3.1 WorldPenScan Toolbar

1. Recognition Language: WorldPenScan Mac can recognize English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean text. Click up and down button to see the list and select the language you would like to scan.

 

Note: The Recognition Language must match the language of the content for optimal accuracy.

2. Scan Mode: Provide [Sentence Scan] and [Word Scan] modes.

. Sentence Scan: [Sentence Scan] mode is the default scan mode for scanning an article or a sentence directly. The scanned article or sentence will be recognized into text and sent to your computer. Please refer to 3.2.1 Sentence Scan for more detailed information.

. Word Scan: When you want to scan a word for checking the meaning or translation in Babylon or other online dictionary, you can click [Scan Mode] button to select [Word Scan] mode, and scan a word or a sentence, and then select a word to check the meaning or translation. Please refer to 3.2.2 Word Scan for more detailed information.

3. Online Translation: Provide a translation function in which you can assign a translation website or Babylon software to translate the scanned words. Please refer to 3.3 Online Translation for more detailed information.

4. Tools: Provide Image Scan, Original Image, Settings, Help and About.

. Image Scan: Check the [Image Scan] mode, the scanned image or word will be sent to your computer in image format. Please refer to 3.2.3 Image Scan for more detailed information.

. Original Image: display the scanned image. See 3.4 Displaying Original Image.

. Settings: provide General, Translation Online settings. See 3.5 Settings for more detailed information.

 

3.2 Scan Mode

3.2.1 Sentence Scan

1. Select the [Sentence Scan] mode from the [Scan Mode].

 

 

2. Select the language of the text that you would like to scan from the [Recognition Language].

3. Open any word processor, for example Text Edit, and then click the location where you would like to input.

4. Place a document on a flat surface and place the scan tip at the front of your desired scan area. 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.

5. Stop applying pressure to the pen to stop scanning. The text that the pen has scanned are displayed in your word processor immediately.

Note: Penpower WorldPenScan is able to scan and recognize one row of characters at a time. Please place the Scan Tip arrow at the center of the line.

 

 

3.2.2 Word Scan

1. Click the [Scan Mode] button to select the [Word Scan] mode, an extension window will appear under the toolbar.

Tip: When first time switching to the Word Scan mode, the Word Scan Guide window will appear to guide you how to use the Word Scan mode.

 

2. Select the language of the text that you would like to scan from the [Recognition Language].

3. Open any word processor, for example Text Edit and click the location where you can input, or click the [Online Translation] button to open Babylon or other dictionary.

4. Place a document on a flat surface and place the scan tip in front of the word you desire to check. Aim the arrow at the desired word, then press and drag the WorldPenScan pen in a straight line across the word. During the scanning, please make sure the white auxiliary light is on.

5. Stop applying pressure to the pen to stop scanning. The scanned word and meaning or translation will display in the Babylon or other dictionary.

6. If you scan more than one word, you can press the function button on the scan pen to choose next recognizable word or highlight a word from the extension window, the selected word will be sent to the cursor location. So you can literally check the meaning or translation of your choice.

 

3.3.4 Business Mode

The Business Mode allows you to scan barcodes, invoices, checks, bills, postal codes, coupon numbers and racing numbers etc.

Note: Only WorldPenScan Pro provides the Business Mode function.

The fonts that the Business Mode supports are OCR A, OCR B , MS Gothic, and MICR fonts as the samples below:

 

 

The barcodes that the Business Mode supports are Codabar, Code 128, Code 39, Code 93, EAN 8, EAN 13, IATA 2 of 5, Industrial 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, Matrix 2 of 5, Patch, PostNet, UCC-128, UPC-A and UPC-E.

 

In order to have higher recognition accuracy, you may use the [Business Mode] to recognize these fonts. Please follow these steps.

1. Click [Tools] button and select the [Business Mode] option from the drop-down menu.

2. Open your application or any word processor, for example Microsoft Word. Click the location where you would like to input the scanned text or numbers.

3. Place a document on a flat surface and place the scan tip at the front of your desired scan area. Aim the scan tip arrow at the center of the desired scan area, and then press and drag he WorldPenScan pen in a straight line across the area like a highlighter. During the scanning, please make sure the white auxiliary light is on.

4. Stop applying pressure to the pen to stop scanning. The scanned text or numbers are displayed in your application or word processor immediately.

 

3.2.4 Image Scan

1. Click [Tools] button and select the [Image Scan] option from the drop-down menu.

2. Open a word processor that is able to input images (i.e. Text Edit) and then click the location where you would like to input display the scanned images.

3. Place a document on the a flat surface and place the scan tip at the starting word or picture and aim the Scan Tip arrow at the center of the scan area, then press and drag the scan pen in a straight line. The white auxiliary light from the Scan Tip indicates the pen is scanning.

4. Stop applying pressure to the pen to stop scanning. The scanned picture will display on your word processor in an image format.

 

 

3.3 Online Translation

WorldPenScan provides Babylon dictionary software and online Translation functions for you to translate words or sentences.

1. Select the [Recognition Language] which matches the scanning words.

2. Click the [Online Translation] button from the toolbar and then select the [Babylon] or any online translation Website.

Note: Please connect to internet before using the Online Translation function.

 

 

Tip: You can organize Website Links from the Translation Settings function. Please refer to 3.5.2 Online Translation Settings for more detailed information.

3. Babylon software or online translation Website will be opened, and WorldPenScan will be switched to the [Word Scan] mode automatically.

4. Place a document on the flat surface and place the scan tip at the starting word and aim the Scan Tip arrow at the center of the scan area, the press and drag the scan pen in a straight line. The white auxiliary light from the scan tip indicates the scan pen is scanning.

5. The first recognizable word will be translated on the Babylon software or the translation Website.

Note: The [Babylon] option appears only when the Babylon software is installed.

 

 

 

Note: Please connect to internet before using the Online Translation function.

Tip: You can organize Website Links from the Translation Settings function. Please refer to 3.5.2 Online Translation Settings for more detailed information.

3. Babylon software or online translation Website will be opened, and WorldPenScan will be switched to the [Word Scan] mode automatically.

4. Place a document on the flat surface and place the scan tip at the starting word and aim the Scan Tip arrow at the center of the scan area, the press and drag the scan pen in a straight line. The white auxiliary light from the scan tip indicates the scan pen is scanning.

5. The first recognizable word will be translated on the Babylon software or the translation Website.

 

Note: If the website does not support the enter function, please manually click the translate button on the website with your mouse.

 

Tip: Please refer to the Babylon help for operating the Babylon software.

6. If you scan more than one word, you can press the [Function button] on the scan pen to see the translation of the next recognizable word. You can also use your mouse to highlight a word from the extension window, the selected word will be sent to the cursor location for translating.

 

3.4 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] window displays the scanned image. You can check the scanned image to compare with the original text. This can help you improving your scan technique for more accurate recognition results.

 

 

 

Tip: You can click on the original image to save the image file.

 

3.5 Settings

3.5.1 General Settings

Click [Settings] from the toolbar and select [General] page, you can select At the end of the scan, insert a space and East Asian language settings.

 

Business Mode
If your device is WorldPenScan Pro, you can set the recognition result of the Business Mode as Alphabet Only, Alphabe and Numbers, Bar Code, Number Only, Hexadecimal, Micr Text. Moreover, you can check Leave no space while scanning if you don't want spaces inserted while scanning.

 

 

At the end of the scan, insert a space
When choosing English, French, German, Italian or Spanish as the recognition language, you can check the [At the end of the scan, insert a space automatically] check box. While scanning English, French, German, Italian or Spanish, the system will automatically add a space at the end of the scan.

 

East Asian Language Settings
When the current recognition language is an East Asian language, such as Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese or Korean, you can click [East Asian Language Settings] button to select scan direction,Chinese speech and left/right-handed.

 

 

Scan Direction
WorldPenScan must be used to scan the characters in a consistent direction, any changes to the direction will cause inaccurate recognition results.

 

Scanning Horizontal Text
When scanning horizontal text or image, you can choose the [Horizontal] option. Place the pen on the text or image, move the pen left-to-right or right-to-left when scanning.

 

 

 

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.

 

Scanning Vertically Aligned Text
When scanning vertically aligned text, you can choose [Vertically] and then select [Left-hand] or [Right-hand]. You may scan the text in a straight top-to-bottom fashion. Align the Scan Tip arrow on your pen to the center of the characters.

 

 

Note: The Left/Right-handed option only available when you select the vertical direction.

 

3.5.2 Online Translation Settings

[Translation Website Setup] lets you add, remove, and modify online translation websites. The websites will be shown in the [Online Translation] button on the toolbar.

 

 

Note: Babylon only appears in the WorldPenScan Pro version and when the Babylon software is installed.

 

Click the [Add] button to open the Translation Website Setup window. Input the translation website name and its URL address, then click [OK]. You can also modify or remove a website by clicking the [Modify] button or the [Remove] button.
You will find the changes when clicking [Online Translation] button from the toolbar.

 

 

 

3.5.3 Button Configuration Settings

The default function of Function Button is Enter. You can replace Enter by Tab, Space, Click, or Double Click. Select the Button Configuration tab and then you can select which function you want the Function Button to be.

 

 

3.5.4 Recognition Language Settings

WorldPenScan provides 191 recognition languages for you to choose. In the toolbar, you can drag down the recognition menu to select the recognition language you want.

 

 

You can modify the recognition language menu in the Recognition Language tab of Setting. In the Recognition Language Tab, the left column contains 191 recognition languages for you to choose. The languages appear in the right column will all appear on the recognition language drag down menu on the tool bar.

In this tab, you can select the recognition language in the left column and click [Add] add it into the right column. If you want to remove a language from the right column, you can select the language you want to remove and click [Remove] to remove it from the right column.

 

 

Tip: Select a language in the right column and click [Up] or [Down]. You can change this language's order.