7 Reference intarmatian Upgrading the software Product registration Product support B Register your IRIS Fen 2 2 IRISPen registration Form alse to get bie elite ans ET aes bea Head Office Belgium Phone 32 10 45 13 64 Fax 32 10 45 34 43 I R 1 5 on the Internet Wel site http wa irislink com E mail sales sales irislink com E mail support support irislink com USA Office East Coast Phone 1 561 395 7831 800 447 4744 Fax 1 561 34 626 USA Office West Coast Phone 1 480 854 3111 800 7USAIRIS Fax 1 480 854 2929 France Office Phone 3316013 86 86 Fak 33 1 60 13 66 96 An application icon in the submenu I R I S Applications IRISPen under the Programs menu takes you directly to the I R I S home page So does the command I R I S on the Internet under the Help menu of the IRISPen soft ware Fay LAS Applications d Fn Cardis ae IRlSPen M LAS on the Internet 53 Readiris Te IRISPen ie Uninstall the I
47. For Help press F1 The Windows control panel Keyboard allows you to install the necessary keyboard layouts i Ny N Ul D Keyboard Properties 2f x Speed Language m Installed keyboard languages and layouts J Control Panel Language Layout French Belgian File Edit View Favorites Tools Help s z _ fil Russian Russian Back v A Search Wy Folders History as WS E Greek Greek Address fe Control Panel aoe i a i gS Ry Add Properties Remove AddNew Add Remove Automatic i Control Panel Hardware Programs Updates Default language French Belgian Set as Default m Switch languages Left lt Shit Ctrl Shift None Keyboard wy Apes Changes settings for your keyboard 7 Display Find Fast Folder Options amp ey J Enable indicator on taskbar HP Jet4dmin Internet Options Windows Update Technical Support Selecting the proper document language is imperative Based on the selection of a language the software knows which symbol set to recognize Multilinguis tic support ensures that exotic characters such as B y and are recog nized correctly Secondly the software extensively uses linguistic databases to validate its results Suppose that you have to read the word president where an ink stain makes the r look like an f Looking things up in the English lexicon the IRISPen will detect autonom
48. IRIS UNESCO USP UNICEF Initialisms Initialisms are pronounced letter by letter HIV PT USER S GUIDE BRITISH ENGLISH SYNTAX RULES Numbers Cardinal numbers of up to 15 digits are pronounced as full numbers digit strings that contain more than 15 digits are pronounced digit by digit Numbers that start with a zero are equally pronounced digit by digit 123456789012345 One hundred twenty three trillion four hundred 1234567890123456 One two three four five six seven eight nine zero one 007 Zero zero seven Comma s may be used to separate groups of three digits 1 234 One thousand two hundred thirty four 123 456 789 012 345 One hundred twenty three trillion four hundred Numbers ranging from 1 100 to 9 999 are treated as figures when a comma is inserted and as years when no comma is present 1 995 One thousand nine and hundred ninety five 1995 Nineteen ninety five 10 999 ten thousand nine hundred ninety nine Decimal numbers may contain up to 15 digits before the decimal point Comma s may be used to separate groups of three digits before the decimal point When more than two digits occur after the decimal point these are pronounced digit by digit 104 2 One hundred and four point two 02 Zero point zero two 001 Zero point zero zero one The strings 1 2d 2 3d 3 and all cardinal numbers of up to 15 digits followed by an ordinal suffix are pronounced as ordinal numbers 2d 2 and 3 First second se
49. IS Fen Il Executive registration wizard Welcome to the IAISPen I Executive registration wizard It allows You to register your IAlSPen Il Executive software license Registering allows us to keep you informed of future product developments and related 1 71 5 products Registering entitles you to free product support and special otters Registering the IRISPen licence will allow LR I S to keep the user informed of future product developments and related I R I S products The registration benefits including free product support and special offers are strictly limited to registered users Upgrade Gives some information about the upgrading possibilities IRISPen users can acquire software only upgrades to migrate to the multifunctional reading pen 6 52 WS mae IRISPen Executive and to the translation and language learning tool IRISPen Translator They can also install some IRISPen options The IRISPen product range uses a modular approach by installing an up grade the user adds whatever extra feature he doesn t have yet He can up grade from the IRISPen Standard to the IRISPen Executive and to the IRISPen Translator from the IRISPen Translator to the IRISPen Executive from an IRISPen Executive to an IRISPen Translator etc E IRISPen Eie Es a s oA Hide Back Forward Horne Print Options Contents Index Search Taking the Upgrade Path a Welcome to the IRIS Pen help Se Intr
50. OCR A OCR B E13B and CMC 7 Ii HELP MENU The Help menu gives the user on line information about the IRISPen and its use Some last minute information may not be included in this manual The user is therefore recommended to check the on line help system for additional informa tion on the IRISPen s capabilities Help Topics Allows to navigate through the on line help system The available information cannot only be consulted on screen but also printed out 6 5 7 USER S GUIDE E IRISPen w gt A 8 m Hide Back Forward Home Print Options Contents Index Search 7 Welcome to the IRlSFen help fe Introducing the IRIS Fen Se Using the IRISFen Re Reference information Re Upgrading the software Se Product registration Se Product support Welcome to IRISPen Help Use on line help to learn more about the IF ISPen the IRISPen Executive and the IRISPen Translator Quickly find answers to questions Connect to the I R 1 5 web site for latest tips and product updates 2001 Copyright LRLS All rights reserved Related Command The user can also access the on line help by right clicking the IRISPen con trol on the Windows taskbar and selecting the command Help Topics Product Support Informs the user how to get IRISPen product support H IRIS Fen E i io x Hide Back Forward Home Print OUptions Contents Indes Search ose How to Get Produc
51. PEN Is A LINE SCANNER The greyscale image and the scan test windows illustrate another character istic of the IRISPen central line tracking It is an essential feature although you scan strokes of about 0 4 1 cm high containing in many cases several lines of text the IRISPen recognizes only a single line of text per scan Scan Test investigation 1n 1942 Reagan couldnt remember the names of some OF his key aides or former wor d leaders He told Walsh Is ike J wasnt Pes at all In 1998 after his Iran Contra investigation was fina iE key aides or former world leaders He told Walsh It s like wasn t Despeckle off T Brightness f Automatic C Manual W Smoothen Image lighten 12 darken I Fit to Window Load Image I Recognize Save Image In the above example we have scanned with a single stroke two complete lines and the major part of a third line Another column separated by a gutter line Ufa starts on the right side The IRISPen isolates the correct visual information with out any help The IRISPen software automatically picks up the central line that is the line directly under or closest to the line guide on the pen scanner Where the interline spacing 1s reduced the line guide on your pen scanner s view window helps you select the correct information The scanning height of about 0 4 1 cm explains why you are limited to character size
52. RISPen 1 14 USER S GUIDE Chapter 2 GUIDED TOUR The IRISPen is a sophisticated product equipped with many advanced fea tures for professional applications Although it is impossible to explore every imag inable application we will discuss in this chapter the major applications and add many tips and hints concerning the use of the IRISPen Let s have a look at the pen scanner first What should you know about the hardware and how do you use it HAVING A LOOK AT THE PEN SCANNER The IRISPen is equipped with a roller which functions as start switch when you press the IRISPen onto a piece of paper you turn it on when you lift the pen scanner away the scanning ends The start switch only comes on if you hold the IRISPen at the correct angle As you scan data line by line you should always be able to see what you are scanning The view window allows this As soon as the start switch is activated a red beam from the view window lights up the area you re scanning The scanning can also be accompanied by sound an option activates your computer s speaker when you start and stop scanning and when you send the recognized text to the output target So you will hear three system beeps for each scan Whether you do so depends on the Sound button on the toolbar or the option Sound under the Options menu D N N This option is not compatible with the speech synthesis of the IRISPen Execu tive and t
53. S GSGGG0080 00 ft BugcucuouugoEeuuusune H00 Deans HOF eean ODOGGG2G080G08GG080 guuueuuseeuouuua BuGuccicuEcuuuuul T opopo ooo ooon uon AO COS 2 GOS80G0080 HAEHAA Character enabled Character disabled To read standardized financial documents such as printed checks bonds bank statements etc you could limit recognition to the OCR B characters by enabling exclusively the numeric symbols lt gt and OCR B is actually more than a character set It is also a highly specialized typeface used only in standardized documents and I R I S has a specialized version of the IRISPen software for the financial market Uh Scan Test 2694003541 gagra B0042522 00001 04r r r 4505797319 A third example is reading data strings with a specific syntax Think for ex ample of the serial numbers found on product labels Such character strings go beyond the numeric symbols but never contain the full alphabetic range of char acters The reason for limiting the character set is that you keep excluding recognition errors as the confusion between 5 and S 0 and O etc and that you make the recognition somewhat faster However the IRISPen does not recognize all characters which are displayed in the output subset window Some special characters like and are not recognized by the IRISPen but can be used in character and table frame conver sions in starting and ending codes and be inserted with pen button cl
54. Spaced handprinting Rejection level Segmentation determines whether the characters are well spaced or contigu ous With spaced handprinting each character is distinctly separated from the others With contiguous spacing the space between two characters is consider ably reduced Some characters may occassionally touch each other and the zones covered by a single character may overlap It is mandatory to set this parameter correctly When contiguous handprinting is read with the segmentation set to spaced some characters may be skipped by the system With contiguous printing broken characters may be misread as double characters An easy way of guaranteeing spaced printing is the use of forms where the individual numerals must be placed in predefined blocks To ensure that these predefines zones are not picked up by the IRISPen the invisible or drop out colors red and yellow should be used A slider bar allows to adjust the rejection level When the rejection threshold is increased characters will result in unknown symbols quicker there will be less substitutions when the rejection rate is decreased the system will substitute more symbols as it tries harder to find a match For applications where extreme accuracy is essential a high rejection level should be maintained When structured character strings such as client numbers product codes etc are encoded it is useful to incorporate a check digit which is verifi
55. ad digit by digit 49 228 550 381 Country code forty nine area code two two eight 30 61 997 283 Country code thirty area code six one nine nine 33 183 447 593 Country code thirty three area code one eight Bank Account and Social Security Numbers Bank account numbers and social security numbers are pronounced digit by digit when hyphens separate the digit groups 13456 000 123476 000 1234564 87 049 65 5432 Dates Dates are recognized in the American format where the month precedes the day and the European format where the day precedes the month The day and the month are composed of one or two digits the year of two or four digits The digit groups are separated by a slash or a hyphen American format 12 25 99 December twenty fifth ninety nine 02 06 00 February six two thousand 4 17 2000 April seventeenth nineteen two thousand European format 13 12 99 December thirteenth ninety nine 25 12 00 December twenty fifth two thousand Dates can also be specified in written alphabetic formats Thu 21 October 99 Thursday the twenty first of October ninety nine Fri 13 Feb 2000 Friday the thirteenth of February two thousand Mon Oct 27 1998 Monday October twenty seventh nineteen ninety eight December 27 2000 December twenty seventh two thousand 27th Jan 2001 The twenty seventh of January two thousand one 10th May 99 The tenth of May ninety nine July 4 00 July fourth two thousand 7 April The seve
56. alisms So are alphabetic strings with or without periods that have two or more uppercase consonants They are pronounced letter by letter TV BTW PS NB VZW CV PR CD PC PK FRENCH SYNTAX RULES Numbers Cardinal numbers of up to 15 digits are pronounced as full numbers longer digit strings are pronounced digit by digit Leading zeros are pronounced sepa rately 123456789012345 Cent vingt trois trillions quatre cent cinquante six 007 Z ro z ro sept Periods may be used to separate groups of three digits 1 234 Mille deux cents trente quatre 123 456 789 Cent vingt trois millions quatre cents cinquante six Decimal numbers may contain up to 15 digits before the comma and up to 15 digits after the comma Periods may be used to separate groups of three digits before the comma The digit string after the comma is pronounced as a full number 100 65 Cent virgule soixante cinq 1 2 Un virgule deux Cardinal number followed by the appropriate suffixes are pronounced as or dinal numbers le ler et le 10eme la 21e fois Roman numbers numbers up to 38 that consist of combinations of X V and I are supported Roman numbers may be used separately and be combined with proper names Louis XIV XIX Romans up to 28 followed by e e E or E are read as ordinal num bers Xe Te Telephone Numbers Telephone numbers are recognized when parentheses slashes or hyphens are used to separate the coun
57. all widespread bar code standards or symbologies are supported you don t have to specify the bar code type the user friendliness is such that the IRISPen automatically detects which bar code standard is used The IRISPen Executive offers transparant bar code reading into any Windows application No programming or parameter setting is involved in its operation its use is automatic and immediate You can even use a mixed reading mode where bar codes are read along side other data for instance normal text The IRISPen auto detects which type of data is being read For instance you can scan address labels where the printed data is complemented by a bar code without ever changing the reading mode Encoding forms and labels can also benefit greatly from numeric handprinting recognition This proprietary recognition technology supports all natural writing styles American and European contrary to many other handwriting recognition solutions no training phase or imposed style is required And there s another reading capability added recognition of dot matrix printed documents Draft or 9 pin dot matrix symbols are made up of iso lated separate dots and require highly specialized recognition routines to recog nize them Advanced image adjustment features optimize the images for the OCR pro cess as the scanning brightness gets adjusted to the color tones of your docu ments documents that are otherwise ill
58. and white version for every greyscale image Should this be necessary the user can optimize the image further for the consecutive OCR process with this command In doing so a much larger range of documents becomes legible The recognition is re executed promptly each time these settings are modi fied The user is recommended to keep the greyscale image visible when he s adapting these parameters The option Smoothen Image renders the greyscale images more homoge neous by flattening smoothing out relative differences in intensity As a result a sharper contrast is created between the foreground the text and the back ground a color artwork etc It is recommended that this option be enabled at all times A red or yellow background will never be picked up by the pen scanner red and yellow are the IRISPen s drop out or invisible colors This implies that all text printed in red and yellow is illegible The option Brightness influences the black and white threshold The setting Automatic determines the bilevel threshold automatically but with a great deal of intelligence The brightness is set automatically for all normal documents A different threshold is applied when necessary by darkening or lightening the black and white image when the image is darkened more pixels become black in the black and white version when the image is lightened less pixels become black USER S GUIDE The option Despe
59. applications The user can paste the graphic immediately he does not have to wait until this message disappears Image in clipboard When the multiline scanning mode is used by enabling the option Multilines in the IRISPen application window a blinking status window displays the mes sage Press pen button to flush for a few seconds after each scan The user can rescan immediately he does not have to wait until this message disappears Click pen Button to flush When the user scans too fast a blinking status window asks him to scan slower for a few seconds He can scan some 3 15 8 cm per second Maximal scanning speed esceeded please scan slower USER S GUIDE The user can right click or double click the status window to restore the IRISPen application window Related Commands The user can enable the status window by right clicking the IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar and selecting the command Status Window by select ing the command Status Window from the Options menu and by loading IRISPen settings with the command Open Settings under the File menu The user can right click the IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar and select the command Open to restore the IRISPen application window He can also define a restore shortcut with the command Hotkeys under the Set tings menu TRANSLATION WINDOW IRISPEN TRANSLATOR A pop up speech bubble called translation windo
60. ard for later pasting o utput Target C Clipboard f Application Obviously the clipboard can only contain the recognized text of the last scan A Windows application is mostly on the receiving end Select Application here ol Multilines IRISPen Executive and Translator The option Multilines sees to it that multiple lines are buffered before they get inserted in the target application You can for instance send an entire para graph to your Windows application at once It takes a click on the pen button to flush the scanned text Jw Multilines This option is limited to the IRISPen Executive and the IRISPen Translator ABOUT THE STATUS WINDOW The basic settings are displayed in the IRISPen status window Minimally this window lists the reading mode the selected language and the output target Alphanumeric English Application The status window also indicates more advanced settings whether the dot matrix reading is enabled and whether the simultaneous bar code reading is ac tive Alphanumeric Bar Codes English Dot Matis Application For the IRISPen Translator the translation direction 1s indicated You translate for instance English text into French Alphanumernc English French Application Whether the status window is displayed or not depends on the option Status Window under the Options menu It is enabled by default Don t hesitate to drag the status wi
61. are Refer to the command Exit under the File menu for further information USER S GUIDE Related Command The user can also quit the IRISPen application with the command Exit under the File menu GREYSCALE IMAGE WINDOW The greyscale image window displays the raw greyscale images as they are generated by the pen scanner IAS Pen Greyscale Image SPa 77 TS afg opk poora ER qat ford ral arin mn B Scanning in greyscale is in some instances necessary to obtain good OCR results When text is printed on a color background scanning in color may create the tone differences that are lacking in black and white images When there is only limited contrast between the text and the background the background can create noise that renders the recognition difficult or impossible Think for in stance of black text printed on a dark background when scanning such a docu ment in black and white the user would not be able to drop the background color without losing the text information as well Related Commands The user can enable the greyscale image window by right clicking the IRISPen control and selecting the command Greyscale Image and by selecting the com mand Greyscale Image under the Options menu The scan test mode displays a black and white version of the greyscale im ages generated by the pen scanner alongside the reading results and allows ad vanced image adjustment to improve the read
62. ased the system will substitute more symbols as it tries harder to find a match For applications where extreme accuracy is essential you should maintain a high rejection level Evidently when you are encoding structured data such as client numbers etc it is always useful to integrate a check digit which is verified by the encoding utility A WORD ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY You cannot read handprinted numerals and other data at the same time The nature of the images to analyze is very different as the graphics below illustrate The first time a typed bank account number was scanned Although an old typewriter was used the individual symbols are nicely separated and each font shape is clearly legible as all bars loops are sufficiently thick etc a Scan Test 143 0575037 25 145 05 75037 25 The second time a handwritten character string was scanned All characters are linked as human beings write in a continuous pen movement Even for the block letters on the right these are separated the image is of much lower quality than is the case with printed and typed material As you write the pres sure of your hand changes constantly inevitably some parts are written much lighter than others Moreover in most cases pens are used which do not provide the necessary thickness Scan Test Oroek er AROQuION D077 AROMUIOY s Unrecognized symbols are by default represented by a tilde the symbol Given the
63. ate the typical table structure with rows and columns by simply scanning line after line Mind you this only works when continuous vertical bars separate the table columns the IRISPen software has to encounter a physical mark detect a bor der between two columns Where the original document does not contain vertical bars the easiest proce dure is to quickly add them with a pen and a ruler Another solution is reading the figures one by one and programming the pen button with the Pen Button button on the toolbar The single pen button click should be programmed as lt Tab gt the cursor is moved to the next cell the double click as lt Home gt lt Cursor Down gt to start a new row In some cases even the command Character Conversion from the Set tings menu can offer the answer as it allows you to replace scanned characters wv by a cursor command Here s an example to insert the line 2 55 5 99 65 in a worksheet it suffices to replace the symbol by lt Tab gt to place the indi vidual figures in separate cells MORE FUN FOR NUMBER CRUNCHERS Entering tabular data in a spreadsheet is one of the most popular IRISPen applications Actually the IRISPen is capable of entering numbers faster and more accurately than any human being can It s a text book example of machine beats man The IRISPen will recognize your tables of figures with even more precision when you set the reading mode to numeric T
64. be picked up by the pen scanner red and yellow are the IRISPen s drop out or invisible colors This implies that all text printed in red and yellow is illegible pa Ii 30 Pe aee BLACK Is BLACK AND WHITE Is WHITE Now that we re discussing colors light text on a dark background is legible provided that you enable the option Negative Image under the Options menu You can also use this option to scan negative graphics Neg maae a The image in the greyscale image window is left untouched The inversion is only visible in the black and white image black pixels become white white pixels become black IRISFen Greyscale Image FRANCE FROM 60 Scan Test FRANCE FROM 60 JAE EHDA ane sai FRANCE FROM B0 The status window indicates whether this option is enabled or not As light text on a dark background is the small minority it is disabled by default Alphanumeric English Application Negative USER S GUIDE HIGHLIGHTING EXCERPTS Start your wordprocessor now and scan a few text lines If you have to enter small portions of text into a wordprocessor the IRISPen is your ideal partner You can enter several thousands of characters per minute much more than even the fastest secretary using a keyboard Actually the IRISPen softw are pro cesses about 1 000 characters per second but no user can scan that fast taj Document Microsoft Word Eile Edit wiew Insert Format Too
65. ces when the elec tronic manual is left on the CD ROM LI the Windows ME 2000 or 98 operating system Q a free USB port to connect the IRISPen scanner Q a 256 color monitor to display the greyscale images generated by the greyscale pen scanner IRISPen Executive LI a 486 based Intel PC or compatible A Pentium based PC is recom mended LJ 60 MB hard disk space 50 MB of disk space suffices when the elec tronic manual is left on the CD ROM LI the Windows ME 2000 or 98 operating system Q a free USB port to connect the IRISPen scanner LI the speech synthesis feature requires that your PC is equipped with a Windows compatible sound card For quality sound preference is given to a 64 bit sound card IRISPen Translator LI a 486 based Intel PC or compatible A Pentium based PC is recom mended LJ 80 MB hard disk space 70 MB of disk space suffices when the elec tronic manual is left on the CD ROM LI the Windows ME 2000 or 98 operating system Q a free USB port to connect the IRISPen scanner LI the speech synthesis feature requires that your PC is equipped with a Windows compatible sound card For quality sound preference is given to a 64 bit sound card USER S GUIDE IRISPen options LI to install additional speech modules 10 MB of free hard disk space is required per language LJ 10 languages are currently available English and British English Brazil ian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Spanish Mac
66. ckle concerns the black and white image Despeckling means that the parasite pixels also called salt and pepper noise will be removed from the black and white images The user shouldn t erase spots that are too big otherwise he runs the risk of erasing the dots on 1 etc portions of dot matrix letters etc Clicking the button Load Image allows to open and recognize prescanned images This is purely a diagnostic feature Clicking the button Save Image saves the scanned image in a graphic file Three file formats are available greyscale and black and white Windows bitmaps BMP and a proprietary black and white graphic format IRISPen Graphic IRISPen graphics should be used for diagnostic purposes only bitmap files can also be used to save small images logos signatures mathematical formulae etc Thanks to the scan test mode the user can decide whether an image is suitable to be saved He can scan several times and save the scanned image which he likes most because it isn t skewed distorted etc The option Fit to Window ensures that the entire image is displayed in the scan test window whatever the length of the scanned line may be The line length is limited to 12 30 5 cm per scan With this option disabled the image isn t compressed horizontally and the scroll bar is used to display various parts of the image successively When the scanned line is very long the user may have to scroll to display
67. clicking on the Bar Codes or Handprinting button on the toolbar defines settings and selects the corresponding reading mode at the same time When bar codes and handprinted symbols are read the language selection in the application window does not apply Nor do the text related commands de tection of table frames character subsets and conversions etc The reading modes of the IRISPen Executive can be complemented by bar code reading as secondary reading mode with the option Bar Codes in the IRISPen application window The user can define a shortcut key with the command Hotkeys under the Settings menu and program the single or double click of the pen button with the Pen Button button on the toolbar to switch from one reading mode to another Language Indicates the language of the text to be recognized Recognition by the IRISPen is not limited to English 55 languages are sup ported All American and European languages are supported including the East ern European languages Greek and Cyrillic The British and American or should we say international variants of the English language are distinguished The same goes for Spanish and Mexican oo x IRISPen Il Executive i ial ES File Settings Options Register Help Reading Mode Alphanumeric na Language English Translate to Output Target Greek English Hungariar Icelandic Indonesian lish Gaelic Italiar Lithuanian Lusembur
68. code reading opens a world of new applications to IRISPen owners as their pen scanner becomes an ergonomic and compact bar code scanner for the office environment Information desks marketing surveys customer identifica tion order picking and many other examples of high accuracy data entry in the office environment can benefit greatly from this bar code reading solution POAT f he IRlS Fen Executive ts cooll All widespread bar code standards or symbologies are supported Code 39 Code 93 Codabar EAN 8 EAN 13 UPC Interleaved 2 of 5 and MSI Pharma Support of the Code 128 symbology is optional The user can but does not have Yh to specify the symbology the user friendliness is such that the IRISPen auto matically detects which bar code standard has been scanned There is no pro gramming or parameter setting involved in its operation its use is automatic and transparent Bar Codes Ea M EAN 13 W Verify and Erase Check Digit Iw EAN iW Verify and Erase Check Digit M UPCA iW Verify and Erase Check Digit W Codabar I Interleaved 2 of 5 Il Code 39 Full ASCII Set M Code 93 P ode 128 MSI Pharma Cancel Default You can even enable a mixed reading mode where bar codes are read alongside other data for instance normal text The IRISPen auto detects which type of data is being read For example you can scan address labels where the printed data is complemented by a bar c
69. codes correctly USER S GUIDE Below are some typical examples of images you can generate when you scan less than perfectly Scan Test g 00L While the first bar code is read at a constant angle thus producing a skewed image the second bar code has become wavy because of a varying scanning direction Scan Test fa A esconacoo00 SETTING THE BRIGHTNESS The test mode is also useful to set the brightness correctly Unlike other bar code scanners the IRISPen is a greyscale scanner that allows you to adjusts the scanning brightness to the color tones of your forms labels etc As a result a wider range of bar codes is legible Ufa Scan Test Brightness Despeckle off Automatic Manual M Smoothen Image lighten Zi darken Al Iv Fit to Window Load Image ee EA e I Recognize Save Image USER S GUIDE Scan Test Tn EVERYTHING Brightness Despeckle off Automatic Manual W Smoothen Image lighter fie darken I Fit to Window Load Image ee o e I Recognize Save Image To provide optimal security bar codes never yield a partial result a skipped bar a missing start or stop character and a incorrect check digit always lead to a misread a zero result ADDING AUDITIVE FEEDBACK It goes without saying that you can activate the speech feature to get auditive feedback of your bar codes Speech synthesis not only applies to text but to al
70. cond and third 22nd and 25th Twenty second and twenty fifth 4 567th Four thousand five hundred and sixty seventh Roman numbers are also pronounced as ordinal numbers The symbols I V and X in isolation are not identified as ordinal numbers XX Twentieth Digit strings composed of up to 3 digits a slash and up to 5 digits are pro nounced as fractions 1 3 to 1 2 One over three to one half 3 2 Three halves 123 45678 One hundred and twenty three over forty five thousand six hundred and seventy eight Telephone Numbers Telephone numbers are read digit by digit A space a period a slash or a hyphen is used to separate digit groups The first digit group can be surrounded by parentheses and will be preceded by the words area code 617 932 9209 Area code six one seven nine three two nine two zero 564 123 4567 Area code five six four one two three four five six 65 234 5678 Area code six five two three four five six seven eight 75 234 5678 Area code seven five two three four five six seven If the first digit group is 800 or 900 it is pronounced as one number 800 123 4567 Eight hundred one two three four five six seven International telephone formats are recognized too The first digit group is preceded by the words country code and pronounced as one number The rest of the telephone number is read digit by digit 49 228 550 381 Country code forty nine area code double two eight 30 61 997 283 Coun
71. cthesaad sions cesant E E E i 3 A Word about Text to Speech ccccccccecccseseccseseceeeceeaeeeceeeecseneeeaeseesenseeseseesansesaanes 4 From Writing to STAN Slee ssals cheno ean nace ncnecisensevaireansseaveveadueecsescuccesusdeanesosscosssssncseunssennsvesscesiencceesssieees 4 From Isolated Sounds to Real Speech 4 snseccssscsesnsnvaveaesvenvevesonseseuvencesssesvesecvascunssssnesesvaveassvesseesseuvesesneicens 6 Turning Speech Patterns into Sound Waves siscecavieuscevssaesvavusudcdssedecdesecdddessedsddssesdddssveddddssedseddsuat dessedvess 7 Experiment to Learn leain E EE EE EE 7 Eein a a i pa A a E N A ia T EN E E E EAEE E Pama 7 Chapter 4 Bar Code Reading How Does the IRISPen Work on Bar Codes nsnnosnnsssessseessensserssersssesssesssersserssersseess 1 Preparing Tor BarCode RCA GING sancnsasactecetoasatnostactanetbosn meet dnenaettncatuctdustimattacainvetdastceotss 3 Fue tinine Me Operi Oi eee ee eee eee eee re erecta i etre errr errr cnet er 3 Reading Bar Codes alongside Other Data cecccceccccseccccseeccneeeecaeeeeceneeeaeeeesaneeeaenes 5 PC AMIS L DS eer E E 6 GOOG Readino OF Bad IMa ER soree E 8 USER S GUIDE Sene the BIS NCGS sisii esae eo EE A E E ae RAE 9 Adding Auditive Feedback cccccccccssscccescccensccneneccesccceuseceeecesesesueuseseuseenensenees l1 Which Bar Codes Can the IRISPen Read n nnnesenssenssensseesssesssesssersserssersseesseessees 12 Vso ci MOS sioi eana E NA A EE O E
72. d saving of graphics to file greyscale scanner reads low contrast images wavy lines and distorted characters lineskew tolerance 10 word slope tolerance 20 central line tracking horizontal scanning resolution 300 dpi vertical scanning resolution 320 dpi left to right and right to left scanning up to 3 15 8 cm per second speed detection by scanner s roller speed monitoring by software Processing speed Line length Color tones Connection Cable length Lifespan Linguistic versions USER S GUIDE up to 1 000 characters per second up to 12 30 5 cm per scan greyscale scanning copes with low contrast images uses intelligent automatic image processing techniques advanced manual brightness adjustment and image despeckling IRISPen Executive red and yellow dropout color image inversion of light text on a dark background hot pluggable device connects to the PC s USB port powered by the PC via the USB port no need for an external power supply 180 cm USB devices can be reconnected using a USB hub 3 75 miles 6 km English German French Dutch Italian and Spanish contact LR I S to learn the availability of additional versions IRISPEN EXECUTIVE Executive version multifunctional reading pen Speech synthesis Bar code reading adds speech synthesis bar code reading numeric handprinting recognition recognition of dot matrix docu ments and mutliline
73. d copyrights of the IRISPen software It also gives direct access to the I R I S home page simply click on the URL www irislink com to visit the I R I S web site About the IRISPen Il Executive IRIS Pen Il Executive Yersion 4 0 OCE ICE bar code md handprinting technologies by 1 B 1 5 PCE II technology by LE LS IRIS Trnage Recognition Integrated Systern 5 4 1993 2001 All rights reserved WW SiR Gor Quality Speech Products fpf Next the IRISPen application window and two additional windows the greyscale image window and the status window are displayed USER S GUIDE Reading Mode Alphanumeric Language English Translate to e W Bar Codes Dot Matrix Qutout Target Clipboard i Application Multilines IRISFen Greyscale Image Alphanumeric English Application A IRISPen Il fi So 10 28 AM IRISPen It MGA 10 28am We ll concentrate on the IRISPen application window first It consists of three parts the menu bar comprises all software commands the toolbar gives quick Ufa access to all frequent commands and the window pane contains the basic set tings SETTING UP THE NECESSARY PARAMETERS Let s have a look at the basic IRISPen settings in the application s window pane Reading Mode Determines the reading mode alphanumeric bar codes black and white bitmap to clipboard greyscale bitmap to clipboard handprinting and numeric The
74. d handprinting eA IRISPen Il Executive File Settings Register Help Reading Mode Alphanumeric Language Bar Code Black and white Bitmap to Clipboard Translate to Greyscale Bitmap to Clipboard Handprinting Numeric Dot Matrix Output Target Clipboard Application W Multilines For translation help and language learning with the IRISPen Translator the user should obviously select the option Alphanumeric Ii For financial applications the set of recognized characters can be limited to numeric symbols in which case only the characters 0 to 9 and some punctua tion symbols such as etc will be recognized Any chance of recognition errors such as the confusion between 5 and S 0 and O 9 and g 8 and B etc is eliminated Fully customized character sets can be programmed by the user with the Output Subset button on the toolbar An example is creating an OCR B charac ter set which limits recognition to the numerals and the symbols lt gt and OCR B is at the same time a highly specialized typeface used only in financial documents such as preprinted checks bank statements etc I R I S has a spe cialized version of the IRISPen for the financial market Selecting a limited character set not only increases recognition accuracy but also speeds up the recognition process somewhat The reading modes Black and White Bitmap to Clipboard and Greyscale Bitmap to C
75. d text an ending code is the same added at the end of the recognized text When scanning a few lines of text the user normally selects the lt Space gt key as suffix to add a space after each line When reading two lines The second line and follows the first the resulting output becomes The second line follows the first The space after the word line is added by the IRISPen software When translating text with the IRISPen Translator lt Space gt should be se lected as ending code to ensure that a space is added after each scanned line automatically otherwise the words line and follows would be glued with the intranslatable sentence The second linefollows the first as a result When scanning text in a database the user chooses the cursor command lt Tab gt as suffix to reposition the cursor automatically in the next field ready for the next scan Other typical applications where starting and ending codes are used to add text are encoding price lists where the currency is added for example or USD to the recognized figures and encoding telephone numbers from a list and adding Tel in front To add text and execute keyboard commands at the user s command the pen button is programmed with the Pen Button button on the toolbar The option Restore Paragraph restores paragraphs by recomposing hy phenated words and adding suffixes only where they are needed When this option is enabled end
76. de up of isolated separate dots and highly specialized recognition routines are required to recognize them Letter quality dot matrix printing also called 25 pin or NLQ dot matrix does not requires the enabling of this option Nor do the printing qualities typeset typewritten laser printed and inkjet printed Bar Codes IRISPen Executive Enables a mixed reading mode where bar codes are read alongside data of another type The user can for instance scan bar codes and normal text with out changing the reading mode The parameter Reading Mode in the IRISPen application window deter mines the primary reading mode this option determines whether read bar codes are read at the same time Output Target Indicates where the text result will be placed recognized data can be inserted directly in the active application or transferred to the clipboard for later pasting Normally the recognized data gets sent to the active Windows application The clipboard can only contain the recognition result text of the last scan with the understanding that several lines can be buffered when the multiline reading mode is enabled USER S GUIDE When the reading mode Black and White Bitmap to Clipboard or Greyscale Bitmap to Clipboard is enabled no output target can be selected the scanned images are always copied to the Windows clipboard for later pasting With the IRISPen Translator the active application
77. defining a restore hotkey with the command Hotkeys under the Settings menu The same command allows to define a hotkey to switch from one reading mode to another directly from within your target application Alt Chl Fey Restore Application EH Reading Mode Iw E a Repeat Speech E Cancel Let s give an example we define Alt X as the hotkey for reading mode switch ing For starters we select the setting alphanumeric as our reading mode We now go to our Windows application and scan in some text When we execute the keyboard command Alt X inside our Windows application the IRISPen switches to bar code reading When we repeat the keyboard command the reading mode successively changes to black and white and greyscale bitmaps to clipboard handprinting numeric and back to alphanumeric The reading mode is always specified in the status window Secondly we can use pen button clicks to change the reading mode To encode documents where handprinting and other information are mixed on the page just clicking the pen button can do the job Click on the Pen Button button on the toolbar A single and double pen button clicked can be programmed to switch from one reading mode to another USER S GUIDE Pen Button Single Double Mull Enter 7 lt 5 pace lt Tab gt Cursor Up lt Cursor Dower Cursor Left Cursor Right Homer lt Cursor D owm Custom O S eee Bee Bee o
78. dinal numbers of up to 15 digits are pronounced as full numbers longer digit strings are pronounced digit by digit Leading zero s are equally pro nounced digit by digit 123456789012345 1234567890123456 007 Periods may be used to separate groups of three digits 1 234 123 456 789 012 345 Decimal numbers may contain up to 15 digits before and after the comma Periods may be used to separate groups of three digits before the comma When more than two digits occur after the decimal point these are pronounced digit by digit 104 2 5 25 5 151 All cardinal numbers from 1 to 999 followed by or are pronounced as ordinal numbers So are all cardinal numbers of up to 15 digits that start with a digit other than zero and are followed by or Periods may be used to separate groups of three digits 2 134 1 000 Depending on the context the Roman numbers will be pronounced as ordi nal numbers in male and female form or as cardinal numbers Rainha Elisabete II Rainha Elissabete Segunda Capitulo XX Capitulo vig simo S culo XXI S culo vinte e um Telephone Numbers The following formats are supported for telephone numbers telephone num bers with an optional operator code and a country code telephone numbers with an optional operator code and an area code telephone numbers preceded by the abbreviation t tel telef fone and fax The operator code the country code and the area code may be surrounded by
79. ding and image adjustment From an IRISPen Translator the Executive software adds three capabilities bar code reading handprinting recognition and recognition of dot matrix documents Also offers image adjustment Basically the IRISPen product range uses a modular approach by installing an upgrade you add whatever extra feature you don t have yet You can upgrade from the IRISPen Standard to the IRISPen Executive and to the IRISPen Trans lator from the IRISPen Translator to the IRISPen Executive from an IRISPen Executive to an IRISPen Translator etc USER S GUIDE MORE ABOUT THE IRISPEN EXECUTIVE The software only upgrade to the IRISPen Executive offers numerous ma jor add on capabilities speech synthesis bar code reading handprinting recogni tion recognition of dot matrix documents advanced image adjustment features and multiline scanning As a result your IRISPen becomes unquestionably the most versatile scanner available We already mentioned that the speech synthesis capability is limited to the IRISPen Executive where the user is entitled to a single language of his choice and to the IRISPen Translator which is equipped with the speech libraries of the two languages in the language pair Speech modules for additional languages can further extend his system Ten languages are currently available English and British English Brazilian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Spanish Bar
80. dramatically different nature of the images to be analyzed it is easy to understand that it takes highly specialized recognition software to recognize handwritten and handprinted symbols USER S GUIDE The proprietary handprinting technology from I R I S is based on more than 1 million writing samples All natural writing styles are supported American and European ones and sevens are recognized with equal comfort It requires no training phase or imposed style to recognize somebody s handwriting MIXING HANDPRINTING AND OTHER DATA A direct consequence is that you have to switch from handprinting to the other reading modes to encode documents where more than one type of information is being read However you can read handprinted data and bar codes and other data at the same time The parameter Reading Mode in the IRISPen application window determines the primary reading mode the option Bar Codes in the IRISPen application window determines whether you read bar codes at the same time Switching from one mode to another is very easy You can obviously do it by modifying the reading mode in the IRISPen application window There are sev eral ways of accessing the IRISPen application window quickly right or double clicking the IRISPen status window or right clicking the IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar and selecting the command Open You can restore the IRISPen application directly from within your target application by
81. e Settings menu Alt Chl Key Restore Application E E Reading Mode E E Repeat Speech wr e Cancel UJ iN A WORD ABOUT TEXT TO SPEECH On the whole the operation of the text to speech feature is very easy and straightforward But does this mean that the technology is as well In fact the opposite is true Let s have a closer look at this exciting technology Converting text to intelligible sound is a complex process incorporating three steps a linguistic a phonetic and an acoustic phase Each module plays a distinct roll in the text to speech process From Writing to Sounds In the first stage the linguistic module analyzes the recognized text Text normalisation is the first step Punctuation symbols comma s dots exclamation and question marks hyphens etc are identified and abbreviations dates telephone numbers account numbers etc are converted into plain text Depending on the context the punctuation symbols can get pronounced will be pronounced as slash as colon etc This only occurs when these symbols have to be pronounced to get noticed Pronouncing special symbols is necessary to read structured character strings as 1245AS 876 but not in body text such as Shakespeare s Globe and John said I won t A typical example is reading telephone numbers such as 800 USA 1234 where the symbol is pronounced as dash It is interesting to note that in some languages
82. e cco 47 Output Subset cise 47 Options Menut sssnsssessseesseesseesseesssesssrrssersserssersssesssessserssersseesseessersseesssessserssersseess 47 BS saa ests cea denser E E E EE 47 Speech IRISPen Executive and TRIS Pen Translator a ccssscsccassassessosevsennsssessononsevessseesseacvsssevecversoasvens 47 Repeat Speech IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Translator cee ecesseceesneeeeessseeeesseeeeeees 47 SOUN ee E EE 47 Leit a AN eere E E E E EER 48 Necatve MA E eee EEEE R 48 Translate Clipboard IRISPen Translator 4 cssscccscescscesssccccssevssrasnswansnnavesesnnunnesnavassnmevenvemovarsnnnesveeonnes 49 Greyscale IMa E e EE E E 49 Staas VV NO Vy eE EE 50 Save SENES ON EXI ee E E E T 50 FRC CIS USE Neee E E E E E E aneeia 50 Resistration Wizard Ree Ne nee EE E EE E E eee nr 50 Uperid e Ne en SN ne ee ee eT rey 51 PES DS tK o tts N A ee E pra fpr d soca wobec lea vce wa T EE E E ETA 56 Peep KO 0T sseocrosensonssnoncressanconscsonocsonancaessaoscceseaneressensess cose seeseacessseoseseesescanssnssccesseausseceasccrsessscessedeet 56 Product SUPPO EEEE EEEE EE 57 OSOLE E D Ee TETTA EE 58 ERLS Oy UNG Mteme ere EEE EE EE 59 About thie i a EST Pei E E 59 Appendix A Product Description IRIS Pon Produci Ran Gnas EEE i 1 System BR CCU MNS senden ain edio edoa iera ai a 2 IRIS Pen Standard iinn E E E ETE 3 XI USER S GUIDE IRISPen Executive e oane ARE EE EEE AAA ASE EAER AAAA NAELA 5 REP a aO e Sisal cane a a a AO 7 IRISPen
83. e black and white image Despeckling means that the parasite pixels also called salt and pepper noise will be removed from the black and white images adapt easily then adapt easily then Be sure that you don t erase spots that are too big otherwise you might start erasing the dots on 1 portions of dot matrix letters etc The recognition is re executed promptly each time you modify this setting Uh Scan Test Uatna ecn novel 0 Toynoer eos Jntem t ntures and Brightness Despeckle off f Automatic Manual W Smoothen Image lighter TE darken a I Fit to Window Load Image I Recognize Save Image USER S GUIDE Scan Test Dafne Ciechanover Co founder eas intent ventures ag zt ii al ft OF I A al pae Ciechanower Co founder eos intermet ventures and Brightness Despeckle remove 5 pixel dots f Automatic Manual i Smoothen Image ORES ERRE ORO Ten E Onn AA en ANA mARE Ono AAO AMARA ROAnAOEAAAmAGANAEeRAnae lighter TO darken Iv Fit to Window Load Image E EE W Recognize Save Image Thanks to the image adjustment features of the IRISPen Executive a larger range of documents can be read You make documents legible that couldn t be read in any other way think for example of documents where the colored back ground would otherwise render the recognition impossible However a red or yellow background will never
84. e clicks the pen button the IRISPen switches to the mode Bar Codes When he clicks a few times more he switches to Black and White Bitmap to Clipboard Greyscale Bitmap to Clipboard Handprinting Numeric and back to Alphanumeric Switching from one reading mode to another is superfluous to read bar codes alongside data of another type the option Bar Codes in the IRISPen application USER S GUIDE window enables a mixed reading mode where bar codes are read alongside nor mal data The parameter Reading Mode in the IRISPen application window determines what kind of data is read this option determines whether read bar codes can be read at the same time The mixed reading mode is limited to the IRISPen Executive When multiline scanning is enabled with the option Multiline in the IRISPen application window the pen button takes on a special meaning Multiple lines are buffered before they are inserted spoken and translated This option is limited to the IRISPen Executive and the IRISPen Translator It takes a click of the pen button to flush the scanned text to insert it in the active application and start the speech and translation process It should be noted that the pen button remains a programmable command button even when the multiline mode of operation is enabled When the multiline scanning is enabled the first click of the pen button triggers the flush all con secutive pen b
85. e digit string before the comma is pronounced as a full number The digit string after the comma is pronounced digit by digit when it contains more than two digits 150 65 Honderd vijftig comma vijfenzestig 1 2 E n comma twee 0 02 Nul comma nul twee 1 234 Een comma twee drie vier Alphanumeric Strings With alphanumeric strings a combination of letters and digits without spaces the alphabetic part is spelled and the numeric part is read as a full number KX4956 125DC20 USER S GUIDE Telephone Numbers Telephone numbers are recognized when parentheses slashes or hyphens are used to separate the country code and or area code from the actual telephone number Spaces and periods are allowed to separate groups of digits The telephone numbers are pronounced in groups of two or three digits a pause 1s inserted where a period or space occurs 030 288 65 27 030 2886527 030 288 65 27 0031 30 288 65 27 32 52 226677 05780 12401 Telephone numbers may be preceded by the abbreviation tel Tel 229 30 11 tel 057 22 16 07 Bank Account Numbers Bank account numbers are pronounced digit by digit when hyphens separate the digit groups The number will be read in groups of two or three digits 000 1254887 87 123 4528098 34 Dates Dates are recognized in the following format day precedes month precedes year The day and the month are composed of one or two digits the year of two or four digits The digit groups are s
86. e option Save Settings on Exit under the Options menu before the software is termi nated These settings will be used at the next startup Settings are loaded into memory with the command Open Settings under the File menu Exit Closes the IRISPen software As the user quits he also saves the current settings as default settings pro vided that the option Save Settings on Exit under the Options menu is enabled If this is the case these settings will be used at the next startup The default settings are saved in the file DEFAULT IPC When this file is erased the factory settings apply Settings files contain all operational parameters the reading mode the docu ment language the target language for the translation IRISPen Translator whether dot matrix reading mode IRISPen Executive and the mixed reading mode with secondary bar code reading is enabled IRISPen Executive the out put target whether the multiline reading mode is enabled IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Translator the programming of pen button clicks and hotkeys table frame and character conversions the output subset alignment options in cluding starting and ending codes the bar code and handprinting settings IRISPen Executve whether the speech synthesis IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Trans lator or system sound is enabled whether the clipboard translation IRISPen Translator the left handed scanning and the image inversion are enabled Rela
87. e special characters such as and are not recognized by the IRISPen but can be used in character and table frame conver sions in starting and ending codes and be inserted by the pen button clicks The window below indicates which symbols can and can not be recognized the highlighted symbols are not recognized by the IRISPen Output Subset LOL E E e amp EEE Cancel Deselect 4 2 Deselect a z Deselect 0 9 Deselect All gow EA DDD Character enabled Character disabled Related Command Output subsets can also be enabled by loading IRISPen settings with the com mand Open Settings under the File menu USER S GUIDE Bar Codes IRISPen Executive Enables the bar code reading mode and defines the bar code settings The bar code reading mode can also be selected in the IRISPen application window When this button is clicked the user is simultaneously given access to the bar code settings Bar Codes Ea W EAN 13 W Verify and Erase Check Digit W EAN W Verify and Erase Check Digit W UPC W Verify and Erase Check Digit W Codabar I Interleaved 2 of 5 IY Code 29 Full ASCH Set IW Code 93 Goede 128 Cancel Default The user is given full control over the used symbologies By default all bar code symbologies are enabled and the IRISPen will autodetect the used symbol ogy The user does not have to adjust the bar code settings to scan bar codes Con
88. eally endless eh Ny N 5 The key to the universality of the IRISPen is its keyboard emulation The IRISPen effectively replaces your keyboard by imitating keyboard strokes as soon as the application is running in the background so you can use this tool to insert text wherever you have a text cursor on your Windows PC Basically the IRISPen establishes a copy and paste operation you copy text from paper documents and paste it in your Windows applications IRlSPen press quotes Message Rich Text E O x Eile Edit View Insert Format Tools Actions Help send Le T b Times New Roman r pple sales irislink com EE Subject IRISPen press quotes Dear Sir Here are the concise press quotes I promised to send you Its very small size makes it an ideal tool for portables If you re keeping track of a lot ofitems or collect alot of text snippets the IRTSPen is for you MR EEEN Alphanumeric English Application In the above example we used the IRISPen to enter some quotes from a press article into an e mail message USER S GUIDE COMPLETING DATABASES When you enter data in a database the possibility to add starting and ending codes at the beginning and or end of the recognized text is particularly useful When you choose for example the keyboard command lt Tab gt as ending code the cursor will reposition itself in the next field ready for the nex
89. ed Characters can also be de leted replaced by nothing A typical application is eliminating the currency in a price list 2 42 Select the command Character Conversion under the Settings menu A window shows you a list of all characters characters to which conversion ap plies are highlighted Click on them to see how they are converted Click the option No Conversion to disable the active conversion The button Unconvert All disables all active conversions with a single click Character Conversion Convert 55 Ho Conversion Unconvert All Cursor Up Cursor Down Cursor Left gt po aq can Cursor Right Home Cursor Down E m ae Custom OO WOWW LL aA EAE EEEa S A a a E A e E ee CDEDEDECDCDEDCNESCDCD EDEDED EDEDED EDEDED EDEDED EED EEE E EED EDEDES EDEDED EDEDED ENDERR Character converted Character not converted In the example below the symbol is ignored erased because the user wants to enter some numeric data in a spreadsheet The figures are relevant the currency isn t Scanning 2 99 leads to 2 99 being entered in the worksheet USER S GUIDE Ed Microsoft Excel Book B File Edit view Insert Format Tools Data Window Help x Oa B 6a leo i 2 ara Je AS Fee e ee ee Cee pe 2 99 Numeric Application KAEM Sheen I we Reach Ee nOM ppg Or Rows AND COLUMNS
90. ed the factory settings apply Settings files contain all operational parameters the reading mode the docu ment language the target language for the translation IRISPen Translator whether dot matrix reading mode IRISPen Executive and the mixed reading mode with secondary bar code reading is enabled IRISPen Executive the out put target whether the multiline reading mode is enabled IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Translator the programming of pen button clicks and hotkeys table frame and character conversions the output subset alignment options in cluding starting and ending codes the bar code and handprinting settings IRISPen Executve whether the speech synthesis IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Trans lator or system sound is enabled whether the clipboard translation IRISPen Translator the left handed scanning and the image inversion are enabled Related Command The command Open Settings from the File menu loads specific IRISPen configurations REGISTER MENU The Register menu allows the user to register his software licence Registration Wizard Starts the registration wizard USER S GUIDE The registration wizard guides the user through the licence registration pro cess comfortably The user can register in many ways by sending in the registra tion card or faxing its electronic counterpart by calling I R I S during working hours and by filling out a registration form on the I R LS web site IR
91. ed by the encoding utility Handprinting recognition is limited to the numerals and the symbols comma dot and hyphen When handprinted and other data are mixed on the page the user can switch reading modes by defining a hotkey with the command Hotkeys under the Set tings menu or program the pen button to this end with the Pen Button button on the toolbar The hands and eyes busy activity of reading handprinting can be combined with auditive feedback by enabling the Speech button on the toolbar The speech feature incorporates intelligent routines that allow it to recognize telephone num bers bank account and social security numbers dates etc When bank account numbers are read short pauses are inserted where a dash occurs when tele USER S GUIDE phone numbers are read the speech synthesis will add the word area code where it is useful etc Refer to appendix C for scanning tips and writing and form design rules Speech IRISPen Executive IRISPen Translator Activates the Read amp Speak speech synthesis With the IRISPen Executive speech synthesis provides clear natural sound ing auditive feedback of the recognized data Hands and eyes busy data entry becomes possible as the user no longer has to look up from his documents to verify the results on screen Text to speech also opens a world of multimedia applications to the IRISPen users With the RISPen Translator speech
92. eeeee 8 Switch reading mode ry Cancel D ran In our example the single pen button click will execute the switching of the reading mode ADDING AUDITIVE FEEDBACK It goes without saying that you can activate the speech feature to get auditive feedback of your handprinted numerics For the hands and eyes busy activity of reading handprinting auditive feedback is certainly an option It should also be noted that the speech feature incorporates intelligent routines that allow it to recognize bank account and social security numbers telephone numbers dates etc When you are reading bank account numbers short pauses are inserted where a dash occurs when you are scanning telephone numbers the Uf speech synthesis will add the word area code where it is useful etc These routines are language dependent no less than 10 languages can be supported Refer to Chapter 3 for more information LEARNING MORE Where less than optimal reading results are obtained it may be useful to adapt your writing style and optimize your forms to maximize your productivity Appen dix D discusses a few simple rules that can teach you why substitutions occur and how to avoid them USER S GUIDE Chapter 6 COMMAND REFERENCE This chapter provides an extensive reference guide to the commands of the IRISPen the IRISPen Executive and the IRISPen Translator Also note that buttons are available for all frequently used functions
93. egible can be recognized Despeckling removes noise from the scanned images again resulting in higher OCR accu racy Finally the multiline scanning mode increases the ease of use It allows you to scan several lines of text All scanned data is temporarily buffered until you press the pen button to trigger the output This scanning mode also ensures a natural prosody When the speech synthesis has to pronounce individual text Ta VI lines rather than full sentences the intonation may be somewhat less than hu 99 man How Does THE IRISPEN Work The pen sized scanner functions as a greyscale camera that sends an image to the computer To recapture printed or typed information you simply rule the pen over a line of text You start scanning as soon as you press the IRISPen onto the paper the scanned text is lit up by the scanner As you scan the text an image consisting of intense points so called pixels on a lighter background is generated and transmitted to the PC When you stop scanning by lifting the pen from the paper the software takes over Intelligent routines convert the greyscale images into black and white im ages The text recognition software converts these images into editable charac ters and sends the recognized text promptly to the target application where it is inserted at the current cursor position As you are operating a hand held scanner you will inevitabl
94. en Executive and the IF SPen Translator Quickly find answers to questions Connect to the LR 1LS web site for latest tips and product updates 2001 Copyright LRLS All rights reserved ACQUIRING UPGRADES The command Upgrade under the Register menu tells you how to upgrade the IRISPen software to the multifunctional reading pen IRISPen Executive or the translation and language learning tool IRISPen Translator and how to acquire extra options for your IRISPen eh Ny N g E IRISPen oe A amp ft Hide Back Forvard Home Print Options Contents Index Search Taking the Upgrade Path ia Welcome to the AlSPen help Introducing the IFlSPen It s a matter of modules i Using the IAlSPen a Basically its a modular approach by installing PEIRERER Aarisiiah the software only upgrades you add whatever ni Upgrading the software extra feature you don t have yet 3 Taking the upgrade path Product registration fe Product support You can Upgrade fram the IRISPen Standard to the IRTSPen Executive and Translator from the IR ISPen Translator to the IRISPen Executive and from an IR ISPen Executive to an IRISPen Translator Migrating to an IRISPen Executive From an IRISPen Standard the Executive software adds four reading capabilities speech synthesis fin one language bar code reading handprinting recognition and the recognition of dot matrix documents Also offers multiline rea
95. ength is limited to 12 30 5 cm per scan The pen scanner simply shuts down when you scan a longer line When the scanned line is very long you may have to scroll to display the recognized text entirely Place the cursor in the text zone and press the End key to go directly to the end of the recognized text press Home to return to the beginning USER S GUIDE Scan Test Aly ae deen Hien aia Dt ie arom Fe es Geta rtg BG oe Te ede a henadeoza nts napa Pic Ut ky Chinatown Double Jeopardy El Dorado Event Horizon First Wives Club Patriot Games Roustabout Star Tre Lily acca tn Hien ay Dot ie arom Fe es Geta rtg Ge 0 Te fede a iycrtadeay wed napa Pb nidh wives Club Patriot Games Roustabout Star Trek Generations Superstar It s The Pred Piper Charlie Brown To obtain an optimal image slide the pen smoothly and evenly over the paper Do not lift the IRISPen away from the paper as this ends your scan These are not unrealistic conditions Acquire some experience with your IRISPen and all will come naturally you can use the I R LS test sheets to get some training Once you have developed the necessary sleight of hand the agility of the IRISPen is such that you can scan text from books bottles etc very much like you use a bar code reader This kind of flexibility cannot be obtained with a sheetfed or flatbed scanner As soon as you have to scan text from physical non flat objects the IRISPen
96. ensity As a result a sharper contrast is created between the foreground the text and the back ground a color artwork etc We suggest that you leave this option enabled at all times The brightness now By brightness we actually mean the black and white threshold As indicated earlier the setting Automatic determines the bilevel threshold automatically but with a great deal of intelligence Leave the default automatic setting for all normal documents Apply a different threshold when USER S GUIDE necessary by darkening or lightening the black and white image when you darken the image more pixels become black in the black and white version when you lighten the image less pixels become black IRIS Pen Greyscale Image Scan Test FORTUNE and CNN celebrate fhe success ftp women MPTE Pe Pres ee E ee i PERU ee e f Automatic Manual W Smoothen Image lighten 12 darken I Fit to Window Load Image E I Recognize Save Image Note that the recognition is re executed promptly each time you modify the image settings 2 26 woe assum Peg DEE oe psn See eee Mw ee E E 1 r m tamant sota smn USER S GUIDE Scan Test Ea edd TUE I Brightness Automatic f Manual iM Smoothen Image lighter 183 darken I Fit to Window Load Image ee Cae M Recognize Save Image The last option Despeckle concerns th
97. eparated by a period a slash or a hyphen 1 1 2001 E n januari twee duizend n 25 12 2000 Vijfentwintig december twee duizend 13 12 99 Dertien december negen en negentig 25 12 00 Vijfentwintig december twee duizend Year that are composed of two digits may be preceded by a quote 01 01 00 E n januari twee duizend Dates can also be specified in written alphabetic formats 13 dec 2000 Dertien december twee duizend 25 febr 2001 Vijfentwintig februari twee duizend n Time Indications Time indications are recognized when one of the following formats 1s respected The indicators u u h h and uur can be used 8 15u 10u30 10 05u 10u 45 7h 10 15h 20 15h 10h50 10 20 PM Currencies All common currency indications are supported Most currency symbol can precede and follow the numeral 100 fr 10 BF 65 BEF 20 Eur 25 150 10 DM USD 9 5 Abbreviations A standard dictionary includes all common abbreviations Dictionary contained abbreviations bv b v ir ing dr d m v m a w enz N V Mr Mevr blz St p a resp m i e a ca Z 0 Z Fr incl t o v t a v t e m cm mm excl Hr Nr o l v drs lic a s e k jl min max vb Acronyms Acronyms are pronounced as normal words NASA NAVO HAVO UNICEF UNESCO RIZIV USER S GUIDE TInitialisms Initialisms are pronounced letter by letter EEG VDAB Words consisting of consonants only are considered to be initi
98. ers are supported separately and in combination with proper names XXII Piazza XX Settembre del III capitolo Carlo V Telephone Numbers Telephone numbers are recognized when parentheses or slashes are used to separate the area code from the actual telephone number Hyphens can be used to separate groups of digits The digit groups are pronounced separately as full numbers 052 470489 052 47 04 89 052 470489 052 47 04 89 Telephone numbers may be preceded by the abbreviations tel Tel TEL and Tel no Tel 052 470489 Tel no 254 341947 USER S GUIDE Dates Dates are recognized in the following format day precedes month precedes year The day and the month are composed of one or two digits the year of two or four digits The digit groups are separated by a slash or a hyphen 3 3 99 3 3 00 08 02 99 8 2 2000 01 01 1999 8 2 99 8 2 00 08 02 99 8 2 1999 01 01 1999 The date can be preceded by I P 8 02 99 Time Indications Time indications are recognized when one of the following formats is respected The hour indicator contains one or two digits the minute indicator contains two digits 8 30 11 15 23 00 The time indication can be preceded by the strings alle delle dalle h le and ore alle 11 33 ore 11 33 h 11 33 Currencies Currency indications with L Lit LIT DM and Pts are recognized The currency symbol L must precede the numeral with a space the cur rency
99. es and coded numbers in a data base The codes are strictly numeric the address is of course composed of al phanumeric data To add complexity the data must be distributed among differ ent database fields Here s how you can proceed use the single button click to move the cursor to a new database field and use the double button click to toggle between the alphanumeric and numeric reading mode wv Spreadsheets offer another application when figures are read one by one the single click is programmed as lt Tab gt and allow to move the cursor to the next cell the double click is programmed as lt Home gt lt Cursor Down gt and moves the cursor to the next row GETTING ON LINE HELP This concludes our overview of the IRISPen Some last minute information may not be included in this manual We thus recommend you to consult the on line help system for additional information on the IRISPen s capabilities Go to the Help menu to do so The command Help Topics and its shortcut key F1 allow you to navigate through the many help topics USER S GUIDE E IRISPen a SF gt A 8 Hide Back Forward Home Print Options Contents Index Search 7 Welcome to the IRIS Fen help i Introducing the IRIS Fen e Using the IRISFen ee Reference information Re Upgrading the software Product registration Product support Welcome to IRISPen Help Use on line help to learn more about the IF ISPen the IRISP
100. etic phase are converted into synthetic waves which are reproduced by the PC s audio card EXPERIMENT TO LEARN To get a better idea of the highly advanced nature of the speech feature an I R I S test sheet is provided with the IRISPen It allows you to experiment with the text to speech capability of your IRISPen Executive and get aware of the linguistic rules you should respect when you want to correctly read telephone numbers bank account numbers etc LEARNING MORE These syntax rules are discussed at length in Appendix B They describe how the speech synthesis deals with normalized character strings such as bank account and telephone numbers date and time indications etc D To ensure that the speech module will produce correct results for such char acter strings you should respect these rules when your documents forms labels etc are designed and produced In other words these syntax rules tell you how English dates French telephone numbers and German bank account num bers should be composed to be recognized as such USER S GUIDE Chapter 4 BAR CODE READING Bar code reading adds numerous applications for IRISPen owners informa tion desks marketing surveys customer identification order picking and many other examples of data entry in the office environment can benefit highly from a bar code reading solution Where extreme accuracy and high speed are mandatory in identification pro cesses bar codes
101. f uses even parity digits UPC stands for Universal Product Code has been designed to uniquely identify a product and its manufacturer A version of UPC UPC E is restricted to 6 digits and zero suppressed UPC E compresses the 12 digit UPC codes into six digits by suppressing the number system digit trailing zeros in the manufacturer s code and leading zeros in the product code The IRISPen Executive does not support this variation Bar height 0 3 narrow bar width 12 mils muna UMUC Bar height 0 4 narrow bar width 18 mils Bar height 0 5 narrow bar width 24 mils 01234567897 01470258036 EAN 8 EAN 8 is a numeric fixed length bar code for eight characters The bar codes are composed of two characters for the country code followed by five data characters and a check digit The user encodes seven digits USER S GUIDE The check digit is verified but filtered from the reading result when the option Verify and Erase Check Digit is enabled otherwise it is read and included in the output Apart from the check digit there is a left center and nght guard pattern and there are odd and even parity digits EAN 8 EAN stands for European Article Number is used for products where the origin country must be encoded It is actually a European version of UPC A EAN 13 is a variation of EAN 8 which allows to encode 13 characters 1234567 IN Bar height 0 3
102. formats le ler janv 99 Le premier d cembre quatre vingt dix neuf le 25 d c 2001 Vingt cing d cembre deux milles un Time Indications Time indications are recognized when one of the following formats are re spected 20h30 20H30 20 30h Vingt heures trente 20 30H 20 30h 20 30 H 20h30 20 H 30 Vingt heures trente minutes 12h00 Midi 00h00 Minuit 2h Deux heures 14 H Quatorze heures 22 Vingt deux minutes 1240 Mille deux cent quarante minutes Currencies Currency indications with FF FRS FB fr and are recognized The currency symbol must follow the numeral with a space 15 FF et 10 FB 50 ou 2 2 et 2 FRS Other currencies must be written in full and follow the numeral Alternatively you can program the IRISPen to for instance replace F by francs with the Character Conversion command under the Settings menu Alphanumeric Strings With alphanumeric strings a combination of letters and digits without spaces the alphabetic part is spelled and the numeric part is read as a full number KX4956 125DC20 Abbreviations A standard dictionary includes all common abbreviations Dictionary contained abbreviations M mm Mme Mlle AV etc BP Ste Mr T l S V p S A T l Fr Frs incl excl cm kg Nr No Ex min max Acronyms Acronyms are pronounced as normal words ONU OTAN SMIC EURATOM UNICEF UNESCO FOREM TEC Initialisms Initialisms are pronounced letter by letter All wo
103. forms and labels can also benefit greatly from numeric handprinting recognition This proprietary recognition technology is based on more than 1 million writing samples All natural writing styles American and European are supported contrary to most other handprinting recognition solutions no training phase or imposed style is requied D The IRISPen Executive also offers recognition of dot matrix printed docu ments Dot matrix symbols are made up of isolated separate dots and highly specialized recognition routines are required to recognize them Multiline scanning increases the user friendliness of the IRISPen it is most useful when the user reads text excerpts Several scans get buffered before the reading result is inserted the user presses the pen button to send entire paragraphs consisting of several lines to his Windows applications at once The multiline reading mode also ensures a natural prosody when the text to speech module has to pronounce individual lines rather than full sentences the intonation may be somewhat less than human The IRISPen Executive is equipped with advanced imaging features to ad just the scanning to the color tones of the documents to be scanned As the user optimizes the images generated by the pen scanner a much larger range of docu ments becomes legible Think for example of documents where the colored back ground would otherwise render the recognition impossible The sof
104. functions as the output target when the source text must be saved The translation appears in the pop up translation window the Copy button of that translation window allows the user to paste the translation To study foreign sentences and their meaning comfortably later on the trans lation can be inserted in the same window where the scanned text is placed to save the original text and its translation separately the translation can be inserted in a different window The clipboard functions as the output target when the user wants to concen trate on the translation without inserting the source text Clipboard translation must be enabled with the command Translate Clipboard under the Options menu if this is to work All scanned text is then sent directly to the clipboard and translated automatically The user can limit himself to inserting the translation in his application with the Copy button of the translation window Multilines IRISPen Executive IRISPen Translator Enables the multiline reading mode where multiple lines are buffered be fore they are inserted spoken and translated It takes a click on the pen button to flush the scanned text After each scanned line the status window displays the message Press pen button to flush The user should only do so at the end of a sentence or paragraph He does not have to wait for this message to disappear from his screen to start scanning another line W
105. gh Macedonian The IRISPen even copes with mixed alphabets of Greek or Cyrillic and West ern characters The software can switch languages in the middle of a sentence without any help from the user When Western words pop up in Greek and Cyrillic many untranscrible proper names brand names etc are written using the famil iar Western symbols the IRISPen can switch to the correct alphabet automati cally The user can press a letter key to move to it directly if English is currently selected and he wants to select Hungarian he can click the H key on his keyboard to go directly to the Hungarian language When several languages have USER S GUIDE the same initial he presses the letter several times to go through the options Lets give an example the IRISPen reads Polish and Portuguese By pressing P once the user selects Polish by pressing P a second time he selects Portu guese and by pressing P a third time he s back on Polish To go to another letter say T he presses BackSpace before he enters the T character The status window indicates the selected language Selecting the proper language is imperative based on the selection of a lan guage the software knows which symbols to recognize Multi linguistic support ensures that special characters such as 8 y and are recognized cor rectly Secondly the software extensively uses linguistic data to validate its results Suppose that the
106. guages are supported All American and European languages are supported including the Central Eu ropean languages Greek Turkish the Cyrillic Russian and the Baltic lan guages USER S GUIDE IRISPen Il Executive Iofs Eile Settings Options Register Help Reading Mode Alphanumeric al Language English Translate to Output Target Greek English Hungarian Icelandic Indonezian Irish Gaelic Italian Lithuanian Lusemburgh Macedonian Also note that the British and American or should we say international variants of the English language are distinguished The same goes for Spanish and Mexican You can press a letter key to move to it directly if English is currently se lected and you want to select Hungarian you can click the H key on your keyboard to go directly to the Hungarian language When several languages have the same initial press the letter several times to go through the options Let s give an example the IRISPen reads Polish and Portuguese By pressing P once Ufa you select Polish by pressing P a second time you select Portuguese and by pressing P a third time you re back on Polish To go to another letter say T press BackSpace before you enter the T character It takes the appropriate Windows configuration to display Central European Greek Turkish Cyrillic and Baltic characters You may have to install the Win dows module Multilang
107. gy The full ASCII symbol set is not supported by default as it is a special version of the Code 39 symbology Related Commands The reading mode Bar Codes in the IRISPen application window enables bar code reading as only reading mode The option Bar Codes in the IRISPen application window enables a mixed reading mode where bar codes are read alongside data of another type The parameter Reading Mode in the IRISPen application window then determines the primary reading mode and the option Bar Codes in the IRISPen application window determines whether read bar codes can be read simultaneously USER S GUIDE The hands and eyes busy activity of reading bar codes can be combined with auditive feedback by enabling the Speech button on the toolbar Bar code settings are included in the IRISPen settings The command Save Settings under the File menu and terminating the software with the option Save Settings on Exit enabled include the selected values in the IRISPen set tings Handprinting IRISPen Executive Enables the handprinting reading mode and defines the handprinting settings The handprinting reading mode can also be selected in the RISPen applica tion window When this button is clicked the user 1s simultaneously given access to the handprinting settings The user is given full control over spacing and rejection levels Handprinting Segmentation 42345 Contiguous handprinting 423
108. has the English and French speech libraries Speech modules for additional languages can further extend the user s system Ten languages are currently available English and British English Brazilian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Spanish The multiline scanning is mandatory for the IRISPen Translator As sen tences in most cases comprise several lines of text multiline scanning allows to buffer several lines before the output process text insertion pronunciation and translation are triggered Otherwise the system would pronounce partial sen tences and try to translate ungrammatical text lines as the user scanned them with unavoidably weak results Finally there are also some options available for the IRISPen product range The speech synthesis of the IRISPen Executive is limited to a single lan guage chosen by the user the IRISPen Translator is equipped with the speech libraries of the two languages in the language pair The user can extend his sys tem effortlessly by installing text to speech modules for additional languages Ten languages are currently available English and British English Brazilian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Spanish Secondly the IRISPen Executive supports all widespread bar code symbolo gies but support of Code 128 a specialized bar code used in the financial world is optional The same goes for the recognition of the specialized banking fonts
109. he IRISPen Translator you cannot produce system beeps and pro nounce the recognized text at the same time View Window Line Guide Start Switch Pen Button yy The line guide on the view window helps you scan accurately Steady scan ning not only improves the recognition but is specifically useful when you want to read text with limited interline spacing The line guide allows you to isolate the correct information the IRISPen recognizes the text line closest to the line guide The pen button is a programmable command button when you press the button you can execute a keyboard command for instance lt Enter gt add charac ters such as etc As you are scanning you can execute necessary keyboard commands directly with your IRISPen As is the case with a computer mouse the single and double click of the pen button correspond to different commands USER S GUIDE STARTING THE SOFTWARE UP So much for the pen scanner Let s get started with the software now that we have installed the IRISPen system we want to start scanning text into our appli cations To start the IRISPen software click on the IRISPen application in the submenu LR LS Applications IRISPen or use the shortcut created by the installation program on the Windows desktop Fy LAR LS Applications E IRIS Fen in Uninstallth lRlS Pen k Astan 1 Ea P l The IRISPen startup screen appears for a few seconds It displays the ver sion an
110. he comma 50 5 Cincuenta coma cinco 1 2 Uno coma dos 12345678 12345678 Doce millones trescientos cuarenta y USER S GUIDE 123 456 789 012 345 12345678 Ciento veintitres billones cuatrocientos Cardinal numbers followed by the ordinal suffix and are pronounced as ordinal numbers The numbers and 3 may also be followed by er 2 4 3er Roman numbers are also supported In isolation they are pronounced as cardinal numbers CXXII Ciento veintid s Roman numbers from I 1 to X 10 are pronounced as ordinal numbers when they follow or precede a word that begins with an uppercase letter Carlos I Carlos primero Isabel I Isable segunda Enrique VIII Enrique octavo Alfonso XII Alfonso doce I Congreso Primer congreso IV Muestra Cuarta muestra Bank Account Numbers Bank account numbers are recognized when hyphens are inserted between the digit groups Groups of up to 8 digits will be pronounced as full numbers larger groups are pronounced digit by digit 390 556846570 89 26 847364859 10 Telephone Numbers Telephone numbers are recognized when parentheses are used to separate the area code from the actual telephone number Use spaces and hyphens to separate groups of digits The digit groups are pronounced separately as full numbers 857 19 24 616 5511 Dates Dates are recognized in the following format day precedes month precedes year The day and the month are composed of one or two digi
111. he speech repetition with the command Hotkeys under the Settings menu The speech synthesis capability is limited to the IRISPen Executive where the user is entitled to a single language of his choice and to the IRISPen Trans lator where the speech feature is offered for the language pair The English French version of the IRISPen Translator for instance has the English and French speech libraries Speech modules for additional languages can further extend his system Ten languages are currently available English and British English Brazilian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Spanish Related Command The speech feature can also be enabled by loading IRISPen settings with the command Open Settings under the File menu Sound This option enables the system sound When it is enabled the system generates sound when the IRISPen starts scanning by pressing the pen scanner onto the paper stops scanning by lifting the pen scanner away from the paper and when the recognized text or scanned graphic is sent to the target application or clipboard Enabling the speech feature disables this option automatically mixing spoken text and system sounds makes no sense Related Command This option can also be enabled by loading IRISPen settings with the com mand Open Settings under the File menu USER S GUIDE FILE MENU The File menu has a limited function it lets the user open and save IRISPen
112. he user then enables a mixed reading mode where bar codes are read alongside data of another type This option is limited to the IRISPen Executive Speech repetition is also available by either right clicking the Speech button or by clicking the command Repeat Speech under the Options menu This command is limited to the RISPen Executive and the IRISPen Translator Pen Button Refer to the Pen Button button on the toolbar Alignment Refer to the Alignment button on the toolbar Table Frame Conversion Allows the interpretation of the table frame that separates table cells Some common options are presented by default but the user can define any combination of character and keyboard commands Table Frame Conversion Mull Character Conversion Enters Unknown Symbol lt Space gt Bar Codes as Handprinting SELL Upe Output Subset SELL DENTE Cursor Lett Cursor Aight Home gt lt Cursor Dowre Custom When the user selects lt Tab gt the IRISPen software will execute a lt Tab gt whenever a vertical bar is encountered As a lt Tab gt moves the cursor to the next cell scanning a table into a spreadsheet will put the individual figures in separate cells In this way the typical table structure with rows and columns is recreated by simply scanning each line in turn This feature only works when continuous vertical bars separate the table col umns the IRISPen software has to encounter a
113. hen this option is disabled the output of each scan is transmitted automati cally to the target application the user does not have to press the pen button to start the output process Multiline scanning is recommended when the user reads text excerpts and when the speech synthesis is enabled The multiline scanning mode ensures a Uf natural prosody When the text to speech module has to pronounce individual lines rather than full sentences the intonation may be somewhat less than hu 99 man The multiline reading mode is simply mandatory for the IRISPen Translator it is essential for language learning and translation aid It takes a click of the pen button at the end of a sentence or paragraph to flush the scanned text that is to insert it in the application or copy it to the clipboard and start the speech and translation process Correct pronunciation and translation imply that full sentences are scanned otherwise the system would pronounce partial sentences and try to translate ungrammatical text lines with unavoidably weak results It should be noted that the pen button remains a programmable command button controlled by the Pen Button button on the toolbar When multiline scan ning is enabled the first click of the pen button triggers the flush all consecu tive pen button clicks are interpreted according to their programming if any An immediate double click preceding the flush is also interp
114. his is accomplished in the IRISPen application window Doing so limits the set of recognized characters to numeric symbols in which case you will only recognize the characters 0 to 9 and some punctuation symbols such as some currencies the dollar and Euro sign etc By doing this you eliminate any chance of recognition errors such as the confusion between 5 and S 0 and O 9 and g 8 and B etc In fact you can fully customize the set of recognized characters for your encoding utilities by creating character subsets that exclusively contain those symbols you want to recognize Each time you do the recognition speed is in creased somewhat An example you want to read figures from a price list Unfortunately the price list also contains some currency symbols such as and The standard numeric character mode obviously won t do You can nevertheless read such data faultlessly by extending the basic numeric symbol set with the symbols and Click on the Output Subset button on the toolbar or select the command Output Subset under the Settings menu USER S GUIDE Click on a symbol to select and deselect it The buttons Select A Z Select 0 9 etc provide a faster method of selecting ranges of symbols click on these buttons to add and remove symbol ranges Output Subset SVePeeeEepwstepeseey Qe Gece eee eees Cancel 2 Quuuucucuuguuuue AMMAOVOOMOAOGGSGGeC N S
115. ia the USB port UNINSTALLING THE IRISPEN SOFTWARE There are only two correct ways of uninstalling the IRISPen using the IRISPen uninstall program and using the Windows un install wizard You are strongly recommended not to uninstall the IRISPen software or its software modules by manually erasing the program files IRISPen uninstall program Select Uninstall IRISPen under the submenu I R I S Applications IRISPen to start the IRISPen uninstall program and follow the on screen in structions eee es Cardis eee G 1 F1 5 on the Internet A Readiris E IRISPen W Uninstall the IRIS Pen Windows un install wizard Execute the following steps to make use of the Windows un install wizard Q Click Settings under the Start menu of Windows and go to the Con trol Panel Q Click the icon Add Remove Programs under the control panel LU The IRISPen is listed under the Install Uninstall tab USER S GUIDE Add Remove Programs Properties per E 3x Install Uninstall Windows Setup Startup Disk Z To install a new program from a floppy disk or CO ROM drive click Install Install ae The following software can be automatically removed by Ry Windows To remove a program or to modify its installed components select it from the list and click Add Remove Cardins Dessa Optical Mouse HP Lagentet 55 Printing System McAfee VirusScan v4 0 Microsof
116. ically as a result your IRISPen becomes un questionably the most versatile reading device available Up to now you were able to recognize printed and typed material The Execu tive software extends your system with four major add on capabilities speech synthesis bar code reading handprinting recognition and recognition of dot ma trix documents Furthermore the IRISPen Executive is equipped with advanced image adjustment features that allow to read a wider range of documents and a multiline reading mode that increases the pen scanner s ease of use The speech synthesis capability Read amp Speak opens the door for multi media applications and allows hands and eyes busy data entry as your sound card reads out all recognized text You no longer have to look up to the computer screen to verify the results the IRISPen results are rendered by a human voice the most natural way of interfacing with a machine A single speech library is supplied standard text to speech modules for addi tional languages can further extend your system Bar code reading opens a world of new applications to IRISPen owners as their pen scanner becomes an ergonomic light weight and compact bar code scanner for the office environment Information desks marketing surveys cus USER S GUIDE tomer identification order picking and many other examples of high accuracy data entry can benefit greatly from this bar code reading solution Although
117. icks The window below tells you exactly which symbols can and cannot be recog nized the highlighted symbols are not recognized by the IRISPen USER S GUIDE Output Subset OOSO eeSe OOOOe0a ma POIIISDSAAGOIIIAG w oHTEpOMHEMEDACNDAR rer i ra Deselect a z Deselect 0 9 Deselect All DDDOODE O DDODU DDD Character enabled Character disabled THE READING PEN EVEN SPEAKS When you are scanning figures and structured character strings precision and speed are of major importance Thanks to the IRISPen s integrated Read amp Speak speech technology you can go ahead and scan your text without looking up to the screen to verify the result Hands and eyes busy data entry become possible as the speech synthe sis provides you with clear natural sounding auditive feedback of all recognized text Encode addresses and your sound card will pronounce them enter figures into a spreadsheet or encoding utility enter invoices into your bookkeeping soft ware and the IRISPen software reads the figures aloud for verification Sec wv ondly the speech feature opens a world of multimedia applications to the IRISPen users Refer to chapter 3 to learn more about it all THE IRISPEN TAKES YOU AROUND THE WORLD Customizing the character set is actually also what you do when you select a language in the IRISPen application window The IRISPen is far from limited to English up to 55 lan
118. indicated each time The narrow to wide ratio does not apply to all types of bar codes Although some general information is given on the various bar code standards this manual does not intend to be a complete catalog of all there is to know about bar code symbologies Cope 39 Code 39 is an alphanumeric self checking variable length bar code A char acter 1s defined by five black bars and four spaces three elements are wide six are narrow There is a leading and trailing quiet zone a start and stop character the asterisk an optional check character and a gap between the data charac ters This symbology is sometimes called 3 of 9 code and when a check charac ter is used even HIBC for Health Industry Bar Code It is primarily used where alphabetic characters are mandatory as you can not only encode the dig Ww its but also the uppercase letters and seven special characters and a space An extended version of Code 39 allows to encode the full 128 ASCII charac ter set The full ASCII set refers to all characters up to character 128 in the ASCII table set the special and accentuated symbols from 128 onwards such as and 6 are not included The option Full ASCII Set must be enabled with the Bar Code button on the toolbar to support this symbology Bar height 0 3 narrow bar width 12 mils narrow to wide ratio 2 5 Bar height 0 4 narrow bar width 18 mils narrow to
119. ing results The user can enable the scan test mode by right clicking the IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar and selecting the command Scan Test by clicking the Scan Test button on the toolbar and by selecting the command Scan Test under the Options menu wo y STATUS WINDOW This window displays multiple system information useful to the user and pro vides direct access to the IRISPen application window The user can drag the status window to any appropriate position on the screen Alphanumerc Bar Codes English Dot Mati Application Left Handed Negative Besides the basic settings such as reading mode language and output tar get the status window will also tell you if bar code reading is enabled as second ary reading mode if the dot matrix mode is enabled if left handed scanning is used and if light text on a dark background is scanned For the IRISPen Translator the status window lists the translation direction When English text is translated into French English French is mentioned in the status window Alphanumeric English gt French 4pplication When the IRISPen is used to scan small graphics by selecting the reading mode Black and White Bitmap to Clipboard or Greyscale Bitmap to Clipboard in the IRISPen application window a blinking status window displays the mes sage Image in Clipboard to indicate that the graphic is in the Windows clip board ready to be pasted in the target
120. ion libraries can be installed The currently available versions are English French English German English Italian English Portuguese and English Spanish Contact I R I S to learn the availability of new language pairs The speech synthesis opens the door to a world of new applications To learn how to speak a language you can just scan a text and hear the PC pro nounce the words The speech feature is offered for the language pair the En glish French version of the IRISPen Translator for instance has the English and French speech libraries Speech modules for additional languages can further extend the user s system Ten languages are currently available English and British English Brazilian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Spanish The multiline scanning is mandatory for the IRISPen Translator As sen tences in most cases comprise several lines of text multiline scanning allows to buffer several lines before the output process text insertion pronunciation and translation is triggered Otherwise you would pronounce partial sentences and try to translate ungrammatical text lines as you scanned them with unavoidably weak results EQUIPPING YOUR IRISPEN wIitH OPTIONS Finally there are some options available for the IRISPen product range The speech synthesis of the IRISPen Executive is limited to a single lan guage of your choice the IRISPen Translator is equipped with the speech librar ies of
121. k space is re quired Contact your computer reseller if necessary Wruat You SEE Is WHAT You GET The IRISPen product package should contain the pen scanner the IRISPen CD ROM this manual a registration card and a collection of IRISPen test sheets Contact your I R I S reseller if any items are missing from your package INSTALLING THE IRISPEN SOFTWARE The IRISPen software is delivered exclusively on an autorunning CD ROM To install simply insert the CD ROM in your CD ROM drive and wait for the installation program to start running Follow the on screen instructions Should the installation not begin to run when the CD ROM is inserted in your CD ROM drive run the setup program MENU EXE to install the software Users of Windows 2000 must ensure that they have the necessary access rights contact the system administrator if necessary Some installation options are offered Be sure to install the Acrobat Reader software required to access the software documentation should this be neces sary The electronic manual is by default copied to your hard disk You can also leave it on the CD ROM Install the linguistic databases of all languages you intend to read By de fault all lexicons are installed USER S GUIDE Select Components Select the components you want to install clear the components you do not want to install Components Electronic Manual Tad k Adobe Acrobat Reader 3924 E Description Incl
122. l legible data bar codes are after all nothing but characters encoded as black and white bars For the hands and eyes busy activity of reading bar codes audi tive feedback is certainly an option Refer to Chapter 3 for more information WuicuH Bar Copes CAN THE IRISPEN READ Let s discuss the IRISPen s bar code reading capability in depth now that we are familiar with its operation Which bar code symbologies can the IRISPen software read What limitations does the IRISPen scanner have As far as color tones are concerned the IRISPen works best on well con trasted bar codes Black bars on a white background yield the best results We repeat that you can use the image adjustment features to adapt the scanning to your documents and that red and yellow are the IRISPen s invisible or drop out colors Secondly the printing quality is relevant only laserprinters and inkjet print ers provide sufficient quality Matrix printers should be excluded as they do not produce sufficient sharpness their resolution is mostly limited to 60 dpi and contrast even when the brightness is adjusted Here s an illustration this bar code gives you the following black and white image when scanned a a ee es i rye Aen a rr ie Furthermore you are recommended to scan on a flat stable surface Al though you will undoubtedly succeed in reading some bar codes on physical ob jects such as bottles bo
123. l numbers of up to 15 digits are pronounced as full numbers Longer digit strings are split into groups of two or three digits these digit groups are pronounced as full numbers Leading zeros are pronounced separately 123456789012345 1234567890123456 007 Periods may be used to separate groups of three digits in which case up to 15 digits can be pronounced as full numbers 1 234 123 456 789 012 345 Cardinal numbers are declined in the nominative accusative case Decimal numbers may contain up to 15 digits before the comma and up to 3 digits after the comma The digits after the comma are pronounced as a frac tion in tenths hundredths or thousandths as appropriate If the digit string after the comma contains more than three digits it is pronounced as a cardinal number 1 2 100 65 12345678 12345678 123 456 789 012 345 12345678 B 32 Decimal numbers are equally declined in the nominative accusative case Bank Account Numbers Digit strings consisting of 5 to 15 digits are pronounced in clusters of two or three cardinal numbers when they are preceded by one of the following en tries pacu mHbIn cy m Tekymnu cy T cOeperatesbHbIll cu T Co ca m p c T C c6 c These entries may be followed by a colon pacueTusiii cyeT 112 1223445 76 p c 2354545 T c 65008903 You can also use hyphens to separate digit groups 000 1254887 87 09 12548 1 Telephone Numbers Telephone numbers are recognized when the country c
124. ld select French as language to ensure that the accentuated characters such as and get recognized correctly For the IRISPen Translator the language setting is used to indicate the original or source language It takes two parameters to indicate the translation direc tion the option Language indicates the source language the option Translate to in the IRISPen application window indicates the target language The user translates for instance English into French The language selection does not apply when bar codes and handprinted sym bols are read and when scanned graphics are sent to the Windows clipboard The support of 55 languages does not imply that speech synthesis is available for all languages Up to 10 speech modules can be installed English and British English Brazilian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Span ish Translate into IRISPen Translator Indicates the target language of the text to be translated It takes two parameters to indicate the translation direction the option Lan guage in the IRISPen application window indicates the source language the option Translate to indicates the target language The user translates for in stance English into French The status window lists the translation direction when English is translated into French the status window mentions English gt French The IRISPen Translator provides bidirectional real time sentence transla
125. les IRISPEN TRANSLATOR Translator version Speech synthesis translation and language learning tool adds speech synthesis sentence translation in real time and multiline scanning a software only upgrade from the IRISPen Standard and IRISPen Executive is available clear natural sounding pronunciation of foreign lan guages high quality native speaker based technology from Lernout amp Hauspie requires a Windows compatible sound card two linguistic versions of the speech library are sup plied the languages depend on the language pair of the IRISPen Translator extension with other languages through add on mod ules Translation Linguistics multilingual support of 10 languages English and Brit ish English Brazilian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Spanish bidirectional sentence translation of language pair includes grammatical knowledge tense person gen der etc fully automatic real time translation without any key board input translation of all text sent to clipboard text entered on keyboard text files e mail messages Internet web pages etc first draft information only translation of business like non emotive sentences extensive use of linguistic intelligence at text recogni tion speech synthesis and translation stage text recognition enhanced by linguistic databases con taining 150 000 words word based contextual analysis complemented by syn tac
126. lipboard offer a direct way of inserting graphics in documents Us ing the Windows clipboard the user pastes the scanned image directly in his active application After the scanning a blinking status window displays the mes sage Image in clipboard for a few seconds As the image is sent directly to the Windows clipboard it cannot be retouched The user can also enable the scan test mode and save graphics in a Windows bitmap BMP file with the button Save Image In this case he produces a graphic file which can be retouched and should be inserted in his documents later on Selecting the reading mode Bar Codes or Handprinting suffices to scan bar codes and handprinted character strings Contrary to most bar code readers the user does not have to indicate which bar code symbology he is going to read The IRISPen software detects fully automatically which bar code type has been scanned As far as the user is concerned the symbology is transparent and various bar code types can be mixed without any consequence The handprinting technology supports all natural writing styles American and European Contrary to many handwriting recognition solutions no training phase or imposed style is required USER S GUIDE There is an alternative way of selecting the bar code and handprinting reading modes Unless bar code reading is already enabled as secondary reading mode with the option Bar Codes in the IRISPen application window
127. ls Table Window Help OD amp S S B o 100 aS ae CE 0 a a l This sample document shows how the IRISPen accurately recognizes a wide variety of fonts point sizes typestyles and formatting elements such as table cells This test sheet will help you experiment and get acquainted your OCR pen scanner Alphanumenc English Application 4 Fage 1 Sec 1 ii fat 2a ine coli REC TRK ExT OVR English Ox y Even a traditional OCR software package with a sheetfed or flatbed scanner is nO competition when it comes to scanning excerpts and abstracts To read a few lines of text you d have to scan an entire page with your sheetfed or flatbed scanner draw a frame around the text snippet to be recognized and wait until the OCR is executed then transfer the text result to your wordprocessot The IRISPen on the other hand offers real time recognition Slide your pen over your text and in less than a second it appears on your screen Use the IRISPen and you can type with a stroke of a wand The IRISPen gives you text recognition at your fingertips It is important to note that you do not have to wait for the text result to appear on your screen before you start scanning another line The IRISPen always inserts the recognized text at the cursor position The formatting as is active in your target application applies When you have se lected say Palatino 12 point bold in your wordprocessor the te
128. mmand under the Settings menu 20 Franken 100 Gulden Abbreviations A standard dictionary includes all common abbreviations Dictionary contained abbreviations bzw derg USW Fa Dr ca Chr KFZ u a MwSt Fr inkl Str mm cm Tel kg Nr min max Some abbreviations are case sensitive PF Postfach Pf Pfennig Hrsg Herausgeber hrsg Herausgegeben So Sonntag The abbreviations for months are recognized Jan Febr Dez Acronyms Acronyms are pronounced as normal words IRIS Initialisms Initialisms are pronounced letter by letter All words consisting of consonants only are considered to be initialisms So are abbreviations that contain one or more vowels separated by periods NDR ADAC LKW p A CD ZDF ITALIAN SYNTAX RULES Numbers Cardinal numbers of up to 13 digits are pronounced as full numbers longer digit strings are pronounced digit by digit Periods may be used to separate groups of three digits Leading zeros are pronounced separately 1234567890123 1 234 123 456 789 007 Decimal numbers may contain up to 13 digits before the comma and up to 13 digits after the comma Periods may be used to separate groups of three digits before the comma The digit string after the comma is pronounced as a full number 100 50 Cento virgola cinquanta 12 Una virgola due Cardinal number followed b a or esimo Or esima are ronounced as ordinal numbers 1 14 20esimo 100esima Roman numb
129. n of the greyscale images generated by the pen scanner and the reading results Scan Test T oraren ana VV vy p it Lp tte et ptr 0 dae ov close Clinton came to lo og 18 band hisy ayi the ntpeident Adama aa Fj on 1 4 a how close Clinton came to losing his job and his mariage and how iso Brightness Tag how 10 Despeckle off 0 f Automatic Manual W Smoothen Image lighter Jer darken Iv Fit to Window Load Image Il Recognize Save Image Cancel Scan tests are used to get acquainted with the operation of the IRISPen The I R I S test sheets can be used to this end Ii Furthermore the scan test window is equipped with advanced imaging fea tures to adjust the scanning to the color tones of the document Scanning in greyscale is in some instances necessary to obtain good OCR results When text is printed on a color background scanning in color may create the tone differences that are lacking in black and white images When there is only limited contrast between the text and the background the background can create noise that renders the recognition difficult or impossible Think for in stance of black text printed on a dark background when scanning such a docu ment in black and white the user would not be able to drop the background color without losing the text information as well Powerful intelligent routines automatically create a black
130. n be preceded and in case of and OM also followed by decimal numbers 1 4 THIC pyO Oya genas YeTbipe JecATbIX THICAY pyOuIer 2 05 MIIE J Be WesIbIX MATE COTHIX MUJIJIUOHOB HOJJIIAPOB USER S GUIDE Other currencies are written in full they follow the digit string 100 dpaHkos 20000 sup 60 PyHTOB CTepsIUHTOB Currency amounts are declined in the nominative accusative case Abbreviations A standard dictionary includes all common abbreviations Ambiguous abbre viations are solved based on the linguistic context the abbreviation rT is pro nounced ropog when followed by alphabetical characters roma when pre ceded by a date and rpamm a oB when preceded by a digit string Similarly CM is pronounced as caHtumetTp a oB when preceded by a string of digits but cmoTpu in other cases r Mocxsa I opoq MockBa Bec 15r Bec maTHaguaTb rpaMMOB Jimaa 41 CM Jinna cCopok OMH CAHTHMETp CM Inrasy 10 CMOTpH TABY ECAT Acronyms Acronyms are pronounced as normal words HATO BYy3 Initialisms Initialisms are pronounced letter by letter BM CHT B 36 USER S GUIDE Appendix C BAR CODE S YMBOLOGIES This appendix discusses the symbologies or bar code standards supported by the IRISPen Executive software and contains some samples of bar codes the IRISPen can read with great ease The bar height the width of the narrow bar the narrow to wide ratio and the character string the bar code contains are
131. n makes it easier to insert the scanned text at the right location When data is to be entered in say a database the lt Tab gt key can be assigned to the pen button to move the cursor to the next field The pen button incorporates some other features which will be discussed later The pen button and starting and ending code options allow you to execute any combination of characters and keyboard commands single characters and character strings and one or more keyboard commands are allowed Even com binations of characters and keyboard commands can be entered automatically without touching the keyboard Another option Restore Paragraph also concerns body text When this op tion is enabled hyphens at the end of a line are deleted and the ending code if one is defined is ignored Ie iv Restore paragraph Let s give an example to clear things up When you read two lines The new presi and dent waved from the balcony the resulting output is The new president waved from the balcony The end hyphen of presi was ignored and so was the normal suffix lt Space gt If the two following two lines are His lovely wife and had joined him the output will be His lovely wife had joined him with the space after the word wife added by the IRISPen software as the normal ending code In other words this option really does restore paragraphs by recomposing hyphenated words and adding suffixes only where
132. nal suffix are pronounced as ordinal numbers Ist 2d 2 and 3 First second second and third 22nd and 25th Twenty second and twenty fifth USER S GUIDE 4 567th Four thousand five hundred sixty seventh Roman numbers are also pronounced as ordinal numbers The symbols I V and X in isolation are not identified as ordinal numbers XX Twentieth Queen Mary I Queen Mary the first Digit strings composed of up to 3 digits a slash and up to 5 digits are pro nounced as fractions 1 3 to 1 2 One third to one half 3 2 Three halves 123 45678 One hundred and twenty three over forty five thousand six hundred seventy eight Telephone Numbers Telephone numbers are read digit by digit A space a period a slash or a hyphen is used to separate digit groups The first digit group can be surrounded by parentheses and will be preceded by the words area code 617 932 9209 Area code six one seven nine three two nine two 564 123 4567 Area code five six four one two three four five six 65 234 5678 Area code six five two three four five six seven eight 75 234 5678 Area code seven five two three four five six seven If the first digit group is 800 or 900 it is pronounced as one number 800 123 4567 Eight hundred one two three four five six seven International telephone formats are recognized too The first digit group is preceded by the words country code and pronounced as one number The rest of the telephone number is re
133. nd double click of the pen scanner button are programmed separately USER S GUIDE Pen Button Single Double Mull Enter 7 lt 5 pace lt Tab gt Cursor Up lt Cursor Dower Cursor Left Cursor Right Homer lt Cursor D owm Custom eoeeeeeeeevoe eee eee a Switch reading mode Some frequent options such as lt Tab gt lt Enter gt lt Space gt etc are presented by default but with the option Custom the user can program any keyboard command to be executed or character string to be inserted when the pen button is pressed The option Null is selected to disable the applicable pen button com mand When reading lines of text the pen button can be programmed to execute an lt Enter gt command Pressing the button ensures that a new paragraph is started The pen button can also be used to insert text which is not on the paper If a price list is read where the currency is missing once in a while the pen button can be used to insert where necessary Ii Furthermore the pen button makes it easier to insert the scanned text at the right location When data is entered in a database the lt Tab gt key can be assigned to the pen button to move the cursor to the next field One application is encoding addresses from business cards brochures cata logs etc collected during a trade show in a database Depending on the ad dresses some fields will be skipped For some addresses
134. ndow to another position on the screen Status Window USER S GUIDE Click the OK button to minimize the IRISPen application clicking the Mini mize button in the upper right corner amounts to the same thing The IRISPen application now runs in the background AND THE IRISPEN CONTROL ON THE TASKBAR The Windows taskbar confirms that the IRISPen application is running you ll find the IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar The IRISPen control indicates whether the pen scanner is available if it is detached from your USB port the Windows taskbar will indicate this ee i Eaa if E38 2a You can call up some frequent commands by right clicking the IRISPen con trol amongst others you can restore the IRISPen application enable the status window and the greyscale image viewer More about the greyscale image viewer shortly Open Greyscale Image Status window Scan Test Help Topics Exit PUTTING PEN TO PAPER Start WordPad or another text based application Keep your I R I S test sheet to hand Ufa Hold the IRISPen like a pencil When you press the pen scanner onto the paper you activate the start switch and the data you want to scan is illuminated through the view window by a red light The design of the IRISPen is such that the start switch only comes on when you hold this device at the correct angle Rule the IRISPen over a text line of the I R I S test sheet at a steady rate As soon a
135. ng a third group of digits Two formats are supported the digit groups are separated by or you get the format hour minutes seconds 12 15 20 Twelve hours fifteen minutes and twenty seconds 11 55 46 Eleven hours fifty five minutes and forty six seconds Currencies Currency indications with and are recognized The and symbol may precede and follow the numeral without a space 50 and 30 Fifty dollars and thirty dollars 5 and 7 Five pounds and seven pounds 1 and 2 One yen and two yen Have the currency precede the numeral to specify decimal amounts Decimal numbers up to 12 digits and 2 digits are the decimal point will be pronounced correctly 1 25 One dollar and twenty five cents 3 100 50 Three thousand one hundred pounds and fifty pence 2 15 Two yen and fifteen sen Other currencies must be written in full and follow the numeral Alternatively you can program the IRISPen to for instance replace F by francs with the Character Conversion command under the Settings menu USER S GUIDE 20 francs 100 liras Abbreviations A standard dictionary includes all common abbreviations Ambiguous abbre viations are solved based on the linguistic context Dr is pronounced as doctor when followed by a capital letter and as drive in all other cases St is pronounced as saint when followed by a capital letter and as street in other cases Dictionary contained abbreviations
136. ngs menu contains many advanced features alignment program ming of pen button clicks character and table frame conversion and customized character sets that fine tune the operation of the IRISPen to the user s applica tion Uf All text related commands alignment character and table frame conver sions customized character sets are disabled when the reading modes Bar Codes and Handprinting are active Hotkeys Allows the user to program shortcut keys for two common operations restor ing the IRISPen application quickly to the foreground and switching between the reading modes from within the target applications For the IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Translator a third function can be assigned to a hotkey the repeti tion of the utterance last spoken Key combinations such as Ctrl V used by the target application s should be avoided for obvious reasons Alt Chl Fey Restore Application E Reading Mode E E Repeat Speech E E E Cancel As the IRISPen application normally runs in the background the option Re store Application defines a shortcut key for restoring the IRISPen application window from within the active applications Alternatively the user can right click or double click the status window to restore the IRISPen application he can also right click the IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar and select the command Open The second hotkey is used to switch between the available
137. nitive accusative case 03 04 63 r 3 anpena 1963 roma Ox poguica 03 04 63 T Ox pogusicsa 3 ampesa 1963 roga Time Indications Time indications are recognized when one of the following formats 1s respected Hours minutes or seconds only 5 yac IlaTb 4acoB 1 uac Onnu yac 21 MHH JBamuaTb ogma MHHyTa 16 cek HlecrHaymaTb CEKyHA TA Hours and minutes 11 15 OuqMHHallatb WATHaaWam 11 15 OIHHHANMATE WATHADWAaTh 11 aac 15 Muu OJMHHaaTb 4acoB NMATHAMHATE MHHYT Hours minutes and seconds 15 30 45 laTHaqaTb TpHANATE COPOK MATh 11 yac 15 mun 41 cek OMHHAWaTb 4acoB NATHAMaTb MHHYT COPOK oHa ceKyHla Time indications are declined in the nominative accusative case Currencies Currency indications with and DM are recognized The currency symbols may precede and follow the numeral 40 40 Copok JouIIapoB 25 DM DM 25 J BayiaTb MATE HEMeIIKUX MapoK The currency abbreviations py6 kon and esp should follow the digit string 402 pyo 51 Kon yeTbIpecta Ba pyOJIA MATbICCAT 25 eBp JMBanuaTb MATE eBpO The currency signs and abbreviations mentioned above may be used in com bination with the following abbreviations for numerals TIC MIH Mpa and TpH These abbreviations should follow the digit string 41 THIC Copok oHa ThICA4a JOIWIApOB 4 mH DM yeTbIpe MMJWIMOHA HEMEUKHX MapoK A43TbIC EBD CopoK TpH ThICAUN EBPO 15 MIH py6o laTHayquaTb MMJUIMOHOB pyOulen The currency signs and abbreviations ca
138. nth of April 02 May The second of May Oct 22 October twenty second USER S GUIDE The abbreviations for the decennia are recognized 60s 70s 80s 90s Time Indications Time indications are recognized when one of the following formats 1s respected Hours only 9AM 12 pm Hours and minutes 9 00 Nine o clock 11 15 Eleven fifteen from 5 20 am to 8 30 pm From five twenty am to eight thirty pm Hours minutes and seconds Durations are indicated by adding a third group of digits Two formats are supported the digit groups are separated by or you get the format hour minutes seconds 12 15 20 Twelve hours fifteen minutes and twenty seconds 11 55 46 Ten hours fifty five minutes and forty six seconds Currencies Currency indications with USD dol DM and Schil are recognized The and symbol may precede and follow the numeral without a space 50 and 30 Fifty dollars and thirty dollars 5 and 7 Five pounds and seven pounds 1 and 2 One yen and two yen Have the currency precede the numeral to specify decimal amounts Decimal numbers up to 12 digits and 2 digits are the decimal point will be pronounced correctly 1 25 One dollar and twenty five cents 3 100 50 Three thousand one hundred pounds and fifty pence 2 15 Two yen and fifteen sen The currency abbreviations DM USD dol and Schil must follow the nu meral with a space added 10 USD Ten US dollars 100 dol
139. numbers are pronounced in groups of two or three digits a pause is inserted where a period hyphen or space occurs 041 317 11 33 041 317 11 33 03 35 23 02 16 03 35 23 02 16 Bank Account Numbers Bank account numbers are recognized when hyphens are inserted between the digit groups A short pause is inserted at the place of a hyphen LG Stuttgart 303 504 52 BLZ 900 564 34 Dates Dates are recognized in the following format day precedes month precedes year The day and the month are composed of one or two digits the year of two or four digits The digit groups are separated by a period or a slash 19 12 99 Neunzehnter zwolfter neunundneunzig 9 9 2000 Neunter neunter zweitausend 01 02 97 Erster zweiter siebenundneunzig am 10 07 99 Am zebten neunundneunzig Time Indications Time indications are recognized when one ofthe following formats is respected 9 15 09 15 Uhr 4 00 Uhr 22 15 Uhr Currencies DM currency indications are recognized when one of the following formats is respected DM 40 Vierzig D Mark 50 DM F nfzig D Mark DM 10 Zehn D Mark The Austrian Swiss and American currencies are also supported 20 Sfr Zwanzig schweizerische Franken 13 S Dreizehn sterreichische Schillinge USER S GUIDE 5 F nf Dollar Other currencies must be written in full words and follow the numeral Alter natively you can program the IRISPen to for example replace F by Franken with the Character Conversion co
140. ny text anyway When the reading mode Black and White Bitmap to Clip board or Greyscale Bitmap to Clipboard is selected in the IRISPen application window the option Recognize is replaced by the option Bitmap to Clipboard Enabling the scan test mode and saving the image in a Windows bitmap 1s just one way of saving small graphics The IRISPen software offers a much directer way of inserting such graphics in your documents You don t have to save the image in a file which you insert in your document later on using the Windows clipboard you can paste it directly in your application On the down side you cannot retouch the contents of the clipboard Select the reading mode Black and White Bitmap to Clipboard or Greyscale Bitmap to Clipboard in the IRISPen application window for direct image scan ning Note that you can no longer select an output target now Place the text cursor in your Windows application and scan the graphic A blinking status win dow will display the message Image in Clipboard for a few seconds to indicate that the image has been copied to the clipboard Image in clipboard Execute a paste operation to insert the image in your document You can now resize the graphic move or align it etc Is there a simpler way of inserting logos signatures handwritten annotations etc in faxes and letters USER S GUIDE ia Document Microsoft Word Eile Edit View Insert Format Tools Table Window Help
141. ode is preceded by a plus sign and when brackets are used to separate the area code from the actual telephone number Use hyphens to separate groups of digits The digit strings in telephone numbers are read as cardinal numbers Strings of more than three digits are split into groups of two or three digits Leading zeros are pronounced separately 095 232 92 09 345 66 07 7 0822 46 17 98 7 0822 461 798 Digit strings of five digits or more digits optionally containing hyphens are recognized when they are preceded by Ten axc or rexe on These entries may be followed by a colon Tex 345 66 77 Texepon 46 1798 Paxc 461798 USER S GUIDE Dates Dates are recognized in the following format day precedes month precedes year The day and the month are composed of one or two digits the year of two or four digits The digit groups are separated by a slash or a period These dates must be followed by the word roza or its abbreviation r 19 12 97 roma JlepaTHagtaToe ekaOps JIEBAHOCTO CEMBMOTO roga 27 04 1998 r JMBanuarTe cegb igoe anpena ThICaYa J CBATBCOT J eBAHOCTO BOCb WOoro rona 5 12 2001 r Ilaroe sHBaps Be THICAYM NepBOoro rona Dates can also use the alphabetic format they are followed by the word roma or its abbreviation r 12 despansa 1998 roma 12 despana 1998r 5 aHBapsa 2001 r When used in isolation dates are declined in the nominative case In sentence context dates are pronounced in the ge
142. ode without ever changing the read ing mode USER S GUIDE Reading Mode Alphanumeric Language English Translate to None gt a W Bar Codes Dot Matrix Encoding forms and labels can also benefit greatly from numeric handprinting recognition This proprietary recognition technology is based on more than 1 million writing samples All natural writing styles American and European are supported contrary to most other handprinting recognition solutions no training phase or imposed style is required Scan Test Slo 2 33Ulo F a Ff 0 1033310 55 Furthermore the IRISPen Executive supports dot matrix recognition Dot matrix symbols are made up of isolated separate dots and highly specialized recognition routines are required to recognize them Scan Test thousand years after a man had MOW great it would be to be nice froveendyears after aman had Multiline scanning increases the user friendliness of the IRISPen sev eral lines are buffered before they get inserted in the target application You can send full paragraphs consisting of several lines to your Windows applications at once The multiline reading mode also leads to a more natural prosody when the text to speech module has to pronounce individual lines rather than full sen tences the intonation may be somewhat less than human Finally the IRISPen Executive is equipped with advanced imaging features to adj
143. oducing the IRIS Fen ie Using the IAISPen It s a matter of modules Basically its a modular approach by installing the software only upgrades you add whatever extra feature you don t have yet Ls Peace information te Upgrading the software 3 Taking the upgrade path Product registration fe Product support You can Upgrade fram the IRISPen Standard to the IRISPen Executive and Translator from the IR ISPen Translator to the IRISPen Executive and from an IRISPen Executive to an IRISPen Translator Migrating to an IRISPen Executive From an IRISPen Standard the Executive software adds four reading capabilities speech synthesis fin one language bar code reading handprinting recognition and the recognition of dot matrix documents Also offers multiline reading and image adjustment From an IRISPen Translator the Executive software adds three capabilities bar code reading handprinting recognition and recognition of dot matrix documents Also offers image adjustment USER S GUIDE The software only upgrade to the IRISPen Executive offers numerous ma jor add on capabilities speech synthesis bar code reading handprinting recogni tion recognition of dot matrix documents advanced image adjustment features and multiline scanning As a result the IRISPen becomes unquestionably the most versatile scanner available The IRISPen Executive offers speech synthesis of all read data The
144. on as you start the software up again Secondly you can save configuration files for specific applications The com mand Save Settings from the File menu saves the current IRISPen settings for future use Save As on IRISPen amp ef EE History ay My Network Pl save as type JIRISPen Configuration 1PC Cancel a For clarity give meaningful names to your IRISPen configurations for in stance GERMAN TABLE etc The command Open Settings under the File menu loads IRISPen configu rations into memory Open Settings Save Settings Settings files contain all operational parameters the reading mode language and output target the programming of the pen button clicks and hotkeys table frame and character conversions the output subset alignment options and start ing and ending codes the presence and position of the greyscale image window and whether bar code reading functions as secondary reading mode whether the dot matrix reading mode the left handed scanning the image inversion and the speech feature or the system sound are enabled USER S GUIDE Also note that the last four settings are directly available on the File menu simply click a configuration to load it File Open Settings Save Settings Exit 1 CAIRISPEN GERMAN IPC 2 CIRISPENSTABLE IPC RESTORING THE APPLICATION TO THE FOREGROUND As we re talking ease of use now we ll go on wi
145. on of characters and keyboard com mands which you add at the end after the recognized text To scan in a few lines of text yov ll normally select lt Space gt as suffix Doing so ensures that you add a space after each line automatically If you read two lines The second line and follows the first the resulting output is The second line follows the first The space after the word line has been added by the IRISPen software N WW N Starting code s lt None gt Ending code s Space Cursor Up Cursor Downe Cursor Left Cursor Right Home Cursor D owr Custom A second option allows you to indicate the start of a new paragraph The programmable pen button takes care of this Select the Pen Button button on the toolbar or the command Pen Button from the Settings menu Me oe Indicate which keyboard command you want to execute or which characters you want to insert when you press the pen button once To start a new paragraph for example you will program the pen button to execute the lt Enter gt key When you press the button you execute a carriage return thus starting a new line USER S GUIDE Pen Button Fa Single Double Null t Enter gt lt Space lt Tab gt Cursor Up oe ie lt Cursor Dower Cursor Left Cursor Right Homer lt Cursor Downy Custom E E a a a eoeeeee Switch reading mode Also note that the pen butto
146. on the toolbar OPTIONS MENU The Options menu enables the scan test mode and contains some optional system settings With the IRISPen Translator this menu also contains the speech repetition command and enables the clipboard translation mode Scan Test Refer to the Scan Test button on the toolbar Speech IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Translator Refer to the Speech button on the toolbar Repeat Speech IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Translator Repeats the pronunciation of the last line or flush when the multiline scan ning mode is enabled with the option Multilines of the IRISPen application win dow The pronunciation of the last uttereance can also be repeated by either right clicking the Speech button or by creating a speech repetition keyboard shortcut with the command Hotkeys under the Settings menu Sound Refer to the Sound button on the toolbar Uf Left Handed Scannin This option adjusts the scanning direction for left handed users By default the pen scanner is operated from left to right but with this option enabled the pen scanner is ruled over the text from right to left This only works when the pen scanner is held rotated by 180 so that the pen button faces to wards the user while the document itself retains its normal orientation The soft ware recomposes a correct image by rotating it by 180 Alternatively when the page and the pen scanner are rotated by 18
147. op tions Bar Codes and Handprinting are limited to the IRISPen Executive Reading Mode Alphanumeric 7 Language Black and white Bitmap to Clipboard Translate to Greyscale Bitmap to Clipboard Handprinting Numeric Select Alphanumeric for the time being Language Indicates the language of the text you want to recognize The IRISPen sup ports no less than 55 languages Language English Select English for now USER S GUIDE Translate to IRISPen Translator Indicates the target language of the translation you scan for instance English text and translate it into French Sentence translation is obviously limited to the IRISPen Translator Translate to E Bar Codes IRISPen Executive Enables a mixed reading mode where bar codes are read alongside other data The parameter Reading Mode sets the primary reading mode this option determines whether you read bar codes at the same time Iw Bar Codes Simultaneous bar code reading is limited to the IRISPen Executive Leave this option disabled for the time being Dot Matrix IRISPen Executive This option determines whether you are recognizing normal or dot matrix printed documents Dot matrix recognition is limited to the IRISPen Executive Jw Dot Matrix Leave this option disabled for the time being Output Target The recognized text can be inserted directly in the active application or trans ferred to the clipbo
148. ou ll find under the menu Register of the IRISPen software can guide you through the registration process comfort ably IRIS Fen I Executive registration wizard Welcome to the IAlSPen I Executive registration wizard It allows you to register your IAlSPen Executive software license Registering allows us to keep you informed of future product developments and related 1 71 5 products Registering entitles you to free product support and special otters GETTING PRODUCT SUPPORT The command Product Support under the Help menu of the IRISPen soft ware details how you can get technical support Please describe the phenomenon you experience clearly and include all relevant data concerning your IRISPen and your computer system E IRISPen aixi Hide Back Forward Home Print Options Contents Index Search How to Get Product a Welcome to the IRIS Pen help ee Introducing the IAlSPen Support fe Using the IRIS Fen E Free technical support is offered to all registered customers Registering also entitles you to special offers k Europe 2 Product support Hotline 32 10 45 13 64 working hours Brea a fall major languages cts Fas 32 10 45 34 43 Usa Hotline 1 561 395 7831 800 447 4744 working hours Fas 1 602 507 3418 A AS www Irishink com support html troubleshooting infot Click here to access the troubleshooting info E mail support irislink com G
149. ously that the word president is being read and that it doesn t make any sense to recognize the symbol f This self learning technique is of course highly dependant on the linguistic context Linguistics also offer useful help to solve ambiguous cases such as an O which might be mistaken for a 0 Another typical example is the letter 1 and the number 1 which have an identical form in many fonts think of texts produced on old typewriters The linguistic context helps to determine whether you are dealing with I or T USER S GUIDE The illustration below shows various shapes of 1 and 1 The shapes on the first line are unambiguous the shapes on the second line are ambiguous but linguistics can solve them 193 1950S ih Well Rossellini THE IRISPEN CHANGES LANGUAGES AS NEEDED But the buck doesn t stop here the IRISPen can switch languages in the middle of a sentence without any help from the user When Western words pop up in Greek and Cyrillic documents many untranscrible proper names brand names etc are written using the familiar Western symbols the IRISPen can switch to the correct alphabet automatically In other words you can activate a mixed alphabet of Greek or Cyrillic and Western characters Be sure to select Greek English or the appropriate Cyrillic language setting for instance Byelorussian English In other words don t try to just select Greek or Byelorussian as document lang
150. ow characters can get confused because loops which should remain open were closed Taking the examples below are we deal ing with a4 or a 9 a 4 or a 6 and a 3 or a 5 G y o S How TO WRITE ONES The number 1 can be written in the American and European style Ones can be underlined or not This horizontal underlining bar does not have to touch the rest of the font shape USER S GUIDE There is no risk of mistaking one for a seven 2 1 T7 t 7 F AVOID BROKEN CHARACTERS Ensure that the symbols and 4 symbol aren t broken when contiguous spac ing 1s selected For the symbol 1 there is a real risk of recognizing two symbols 1 for 4 you might recognize 61 This phenomenon only occurs when contiguous spacing is selected not with spaced segmentation TLE For the symbol 5 on the other hand it doesn t matter whether the horizontal bar is separated from the rest of the font form 5535 6 F Ufa AVOID RETRACING Avoid retracing as this reduces the image quality and clarity of the handprinted symbols Symbols which are entirely stricken out are rejected Scan Test VOT LEC ol ooon In our example the recognition system makes some lucky guesses about char acters which were retraced to correct them and can only assume that the thin stricken out characters are ones The ink spot on the extreme right is simply rejected
151. parentheses they may also be separated using a hyphen or a space A hyphen or a space can also separate the last four digits of the telephone number Don t change the type of separator within a telephone number tel 6941 2786 fone 550 2812 011 6942 5781 015 32 950 2742 0015 1 212 555 7781 Dates Dates are recognized in a number of formats The day precedes the month The day and the month are composed of one or two digits the year of two or four digits When the year is indicated by two digits it may be preceded by a quote The digit groups are separated by a slash or a hyphen 08 02 99 16 05 2000 USER S GUIDE Dates can also be specified in written alphabetic formats 8 jul 98 30 abril 2000 Time Indications Time indications are recognized when one of the following formats 1s respected Hours only One or two digits are used for the hour which is followed by h or hs with out a space 06h 12hs Hours and minutes One or two digits are used for the hour followed by h without a space two digits are used for the minutes followed by min without a space 6h32min 23hl0min One or two digits are used for the hour followed by a colon or period two digits are used for the minutes followed by h hs min am or pm 2 30 min 10 30am 12 00hs One or two digits are used for the hour followed by a colon two digits are used for the minutes 23 55 8 30 Hours minutes and seconds Duration
152. physical mark detect a border between two columns Where the original document does not contain vertical bars the easiest proce dure is to quickly add them with a pen and a ruler In some cases the Character Conversion command offers the answer as it allows replacement of scanned characters by a cursor command For example to insert the line 2 55 5 99 65 in a worksheet it suffices to replace the symbol by lt Tab gt to place the individual figures in separate cells USER S GUIDE Related Command Table frame conversion can also be enabled by loading IRISPen settings with the command Open Settings under the File menu Character Conversion Allows the replacement and erasure of recognized characters The IRISPen not only recognizes data but also replaces them the user can recognize a character and replace it by any combination of characters and key board commands He can even delete a character replace it by nothing Character Conversion is Ecce Cancel Unconvert All PO a E CS SO E e E CEO CED CD Cp y Ta Cp Op E Gap OD OD T T ET a A ANA A D D Ce Le eC Ce pC pa CAD Ca Cap Cap Cap Cp Ce Ca Ci ai ai GD a Character converted Character not converted Characters to which conversion apply are highlighted When the user clicks on them the applicable conversion is displayed and he can define modify or cancel the character conversion The option No Conversion is selected to dis able
153. r Le a T Scan Test 4 p AE Brightness Despeckle off Automatic Manual i Smoother Image lighter fate darken I Fit to Window Load Image E eZ I Recognize Save Image DROP OUT MEANS BACKGROUND Red and yellow are the IRISPen s invisible or drop out colors This implies that all data in those colors cannot be recognized On the other hand these colors can be used efficiently as background color in the blank forms to indicate the various zones to be filled out etc USER S GUIDE The drop out colors can also be used to ensure spaced printing by having the individual numbers placed in predefined blocks DON T STYLIZE TOO MUCH Don t add too many loops where none are necessary Excessively stylized forms may be more difficult to recognize 272 2ZAALAQA The number 2 provides a good example we evolve from a situation where the form is hardly recognizable to a form where loops are added and make the sym bol extremely stylized 34383323 3 3 5 6 f These other digits are also highly stylized extra loops are added which could lead to rejection or substitution if exaggerated Ie LOOPS OPENED AND CLOSED As extreme stylization can reduce the recognition rate a simple writing rule could be this don t open loops which should be closed don t close loops which should be open SER STRIRS 4 EEE YF 90860 0 6 6 8 amp 5 q b 6 32 7 The samples above show h
154. r text editor ACQUIRING SLEIGHT OF HAND During the first scans you may not be satisfied with your results This is undoubtedly because you do not scan comfortably For some users the IRISPen takes a little getting used to The greyscale image window and the scan test mode allow you to see the image you generate by scanning Use these viewers to judge the quality of the images you produce and improve your scanning skills Let s start with the greyscale image window This small window displays the raw greyscale images as they are generated by the pen scanner Let s not forget that the IRISPen is the first greyscale pen scanner This window is enabled by default you can activate it by right clicking the IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar and selecting the command Greyscale Image and you can select the command Greyscale Image under the Options menu of the IRISPen software Click the close button to close it Greyscale Image Status Window Scan Test Help Topics Exit As is the case for the status window you shouldn t hesitate to drag the status window to another position on the screen The position of the status window and greyscale image window are maintained when you save the default settings To access the scan test window right click the IRISPen control on the Win dows taskbar and select the command Scan Test Or select the Scan Test button on the IRISPen toolbar or even the command
155. rds consisting of consonants only are considered to be initialisms PDG HLM TVA TGV SNCF OK RF NRF PS NB CE BCBG TTC QC FF FB INAMI PC USER S GUIDE GERMAN SYNTAX RULES Numbers Cardinal numbers of up to 15 digits are pronounced as full numbers longer digit strings are pronounced digit by digit Leading zeros are pronounced sepa rately 123 456 789 012 345 Hundertdretundzwanzig Trillionen 007 Nul nul sieben Periods may be used to separate groups of three digits 1 234 123 456 789 Decimal numbers may contain up to 15 digits before the comma and up to 15 digits after the comma Periods may be used to separate groups of three digits before the comma The digit string after the comma is pronounced digit by digit 100 65 Ein hundert Komma sechs f nf 1 2 Einz Punkt zwei Cardinal numbers smaller than 32 followed by a period are pronounced as ordinal numbers This does not apply when they are not in the beginning or end of a sentence am 15 Dezember 1999 Roman numbers numbers smaller than 10 that cannot be interpreted as single letters are supported Roman numbers may be used separately and be combined with proper names Abteilung IV Hundertwasser II Telephone Numbers Telephone numbers are recognized when parentheses slashes or hyphens are used to separate the country code and or area code from the actual telephone number Use spaces and periods to separate groups of digits The telephone
156. reading modes When data of varying nature printed or typed text printed and handprinted numerals are mixed on the page a hotkey can be programmed to switch reading USER S GUIDE modes from within the active application To combine a reading mode with bar code reading a mixed reading mode can be enabled with the option Bar Codes in the IRISPen application window When the user has selected Alphanumeric as his reading mode and he clicks the pen button the IRISPen switches to the mode Bar Codes When he clicks a few times more he switches to Black and White Bitmap to Clipboard Greyscale Bitmap to Clipboard Handprinting Numeric and back to Alpha numeric Possible applications are documents where different data types are mixed on the page For the IRISPen Executive and the IRISPen Translator a hotkey is available for the speech repetition Pressing the programmed hotkey from within the active application replays the pronunciation of the last sentence or paragraph Related Commands Hotkey programming can also be enabled by loading IRISPen settings with the command Open Settings under the File menu The user can program the pen button to switch from one reading mode to another with the Pen Button button on the toolbar The parameter Reading Mode in the IRISPen application window deter mines what kind of data is read the option Bar Codes determine whether read bar codes are read at the same time T
157. reted as the flush command When this option is disabled the text output is transmitted automatically to the target application the user does not have to press the pen button to start the output process Related Command The basic settings can also be enabled by loading IRISPen settings with the command Open Settings under the File menu IRISPEN CONTROL ON WINDOWS TASKBAR The IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar confirms that the IRISPen ap plication is running It indicates whether the IRISPen is available if the pen scanner is detached from your PC s USB port a different icon is displayed USER S GUIDE ees teres i ee al ESA eee The user can right click the IRISPen control to call up several frequent com mands he can enable the greyscale image window the status window and the scan test restore and close the IRISPen application and get access to the on line help Open This command restores the IRISPen application which normally runs in the background The user can now modify the various system settings Related Command The user can define a shortcut key to restore the IRISPen application with the command Hotkeys under the Settings menu Greyscale Image Enables the greyscale image window Refer to the section Greyscale Image Window for an extensive discussion of the gresycale image viewer Related Commands The user can also enable the greyscale image window with the command
158. s When the clipboard translation is enabled with the option Translate Clipboard under the Options menu the translation window displays the Translate Clip board button as soon as text is copied to the clipboard Graphics that are copied to the clipboard are simply ignored This button is clicked to generate a translation for the contents of the clipboard The IRISPen Translator has sufficient linguistic intelligence to translate ab breviations normalized character strings such as Ist and phrases consisting of several words such as state of mind tat d esprit take away wegnehmen etc However the user should be aware that computer aided translation gives an imperfect first draft an information only translation Should a translation be published it will need to be refined by a human translator The IRISPen Transla tor should be used to translate business like non emotive language as computers do not cope well with connotation metaphor and irony Literature poetry and some advertizing literature do not translate well and often lead to humorous ef fects TOOLBAR The toolbar provides immediate access to all frequently used commands USER S GUIDE Two buttons Bar Codes and Handprinting are limited to the IRISPen Executive the Speech button is common to the IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Translator Scan Test Enables the scan test mode where the user displays a black and white versio
159. s and not text it suffices to select the reading mode Bar Codes in the RISPen application window Evidently no language selection or other text oriented settings apply to bar codes Reading Mode Bar Codes Cele ee ee Language Rar Codes Black and white Bitmap to Clipboard b Translate to Greyscale Bitmap to Clipboard Handprinting Numeric Wat Matis The selection of the reading mode is confirmed by the IRISPen status win dow Bar Codes Application That s all it takes you are now ready to scan bar codes Contrary to most bar code readers you do not have to indicate which bar code symbology you are going to read The IRISPen Executive software detects fully automatically 1f you are reading Code 39 Codabar or Interleaved 2 of 5 etc type bar codes As far as the user is concerned the symbology is transparent various bar code types can be mixed without any consequence FINE TUNING THE OPERATION Nevertheless the IRISPen Executive software allows you to fine tune the operation of the bar code reading The user has full control over the used sym bologies should he desire it Click on the Bar Codes button on the toolbar to define the bar code settings eo x Clicking on this button enables the reading mode Bar Codes at the same time unless the mixed reading mode is enabled If you want to activate this reading mode and adjust the bar code settings simultaneously a click on this but
160. s are indicated by adding a third group of digits Use two digits for the seconds and use a colon to separate the digit groups 21 00 32 9 23 43 Currencies A wide range of currencies is recognized R Cr NCr Cz US G Ur Euro Eur and The currencty symbol must precede the numeral with out a space US 40 R 30 25 Cr 3 000 00 Currency indicators can be followed by one to six digits with one or two digits after the comma and the number indicator milh o bilh o trilh o mi by or tri R 23 milh es US 10 5 bi Other currencies must be written in full and follow the numeral Alternatively you can program the IRISPen to for instance replace F by francos with the Character Conversion command under the Settings menu 20 francos 100 liras Abbreviations A standard dictionary includes all common abbreviations Ambiguous abbre viations are solved based on the linguistic context km is pronounced as quil metro when it is preceded by the number 1 but pronounced as quil metros when preceded by another number Similarly cap is pronounced Salt capitulo when followed by a number but capitao in all other contexts Dictionary contained abbreviations ST dr obs eX etc je km cap Context rules 21km Vinte e um quil metros 1 km Um quil metro cap 4 Cap tulo quatro cap Souza Arantes Capit o Souza Arantes Acronyms Acronyms are pronounced as normal words
161. s of 22 point bigger characters are simply cut when you scan them The IRISPen reads point sizes of 8 to 22 point 0 11 to 0 31 or 0 28 to 0 78 cm Scan Test in Ts eo ill Hekel EE f point Times New Roman 22 point Helvetica SETTING THE BRIGHTNESS Furthermore scan tests are useful to set the brightness correctly As we al ready mentioned the scan test window displays a black and white version of the scanned image while the greyscale image window displays the actual scan We also know that the IRISPen is the first greyscale pen scanner In the Executive version the scan test window is equipped with advanced imaging features to adjust the scanning to the color tones of your document You are recommended to keep the greyscale image visible when you re modifying these parameters USER S GUIDE In some instances scanning in greyscale is mandatory to obtain good OCR results When text was printed on a color background scanning in greyscale may create the tone differences that are lacking in black and white images When there is only limited contrast between the text and the background the back ground can create noise in black and white images that renders the recognition difficult or impossible Think for instance of black text printed on a dark background when scanning such a document in black and white you would not be able to drop the back ground color without losing the text information as well
162. s you lift the IRISPen the recognized editable text appears in your text editor or text application Left handed users can adapt the scanning direction for optimal comfort By default the pen scanner is operated from left to right but when you enable the option Left Handed Scanning under the Options menu you can slide the IRISPen in a right to left direction w Left handed Scanning This only works when you hold the pen scanner rotated by 180 so that the pen button faces towards you while the document itself retains its normal orien tation The software compensates the scanning direction by rotating the image by 180 Alternatively when you rotate the page and the pen scanner by 180 you can disable the option Left Handed Scanning and still scan right to left Try to maintain a straight line and constant speed during your scan The more regularly you scan the better the recognition result will be USER S GUIDE You can scan some 3 15 8 cm per second When you scan too fast image information gets lost and the status window blinks for a few seconds inviting you to scan slower Maximal scanning speed exceeded please scan slower The IRISPen reads the text line directly under or closest to the line guide Lift the IRISPen to stop scanning As soon as you do the recognition software analyzes the image and the scanned text appears instantly in the output target You now have editable characters in you
163. scanning a software only upgrade from the IRISPen Standard and IRISPen Translator is available clear natural sounding auditive feedback of recognized data hands and eyes busy data collection and multimedia applications high quality technology from Lernout amp Hauspie requires Windows compatible sound card a single version of the speech library is supplied the language depends on the user s choice extension with other languages through add on mod ules multilingual support of 10 languages English and Brit ish English Brazilian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Spanish fast and extremely accurate data collection support of all common bar code symbologies Code 39 Code 93 Interleaved 2 of 5 Codabar UPC EAN 8 and EAN 13 support of Code 128 symbology is optional user control and automatic detection of bar code sym bology skew and distortion tolerant proprietary PBR Pen Bar Code Reading technology USER S GUIDE Numeric handprinting recognition accurate flexible recognition of numerals and the sym bols comma dot and hyphen in all natural American and European writing styles financial applications and form and label reading immediate recognition without training phase or imposed writing style style independent recognition technology based on pro prietary neural network derived from over 1 million writ ing samples in American and European writing sty
164. settings and quit the software The last four settings are also available in the File menu Open Settings Loads IRISPen configurations Look in SU IRISPen amp ce FE gr m p T My Network PI Files of type JIRISPen Configuration 1PC Cancel Settings files contain all operational parameters the reading mode the docu ment language the target language for the translation IRISPen Translator whether dot matrix reading mode IRISPen Executive and the mixed reading mode with secondary bar code reading is enabled IRISPen Executive the out put target whether the multiline reading mode is enabled IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Translator the programming of pen button clicks and hotkeys Uf table frame and character conversions the output subset alignment options in cluding starting and ending codes the bar code and handprinting settings IRISPen Executve whether the speech synthesis IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Trans lator or system sound is enabled whether the clipboard translation IRISPen Translator the left handed scanning and the image inversion are enabled Related Commands The last four settings are available in the File menu clicking the files suf fices to load them To load the default settings the user selects the file DEFAULT IPC When this file is missing the factory settings apply Settings are saved with the command Save Settings under the File
165. sor at the cursor position Encode last minute data from the stock exchange into your notebook before you have that brainstorm with your director And why not enter your appoint ments in your office software automatically Rule the IRISPen over your visitor s business card to put him in your personal organizer Or fix that meeting right away in your electronic agenda Encoding checks invoices bank statements etc becomes a cinch the IRISPen copies your numeric data directly into your database spreadsheet and bookkeep ing software Recognition can be limited to numeric characters and customized character sets The IRISPen offers many other advanced features for professional applica tions character conversion automatic execution of keyboard commands detec tion of table cells etc The IRISPen is undoubtedly the most advanced data entry solution available lt Since the IRISPen connects to the computer s USB port without the need for an external power supply you have a portable OCR system an ideal solution even for notebook owners Finally the IRISPen allows you to scan small graphics logos signatures hand written notes etc are inserted directly in your documents by sliding the pen scan ner over them ON TO THE IRISPEN EXECUTIVE The IRISPen Executive software converts your IRISPen into a multifunc tional productivity tool This software only upgrade extends the capabilities of the pen sized OCR scanner dramat
166. ssssssseseees 11 Related Command chases jescananacaacetaneanaaaccaaanaceasadapsanaaaccoannnnecancdecanaesccanannecesaadegoannnseoannnnesassagesonnnneconaaaccaa 12 IRISPen Control on Windows Taskbatt cccccceccecceecceccecceecenceseceecesceseeeecesceseeees 12 Foot a perenne acne E E eT TE rT IE EC AMEE Ee a eee eae eR ee 13 TCS eM Go rreesaetrseeraronenrst oaeereteuseae ty astas ean ae ne ae eae ee meee ee ee 13 Status Window cccccccccccccccccesssssssssscceeeccecceeeessssesneeeeeececeeeeesssssseeeeeeececeeeeesesssaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesesenaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 13 Scan Test ccccccccsssssssscccccccceccesssssssnnecceececccceeessessssneeeeescceceeeessssssnaeeeeeseceeeesesssseeaaeeeesececeeeesssessnaeeeeeseeeeeeeeses 14 Help TOpics ssseesseneesssseossssesssseessssessssressssessssresssresssressssressseeessoressseresssresssoresssteesssresssetessstesssoresssreesseresssnt 14 IC E sa ve ctrco ensuite teeiio vectra eon iaacdaseaaqaaqecuactuscauaddeveaaqqemseuswesssuaddyseuqeqsscsacweccuaavenseaqaeseeswoussucdvessusssesoassomadsantes 14 Greyscale mase W WOW a5 conte dienes econ tedeuand ict Sewn ra ia a e a 15 AN TIVO WW shard aticl Hon tite cesses E Meret none Sibeaeanataes bene sibaaubesueaeaenabenmeasuaenate 16 Translation Window IRISPen Translator ccc ccc cecccecceeceecceceeceeecenceseeescesceseeees 17 NOOB A a tase Fores taal canescens ate tu em A A A snumaan ts 18 Scan Test Be ttrt ttet tettes Sssttt EEEE EEES PSSS EEEEEEEE ER
167. synthesis provides clear natural sound ing pronunciation of the scanned source text To learn how to speak a language the user can just scan a text and hear the PC pronounce the words To pro nounce utterances from the other language the user inverts the source and target languages in the IRISPen application window The user s PC must be equipped with a Windows compatible sound card if speech synthesis is to work Speech synthesis should not be enabled unless the user intends to use it the recognition slows down as the user waits for the recognized data to be read aloud The user is warned when he tries to read a language for which no speech module is available Enabling the speech feature disables the option Sound on the toolbar auto matically mixing spoken text and system sounds makes no sense For optimal speech results the user is recommended to enable the multiline scanning mode with the option Multilines in the IRISPen application window Multiline scanning ensures a natural prosody when the text to speech module has to pronounce individual lines chopped up text bits rather than full sen tences the intonation may be somewhat less than human Uf The user can repeat the pronunciation of the last scan or flush when the multiline mode is enabled by right clicking the Speech button and by selecting the command Repeat Speech under the Options menu The user can also create a hotkey for t
168. t 2l Welcome to the IRAlSFen help a Introducing the IAlSPen Support Using the IRIS Fen Free technical support is offered to all registered customers Registering also entitles you to special offers Europe hi Product support Hotline 32 10 45 13 64 working hours DEEN a all major languages t support Fax 32 10 45 34 43 USA Hotline 1 561 395 7831 800 477 4744 working hours Fax 1 602 50 3418 AA AS www irislink comisupport html troubleshooting infot Click here to access the troubleshooting info E mail supportkm irislink com Contact ILR LS Gives the coordinates of the I R I S offices USER S GUIDE E IRISPen Eo _ 5 x Hide Back Forward Home Print Options Contents Index Search Contacting I R I S a Welcome to the IRIS Fen help Introducing the IHISFen Using the IAIS Pen How to 7 Reference mtormation Upgrading the software Product registration Product support Register your IRIS Fen 2 IF SPen registration Form Head Office Belgium Phone 32 10 45 13 64 Fax 32 10 45 34 43 I R 1 S on the Internet Web site http www irislink com E mail sales salesa irislink com E mail support support irislink com USA Office East Coast Phone 1 561 395 7831 800 447 4744 i poaae a o Fax 1 561 34 6267 USA Office West Coast Phone 1 480 854 3111 800 7USAIRIS Fax 1 480 8654 7979 FE LALS onthe rat France Office Phone 33 1 60 13 86 8
169. t gt Cancel The submenu I R LS Applications IRISPen under the Programs menu is created automatically by the installation program FLAS Appications gt fen lal G E 17 1 5 on the Internet fo Readiris eE ng Uninstall the lAlS Pen The installation program also creates a shortcut for the IRISPen application on the Windows desktop As a result you are able to start the IRISPen software directly from your desktop e oe Cardiris Outlook 2000 h m H rare Readiris Pro Windows Explorer gt Windows Media Player IRIS Fen 43 INSTALLING THE IRISPEN HARDWARE The IRISPen uses a USB connection Standard PCs are equipped with two USB ports this capability can be extended by installing a USB hub on your PC Note above all that USB support requires the operating system Windows ME 2000 or Windows 98 Secondly you are recommended to install the software before the hardware as soon as you connect a USB device to your PC the operating system starts looking for appropriate drivers which are installed automatically by the instal lation program USER S GUIDE The hardware installation of the pen scanner couldn t be easier you can hot plug the pen scanner into the PC s USB port without having to reconfigure or reboot your PC The use of the USB port also implies that no external power supply is required for the pen scanner the PC supplies the necessary power v
170. t Office 2000 Premium Microgott PhotoDraw 2000 FReadins Add Remove OF Cancel Apply LJ Select IRISPen and click the Add Remove button to remove the IRISPen software LJ Follow the on screen instructions REGISTER TO VOTE Don t forget to register your IRISPen licence Doing so will allow us to keep you informed of future product developments and related I R I S products The i registration benefits including free product support and special offers are strictly limited to registered users You can register in many ways by sending in your registration card or faxing its electronic counterpart by calling I R I S during working hours and by filling out a registration form on the I R I S web site E IRISPen 5 e gt Hide Back Forward Home Contents Indes Search k Welcome to the IAlSFen help Ee Introducing the IAlSPen ie Using the IAlSPen Se Product support Options Register Your IRISPen Why you should register 1 Registering allows us to keep you informed of future product developments and related J F 1 5 products Registering entitles you to free product support and special offers Hos to 7 Registration wizard Click fal to start the registration wizard Mail Send in your registration card WN Click here to access the IRISPen registration form on the 1 F 1 5 web site Fax USER S GUIDE The IRISPen registration wizard as y
171. t scan Imagine you want to add addresses to your contact manager You scan the company name the IRISPen puts the company in the corresponding field and relocates the cursor in the name field You can go on with the person s name his title the address telephone and fax number etc without having to reposition the cursor each time using the keyboard or mouse Here again a standard OCR package falls short of this task as it does not allow you to insert data directly in a database field You have to generate a structured text file which you import into your database later on The IRISPen effortlessly incorporates a flexibility which no other system can offer ADD THE CURRENCY OR Drop IT Let s discuss some other suggestions concerning prefixes and suffixes you can use them to add text A typical application is encoding price lists where you add the currency for instance or USD to the figures you recognize Or you encode telephone numbers and the system adds Tel in front All this means that the IRISPen does more than just recognize text it also completes and formats it for you The character conversion feature is additional proof of this By character conversion we mean that recognized characters are simultaneously replaced by any combination of characters and keyboard commands single characters and character string one or more keyboard command s or even combinations of characters and keyboard commands are accept
172. ted Commands The user can also quit the IRISPen application by right clicking the IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar and selecting the command Exit and by click ing the close button of the IRISPen application window USER S GUIDE Last Settings The four settings last used are displayed under the Exit command Clicking on the files suffices to load the settings Open Settings Save Settings Exit 1 CAIRISPEN GERMAN IPC 2 CMRISPENSTABLE IPC Settings files contain all operational parameters the reading mode the docu ment language the target language for the translation IRISPen Translator whether dot matrix reading mode IRISPen Executive and the mixed reading mode with secondary bar code reading is enabled IRISPen Executive the out put target whether the multiline reading mode is enabled IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Translator the programming of pen button clicks and hotkeys table frame and character conversions the output subset alignment options in cluding starting and ending codes the bar code and handprinting settings IRISPen Executve whether the speech synthesis IRISPen Executive and IRISPen Trans lator or system sound is enabled whether the clipboard translation IRISPen Translator the left handed scanning and the image inversion are enabled Related Command The command Open Settings under the File menu allows to load settings files into memory SETTINGS MENU The Setti
173. ters are replaced by sounds words are cut up in syllables and the necessary accents are identified In short the ortography is replaced by an accurate phonetic transcription This is by no means an easy task as the English language perfectly illustrates Some letters such as x c and q do not correspond to sounds In the French language the o sound can be spelled in ten different ways au aux eau bu reau eaux bureaux os dos aut haut ault Renault o z ro ot abricot and t plut t The playwright G B Shaw once jokingly proposed to write the word fish as ghoti gh is pronounced as f in enough the o is pronounced as i in women and ti is pronounced as sh in nation As individual sounds so called phonemes and not words are the basic seg ments of a phrase the introduction of new words and technical terms unknown to the system poses no threat Shakespearean monologue and brand new words are pronounced with equal ease To solve ambiguous cases such as the noun record and the verb record in phrases such as Let s record a beautiful record or the verb live liv and the adjective live laiv in The host of the live show lives in New York a complete linguistic analysis of the recognized text on sentence and word level is performed The technical term for such words is homographs they are writ ten identically but pronounced differently D This syntactic and le
174. th some additional features We already know that the IRISPen software is equipped with a toolbar for quick access to all frequently used commands Let s briefly repeat what the buttons stand for Alignment Scan Test Bar Codes Speech Handprinting Output Subset Sound Pen Button Limited to the IRISPen Executive Limited to the IRISPen Executive and the IRISPen Translator What else is there What is say a quick way of accessing the IRISPen appli cation window for instance to modify the language output subset etc First of all you can restore the IRISPen application by right clicking the IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar and selecting the command Open w Greyscale Image w Status Window Scan Test Help Topics Exit To switch directly to the IRISPen application you can right click or double click the status window The status window does more than provide information it also gives you direct access to the IRISPen application Finally you can define a hotkey with the command Hotkeys under the Set tings menu Enter a key combination to restore the application Evidently you should not use key combinations such as Ctrl V which are used by your target application s Alt Chl Fey Restore Application E Reading Mode E E E Repeat Speech E _ E Cancel So restoring the IRISPen application which normally runs in the back ground is a cinch Another interesting
175. that it makes no difference whether you scan them from left to right or right to left Never read more than a single bar code per scan Some product labels are composed of two bar codes where the first bar codes identifies the product and the supplemental bar code specifies the retail price When a single image con tains two bar codes the widest bar code gets read and the secondary is ignored as the example below illustrates HA A iy JN Al 9 ut 42 rs902 Scan Test Goop READING OF BAD IMAGES You will soon experience that as much as you might want to it 1s very diffi cult to scan with a perfectly steady hand So the obvious question arises whether this undermines the accuracy of the bar code reading It doesn t Evidently bar code reading with the IRISPen has its limits these are discussed below and one cannot expect the same flexibility from the IRISPen that is typical of bar code laser scanners The IRISPen is a bar code reader for the office environment not for industrial applications Nevertheless it is important to stress how tolerant the IRISPen is with images of bad quality As bands of about 0 4 1 cm are scanned the IRISPen is more flexible than other bar code reading pens Even when your scanning generates skewed wavy and distorted images the proprietary PBR technology is able to correctly read the bar codes You do not have to position the pen scanner with great precision to read bar
176. the IRISPen Executive also offers handprinting recognition Financial applications form reading encoding labels etc can benefit greatly not only from bar code reading but also from recognition of handprinted numerals This proprietary recognition technology from I R I S is based on more than 1 million writing samples As a result all natural writing styles American and European are supported Contrary to many handwriting recognition solutions no training phase or imposed style is required User control over spacing and rejection levels is added for flexibility PREPARING FOR HANDPRINTING RECOGNITION To read handprinted numerals and not printed or typed text it suffices to select the reading mode Handprinting in the IRISPen application window Reading Mode Alphanumeric T Language Translate to Dot Matris Ii The selection of the reading mode is confirmed by the status window Handprinting Application That s all it takes you are now ready to scan handprinted numerals HANDPRINTING OR HANDWRITING Up to now we used the word handprinting to describe the recognition of handwritten symbols by the IRISPen What do we mean exactly by handprinting Handwriting is used to describe continuous or cursive handwritten text The symbols within a word or character string are linked it is impossible to say where one symbol ends and another starts With handprinting on the other hand the symbols
177. the applicable conversion the button Unconvert All disables all active con versions Ii A realistic example is scanning a price list mentioning the currency into a spreadsheet As the currency is of no interest the symbol is erased to filter the currency from the output Related Commands End hyphens in body text can be erased automatically when the option Re store Paragraph is enabled Refer to the Alignment button on the toolbar Character conversions can also be enabled by loading IRISPen settings with the command Open Settings under the File menu Unknown Symbol Determines by which symbol a rejected unrecognized character is repre sented The default symbol is a tilde the symbol Unknown Symbol EJ Please specify the symbol for unknown characters Cancel E Words unknown to the translation system are repeated literally in the transla tion window of the IRISPen Translator Related Command Rejected symbols at the beginning and end of a scan are ignored automatically when the option Ignore Rejected Characters in First and Last Position is en abled Refer to the Alignment button on the toolbar Bar Codes IRISPen Executive Refer to the Bar Codes button on the toolbar USER S GUIDE Handprinting IRISPen Executive Refer to the Handprinting button on the toolbar Output Subset Refer to the Output Subset button on the toolbar Refer to the Output Sub set button
178. the la All chars after the first space a fos jumps over the All chars between the first and last space i Ignore rejected characters in first and last position Startna simbaloutput E Endina symbol output E M Restore paragraph Starting code s Mones Ending code s lt Space gt The cropping options can be used in several situations First of all to isolate keywords from their context If only specific words should be entered in a data base the user can start scanning somewhere in the word in front of and end scanning in the word after the word to be captured The word cropping sees to it that only the intended required words are passed on USER S GUIDE Another example when reading text set in columns with a small gutter it is not always easy to isolate a column The word cropping allows to scan part of the neighboring columns without generating unwanted output A minor option Ignore Rejected Characters in First and Last Position con cerns unrecognized characters unknown symbols at the beginning and end can be ignored These are usually the result of partial scanning the user has placed his IRISPen in the middle of these characters and the system is therefore unable to recognize them correctly The options Starting Code and Ending Code will add text or a cursor com mand to the recognized text A starting code is any combination of characters and keyboard commands added in front of the recognize
179. the speech feature unless you really intend to use it the recognition slows down as you wait for the recognized data to be read aloud Enable the multiline reading mode to ensure a natural prosody Multiline reading is disabled by default When the text to speech module has to pronounce individual lines chopped up text bits rather than full sentences the intonation may be somewhat less than human M Multilines Unless additional language modules were installed the speech library of the IRISPen Executive is limited to the language selected by the user at installation time The IRISPen Translator is equipped with the speech libraries of the two languages in the language pair For instance the English French version of the IRISPen Translator has both the English and French speech libraries You are warned when you try to read a different language USER S GUIDE IRIS Fen Il Executive Ea AN Icelandic not available for speech output Users can extend the speech capability by adding additional speech modules Ten languages are currently available English and British English Brazilian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Spanish REPEATING THE SPEECH You can repeat the last utterance at any moment right click the button Speech in the IRISPen toolbar or use the command Repeat Speech under the Op tions menu You can also define a repetition hotkey with the command Hotkeys under th
180. they are needed It is interesting to note that the IRISPen does more than recognize text key board commands you want to execute on your computer system during the scans are taken care of by the IRISPen software There is no need to lose any time recurring to the keyboard while you are scanning ISOLATING TEXT EFFICIENTLY An additional problem when reading text may be that you scan clippings from columnized articles in magazines How do you isolate the target text com fortably The Alignment command again offers the answer Scanned Area The quick b Ox UMOS ER zy dog m Output own fox jumps over the la All chars own fox jumps over the All chars before the last space 2 fox jumps over the la All chars after the first space 2 fox jumps over the All chars between the first and last space USER S GUIDE There are four word cropping options you can output all scanned charac ters drop the first word or incomplete word drop the last word or drop both By default all characters are retained The last option is particularly useful when scanning closely columnized text to ensure that you do not miss any significant words you start scanning in the previous column and end scanning in the next column The IRISPen takes care of deleting the unwanted word parts In this way you capture the correct infor mation without having to scan with great precision SCANNING MULTIPLE LINES
181. tical rules speech synthesis uses native speaker based speech technology from Lernout amp Hauspie context sensitive solving of ambiguous forms homo graphs incorporates knowledge of abbreviations and normal ized text strings telephone number bank account and social security numbers dates time indications and currencies translation bidirectional sentence translation Translation speed Language pairs USER S GUIDE incorporates knowledge of phrases abbreviations and normalized text strings up to 50 words per second English French English German English Italian En glish Portuguese and English Spanish contact I R I S to learn the availability of new language pairs IRISPEN FOR BANKING WORLD Reading of financial documents high accuracy reading of specialized banking fonts OCR A OCR B E13B and CMC 7 support of bar code symbology Code 128 contact I R I S to get more information IRISPEN OPTIONS Speech synthesis IRISPen Executive a single version of the speech li brary is supplied the language depends on the user s choice IRISPen Translator the speech libraries of the language pair are supplied extension with other languages through add on mod ules Bar code reading multilingual support of 10 languages English and Brit ish English Brazilian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Spanish to install additional speech modules 10 MB of free hard disk
182. tion of all scanned text The translation is displayed in a pop up translation window The user can quickly click the Copy button of the translation window to make it disappear The user clicks the Copy button of the translation window to transfer the translated text to other windows using the clipboard He can paste the translation in the same window as the one where the scanned text is placed to study the foreign sentences and their meaning comfortably later on He can also insert the USER S GUIDE translation in a different window to save the original text and the translation in separate files Whereas this option enables the translation of scanned text the option Trans late Clipboard under the Options menu allows the user to translate text copied to the clipboard text entered on the keyboard wordprocessor files mail mes sages received in a foreign language Internet pages displayed with a web browser etc He can even send the scanned text directly to the clipboard by selecting the clipboard as output target with the parameter Output Target in the IRISPen application window The recognized text will not be inserted in the active applica tion The translation feature is limited to the languages of the language pair The IRISPen Translator English French for instance translates English into French and vice versa Extra translation libraries can be installed The currently available versions are English French
183. ton suffices By default all bar code symbologies are enabled and the IRISPen will autodetect the symbology but you can limit the recognition to specific bar code types Simply click on the corresponding options to enable and disable a specific symbology Bar Codes Ea MW EAN 13 W Verify and Erase Check Digit W EAN 8 iW Verify and Erase Check Digit W UPC If Verify and Erase Check Digit W Codabar M Interleaved 2 of 5 IM Code 39 Full ASCH Set IY Code 93 Gade 128 MSI Pharma Cancel Default USER S GUIDE For the symbologies EAN 13 EAN 8 and UPC A you can choose to verify the check character s with the option Verify and Erase Check Digit When this option is enabled the check digit is verified but filtered from the output When this option is disabled the check character is not verified but included in the output Disable this option to support the variation of the UPC A symbology which does not contain a check digit Another option concerns the Code 39 symbology An extended version of Code 39 a symbology which in its standard version has a limited character set allows to encode all ASCII characters The option Full ASCII Set allows to interpret that symbology By full ASCII set we mean all characters up to character 128 in the ASCII table In simple words the special and accentuated symbols from 128 onwards such as and 6 are not included The Default button restores the defa
184. trary to most bar code readers the IRISPen software detects fully automati cally which bar code type is used Various bar codes can be mixed without any consequence Uf Refer to chapter 4 for scanning tips and design rules for forms and labels refer to appendix B for a detailed discussion of the supported bar code symbolo gies The user can limit the recognition to specific bar code types by clicking the corresponding options The Default button restores the default bar code set tings Additional options are available for the symbologies EAN 13 EAN 8 UPC A and Code 39 For the symbologies EAN 13 EAN 8 and UPC A the user can verify the check character with the option Verify and Erase Check Digit When this op tion is enabled the check digit is verified but filtered from the output When this option is disabled the check character is not verified but read and included in the output This option should be disabled to read Code 39 bar codes which do not contain a check digit The option Full ASCII Set concerns the Code 39 symbology An extended version of Code 39 a symbology which in its standard version has a limited char acter set allows the encoding of all ASCII characters The full ASCII set refers to all characters up to character 128 in the ASCII table set the special and accentuated symbols from 128 onwards such as and 6 are not included Enabling this option allows the interpretation of that symbolo
185. try code and or area code from the actual telephone number Spaces and periods are allowed to separate groups of digits The telephone numbers are pronounced in groups of two digits a pause is inserted where a period hyphen or space occurs 04 42 20 84 53 03 88 41 73 00 01 42 21 84 53 O1 42 21 8453 83 50 33 33 83 54 21 73 45 03 37 60 45 03 37 60 45 03 37 60 When telephone numbers are preceded by an abbreviation the number may no longer be separated by spaces periods or hyphens T l 45033760 t l 03 22712999 The following formats are supported for Belgian telephone numbers the telephone numbers are pronounced in groups of two or three digits T l 03 820 02 22 T l 03 8200222 T l 057 82 00 22 T l 02 460 33 97 Bank Account Numbers Bank account numbers are recognized when hyphens are inserted between the groups of digits The account numbers are pronounced in groups of two or three digits 000 1254887 87 123 4528098 34 USER S GUIDE Dates Dates are recognized in the following format day precedes month precedes year The day and the month are composed of one or two digits the year of two or four digits The digit groups are separated by a period a slash or a hyphen 1 1 2001 Premier janvier deux mille un 25 12 2000 Vingt cing d cembre deux mille 13 12 99 Treize d cembre quatre vingt dix neuf 25 12 00 Vingt cing d cembre deux milles Dates can also be specified in written alphabetic
186. try code thirty area code six one double nine 33 183 447 593 Country code thirty three area code one eight three USER S GUIDE Bank Account Numbers Bank account numbers are pronounced digit by digit when hyphens separate the digit groups 000 1234564 87 049 65 5432 Dates Dates are recognized in the European format the day precedes the month The day and the month are composed of one or two digits the year of two or four digits The digit groups are separated by a slash or a hyphen 13 12 99 The thirteenth of December ninety nine 25 12 00 The twenty fifth of December two thousand Dates can also be specified in written alphabetic formats Fri 13 Feb 2000 Friday the thirteenth of February two thousand Mon Oct 27 1998 Monday October twenty seventh nineteen ninety eight December 27 2000 Twenty seventh two thousand 27th Jan 2001 Twenty seventh of January two thousand one 10th May 99 The tenth of May ninety nine July 4 2000 Fourth July two thousand 7 April The seventh of April 02 May The second of May Oct 22 October twenty second The abbreviations for the decennia are recognized 60s 70s 90s Time Indications Time indications are recognized when one of the following formats 1s respected Hours only 9AM 12 pm Hours and minutes 10 30 Ten thirty 11 15 Eleven fifteen from 5 20 am to 8 30 pm From five twenty am to eight thirty pm Hours minutes and seconds Durations are indicated by addi
187. ts the year of two or four digits The digit groups are separated by a slash or a hyphen 12 12 93 12 12 99 01 1 00 3 3 95 3 3 95 8 12 1999 12 12 2000 01 01 2001 01 01 1995 Time Indications Time indications are recognized when one ofthe following formats is respected The hour indicator contains one or two digits the minute indicator contains two digits The hours can be followed by the abbreviations h H h and H the system then automatically inserts the word horas and minutos where it is useful 14 30 14 30h 14 30 H 14 30 h 14 30 H Currencies Currency indications with and are recognized The currency symbols follow the numeral with a space added 1 Un d lar 100 Cien d lares 1 Un libra 100 Cien libras 1 Un yen 100 Cien yenes Other currencies must be written in full and follow the numeral Alternatively you can program the IRISPen to for instance replace F by francos with the Character Conversion command under the Settings menu Abbreviations A standard dictionary includes all common abbreviations Dictionary contained abbreviations etc D dcha Dr ptas Tel B 31 USER S GUIDE ms S Tel mm cm gr kg AV c P D PVP Sr Sra ej ed NIF Acronyms Acronyms are pronounced as normal words EPTA NATO UNICEF BOE IVA RENFE ONCE TALGO INEM Initialisms Initialisms are pronounced letter by letter IPC PC CD OK RUSSIAN SYNTAX RULES Numbers Cardina
188. tt hentstade ana Gach usin Wek neces A neuebe twat ona udetaines 1 Drop out means background snessesseesseessersseesssessseessersserssersserssersssesssersserssersseess 2 Don t stylize too MUCH nssnssnnssonsssesssessserssersserssersssrssersssressersserssersseessseoseesssersserssersseens 3 Loops opened and closed as fh saosin nin a ae e E E a 4 EO O NOE nen Nn R E E E E E AE ene eee ee OR 4 Avoid Droken characteris 1 50554 dcacannen cael be se cnamaesasnnccueamnanueeesaagacadmbaneesdcaader oasaeesesednatescness 5 ANOTE ACTING aE EE E ETE 6 XII CREDITS AND COPYRIGHTS The IRISPen the IRISPen Executive and the IRISPen Translator software were designed and developed by I R I S OCR and Linguistic technology by LR LS I R I S detains the copyrights to the IRISPen software the IRISPen Executive software the IRISPen Translator software Read amp Speak the PBR Pen Bar Code Reading technology the PCR I Pen Character Recogni tion technology the PHR Pen Handprinting Recognition technology the linguistic technology the on line help system and this manual The LR LS logo the IRISPen PBR PCR I PHR I R I S Linguistic Tech nology and Read amp Speak are trademarks of IR LS The L amp H logo and L amp H Quality Speech are trademarks of Lernout amp Hauspie Excel Outlook Windows and Word are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corp USER S GUIDE
189. tured with the pen scanner contains black and white bars not char acters and the software analyzes these bars not characters shapes to extract a sequence of symbols Bar codes are composed of parallel bars and spaces between them Pre defined combinations of bars and spaces represent specific characters The struc ture of a bar code is actually very similar to that of a Morse coded message where Morse code represents characters with dots and dashes bar codes repre sent symbols with successive dark and white bars There are several bar code standards such as Codabar Interleaved 2 of 5 Code 39 etc Appendix C of this manual discusses these symbologies in greater detail and contains some samples of bar codes the IRISPen can read with great ease Summing up the IRISPen software analyzes the succession of dark and white bars to detect the characters the bar code contains The PBR technology from I R LS PBR is short for Pen Bar Code Reading analyzes low quality im ages which are the result of manual unstable scanning skewed wavy and dis torted scans are dealt with beautifully The sequence of extracted characters 1s as when you read text information inserted at the cursor position of the active Windows application Use the IRISPen s bar code reading and you can enter bar code data into all Windows applications without any integration effort USER S GUIDE PREPARING FOR BAR CODE READING To read bar code
190. tware only upgrade to the IRISPen Translator offers the following major add on capabilities speech synthesis in two languages bidirectional sen tence translation of a language pair and multiline scanning The IRISPen Translator was designed for language learning and translation aid the user encodes and translates foreign language texts by scanning them and he hears the words spoken The IRISPen Translator provides bidirectional real time sentence transla tion of all scanned text The translation is displayed in a pop up translation window The IRISPen Translator software also offers clipboard translation the user translates texts without scanning any text to be translated is simply copied to the clipboard Think of texts entered on the keyboard wordprocessor files e mail messages Internet web pages etc The IRISPen Translator English French translates English into French and vice versa Extra translation libraries can be installed The currently available versions are English French English German English Italian English Portuguese USER S GUIDE and English Spanish Contact I R I S to learn the availability of new language pairs The speech synthesis opens the door to a world of new applications To learn how to speak a language the user can just scan a text and hear the PC pro nounce the words The speech feature is offered for the language pair the En glish French version of the IRISPen Translator for instance
191. uage Support before your Windows system is able to cope with these languages Select the icon Add Remove Programs under the Control Panel to find out if this Windows module is installed on your PC Add Remove Programs Properties Install Uninstall Windows Setup Startup Disk To add of remove a component click the check box 4 shaded box means that only part of the component will be installed To see what s included in a component click Details Components i Microsoft Exchange O g Microsoft Fax 0 0 MB E Multilanguage Support 10 4 MB Oo Multimedia 1 1 ME O BS The Microsoft Network DOME Space required 1 2 MB Space available on disk 24 3 MB Description Includes optiona to change keyboard sound display and mouse behavior for people with mobility hearing and visual impairments 1 of components selected Details Have Disk USER S GUIDE To read exotic languages you also need to enable the correct keyboard layout under Windows By doing so an appropriate font is activated Document WordPad File Edit View Insert Format Help aa aR a ia Tahoma T Tempus Sans ITC Times New Roman Arabic Times New Roman Baltic Times New Roman Central European Times New Roman Cyrillic Times New Roman Greek Times New Roman Hebrew Times New Roman Turkish Times New Roman Western Times New Roman MT Extra Bold French Belgian Greek we fe SR 1058 AM
192. uage and hope that the Western sym bols will come out fine Here s an example where a Greek text contains an English word Scan Test To yypape SiaptCerar and toy Scanner ou 4 F To yypapo diapageta ano to scanner t cic ol Ny N g The result looks like this when opened with the wordprocessor don t forget to enable the exotic keyboard layout to read and display such texts Document WordPad File Edt View Insert Format Help ounan oa oo Times Hew Roman Greek 20 B 7 U 3 eee ee eee ye ee ek a ga eee eR ae a A To yypapo ia eto and tovfscannerjoas Alphanumeric Greek English Application For Help press F1 To mix other languages simply select the language with the most extended character set If you have a document where the say French translation is placed alongside an English text you have to select French as language to ensure that the accentuated characters such as and get recognized correctly UNITY IS STRENGTH So much for the major features and options which enhance and customize the operation of the IRISPen One element should still be stressed here the fact that these commands are by no means separate elements On the contrary for opti mal use of the IRISPen you will typically combine several features Let s give two examples To scan an English columnized text into a wordprocessor you could do the following
193. udes the linguistic databases Install the lexicon of all languages you intend to recognize Space Required 3F 399 Space Ayailable 2300445 E Back Hest gt Cancel For the IRISPen Translator you also have to select a language pair for the bidirectional translation For instance the IRISPen Translator English French translates English into French and French into English IRISPen Translator own ers are entitled to one language pair Extra language pairs can be purchased separately from I R LS Select Sub components Select the components you want to install clear the components you do not want to install Sub components T7875 Ki English German 17365 E English Italian 12571 K English Portuguese 11636 K English Spanish 10957 K Description ls required to perform translation from English to French and From French to English Space Required 118064 E Space Available 2354384 K IRISPen Executive owners are entitled to one speech library of their choice hence they will be invited to select the language of the speech synthesis The IRISPen Translator is equipped with the speech libraries of both languages in the translation pair Extra speech modules can be purchased separately from I R LS USER S GUIDE Select Components Select the language of the speech synthesis module you wart to install British English English Aussian Spanish Back Hes
194. ult settings It should be noted that the bar code settings are included in the IRISPen settings The command Save Settings under the File menu and terminating the software with the option Save Settings on Exit under the Options menu enabled include the selected values in the IRISPen settings READING BAR CODES ALONGSIDE OTHER DATA You can read bar codes and other data at the same time You do not have to switch from one reading mode to another to encode documents which contain bar codes and another type of information The parameter Reading Mode in the IRISPen application window deter mines the primary reading mode the option Bar Codes in the IRISPen applica tion window determines whether you read bar codes at the same time Enable this option to use the mixed reading mode Reading Mode Alphanumeric ki Language English Translate to None gt W Bar Codes Dot Matrix The IRISPen will auto detect the type of data that is being read You can for instance scan address labels where the printed data is complemented by a bar code without ever changing the reading mode SCANNING TIPS Let s try and read some bar codes now Use the I R I S bar code test sheet to this end Select the correct IRISPen settings click the OK or Minimize button to make the IRISPen application run in the background and start up any text based Windows application Try to maintain a straight line and constant speed d
195. un for Number Crunicne ts 5050 eaccesednaswenedsernesadaaseandeareesadearseaadeenteiedeaneea decode 46 The Reading Pen Even Speaks ccccccccceccccsesecceeccesccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeesensesseseeseneeeaes 49 The IRISPen Takes You around the World ccccccccseseccseeeceeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeseeeeseneeenes 50 The IRISPen Changes Languages As Needed ccccceccccesccceeseeceeeeeeeeeeeaeseeneneeeaes 55 Dony 1S SS OIA eea e E Ge deeu leaden Gea tionaa ea TE 56 The Law of Inertia ccc cccccceccccneeeceeneeceeeeeeeneeeseeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeseeeeeseeesseseseneeeaes 57 Restoring the Application to the Foreground c cccceccccseecceeeecceeeeeneeeeeaeeeeeeneeeaes 59 More about the Pen Button ccceccccsecccceecccseeeeceeeceseeeeeeeeeeseneeeeeeeeseneeeaeseeseeeeaes 6l Gems Onine Heless a 64 Acquiring Upgrades cccccceccccsececeeeecceeeeeeeneeeseeeeseeeeeseeeeseeeeeeeseeseeeeeseneesaeeeeseneeeges 65 More about the IRISPen Executive ccccceeccenssscccacccsesecccesecceseceneseccussseneseeeees 67 ie and the IRISPen Translator ac acisiesonnsawasiwecenirden e Susie beeloianlsSiaceuubeelestaSatachsnkacwduanlenacesuias 70 Equipping Your IRISPen with Options ccccececcseeccsesecceneeeeeeeeceeeeeenceeaeseeeeneeeaes I2 Chapter 3 Read amp Speak Preparing for Speech Synthesis ccccecccsesccceeecceeeccaeseeeeeeecaeeeeeseceseneeeseeeeseneeeaenes 2 Repeaun the SPCC CU heel dec
196. uring your scan The line guide on the view scanning window should be placed in the middle of the bar code The more regularly you scan the better your chances are of recognizing the bar code The greyscale image window shows the greyscale scan the scan test window shows the binarized image and executes the bar code reading Use these image windows to judge the quality of the images you produce and improve your scan ning skills by trying different angles and speeds of scanning USER S GUIDE Scan Test TM i he IRIS Pen Executive t coll Brightness Despeckle off f Automatic C Manual W Smoothen Image 0 lighten 12 darken I Fit to Window Load Image I Recognize Save Image Cancel Always check that you start scanning clearly ahead of the bar code and end well after it most bar code types require a quiet zone in front of and behind the actual bar code Partial scans will not render partial results All bar code generating software packages provide an option where a large quiet zone is added to the actual bar codes Enable this option or use the IRISPen s drop out colors red and yellow as environment as background color for the bar codes these colors won t be picked up by the pen scanner anyway This also implies that all information printed in red and yellow is not legible It is interesting to note that some symbologies UPC A and EAN 13 are de signed in such a way
197. ust the scanning to the color tones of the documents to be scanned As you can optimize the images generated by the pen scanner for the OCR process a much larger range of documents becomes legible Think for example of docu ments where the colored background would otherwise render the recognition impossible AND THE IRISPEN TRANSLATOR The software only upgrade to the IRISPen Translator offers the following major add on capabilities speech synthesis in two languages bidirectional sen tence translation of a language pair and multiline scanning The IRISPen Translator is a great tool for language learning and translation aid you encode and translate foreign language texts by scanning them and you hear the words spoken USER S GUIDE The IRISPen Translator provides bidirectional real time sentence transla tion of all scanned text the text is inserted in your active application the transla tion pops up on your computer screen in a speech bubble The pen that reads now speaks and translates E Document WordPad Ww The IRISPen Translator software also offers clipboard translation You translate texts without scanning the text to be translated is simply copied to the clipboard think of texts entered on the keyboard wordprocessor files you open e mail messages you receive Internet web pages you consult etc The IRISPen Translator English French translates English into French and vice versa Extra translat
198. utton clicks are interpreted according to their programming if any An immediate double click preceding the flush is also interpreted as the flush command Imagine that the single button click is programmed to execute lt Tab gt and the double button is programmed to click to insert After each scanned line the status window blinks with the message Press pen button to flush As soon as the text is flushed with the first pen button click an additional pen button click executes the lt Tab gt key to move the cursor to the next field The double button click inserts in the application Related Commands Pen button programming can also be enabled by loading IRISPen settings with the command Open Settings under the File menu To execute a keyboard command or insert text fully automatically the optioons Starting Code and Ending Code of the Alignment button on the toolbar is used The user can program a hotkey to go through the reading modes from within the active application with the command Hotkeys under the Settings menu Alignment Indicates how the scanned line of text is interpreted Is cropping applied to the recognized text Is data or is a keyboard command to be added in front and behind Alignment Scanned Area The quick Fe fox jumps over the de dog Output own fos jumps over the la All chars own fox jumps over the All chars before the last space s fox jumps over
199. w displays the sentence translation generated by the IRISPen Translator The size of the speech bubble always fits the amounts of text to be displayed on screen When large amounts of texts are submitted to the translation module the translation window may display some 2 000 characters The entire screen will be occupied is added at the end to indicate that the text was truncated Unrecognized characters are by default represented by a tilde the sym bol words unknown to the system are repeated literally The translation window appears when the first sentence is translated and stays there until a new sentence is translated The user has to quit the IRISPen Translator software disable the translation function by selecting the option lt None gt with the option Translate to in the IRISPen application window or click the Copy button of the translation window to make it disappear The Copy button copies the translation to the clipboard the translation window disappears as there is no further need to display it on screen The Copy button allows the user to transfer the translated text to other windows via the clipboard The user can paste the translation in the same win dow as the one where the scanned text is placed to study the foreign sentences and their meaning comfortably later on He can also insert the translation in a different window to save the original text and its translation in separate file
200. wide ratio 2 0 Bar height 0 5 narrow bar width 24 mils narrow to wide ratio 2 5 The examples below are full ASCII Code 39 bar codes The option Full ASCH set must be enabled to read them correctly TESTIA TEST3B A b1 A Full ASCII bar height 0 3 narrow bar width 12 mils narrow to wide ratio 2 Full ASCH bar height 0 4 narrow bar width 18 mils narrow to wide ratio 2 0 USER S GUIDE Full ASCII bar height 0 5 narrow bar width 24 mils narrow to wide ratio 2 5 Wh CopE 93 Code 93 is a alphanumeric self checking variable length bar code Every character is composed of nine elements arranged in three bars with adjacent spaces A character is defined by five black bars and four spaces three elements are wide six are narrow There is a leading and trailing quiet zone a start and stop character a termination bar and two check characters The check characters are verified but filtered from the output Code 93 is an extended version of Code 39 see above that allows to encode the full 128 ASCII character set The full ASCH set refers to all characters up to character 128 in the
201. word president is scanned where an ink stain makes the r look like an f Looking things up in the English lexicon the IRISPen software will detect autonomously that the word president is being read and that it doesn t make any sense to recognize the symbol f This self learning technique is highly dependant on the linguistic context It takes the appropriate Windows configuration to display Central European Greek Turkish Cyrillic and Baltic characters The user may have to install the Windows module Multilanguage Support before his Windows system is able to cope with these languages The icon Add Remove Programs under the Con trol Panel is selected to find out if this Windows module is installed on your PC To read exotic languages the user also needs to enable the correct keyboard layout under Windows By doing so an appropriate font is activated The Win dows control panel Keyboard allows to install the necessary keyboard layouts To handle mixed alphabets the user should select Greek English or the ap propriate Cyrillic language setting for instance Byelorussian English In other words he should not select Greek or Byelorussian as document language and hope that the Western symbols will come out fine To mix other languages the user selects the language with the most extended character set If he has a document where the say French translation is placed alongside an English text he shou
202. xes etc these are not part of the intended IRISPen bar USER S GUIDE code applications The IRISPen is a productivity tool for the office environ ment not a scanner for industrial applications It would therefore be unrealistic to expect the same flexibility from the IRISPen one takes for granted for a bar code wand or laser scanner The IRISPen supports bearer bars Bearer bars are lines drawn around a bar code which have two functions they enhance the printing quality of bar codes by guaranteeing that the bar code label printer exerts equal pressure on the entire surface of the bar code A 12345 6 789 0D They also enforce some scanning discipline when the scanning is too skewed you cross a bearer bar as you enter or exit the bar code and thus provoke an invalid result Scan Test The height and width of the bar codes also play a role For a bar code to be legible by the IRISPen the following conditions should be met the bar code should be at least 0 3 0 75 cm high and the narrow bar should be at least 12 mils 0 012 or 0 3 mm When tinier bar codes are used the resolution of the pen scanner does not suffice LEARNING MORE Appendix C of this manual discusses the symbologies or bar code standards the IRISPen Executive software can read and contains some samples of bar codes the IRISPen can read with great ease USER S GUIDE Chapter 5 HANDPRINTING RECOGNITION Last but not least
203. xical analysis makes extensive use of general rules and dictionaries containing exceptions It takes contextual linguistic knowledge to detect that record is a verb and record a noun Dictionaries are again used to solve such cases suffixes such as ness logy ly can help to determine the word status From Isolated Sounds to Real Speech The linguistic analysis and conversion of written symbols into sound equiva lents is by no means sufficient these segments have to be concatenated success fully to form fluent coherent speech Who pronounces isolated sounds one after the other with equal stress and volume for each one of them You wouldn t even understand what was being said The phonetic module calculates precise speech patterns from the phoneme output of the linguistic module To assure the smooth non robotic character of the produced speech the phonemes are replaced by sound segments originating with native speakers Although you are dealing with a synthesized voice the characteristics of the speaker s original voice are still recognizable in the spoken text This does not mean that individual phonemes are replaced in each case sound clusters are also used for a more natural coarticulation for better transitions between the individual phonemes Diphones consisting of two sounds as ai in the word hide and triphones consisting of three sounds as aie in buyer are extensively used Other
204. xt you insert will be in Palatino 12 point bold whatever the original font typestyle and point size may have been READING Dot MATRIX DOCUMENTS However in some cases you have to indicate the font of the source text The option Dot Matrix in the IRISPen application window determines whether you are recognizing normal or dot matrix printed documents Dot matrix recogni tion is limited to the IRISPen Executive J Dot Matrix Setting this parameter correctly is mandatory draft or 9 pin dot matrix symbols are made up of isolated separate dots and highly specialized recognition routines are required to recognize them USER S GUIDE Scan Test ever haye lett Tie ULEdTS MIU thousand years after a man had RU groat it would be to be nice froveend years after aman fied Letter quality dot matrix printing also called 25 pin or NLQ dot matrix requires the normal setting as do the printing qualities typeset typewritten laser printed and inkjet printed The status window indicates whether the dot matrix reading mode is enabled or not Obviously this option is disabled by default Alphanumeric English Dot Matis Application SCANNING PARAGRAPHS When you have a few lines of text you are recommended to make use of the Alignment button on the toolbar or the Alignment command under the Set tings menu and specify an ending code An ending code is any optional combinati
205. y get wavy distorted images The highly specialized character recognition software PCR II is nevertheless able to cope beautifully with this low quality material This proprietary technology was designed specifically for pen scanners It allows real time text recognition despite wavy low contrast and poor quality im ages containing highly distorted font shapes and incorporates advanced image processing techniques and unique artificial intelligence routines to this end TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduce ihe Led bes a ee ree werent ee ere rere erent rent twee ne errr errr MW On tothe IRIS Pen Executive l ciecdscasondan calandanivaiaasa ning neateneyeaneineagucdsnsdoondgabtlnntoastaanagnce IV How Does the IRIS Pen Work oo 0 ccccecceccecceccescesessescescsceseuseuceuseeceecensenseess VI Table ol CO IIS nesnenin annir od fanaa aainaod Pa ut aaa aiii VI Crediis and Copyri eNi ncnrornasasariakaiia anann XI VII USER S GUIDE Chapter 1 Installation SYSE ARC QUIT CINCIS adese iiei E EE 1 What You See Is What You Get noesensesenessserssserssseessseerssserssseresseersseereseeresseeesseee 2 Installing the IRISPen Software ccccccccescccsesecceccceeseccensecsencecseeesensesssessensesaanes 2 Installing the IRISPen Hardware ccccccescccsescccececeeeeceeesecsneecseseesenseeseeeeeeneeeaanes 6 Uninstalling the IRISPen Software cccccceccccsescccsecceeeseeeeeeeceeneecseeeseneeeseeeeeeneessanes 7
206. y installing text to speech modules for additional languages Ten languages are currently available American English and British English Brazilian Dutch French German Italian Mexican Russian and Spanish AMERICAN ENGLISH SYNTAX RULES Numbers Cardinal numbers of up to 15 digits are pronounced as full numbers longeer digit strings are pronounced digit by digit Numbers that start with a zero are equally pronounced digit by digit 123456789012345 One hundred twenty three trillion four hundred 1234567890123456 One two three four five six seven eight nine zero 007 Zero zero seven Comma s may be used to separate groups of three digits 1 234 One thousand two hundred thirty four 123 456 789 012 345 One hundred twenty three trillion four hundred Numbers ranging from 1 100 to 9 999 are treated as figures when a comma is inserted and as years when no comma is present 1 995 One thousand nine hundred ninety five 1995 Nineteen ninety five 10 999 Ten thousand nine hundred ninety nine Decimal numbers may contain up to 15 digits before the decimal point Comma s may be used to separate groups of three digits before the decimal point When more than two digits occur after the decimal point these are pronounced digit by digit 104 2 One hundred four point two 02 Point zero two O01 Zero point zero zero one The strings 1 2d 2 3d 3 and all cardinal numbers of up to 15 digits followed by an ordi

Download Pdf Manuals

Related Search

Related Contents

de précisions avec la lettre d`information aux riverains  ASURO ROBOTERBAUSATZ  MyTraveler User`s Manual  取扱説明書（PDF）はこちら    1.- INTRODUCTION  OWNER`S MANUAL  Bosch Video Management System v.4.5  Siemens Multimobil 5C - Service manual  Ikelite Fuji E-900 User's Manual  

Copyright © All rights reserved. Failed to retrieve file