Unilingual Not good for multilingual applications The initial reason I bought the cpen was to speed up the research process. My hopes were that the pen would scan pretty much any kind of text and immediately post that text to a word document or other word processing software with some expected error. This all seemed to be the case from the videos and review but what wasn't made clear was that you can only scan a single language at a time. I work with a lot of archaeological literature which have both Spanish and English text. Unfortunately the cpen did not do well in scanning between the 2 languages. I was left to constantly correct these errors leaving me wondering why I purchased this $100.00+ device when I could type faster than it could scan.This is not to say the cpen is worthless it simply was not suitable for my needs. If you're scanning a single language you may find it quite pleasing to use. I found that about 8590% of the text scanned perfectly with the exception of citation references Author Dateetc.If you're looking for a product to scan line by line I would definitely purchase the cpen just be aware of its multilingual scanning issues.
A little tricky but serves the purpose I needed to get something small light and handheld like this when I go over legal material that needs to be copied for reference. There are a lot of scanners that copy the entire page in pdf. Although generally they probably would work I needed to find something smaller that could scan by lines or not more than pharagraph. I am pretty happy with this pen. It's easy to hold although you have to make sure you keep it pressed the whole time while you are scanning otherwise the light goes off and you have to start over. It took me about a day to get hang of it and than it was going flawlessly. Reading is not 100% perfect and misspellings do cripple in. But 9095% is fine I can work with that.
Easy to set up easy to use. From highliting to individual phrase capturing. My journey has ended. When highliting was the primary way to capture text for later referral after time I had much difficulty finding a specific phrase. Kindle's clipping captures are ideal for my purposes. However my recent research of older texts not Kindle available brought highlighting back to play. Highliting library books is irreligious and serves no purpose once the book is returned. Enter the Ectaco CPen. The set up is easy straight forward. The scanning is intuitive. The function button can be set to different functions. Set to tab for entering into forms. Set to enter for single line capturing. Set to space for capturing phrases. One reviewer indicated it natural for English readers to scan left to right. I prefer right to left in that the pen doesn't obscur the points of scanning. I guess that depends on right handed scanning as opposed to left hand. Whatever this is a tool I give 5 stars to for its ease of setup ease of operation and satisfying my cravings to easily capture phrases sentences and tabular entries. Granted my use so far has been only scanning into MSWord and Quicken but I see no reason it can't scan to most of my requirements.
Wouldn't reliably work Well below 50% accuracy when scanning a graduate text more or less normal font type and size etc.. Tried it on some magazines and on the package contents quick start guide and it was slightly better the time and effort to manually correct what it had scanned makes it slower than simply typing it in yourself.
Amazing! I am so glad to have invested in this scanning pen just sorry I didn't think of it earlier!. I used to spend hours of my days typing up quotes for papers and now I can have the quote ready without any typing in the time it would take to highlight. The accuracy is great around 98% for me with some difficulty when the text is heavily marked up or with hyphens at the end of a line. It also doesn't seem to recognize superscript very well but that's not a problem for me.
Terrible waste of money I bought the cpen in preparation for graduate school. I used it about five times then I took a break from the cpen for a couple of months. When I picked it up again it didn't work. My repeated attempts to contact the manufacturer were met without response. Poor product poor customer service.
A useful piece of technology Like a few other reviewers I also am a graduate student. I bought this after growing tired of typing in long sections of primary texts to have for purposes of comparisons. It does take some practice to get used to using but after several months it's become easy. Different lighting levels fonts types of paper etc do influence how well the pen recognizes words but again it's just something to which you become accustomed. There are also certain combinations of letters that the pen consistently gets wrong li becomes u and doublet's are often misread for instance which is annoying but easy enough to fix. Superscript numbers and italics also give the pen problems the former more so than the latter. The only truly major gripes I have are about recognition of Greek characters and customer service. In my studies I use Greek texts often and I had hoped that the pen would provide an easy way to input Greek characters and words. Unfortunately while the pen usually gets most of the letters right pi's and double letters being the major exceptions it generally does a poor job capturing the accents and rough breathings both of which are important.
AWESOME Time Saver
Very useful I recently received this as a gift and I've found it very useful. I am a pediatric cardiology fellow so I'm constantly reading medical texts as a routine part of my education. My studying almost always includes taking notes in a Word document as I read. This pen does a remarkably accurate job of transferring text from my books into whatever document that I have open. It simply imports the text wordforword as you run the pen over the text just as if you're highlighting the book and places it wherever your cursor is in the Word document. It even knows when a word has been hyphenated in the text to carry over from one line to another and when it imports it into your Word document it appropriately removes the hyphen from the word. This will undoubtedly save me time when I want to condense large amounts of text from different books into a more concise document for later use.
Works well with a few glitches I bought the scanner/pen about three months ago now. Right out of the box the scanner did exactly what was advertised scanned text from books and articles with little fuss. Even yellowhighlighted text in old textbooks is easily scanned.There are a few tricks that I've learned. Keeping the pen perpendicular to the text is important. Curved pages don't scan as well so flatten the book as much as possible. Slower is better for accuracy. While you can whip along a line quickly the error rate goes up.Couple of issues. First every once in a while the scanner light does not turn on. I think the switch turning on the light as the pen touches the page gets a piece of grit in it. If I unplug the pen and shake gently it seems to fix itself so far. Second the pen scans poorly in welllit places. The pen which works by contrast of white page to black ink basically doesn't work in daylight. While you can shade the page a bit with your hand in sunlight the error rate is very high.As far as wants I very much wish it would pick up subscripts and superscripts. As a chemistry teacher scanning in formulas with the formatting intact would save me a lot of time.But overall this is a great product. I have two flatbed scanners that get much less use now that I have the CPen.PS I have noted that when I scan in the text I seem to retain more of it. I think the slowness of the scanner relative to my normal reading rate helps achieve this. That's a nice byproduct of the process.
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