Summary of Contents for Penpower Technology WorldPenScan
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WorldPenScan User Manual Release: June, 2012 Version: 3.5tw...
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Penpower Technology Ltd. Software User License Agreement You are licensed to legally use this software program (“the Software”) by Penpower Technology Ltd (“Penpower”) under this license agreement (“The Agreement”). If you do not agree with any of the provisions in this Agreement, please do not install, copy or use the Software.
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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 the Software. You must be fully aware of your risks in using the Software. Penpower will provide you with the Software and support services in respect of the Software to the maximum extent permitted by law.
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3.8 Help .........................3-19 3.9 About .......................3-19 Chapter 4 Penpower Voice Reader ...............4 - 1 4.1 Open Penpower Voice Reader ................4 - 1 4.2 Voice Reader Setting ..................4 - 2 4.3 Turn off Penpower Voice Reader ...............4 - 2 There may be newer versions of the software that was released during or after this prod- uct’s manufacturing date.
Introduction 1.1 Introduction WorldPenScan, the best input device, scans and recognizes 193 languges and put the scanned material into your computer via the USB interface. Whenever you come across any particular words or sentences that you do not understand, WorldPenScan will scan for you.
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WorldPenScan • Scan Image The new feature of scanning images lets you scan and save the important images into MS Word files. • Bubble Window Bubble window offers you a non-interference environment. All scan results will di- rectly transfer to the desired application. Bubble window pops up and provides online translator, pronunciation, candidate words and related words whenever you need.
Chapter 2 Getting Started Chapter 2 Getting Started 2.1 System Requirements · Pentium II 300 CPU or above · 512MB of RAM · 650MB of available hard disk space · Windows 7/Vista/XP OS . CD-ROM Drive · USB port 2.2 Hardware Specification ·...
WorldPenScan 2.2.1 WorldPenScan Function Button USB Port Scan tip Scan Button 2.2.2 WorldPenScan Pro Function Button USB Port Scan tip Scan Button Function button: While scanning text or images, clicking the function button will function as the [Enter] key on the keyboard by default.
Chapter 2 Getting Started 2.3 Software Installation 1. Insert the WorldPenScan setup CD into the CD-ROM drive. The installation program will start automatically. Click [WorldPenScan] to install WorldPen- Scan. Tip: WorldPenScan includes OCR and Transtar. You can install them after installing WorldPenScan.
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5. Select a destination folder to install the software to. Click [Next] to continue. 6. Choose the program folder that you want to install WorldPenScan to. If left as default, the software will create a new folder for you. Click [Next] to continue.
Chapter 2 Getting Started 2.4 Driver Installation 1. Plug in the WorldPenScan pen into your computer’s USB port and a win- dow will appear. Select [No, not this time] and click [Next] to continue. Note: Some computers may shut down accidentally after connection.
WorldPenScan toolbar. When running the WorldPenScan for the first time, a Registration Reminder will appear. Please click on Register now to register and receive the warranty service. You can also click Register later to close the reminder. When you need to register, click the Tools button and select About from the toolbar and then click on Registration.
WorldPenScan toolbar. 3.1 WorldPenScan Toolbar Minimize 1. Language Recognition: The WorldPenScan can recognize Traditional Chinese, Sim- plified Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and more text. Click to select the language you would like to scan.
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WorldPenScan 4. Dictionary: Selecting [Dictionary] in the drop-down menu from the button provide you the translation result of every scanned word. Please refer to 3.3 Online Translation for more detailed information. 5. Sentence translation: Selecting [Sentence translation] in the drop-down menu from the button will provide the translations of the sentences you scan.
Aim the scan tip arrow at the center of the desired scan area, and then press and drag the WorldPenScan pen in a straight line across the area like a highlighter. During the scanning, please make sure the white auxiliary light is on.
3. Aim the scan tip arrow at the center of the desired scan area, and then press and drag the WorldPenScan pen in a straight line across the area like a highlighter. During the scanning, please make sure the white auxiliary light is on.
3. Aim the scan tip arrow at the center of the desired scan area, and then press and drag the WorldPenScan pen in a straight line across the area like a highlighter. During the scanning, please make sure the white auxiliary light is on. The original image, scanned sentence, and translation result will be displayed automatically in the window as be- low.
Aim the scan tip arrow at the center of the desired scan area, and then press and drag the WorldPenScan pen in a straight line across the area like a highlighter. During the scanning, please make sure the white auxiliary light is on.
Chapter 3 Scanning and Settings 3.5 Original Image Click [Tools] button and select the [Original Image] option from the drop-down menu to open the [Original Image] window. After scanning, the [Original Image] win- dow displays the scanned image. You can check the scanned image to compare with the original text.
Select [Bubble Window] in the drop-down menu from the button can launch bubble window function. When using WorldPenScan bubble window, 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.
Chapter 3 Scanning and Settings 2. Leave your cursor on the character for 1-2 seconds and a window showing a list of suggested corrections will be presented. 3. If the correct character appears among the list of characters pre- sented, you can click on the character to have your current incorrect character replaced.
3-10 WorldPenScan 3.6.3 Split Character On the contrary, when the strokes in 2 characters are too close to each other, they may be recognized together as 1 character. The character split function can be used to split the strokes into 2 separate characters.
3-11 Chapter 3 Scanning and Settings 3.6.5 Original Image After making changes to the results, you can check your original scan to look at the difference 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.
For example 科技 , where 科 is 技 ’s uplink, while the character 技 is 科 ’s downlink. 1. When using the WorldPenScan, the recognition results will be directly transferred to the desired application.
3-13 Chapter 3 Scanning and Settings 3.6.8 Translation The bubble window provides you the translation function. Whenever you do not know the scanning Chinese or English words, you may check the translation via the online translation function. When moving your cursor over the scanned word, a pop-up window will appear.
English word. Scan Direction WorldPenScan must be used to scan the characters in consistent direction, any chang- es to the direction will cause inaccurate recognition results. When choosing Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese or Korean as the language recognition, you can accord to the document you want to scan to choose the scan direction manually.
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Scan from right-to-left or from left-to-right Scan from left-to-right or from right-to-left Note: Penpower WorldPenScan is able to scan and recognize one row of characters at a time. Please place the pen in such a manner so that the Scan Tip arrow is at the center of the line of text.
Recognition Languages WorldPenScan provides 193 recognition languages for you to choose. In the toolbar, you can drag down the recognition menu to select the recognition language you want.
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You can connect to the http://www.microsoft.com/hk/hkscs/default.aspx to check the Hong Kong characters list. Recognize English characters & numbers You can select [Recognize English characters & numbers] to make WorldPenScan recognize English characters and numbers when choosing Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese or Korean as the language recognition,...
3-18 WorldPenScan 3.7.3 Business Mode When using the business mode, you can accord with the scan content to choose the scan mode as below for higher recognition accuracy and the font the mode supports will show in the window. y Barcode: Recognize barcodes.
Selecting [About] in the drop-down menu from the button can see the informa- tion of WorldPenScan, or you can go to Penpower Technology Ltd. official website for more informaiton. If there is any problem or suggestion, please click [Contact us] and...
Chapter 4 Penpower Voice Reader Chapter 4 Penpower Voice Reader Penpower Voice Reader utilizes a state of the art text-to-speech technology, it reads in fluent Mandarin or Cantonese of any articles. You can use it as a tool for fast proofreading or in teaching the correct Mandarin/Cantonese pronunciation.
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