Familiarizing Yourself with the Pen

The Pen Parts

Your Pen contains the following parts:

Front and Rear Views

Top View

 

Important: Before using the headphones, please adjust the volume using the Voice Settings option in the Preferences menu.

 

Setting Up Your Pen

 

To get started:

1.  Remove your Pen from its protective case.

2.  Remove the battery compartment cover from the back of the Pen.

3.  Insert 2 AAA batteries into the Pen with the positive and negative terminals corresponding to the markings on the sides of the battery compartment.

4.  Close the battery compartment.

5.  Remove the protective cover from the Pen tip.

6.  Press  to turn the Pen on.

7.  The Pen is ready to scan!

 

Note: If you are left-handed, see Right-Left-Handed on page 54 to change your Pen to left-handed scanning.

 

Basic Pen Commands

The Pen Keys and their Functions

 

The keypad contains seven keys for operating your Pen.

Use the keys as follows:           

ƒ   Power key        : Turn the Pen on and off.

ƒ   ENT key        : Access submenus or screens, confirm a selection or perform an operation.

ƒ   ESC key : Navigate backwards, close a screen, or cancel an operation.

ƒ   Direction keys  : Scroll through menus and screens.

 

Navigating Menus and Lists

To select an item from a menu or a list:

1. Scroll through the menu, using  or  until the item you want is highlighted.

2. Press ENT.

To select a command key on the display:

1. Use the direction keys to highlight the command key.

2. Press ENT.

To return to a previous menu level from a sub-menu, option or list, press ESC.

 

Scanning Guidelines

 

Scanning Mode

The Pen is in scanning mode when the red light at the tip of the Pen is blinking. Scanning mode is disabled when accessing menus.

Scanning Direction

Text can be scanned from right to left or from left to right. Both will produce the same results.

Scanning Restrictions

The Pen scans and recognizes printed text in a wide range of languages, font types and point sizes (6-22 points, up to

8mm) and in a variety of colors on contrasting backgrounds (except red on white, white on red, blue on black and black on blue).

 

It does not recognize handwriting, cursive fonts, mathematical symbols or other profession-specific signs.

Tips for Good Scanning

To ensure optimum scanning results:

ƒ   Hold the Pen at the correct scanning angle.

ƒ   Place the scanning material on a flat surface.

ƒ   Ensure scanning material is good quality and pages are not creased. Poorly photocopied materials may provide bad results.                            

 ƒ   Do not scan too fast.

Correct scanning angle of 90°

Poor Character Recognition

Poor character recognition may occur for the following reasons:

ƒ   Low quality scanning material.

ƒ   The scanning settings are not set correctly (e.g. Inverse).

ƒ   Holding the Pen at the wrong scanning angle.

ƒ   Scanning too fast.

 

Learning to Scan (using the Trainer)

 

This tutorial uses the Notes application and the plastic scanning Trainer provided with your Pen.

 

1.     Slide the Trainer onto the tip of the Pen (instead of the cap) and press into place.

2.     Turn the Pen on. The Pen Main Menu appears. If the Pen Main Menu does not appear, press ESC until it is visible on screen.

3.     Scroll to the Notes application using the direction keys and press ENT.

4.     Scroll down to New File and press ENT.

5.     Scroll down to OK and save the default file name. A blank screen appears with a blinking cursor.

6.     Position the Pen at a 90° angle and center the following text between the feet of the trainer. This angle should be maintained even when scanning without the trainer.

Use the following practice sentence:

This sentence will help me practice scanning.

7.     Glide the Pen from right to left in a straight line over the text. Start scanning 1cm from the end of the text and finish 1cm after the beginning of the text.

8.     The scanned text will appear on the screen. If the text does not appear correctly on the screen, press ENT to erase it and scan again.

 

The CD

 

The CD should run automatically when you insert it into the drive on your PC. If the setup does not begin automatically:

1.  Click the Windows Start button and select Run.

2.  Type x:\setup.exe (where x is your CD-ROM drive),

then click OK.

 

Use the CD to:

ƒ      Install Product on PC: Install the USB driver and  WizCom Desktop necessary for transferring data between your Pen and PC.

ƒ      Install Add-Ons: Install additional components on your Pen, such as dictionaries, interface languages, spellers (for enhanced scanning recognition for specific languages) and the Image Capture application for scanning small images. The USB driver must be installed (from Install Product on PC) before you can install any Add-Ons.

 

Installing the WizCom Desktop While the Pen can be used as a stand-alone device, installing the WizCom Desktop from the CD allows you to transfer files between your Pen and PC. To install the Desktop you will need your Pen, the CD and USB cable provided with the Pen.

 

Important: Do not connect the USB cable to your computer until you have completed the USB driver installation.

To install the Desktop:

1.  Insert the CD into the drive on your computer. If the setup does not begin automatically:

ƒ  Click the Windows Start button and select Run.

ƒ  Type x:\setup.exe (where x is your CD-ROM drive),

then click OK.

 

2.  The CD browser window will appear.

3.  From the Main Menu click Install Product on PC.

4.  Follow the instructions on the CD to install first the USB driver and then the WizCom Desktop.

 

Note: Please restart your computer if requested to during the installation procedure.

 

Establishing Pen-PC Communications Do the following to check that your Pen and PC are configured correctly for Pen-PC Communications:

 

On the Pen:

To set the Pen communications settings:

1.  Turn the Pen on, scroll down to Preferences in the Pen Main Menu and press ENT.

2.  Scroll down to Communications Settings and press ENT.

3.  The Connection Device submenu appears. Press ENT.

4.  Select Cable and press ENT.

5.  Scroll down to Baud Rate and press ENT.

6.  The Baud Rate should be set to 115,200. Scroll down until you see 115200 on screen and press ENT.

7.  Press ESC twice to return to the Pen Main Menu.

 

On the Desktop:

To view the Desktop application communications settings

select Communications Settings from the Pen Communications menu on the Menu Bar of the Desktop application.

The Communications Settings dialog box appears:

The correct settings (when using the USB cable) should be as follows:

1.  The Port should correspond to the COM port being used by the Pen. To find out whether the port is correct do the following:

a.  Connect the USB cable to a USB port on your PC.

b.  On your computer go to Start/Settings/Control Panel and select System.

c.  Click on the Hardware tab and then click on the Device Manager.

d.  Scroll down to Ports (COM & LPT) and open the drop-down list of ports.

e.  Find the "Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port" and note the corresponding COM port number.

f.   Go back to the Communications Settings dialog box and modify the Port option accordingly.

2.  The Baud Rate should be set to 115,200.

3.  Click OK.

 

Note: If the "Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port" is not listed under Ports (COM & LPT) it means that the USB driver has not been installed correctly. Go back to the CD and rerun the driver installation. If at any stage you are requested to restart your computer, please do so.

Once this is complete, run the Communications Wizard to establish communications between your Pen and the PC. Make sure you are an administrator on your PC and that the cable jack is pushed firmly into the Pen (until you hear the last little “click”).

 

The Communications Wizard can be accessed from the Help menu on the Menu Bar of the WizCom Desktop.

 

If you are experiencing trouble installing the PC software and establishing communications, see Troubleshooting on page 69.