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Penpower mini ScanEYE Ⅱ
User Manual
Edition: Released in July, 2006

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  • Page 1 Penpower mini ScanEYE Ⅱ User Manual Edition: Released in July, 2006...
  • Page 2 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.
  • Page 3 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 execu- tion 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.
  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    2.1 System Requirements..................2-1 2.2 Hardware Specification................2-1 2.3 Software Installation..................2-2 2.4 Hardware Installation..................2-3 Chapter 3 Character Input................3-1 3.1 Open Penpower mini ScanEYE II..............3-1 3.2 Scan Direction.....................3-2 3.3 Scanning Vertically Aligned Text..............3-2 3.4 Scanning Horizontal Text................3-3 3.5 Scanning Horizontal or Vertically Aligned Text...........3-4 3.6 Reading Aloud as You Scan.................3-4...
  • Page 5 4.4 English Phrasal Dictionary................4-3 4.5 Chinese Phrasal Dictionary................4-3 4.6 Translating Scanned Input................4-5...
  • Page 6: Chapter 1 Product Features

    Whenever you come across any particular words or sentences that you do not understand, mini ScanEYE II will scan and translate for you. With an ergonomic design, the brand new mini ScanEYE II provides a comfortable handle which fits all left and right-handed users. Scan away effortlessly with the transpar- ent scan tip.
  • Page 7 ScanEYE II · Correction and pre-emptive computing Spell-check function which predicts characters while correcting alignment now em- powers you with a more accurate scanning flow. · Continuous scanning and recognition Multi-thread architecture allows you to scan continuously without pause while recogni- tion is being done on the fly.
  • Page 8: Chapter 2 Installation

    Chapter 2 Installation Chapter 2 Installation 2.1 System Requirements · Pentium II 300 CPU or above · 128MB of RAM · 220MB of available hard disk space · Windows 2000/XP · USB port 2.2 Hardware Specification · Dimensions: 131mm x 31mm x 19mm ·...
  • Page 9: Software Installation

    ScanEYE II 2.3 Software Installation 1. Insert the Penpower mini Scaneye II setup cd into your cd-rom drive. If the computer does not auto-run the cd, you can go to D:\setup.exe where D: (may not be D: on your computer) is your cd-rom. Then Select an installation language and click OK to install. Then click on Next to continue. 2. Key in your user name, company name and click Next to continue. 3. Please select the type of the miniScayEYE II, then click Next to continue. 4. Please choose to installtion the Hong Kong characters or not, then click Next to contin-...
  • Page 10: Hardware Installation

    5. Choose the destination folder to install the software. This is usually left as default. Click Next to continue. 6. Choose the folder that you want to install mini ScanEYE II to in Program Files. This is usually left as default. Click Next to continue.
  • Page 11 ScanEYE II 2. Select [Install the software automati- cally] and click Next to continue. 5. Click on Finish to end the installation. Notes: When first time execute mini ScanEYE II, a finding mini Scan- Eye hardware message will appear. Click Next to continue.
  • Page 12: Chapter 3 Character Input

    Chapter 3 Character Input Chapter 3 Character Input 3.1 Open Penpower mini ScanEYE II 1. Go to Start/Programs/Penpower miniScanEYE II /Penpower miniScanEYE II to start the program. 2. After starting the program, you will notice an icon appearing beside your clock as il- lustrated. 3. Open any word processor (i.e Microsoft Word or Wordpad) and place your cursor in there as usual before you start typing. 4. Place the desired document to be scanned on the table and run your pen along the characters. 5. The characters that the pen has passed through will be recognized and the results will be directly passed into your desired word processor. 6. Click on the mini ScanEYE II icon in the taskbar beside the clock and click on exit to close the mini ScanEYE II software.
  • Page 13: Scan Direction

    ScanEYE II 3.2 Scan Direction mini ScanEYE II must be used to scan the characters in a consistent direction, any changes to the direction will cause inaccurate recognition results. 1. Click on the mini ScanEYE II icon on your taskbar beside the clock and go to the first option, which is the settings. 2. Go to the General tab and you will be able to change the configuration set- tings according to how you hold the pen and the direction which you want to scan. 3.3 Scanning Vertically Aligned Text When scanning vertically aligned text, please scan the text in top to bottom fashion and have the characters centered at the middle of your pen as indicated by the centre marker line.
  • Page 14: Scanning Horizontal Text

    Left hand: Scanning from left to righ or Scanning from right to leftc. Note: Penpower mini ScanEYE II 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 the character.
  • Page 15: Reading Aloud As You Scan

    ScanEYE II If you know that all your text is in a certain direction, you can set the mini ScanEYE II to scan in only one direction based on the setting just discussed: Hori- zontal or Vertical. 1. Click on the mini ScanEYE II icon on your taskbar by the clock and click on the first option, which is Settings. 2. Go to the Property tab and choose your desired text direction under Orienta- tion. 3.6 Reading Aloud As You Scan Every time a character has been recog- nized, mini ScanEYE II will pronounce that character either in Mandarin or Can- tonese. 1. Click on the mini ScanEYE II icon in your taskbar and go to Settings. 2. Go to General and you will see an op- tion called Sound, where it allows you to choose between None, Mandarin or Cantonese. Click OK to apply the new settings. 3.7 UI language settings Open Version window from the main menu of mini ScanEYE II. You may...
  • Page 16: Traditional/Simplified Chinese Recognition

    Recognition Results: Select the style of Chinese in the targeted scanning results Use English Message: Switches between English/Chinese interface. Tip: mini ScanEYE II can actually convert Traditional text on your document to a Simplified Chinese oriented result, in which you can select a different combina- tion. 2. Go to the Property tab. Recognition: You can select a variety of text which can be recognized, in which English & Numeral, Chinese and...
  • Page 17: Practise

    ScanEYE II 3.9 Practise According to what has been discussed previously, please scan the illustrated text below, in a horizontal and vertical fashion. Do not introduce abrupt changes when scan- ning, i.e the speed of moving your pen or scanning too fast. It will take approximately 5 seconds to complete scanning the text below. If you have successfully scanned the text with the correct recognition results, you are now ready to put mini ScanEYE II to actual use! 蒙恬掃譯筆中文辨識掃描翻譯 蒙 恬 掃 譯 筆 中 文 辨 識 掃 描 翻 譯...
  • Page 18: Using Balloon Ui

    Chapter 3 Character Input 3.10 Using Balloon UI When using mini ScanEYE II in Balloon UI, all scanning results will be directly trans- ferred to the desired application. You can continuously scan through text and all results will be instantly transferred to the desired application. For example, scan “ 蒙恬全螢幕手寫精靈 ” into MS Word continuously. Correct a Certain Character When you want to correct a certain character, all you need to do is to leave your cur- sor on the character for 1-2 seconds and a window showing a list of suggested corrections will be presented to you. This will enable you quicker correction and a faster way of inputting characters into your desired application. Tip: You only need to leave your cursor on the character, you do not need to click any buttons.
  • Page 19: Pre-Emptive Linking

    ScanEYE II 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. 5. Lastly, notice that the wrong character has been replaced. *. Pre-emptive Linking In any continuous text (2 characters), the first character is the second character’s uplink, while the second character is the first character’s downlink. For example 科技 , where 科 is 技 ’s uplink, while the character 技 is 科 ’s downlink. 1. When using the mini ScanEYE II, the recognition results will be directly transferred to the desired application. 2. As shown in the illustration, the character 恬 has been recognized incorrectly as 恰 as well as 科 which also has been incorrectly recognized as 料 .
  • Page 20: Character Combination

    Chapter 3 Character Input *. Character Combination When the strokes in a character are distanced too far from one another, they are usu- ally recognised as different characters rather than 1 character. Now you can actually make use of the inbuilt character combination function and combine both characters into 1 single character. Scan the characters 棟樑 and assuming that the result do not appear correctly, you might get 木東樑 as illustrated in the figure. As there might be some varying issues, now the character has been split into 2 different characters, being 木 and 東 . Leave your cursor on the character 木 for 1-2 seconds and a window will pop up with a list of buttons. Click on the second button (INSERT PICTURE HERE) and you will have the separate characters combined into a single character 棟 . *. Character Split On the contrary, when the strokes in 2 characters are too close to each other, they may be recognized together as 1 character. The character split function can be used to split the strokes into 2 separate characters. Scan the characters 日月星辰 , assuming that both the characters 日 and 月 are being recognized as 1 character, resulting in 明...
  • Page 21: Displaying Original Form

    3-0 mini ScanEYE II Displaying Original Form 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. 1. Scan the desired text and the recognition result will be directly transferred to the desired application. 2. Leave your cursor on the character for 1-2 seconds and a window will pop up with a list of buttons. 3. Hold down the third button from the left and you will see the original text being displayed. Punctuation in Balloon UI Click on (INSERT PICTURE HERE) and a panel listing of punctuation marks will be displayed accordingly, allowing you to input half shaped or full shaped punctuation marks. Online Translation The Balloon Interface provides you the online 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. Click button to start online translation function. The translation window will close when moving cursor to other area. In the translation window, you may click button to read out the unfamiliar Chinese or English words aloud. Click or to check the last or next word. Click to see phrase and further explanation.
  • Page 22: Chapter 4 Penpower Transeye

    This is a Chinese-English bi-directional translation software, which includes Chinese- English/English-Chinese dictionary lookup and Chinese-English/English-Chinese phrasal translation. 4.1 Open Penpower TransEYE Go to Start/Programs/Penpower miniScanEYE II/Penpower TransEYE. Tip: You can also start the translator from the Penpower mini ScanEYE II icon on your taskbar.
  • Page 23: English Character Dictionary Lookup

    ScanEYE II 4.2 English Character Dictionary Lookup 1. Click on 2. On the top left hand corner, enter the English word that you want to look up in the dic- tionary and hit Enter. The explanation in Chinese will pop up almost immediately.
  • Page 24 Chapter 4 Penpower Transeye 4.4 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.
  • Page 25 ScanEYE II Clicking on will command the system read out the character to you, whereas if you are in phrasal translation mode, it will read out the phrase to you. It will start reading from the point from where you place the cursor right to the end of the phrase.
  • Page 26 Other than checking up on words or phrases through the use of keyboard, you can also make use of mini ScanEYE II to input the phrase for you, while the original text will be displayed at the bottom of the window for you.
  • Page 27 ScanEYE II You can also translate the whole paragraph of the scanning you have made with mini ScanEYE II 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.
  • Page 28 Penpower mini ScanEYE Ⅱ User Manual Edition: Released in July, 2006 Penpower Technology Ltd.,...

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