IRIScan Mouse and IRISPen: Capture text easily and wirelessly
One is a real mouse able to scan all on which passes, the second is a pen: using it as a high lighter you can acquire texts, but also translate them in real time. The IRIScan Mouse and IRIScan Pen are based on the engine OCR of I.R.I.S.
Even Google has done its part and since 2006 is the main sponsor of the project Tesseract, OCR recognition engine open source code created by the opening of the eponymous software originally developed in the 80s and 90s by a giant like Hewlett-Packard. HP had, together with the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), published the code in 2005.
HP thereafter chose IRIS technology for text recognition, for example by integrating in his scanner and multifunction. IRIS with software ReadIris is often among the first positions of the top ten programs related to OCR and fighting for the championship lead in most cases with the solution OmniPage from Nuance.
We met recently IRIS for a look at more consumer products in its range: from June 2013, the company has joined the Canon Group and represents an attractive complement to the services already provided by the Japanese enterprise.
The latter sees its professional services to companies one of the most promising markets in terms of growth. The OCR engine behind the text recognition is the added value that identifies I.R.I.S. in its products, a few of which we can see the work live in the video below.
These tools capture portable, designed for combined use with notebooks, tablets and smartphones. Individuals, professionals, small offices are the customer base for this type of solutions. IRIScan Express is a wireless portable document scanner (also used on the PC and Mac via a USB cable) useful for capturing whole pages (up to 8 per minute), but they are certainly the pen and mouse products more curious.
IRIScan Mouse 2 is a mouse for all purposes (available for PC and MAC) which is able to take advantage of the optical sensor at its base not only for the positioning of the pointer, but also for the acquisition of texts and images, simply by pressing the scan on the side and going through it on the areas of interest.
The software displays real-time what was purchased and allows you to have in a few seconds the text into editable version, can be saved in various formats (including Word and PDF) as well as shared through various instruments, such as Evernote, Dropbox, Facebook , Twitter and Flickr.
Text recognition is possible in 130 languages, including Asian and Arabic: via the direct link to Google Translate is easy even have a translation of the text in seconds.
Even more special is the IRISPen, the product now in its seventh edition: lets you capture text lines so really immediate wirelessly, using it like a high lighter. Again are handy tools for editing text, but especially for translation and sharing.
Among the scenarios of use of that immediate translation of written in foreign languages, such as the restaurant menu in a foreign country, or the reading of texts (the app for Android and iOS also integrates the voice synthesizer) for those who have difficulty visual.
Combining the two is possible to simultaneously read and translate short texts from your mobile phone: in this case the example of the restaurant in a foreign land is apt.
For the translation of the main languages in the world you do not need to connect to the internet, so the function can be used without problems abroad.
