C-Pen 20 USB Features and Specifications

Key features

• OCR capability: Text 167 languages based on Latin, Cyrillic and Greek character sets
• 1D Barcode Types: Check Code 39, Check Interleaved 25, Code 128, Code 39, EAN 13, EAN 8, Interleaved 25, CODABAR (without checksum), UCC Code 128, Code 2 of 5 (Industrial, IATA, Matrix), Code 93, UPC-A, UPC-E and Postnet.
• Numerical Mode (Banking Fonts): Digits, OCR-A, and MICR (E13B).
• Scanning Fonts: frequently used fonts in normal, bold, italic and inverted
• Font size: 5-22 pts
• USB: USB certified USB1.1 and USB2.0 compliant
• Buttons Function: Configurable function button
• Ergonomic: Automatic trigger when reading
• Symmetric design : for right/left hand usage, Left/right scanning direction

Scans and digitizes: printed information into the host PC computer featuring Anoto Advanced Image Processing and Abbyy FineReader 7 OCR Engine.

Typical applications
Note: Text to Speech Engine, Dictionary and Translation software is not included in the C-Pen 20 standard consumer kit.

Generic text capture

• news and articles
• study and research
• business cards
• printed information to databases
  
  Text to Speech
• Text reading for dyslectic or disabled people
• Foreign languages pronunciation practice
  
  Dictionary lookup
  
  Language translation
• incl./excl. TTS
  
  Internet banking / accounting
• Capture invoice information
  
  Logistic

Barcode scanning

Details of C-Pen Software installed in the pen: C Read - allows you to collect and save printed text in the C-Pen’s memory. C Direct - enables you to copy text from a paper source via the C-Pen, as a smart hand-held scanning device, directly to any Windows application and view it on your PC screen. C Dictionary - read and translate any word using complete dictionaries from the Oxford University Press, or Norstedts. C Address - is an application within C-Pen that enables you to store and retrieve names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses. It is synchronised with Microsoft Outlook on your PC. C Write - write characters with the C-Pen like a ball point pen. C Beam - transfer text or data directly to your Palm. C Message - you can send short messages or complete text files via your infra-red enabled cellular phone. Text can be sent either SMS of Fax. C Calendar - view a whole month, week or day at a time either read or write into your C-Pen.

 

The C-Pen 20 comes with a host software, which is divided into three parts; the C-Pen 20 SDK, the Abbyy FineReader OCR and the C-Pen 20 User Interface providing a turn key user solution, featuring user selective scan type (e.g. text/barcode), scan language etc.

The C-Pen 20 SDK enables very flexible third party application development . Both the OCR Module and the User Interface are optional to integrate and thus replaceable. A third party OCR engines may be integrated and thus enable recognition of additional character sets. The option to replace the standard User Interface enables a seamless integration into any third party vertical application.

C-Pen 20 User Interface
The C-Pen 20 User Interface provides configuration options for
- functional button
- audio feedback
- reading language (refer to OCR section below for details)
- menu language (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Swedish)
- barcode types selection
- banking fonts

System requirements

• PC with Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP
• Pentium 200 MHz with 64 MB RAM and 290 MB free hard disk space
• CD-ROM drive
• USB-port for cable connection (USB 2.0 / USB 1.1)

34 Main Languages featuring dictionary support and spelling check system:

Armenian (Eastern, Western, Grabar), Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch (The Netherlands and Belgium), English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German (new and old spelling), Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian
(Nynorsk and Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish and Ukrainian.

133 Additional Languages with Latin, Cyrillic or Greek characters:

Abkhaz, Adyghian, Afrikaans, Agul, Albanian, Altai, Avar, Aymara, Azerbaijani (Cyrillic), Azerbaijani (Latin), Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Blackfoot, Breton, Bugotu, Buryat, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Chukchee, Chuvash, Congo, Corsican, Crimean Tatar, Crow, Dakota, Dargwa, Dungan, Eskimo (Cyrillic), Eskimo (Latin), Even, Evenki, Faeroese, Fijian, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, German (Luxemburg), Guarani, Hani, Hausa, Hawaiian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Ingush, Irish, Jingpo, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay-balkar, Karakalpak, Kasub, Kawa, Kazakh, Khakass, Khanty, Kikuyu, Kirghiz, Klingon, Koryak, Kpelle, Kumyk, Kurdish, Lak, Latin, Lezgi, Luba, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malinke, Maltese, Mansy