A pen that can scan, capture and store printed text.

Widget UK Launches Wizcom's Family Of Pen-Based Scan-And-Store Products

Knebworth (PRWEB) January 24, 2004 --Wizcom's powerful new family of mobile scan and store solutions for individuals, business professionals and educators are now available to the public and to resellers from Widget UK Ltd.

Translators, students, writers, researchers, business people and anyone else who works with text will benefit from the use of a Wizcom scan and store pen.

The Wizcom Infoscan, Wizcom SuperPen and Wizcom SuperPen Professional allow you to scan and store a minimum of five hundred pages of printed text from a wide range of information sources including books, magazines, newspapers and printed documents.

Once the text is scanned and stored within the pen it can be left there temporarily or easily transferred over an industry-standard serial or USB connection to a PC or notebook computer. You can also beam the information instantly to a personal digital assistant (PDA) such as a Palm or Pocket PC device.

Simple To Set Up And Use!

Wizcom devices are simple to set up and extremely easy to use. Similar in operation to a highlighter - without physically marking the page - these incredibly-powerful handheld devices resemble an ordinary pen. They are compact (weighing just three ounces) and convenient to carry and use, making them ideal for students, researchers and business people. And unlike other scan and store products, the Wizcom pens excel at ease of use, reliability and advanced scanning and storing capabilities.

To scan in text the user need only drag the Wizcom scanner across the information that is required - the pen auto-detects the text for instant scanning. Just roll and scan and the Wizcom pen will instantly convert and store the selected information. Text can be scanned from English sources with French or Spanish available via a download from the Wizcom CD-ROM. And the optical character recognition accuracy is currently rated at approximately ninety-seven percent.

Using a Wizcom pen a student could easily take notes without marking up a textbook, a business person could scan and store a client document for transfer to a desktop PC and a teacher could scan in student essays and tests. Once scanned the text can be inserted seamlessly into any Windows-based application.

Conveniently, Wizcom products run on standard Alkaline AAA batteries and can also accept several brands of rechargeable batteries.

Three Powerful Solutions

Currently, Wizcom and Widget UK offer three affordable yet powerful scan and store solutions, including the following systems:

The Wizcom Infoscan is known as the "electronic notetaker" and is ideal for educational and business environments. The Infoscan ships complete with two megabytes of onboard memory and a two-megabyte integrated flash card
The Wizcom SuperPen takes the whole concept of language to a new level entirely with over 30 downloadable language dictionaries. The SuperPen is the perfect scan and translate tool, and this ultimate language translator can change languages as needed - making it fluent anywhere in the world. Scan a complete line of text and see word-by-word translation displayed instantaneously! Built-in Text-to-Speech technology enables users to hear a full line of text or single word spoken aloud, in English. Scan, Store and Transfer functions allow the capture of essential printed data (text, barcodes and small images) anytime, anywhere. Store up to 2000 pages of information and then transfer to a PC or PDA. Scanned text can be transferred seamlessly into any Windows based application
The Wizcom SuperPen Professional is the perfect "scan and define" tool for English speaking professionals requiring specialized vocabulary. The SuperPen Professional comes preloaded with English language dictionaries from the distinguished Houghton Mifflin Collection. Users can see the definition of a wide range of professional terms and words. The dictionaries available include the renowned American Heritage Dictionary Office Edition, Steadman Medical, Wall Street Words, Computer and Internet Words, Science, Geography, Abbreviations, Idioms and a Thesaurus. Built-in Text-to-Speech technology enables users to hear a full line of text or a single word spoken aloud. The Scan, Store and Transfer function allows the capture of essential printed data (text, barcodes and small images) anytime, anywhere. Store up to 2000 pages of information and transfer to a PC or PDA at your leisure.
"The world today is all about information - locating it, storing it and ultimately retrieving it," explained Mark Needham of Widget UK. "We believe in the obvious technological benefits of the Wizcom scan and store products and feel they are a major leap forward in convenience for anyone who works with any sort of printed text or information."

About Widget UK Ltd
Widget UK Ltd distributes mobile computing accessories, to retail and trade channels and to the public via www.widget.co.uk.
Widget specialises in
i) accessories for handheld computers, including satellite navigation
ii) business card and pen scanners.
Please call 0845 055 0005 for additional information or email Mark Needham. A high resolution image of the Superpen is available from the Widget web site.