3.1 Running Penpower WorldPenScan

Go to [Start/All Programs/Penpower WorldPenScan/Penpower WorldPenScan] or double-click the shortcut on the desktop to start the 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.

Tip: If you do not need to be reminded again, you can check [Don’t show this registering window at startup].

 

A Scanning Guide will appear after the registration reminder. Use the WorldPenScan as the guide directs.

Note: If you would not like to read the message again, you can check [Do not display this scanning guide next time], and click [OK].

 

 

3.2 WorldPenScan Toolbar

 

 

1. Recognition Language: The World-PenScan can recognize Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Korean text. Click to 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 3.3.1 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 the [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 3.3.2 Word Scan for detailed information.

 

 

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.

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 3.4 Online Translation for more detailed information.

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

. Image Scan: Select the [Image Scan] option, the scanned image or word will be sent to your computer in image format. Please refer to 3.3.3 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.

5. Minimize : Click to minimize the toolbar to Taskbar.

6. Minimize to Tray Icon : Click minimize the toolbar into a tray icon. Double-click the tray icon on the bottom-right of the screen to open the toolbar. Double-click to open the function menu.

 

 

3.3 Scan Mode

3.3.1 Sentence Scan

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

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

3. Open any word processor, for example Microsoft Word or WordPad, and then click the location where you desire 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 scanned text is 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.

3.3.2 Word Scan

1. Select the language of the text that you desire to scan from the [Recognition Language].

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

3. Open any word processor, for example Microsoft Word or WordPad 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 center of 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 is displayed in the Babylon or web dictionary.

6. If you scan more than one word, you can press the function button on the WorldPenScan pen to choose next recognizable word or use your mouse to 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.

 

3.3.3 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, for example Microsoft Word. Click the location where you would like to input display the scanned images.

3. Place the desired document on the a flat surface and place the scan tip at the starting word or picture. Aim the scan tip arrow at the center of the scan area, and then press and drag the scan pen in a straight line like a highlighter. 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 image is displayed in your word processor immediately.

 

 

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.

 

3.4 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 right click on the original image to save the image to .bmp or .pcx file.

 

3.5 Online Translation

WorldPenScan provides Online Translation function for you to translate words or sentences.

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

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

 

Note: Babylon option only appears in the WorldPenScan Pro version and when the Babylon online translation 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 3.6.2 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 a flat surface and place the scan tip at the starting word. Aim the scan tip arrow at the center of the desired area, the press and drag the scan pen in a straight line. The white auxiliary light from the Scan Tip indicates the pen is scanning.

5. The translation result of the first recognized word displays in the Babylon software or web browser.

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.

Note: If the Website does not support enter function, it also cannot support hardware button. Please scan next word instead.

 

3.6 Settings

3.6.1 General Settings

Click [Tools] button and select [Settings] from the drop-down menu. You can select the English Speech, At the end of the scan, add a space and East asian kanguage 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 Font. Moreover, you can check Leave no space while scanning if you don't want spaces inserted while scanning.

Convert Text to English Speech
When choosing English as the recognition language, you can choose to pronounce the recognized English word.

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] check box. While scanning text, 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 consistent direction, any changes to the direction will cause inaccurate recognition results. According to the document you want to scan to choose horizontal or vertical direction manually.

Scanning Horizontal Text
When scanning horizontal text, 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.

Convert Text to Chinese Speech
When scanning Chinese text, you can choose to pronounce the recognized word in Mandarin or Cantonese.

 

3.6.2 Online Translation Settings

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

 

 

 

 

3.6.3 Interface Language Settings

The Interface Language Settings option allows you to choose to display the interface in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. After choosing a language, check the description
area underneath.

If the description sentence does not display properly, which means your Windows OS does not support the given language display. Please choose another language.

 

 

3.6.4 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.

 

 

3.6.4 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 the button to 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 the button to remove it from the right column.

 

Tip: Select a language in the right column and click or , you can change this language's order.

 

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