C-Pen 200 Manuel utilisateur
USER MANUAL
English
The symbol on our products signifies that they have
been certified in accordance with the EMC directive 89/
336/EEC and the Low Voltage directive 73/23/EEC when
applicable. The products fulfill the requirements of the
following standards:
EN 50 081-1:1992 Electromagnetic compatibility, Generic
Emission Standard.
EN 50 082-1:1992 Electromagnetic compatibility, Generic
Immunity Standard.
First edition (May 1999).
This manual is published by C Technologies AB, without any warranty.
Improvements and changes to this manual necessitated by typographical errors,
inaccuracies of current information, or improvements to programs and/or
equipment, may be made by C Technologies AB at any time and without notice.
Such changes will, however, be incorporated into new editions of this manual.
All rights reserved
© C Technologies AB, 1999
Part No.AM 251 022 R1A
Printed in Sweden
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO C-PEN ............................... 5
Your Personal Digital Assistant ...................................... 5
Optimum reading conditions ......................................... 6
User documentation and support ................................. 8
Care & Safety .................................................................. 9
PRESENTATION OF THE PEN.......................... 10
Parts of the pen ............................................................ 10
Display objects .............................................................. 11
GETTING STARTED ........................................ 14
Installing the batteries ................................................. 14
Turning C-Pen On and Off ............................................ 15
Navigating and selecting ............................................. 15
READING AND SAVING TEXT ....................... 18
Reading text .................................................................. 18
Saving text .................................................................... 20
EDITING TEXT................................................ 21
Entering edit mode ...................................................... 21
Edit menu ...................................................................... 21
C Write........................................................................... 25
APPLICATIONS .............................................. 32
Notes ............................................................................. 33
C Address ....................................................................... 36
Settings ......................................................................... 42
Info ................................................................................ 47
CONNECTING TO A PC .................................. 48
Installing software ........................................................ 48
Connecting C-Pen to a PC ............................................ 49
Getting help .................................................................. 50
C-Pen Viewer ................................................................. 50
Installing and removing applications .......................... 51
Transferring files ........................................................... 51
C Address ....................................................................... 52
C Direct .......................................................................... 53
C-Pen Edit ...................................................................... 54
Closing the connection ................................................. 54
TROUBLESHOOTING ...................................... 55
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ........................ 57
INDEX............................................................ 58
WARRANTY ................................................... 61
Warranty Information .................................................. 62
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INTRODUCTION TO C-PEN
Congratulations - you have just bought
yourself a photographic memory! C-Pen is
a Mobile Information Collector that reads,
remembers, processes and transfers printed
text cordlessly to your Windows-equipped
PC. C-Pen is in essence an electronic high-
lighter that remembers the text that you are
marking. Carry it with you wherever you
go!
Your Personal Digital Assistant
Make it a habit to bring your portable text
collector with you, and you are always
ready to read and save text from books,
papers, brochures or business cards.You
can easily record price-lists, timetables,
wine-tips or witty quotes.You don’t have
to tear out pages any more.
Your saved text files can later be transferred to your PC.
It is also possible to use C-Pen to read text directly into a
Windows application in your PC.
Powerful features
C Read is the basic function of C-Pen. Move C-Pen
over the text, and the text will be placed in
C-Pen, where you can save it as a file for
later processing.
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C Direct enables you to transfer the read text directly
from C-Pen into your PC. The text will be
placed at the cursor position in for instance a
Word or Excel document.
CAddress is an application in C-Pen for storing and
looking up contact information such as
addresses, phone numbers and e-mail
addresses. C Address can be synchronized
with Microsoft Outlook and supports the
vCard standard.
C Write gives you the possibility to enter characters
by writing with C-Pen as an ordinary pen.
This is useful when editing text, entering file
names or searching for a contact in CAddress.
Optimum reading conditions
C-Pen uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to read
text. OCR is the process of turning an image of characters
into computer-readable text.
As C-Pen is moved over the text, C-Pen’s internal light
source illuminates the characters and a camera takes
images of the text. During OCR, C-Pen analyzes the
images taken by its camera and translates them into text
characters.
The OCR quality will depend on the reading conditions.
The most common confusions between characters with
OCR are:
e →cl→It→c
r+n →mi→lc→o
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The following conditions affects the quality of the
character recognition:
•The print quality of the text
High-quality printed text produces, of course, maxi-
mum OCR accuracy. With lower-quality pages, e.g.
fax copies, OCR accuracy may be poorer.You can
calibrate C-Pen to optimize its performance under
difficult conditions; see Calibration, p. 43.
NOTE: C-Pen only recognizes machine-printed
characters such as laser-printed or typewritten text.
C-Pen does not recognize handwritten text.
•Position and movement of C-Pen
It is important how you hold and move C-Pen over the
printed text. Please read the Quick Start folder to learn
how to use C-Pen correctly. It is crucial that you
follow these instructions in order to get the best results.
•The language of the text
See Text Language, p. 43.
•Deformed characters
Anything that is not a printed character, and any
character distorted by a mark or smudge on the paper
could be unrecognizable.
•Overlapped characters
Characters in the text should not overlap.
•Italics and underlined text
Italics are, for some fonts, difficult for C-pen to read.
Underlined text is difficult for C-Pen to read because
the underline changes the shape of descenders of the
letters q, g, y, p, and j.
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•Certain colors
C-Pen cannot read red or yellow text on a white or red
background, or white text on a red background.
•Small or large character sizes
The size of the characters should be 7–20 points.
User documentation and support
There are different sources to support your use of C-Pen:
• This User Manual contains a description of C-Pen and
instructions for reading, editing and saving files. The
applications Notes, C Address, C Direct, C Write and
Settings are explained.You will also learn how to
connect C-Pen to a PC.
• The attached CD contains the C-Pen Windows Software
for communication between C-Pen and your PC, as
well as a Readme file on how to install and configure
your computer for infrared communication. The User
Manual is available in several languages on the CD.
• When using C-Pen together with your PC, you have
access to online help, which is automatically installed
on your PC, when you install the C-Pen Windows
Software. The help topics are mostly related to the
C-Pen Windows Software. Instructions for using
C Direct is more thorough in the online help than in
this manual.
• Visit our website to get the latest C-Pen news and free
software upgrades. On our website you will also find
several language versions of User Manual, trouble-
shooting and FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions).
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Care & Safety
• Keep C-Pen away from direct sunlight, heat, moisture
and dust.
• Do not expose C-Pen to extreme variations in tempera-
ture.
• Make sure that the camera opening is free from dust or
any other objects.
• Clean C-Pen with a dry cloth. Do not use detergents or
other chemicals when cleaning C-Pen.
• Use only 1.5 V AAA batteries of type LR03 (alkaline)
• Make backup copies of your C-Pen files regularly and
keep the copies in a safe place.
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PRESENTATION OF THE PEN
Parts of the pen
On/Off Turns C-Pen on or off, when pressed for one
Nav second.
This button is also used as a control for
moving around in menus and texts (turn
control left or right) and to select an item or
an option (press briefly).
Display Used to display read text and for communi-
cation between C-Pen and the user.
Escape button (ESC)
Trigger button
(Trigg)
Navigation control (Nav)
and On/Off button
IR port
Display
Trigger button
(Trigg)
Camera opening
Battery compartment
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