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ScanEYE User Manual Version: V3.0 Edition: Released in July, 2009...
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Therefore, Penpower is unable to promise nor warrant that there will be absolutely no risk of loss or damage of information, or any other kind of loss, during installation and/or execution of...
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Penpower will provide you with the Software and support services in respect of the Soft- ware to the maximum extent permitted by law. However, Penpower does not warrant that the Software and information included in the package of the Software contain no defects or errors.
Chapter 1 Product Features 1.1 Introduction Penpower mini ScanEYE, the best scan pen, scans and recognizes words or pictures into the software such as MS Word, Excel or PowerPoint etc. of your computer via the USB interface. With the high scan speed of 15 cm per second, every minute can scan up to 800 characters.
. Penpower VoiceReader Penpower VoiceReader utilizes a state of the art text-to-speech technology, it reads in flu- ent Mandarin or Cantonese of any articles. You can use it as a tool for fast proofreading or in teaching the correct Mandarin/Cantonese pronunciation.
· Interface: USB 2.0 · Scanning speed: 15 cm/sec · Character size: 5~22 pt Function Button Scan tip Function button: When scanning words, the function button can be used as Enter function. It also works as checking next word in the Penpower Translator.
ScanEYE 2.3 Software Installation 1. Insert the mini ScanEYE setup CD into your CD-Rom drive. System will run installation program automatically. Click mini ScanEYE on the Installation window to install mini ScanEYE. Tip: mini ScanEYE provides TranStar dictionary and OCR optical character recognition software as free gifts.
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This is usually left as de- fault. Click Next to continue. 5. Choose the folder that you want to install mini ScanEYE to in Program Files. This is usually left as default. Click Next to continue. Note: When installing mini ScanEYE in...
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Click Register now to register. If you click Register later, you may go to About/Register when you need. 7. Click Finish to restart your computer. Then you will see icon on your desk- top, double-click to run mini ScanEYE.
Chapter 2 Installation 2.4 Hardware Installation 1. Plug in the mini ScanEYE into your computer’s USB port. Some systems may show Found New Hardware Wiz- ard. Please select [No, not this time] and click Next to continue. Note: Some computers may shut down accidentally after connection.
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5. Select [Install the software automati- cally] and click Next to continue. 6. Click on Finish to end the installation. Note: When connecting mini ScanEYE to another USB port, you may follow the Hard- ware installation steps to install the Found New Hardware Wizard.
Chapter 3 Character Input Chapter 3 Character Input 3.1 Run Penpower mini ScanEYE Go to [Start/All Programs/Penpower miniScanEYE /Penpower miniScanEYE] or double click the icon on the desktop to start miniScanEYE toolbar. Note: When running the miniScanEYE first time, the Scanning Guide's win- dow will apper.
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ScanEYE 2. Recognition Language: mini ScanEYE can recognize English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian and Spanish languages. Click to select the language you desire to recognize. 3. Balloon UI: provides candidates, phrase correction, split character, merge characters, original image, punctuation, previous characters, related characters and translation.
3. Place a document on the table and place scanner head at the starting word or picture posi- tion and aim the arrowhead at the word, the press and drag mini ScanEYE lightly. During the scanning, please make sure the white auxiliary light is on.
Select the type of Chinese for the in- putting Chinese characters. Tip: mini ScanEYE can actually convert Traditional text on your document to a Simplified Chinese oriented result vice versa, in which you can select a different combination. * Recognize HK Character If you select Traditional Chinese recognition language, you can check Check this op- tion to recognize Hongkong characters.
Chapter 3 Character Input 3.3.2 Scan Direction * Scan Direction Settings mini ScanEYE must be used to scan the characters in a consistent direction, any changes to the direction will cause inaccu- rate recognition results. Go to the General tab and you will be...
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Left hand: Scan from right to left or from left to right Note: Penpower mini ScanEYE is able to scan and recognize one row of characters at any time, please place the pen in such a way that the centre marker is at the centre of...
譯 3.3.3 Speech mini ScanEYE can speak English, Mandarin and Cantonese. When select Traditional Chi- nese or Simplified Chinese as the Recognition Language in the Recognition setting, it will be able to speak Mandarin and Cantonese. When select English, you can choose speak or...
However, you can manually set the desired text direction of your choice and start scanning too. You can still leave it at default being detected automatically but however, as mini ScanEYE will need to detect the text direction, scanning speed will be slower too.
Chapter 3 Character Input 3.3.6 Translation Website Set Up Translation Website Set Up can let you add, remove or modify the Translation Web- sites. Click Add button to open the Translation Website Set Up window. You can input a dictionary Website name and its url address, then click OK.
3.4 Using Balloon UI Click [Balloon Interface] button can launch Balloon Interface function. When using mini ScanEYE in Balloon UI, all scanning results will be directly transferred to the desired application. For example, scan “ 蒙恬全屏幕手寫精靈 ” into MS Word continuously.
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For example 科技 , where 科 is 技 ’s uplink, while the character 技 is 科 ’s downlink. 1. When using the mini ScanEYE, the recognition results will be directly transferred to the desired application.
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3-12 mini ScanEYE * Split Character On the contrary, when the strokes in 2 characters are too close to each other, they may be recognized together as 1 character. The character split function can be used to split the strokes into 2 separate characters.
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3-13 Chapter 3 Character Input * Phrase Correction In Full Screen mode if you wish to enter a common phrase such as an idiom, if you aren’t sure of how to write one of the characters you can substitute a similar sounding character instead.
3-14 mini ScanEYE 3.4.2 Original Image After making changes to the results, you can check your original scan to look at the dif- ference and look at the original text when scanned. Leave your cursor on the character for 1-2 seconds and a window will pop up with a list of buttons.
3-15 Chapter 3 Character Input In the translation window, you may click button to read out the unfamiliar Chinese or English words aloud. Click to check the last or next word. Click to see phrase and further explanation. Note: Only Chinese and English recognition language provides Online Translation func- tion.
2. Place a document on the table, place scan head at the starting word position and aim the Scan Tip at the word, the press and drag mini ScanEYE hardware smoothly. During the scanning, please make sure the white auxiliary light is on.
Chapter 4 Penpower Voice Reader Chapter 4 Penpower Voice Reader Penpower VoiceReader utilizes a state of the art text-to-speech technology, it reads in flu- ent Mandarin or Cantonese of any articles. You can use it as a tool for fast proofreading or in teaching the correct Mandarin/Cantonese pronunciation.
Speech Tone: Adjust tone level. Speech Volume: Adjust speak volume. 4.3 Turn off Penpower VoiceReader 1. Click , select [Exit]. 2. When you see the following image, the Penpower VoiceReader is turned off and the icon on the upper right corner disappears.
This is a Chinese-English bidirectional translation software, which includes Chinese- English/English-Chinese dictionary lookup and Chinese-English/English-Chinese phrasal translation. 5.1 Open Penpower Translator Click [Translator] button from the toolbar or [Penpower Translator] from the tray icon menu to run Penpower Translator. 5.2 English Character Dictionary Lookup 1. Click on 2.
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ScanEYE There are a number of buttons which you can see the usage example or the detailed ex- planation. Click will command the system to read out the character. Previous Word / Next Word buttons let you check the meaning of the next character or the previous one.
Chapter 5 Penpower Translator 5.3 Chinese Character Dictionary 1. Click on to enable the Chinese dictionary. Tip: If the Chinese word you wish to look up is Simplified Chinese, please select the translation option. 2. In similar fashion, input the Chinese character that you want to look up in the text field in the top left hand corner.
ScanEYE 5.4 English Phrasal Dictionary 1. Click on to enable the English phrasal dictionary. 2. In the top left hand corner, input the text to be translated and explained in the field and click on to translate. Tip: During English phrasal translation, avoid inputting Chinese half-shaped punctua- tion to increase the translation accuracy.
Chapter 5 Penpower Translator 5.5 Chinese Phrasal Dictionary 1. Click on to invoke the Chinese-English translation. Tip: If the Chinese sentence you wish to look up is Simplified Chinese, please select the translation option. 2. In the above frame, input the phrase or paragraph where appropriate and click on start the translation.
Other than checking up on words or phrases through the use of keyboard, you can also make use of mini ScanEYE to input the phrase for you, while the original text will be dis- played at the bottom of the window for you.
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Chapter 5 Penpower Translator You can also translate the whole paragraph of the scanning you have made with mini ScanEYE by clicking on , which will in turn translate whatever you have scanned into the opposite language. You can perform the translation phrase by phrase, or choose to have the translation done to the whole paragraph at one time.
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