C Technologies Mobile Information Collector C-Pen Manuel utilisateur
USER’S GUIDE
English
First edition (March 2001).
This manual is published by C TechnologiesAB, 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 including those on our web site
www.cpen.com.
All rights reserved
Copyright © C Technologies AB, 2001
Printed in Sweden and in the U.S.A.
PLEASE NOTE!
For instructions in other languages please consult our webpage
http://www.cpen.com.
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO ......................................................... 5
C-Pen Models................................................................................ 5
Your Personal Digital Assistant ...................................................... 7
Optimal Reading Conditions .......................................................... 8
User Documentation and Support .............................................. 10
Care and Safety ......................................................................... 10
PRESENTATION OF C-PEN ............................................. 12
Parts of C-Pen............................................................................. 12
Display Objects ............................................................................ 14
GETTING STARTED ....................................................... 17
Turning C-Pen On and Off .......................................................... 17
Battery ........................................................................................ 17
Navigating and Selecting ............................................................ 19
READING AND SAVING TEXT ...................................... 22
Reading Text ............................................................................... 22
Saving Text.................................................................................. 25
EDITING TEXT ............................................................... 26
Entering Edit Mode ..................................................................... 26
Edit Menu ................................................................................... 26
C Write ........................................................................................ 31
C Write Prototypes .....................................................................35
APPLICATIONS .............................................................. 39
Notes ........................................................................................... 41
C Dictionary ................................................................................. 45
Settings ...................................................................................... 54
Info .............................................................................................. 61
Storage ...................................................................................... 62
C Beam ....................................................................................... 64
C Direct ....................................................................................... 68
C Write (only available for latin characters)................................70
USING C-PEN WITH YOUR PC ....................................... 71
Installing C-Win Software ........................................................... 71
Connecting C-Pen to a PC by IR ................................................. 72
Connecting C-Pen to a PC by Cable ........................................... 73
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Getting Help ................................................................................ 74
C-Pen Viewer.............................................................................. 74
Copy and paste in the PC Environment ...................................... 75
Installing and Removing Applications .......................................... 76
Transferring Files ......................................................................... 77
C Direct ....................................................................................... 78
C-Pen Edit ................................................................................... 78
Closing the Connection ............................................................... 79
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ........................................ 80
WARRANTY ................................................................... 81
LIMITED WORLDWIDE WARRANTY ............................................. 83
Warranty Information ................................................................. 85
DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY .................................. 86
UL STATEMENT ............................................................. 87
C DICTIONARY COPYRIGHT NOTICE ............................. 88
INDEX ............................................................................ 90
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INTRODUCTION TO
Congratulations - you have just bought a photographic
memory!C-PenisaMobile InformationCollectorthat reads,
remembers,processes and transfersprinted text toyourWin-
dows-equipped PC and PDA products. C-Pen is in essence
an electronic highlighter that saves the text you are mark-
ing. Carry it with you wherever you go!
Make it a habit to take 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.
With the portable dictionary you can translate and look up
words immediately without carrying around a printed
dictionary!
Your saved text files can later be transferred toyour PC. It is
also possible to use C-Pen to read text directly into a Win-
dows application in your PC.
C-Pen Models
In order to accommodate different needs, several C-Pen
models are available. They all have the basic features
C Read, C Write and Notes. The set of applications
depends on the model. C-Pen 600MX is equipped with
applications such as C Dictionary and Storage and has the
ability to read the Cyrillic alphabet. On the following pages
you will find a short description of C-Pen 600MX and its
applications.
Formore informationon C-Pen,please referto ourwebpage:
http://www.cpen.com.
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C-Pen 600MX
C-Pen 600MX combines the reading function with transla-
tion ability, making it the perfect companion when travel-
ling or studying.
C-Pen600MX includes:
• C Read • C Direct • Info
• C Write • Notes • Storage
• C Beam • C Dictionary
C-Pen 600MX has the ability to read both the Latin and
the Cyrillic alphabet. It reads polish, hungarian, czech and
russian as well as the languages that other C-Pens read.
C-Pen 600MX offers communication by cable as well as
by IR.
It is powered by two alkaline AAA batteries (1.5 V type,
LR03). See further important instructions, Battery, p.17.
C-Pen 600MX has a Trigg button, that you press while
reading, and an ESC button. It is possible to exchange the
functions between these two buttons.
For more information on C-Pen 600MX, please refer to our
webpage: http://www.cpen.com.
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Your Personal Digital Assistant
Powerful features
• CRead
Reads in text - the basic function of C-Pen. Move C-Pen
over the text, and the text will be captured by the pen,
where it can be saved as a file for later processing.
• CWrite (only theLatin alphabet)
Allows you to enter characters by writing with C-Pen as
if it were an ordinary pen. This is useful when editing
text, entering file names and looking up words in C Dic-
tionary
• CDirect
Enables you to transfer the scanned text directly from C-
Pen into your PC. The text will be placed at the cursor
position in any Windows program.
• C Beam
Transfers notes, contacts, calendar events and files be-
tween C-Pen and PDAs. C Beam supports the standard
infrared protocol IrOBEX. All devices and applications
using the IrOBEX protocol to its full extent are fully
compatible with C-Pen.
• C Dictionary
Enables your C-Pen to translate and/or look up words. C
Dictionary is very easy to use, simply slide your C-Pen
over the word you require translated and within less than
a second the result is displayed. Several language soft-
ware packages are available.
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• Storage
Storage area in C-Pen, which can be used as a floppy
disc for files.
Optimal 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 moves over the text, its internal light source illu-
minates the characters and a camera takes pictures of the
text. During OCR, C-Pen analyzes the pictures taken by its
camera and translates them into text characters.
The OCR quality will depend on the reading conditions.
The letters most commonly confused using OCR are:
e →cl→It→c
r+n→mi→lc→o
The following conditions affect the quality of character
recognition:
•Theprintquality of the text
High-quality printed text naturally gives maximum
OCR accuracy. With lower-quality print, e.g. faxes,
OCR accuracy may be poorer.You can calibrate the
C-Pen to optimize its performance under difficult
conditions; see Calibration, p. 56.
Pleasenote that C-Pen only recognizes machine-printed
characters such as laser-printed or typewritten text.
C-Pen does not recognize handwritten text.
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•PositionandmovementofC-Pen
It is important how you hold and move C-Pen over the
printed text. Please see Reading text, p. 22 or 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
Set the text language of the text you wish to read, to
get the most suitable OCR. See Text Language, p. 55.
•Deformedcharacters
Anything that is not a printed character, and any
character distorted by a mark or smudge on the paper
may be unrecognizable.
•Overlapping characters
Characters in the text should not overlap.
•Italicsandunderlinedtext
Italics are slightly difficult for C-Pen to read in some
fonts. Underlined text is also difficult for C-Pen to
read because the underline changes the shapes of the
descenders of the letters g, j, p, q and y.
•Text colors - text and surface
C-Pen cannot read some combinations of text colors
on colored surfaces, such as red or yellow text on a
white or red background.
Text that is highlighted by a traditional highlighter
marker can be read in some cases, depending on the
color and darkness of the ink.
•Small or large character sizes
The size of the characters should be 5–22 points.
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User Documentation and Support
There are several sources of support for your C-Pen.
This User's Guide contains a description of C-Pen, its ap-
plications and instructions for reading and editing text and
saving files. The following applications are explained:
• C Read • C Direct • Storage
• C Write • C Beam • C Dictionary
• Notes • Info • Settings
You can also learn how to connect C-Pen to a PC.
The enclosed C-Pen CD contains the C-Win Software for
communication between C-Pen and your PC. It also con-
tains several help files:
• Help
• User's Guide in several different languages
• Troubleshooting, which helps you solve many
problems
On our web site, www.cpen.com, you can find Trouble-
shooting and the User’s Guide translated into several lan-
guages.Visit our web site, www.cpen.com, to get the latest
C-Pen news and free software upgrades.
Care and Safety
•
Keep C-Pen away from direct sunlight, heat, moisture
and dust.
• Do not expose C-Pen to extreme temperature
variations.
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