How does the IRISPen work?
The pen-sized scanner functions as a camera that sends a greyscale image to the computer. (The IRISPen is in fact the first and only greyscale pen scanner!) To recapture printed (or typed) information, you simply glide the pen over a line of text. You start scanning as soon as you press the IRISPen onto the paper; the scanned text is lit up by the scanner. As you scan, an image consisting of intense points, so-called pixels against a lighter background, is generated and transmitted to the computer. The IRISPen software now takes over. The OCR software (OCR is short for Optical Character Recognition) converts the image into editable characters. Character recognition is the process whereby an image is captured of a paper document – we speak of scanning – after which the text is extracted from that image. (I.R.I.S. a leading company in this area. I.RI.S. is indeed the developer of a wide range of OCR solutions that includes Readiris, one of the most popular OCR packages for flatbed scanne
