Penpower mini ScanEYE
Ⅱ
User Manual
Edition: Released in July, 2006
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Product Features............................................................................1-1
Chapter 2 Installation.....................................................................................2-1
2.1 System Requirements..................................................................................2-1
2.2 Hardware Specication...............................................................................2-1
2.3 Software Installation....................................................................................2-2
2.4 Hardware Installation..................................................................................2-3
Chapter 3 Character Input..............................................................................3-1
3.1 Open Penpower mini ScanEYE II..............................................................3-1
3.2 Scan Direction.............................................................................................3-2
3.3 Scanning Vertically Aligned Text.................................................................3-2
3.4 Scanning Horizontal Text............................................................................3-3
3.5 Scanning Horizontal or Vertically Aligned Text...........................................3-4
3.6 Reading Aloud as You Scan.........................................................................3-4
3.7 UI language settings....................................................................................3-4
3.8 Traditional/Simplied Chinese Recognition...............................................3-5
3.9 Practise........................................................................................................3-6
3.10 Using Balloon UI.......................................................................................3-7
Correct a Certain Charccter..................................................................................3-7
Candidates...........................................................................................................3-7
Pre-emptive linking..............................................................................................3-8
Character Combination.......................................................................................3-9
Character Split.....................................................................................................3-9
Displaying Original Form......................................................................................3-10
Punctuation in Ballon UI........................................................................................3-10
Online Translation...................................................................................................3-12
Chapter 4 Penpower TransEYE......................................................................4-1
4.1 Open Penpower TransEYE..........................................................................4-1
4.2 English Character Dictionary Lookup.........................................................4-2
4.3 Chinese Character Dictionary......................................................................4-2
4.4 English Phrasal Dictionary...........................................................................4-3
4.5 Chinese Phrasal Dictionary..........................................................................4-3
4.6 Translating Scanned Input...........................................................................4-5
Chapter 1 Product Features
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Chapter 1 Product Features
Chinese/English/Japanese Scan and Translation Pen
Penpower mini ScanEYE II, the best input device, scans and recognizes Traditional
Chinese, Simplied Chinese, English and Japanese into your computer via the USB
interface. Whenever you come across any particular words or sentences that you do not
understand, mini ScanEYE II will scan and translate for you.
With an ergonomic design, the brand new mini ScanEYE II provides a comfortable
handle which ts all left and right-handed users. Scan away effortlessly with the transparent scan tip. Where you see, where you scan.
Features
· A brand new ergonomic design
Provide a comfortable handle which ts all left and right-handed users. Scan away effortlessly with its transparent scan tip. Where you see, where you scan.
· The best input and translation device
Connects to the USB port and bundle in a 3 in 1 function of scan, recognition and
translation. When scanning, it instantaneously recognizes and translates horizontal or
vertical aligned characters, doing away with all the complex usage procedures.
· Huge recognition boundary
It can recognize 13060 Traditional Chinese characters, 6763 Simplied Chinese characters, 4184 Hong Kong characters, 3580 Japanese characters, English words, numbers
and punctuation.
· Multiple language recognition system
The adjustable multiple language recognition system provides Traditional Chinese,
Simplied Chinese, Hong Kong characters, English and Japanese recognition kernels.
· Balloon Interface
Balloon interface offers you a non-interference environment. All scan results will directly transfer to the desired application. Balloon interface pops up and provides online
translator, pronunciation, candidate words and related words whenever you need.
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· Correction and pre-emptive computing
Spell-check function which predicts characters while correcting alignment now empowers you with a more accurate scanning ow.
· Continuous scanning and recognition
Multi-thread architecture allows you to scan continuously without pause while recognition is being done on the y.
· Bi-directional Chinese to English document translation
Translate phrases or characters from English to Chinese or vice versa and have your
complete Chinese document translated into English right away, with a read back function which reads out your document to you aloud.
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Chapter 2 Installation
Function button:
When scanning words, the function button can be used as Enter function. It also works
as checking next word in the Penpower Transeye.
Chapter 2 Installation
2.1 System Requirements
· Pentium II 300 CPU or above
· 128MB of RAM
· 220MB of available hard disk space
· Windows 2000/XP
· USB port
2.2 Hardware Specication
· Dimensions: 131mm x 31mm x 19mm
· Weight: 45g (excludes USB cable)
· Interface: USB 2.0
· Scanning speed: 15 cm/sec
· Character size: 5~22 pt
Scan tip
Function Button
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2.3 Software Installation
1. Insert the Penpower mini Scaneye II setup cd into your cd-rom drive. If the computer
does not auto-run the cd, you can go to D:\setup.exe where D: (may not be D: on
your computer) is your cd-rom. Then Select an installation language and click OK to
install. Then click on Next to continue.
3. Please select the type of the miniScayEYE II, then click Next to continue.
4. Please choose to installtion the Hong Kong characters or not, then click Next to continue.
2. Key in your user name, company name
and click Next to continue.
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Chapter 2 Installation
5. Choose the destination folder to install the software. This is usually left as default.
Click Next to continue.
6. Choose the folder that you want to install mini ScanEYE II to in Program Files. This
is usually left as default. Click Next to continue.
7. The installtion process will run and it
will prompt you to restart the computer
when the installtion process is nished.
Tick Yes, restart computer mow and
click on Finish to end the installation.
2.4 Hardware Installation
1. Plug in the mini ScanEYE II into your
computer’s USB port and a window
will appear, welcoming you to the
hardware installation wizard. Select
[No, not this time] and click Next to
continue.
Note: Some computers may shut down accidentally after connection. This is due to lack
of power to support several USB devices. To avoid this problem, connect your
mini ScanEYE and other USB devices to an extra-powered USB hub.
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2. Select [Install the software automatically] and click Next to continue.
5. Click on Finish to end the installation.
Notes: When rst time execute mini
ScanEYE II, a nding mini Scan-
Eye hardware message will appear.
Click Next to continue.
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Chapter 3 Character Input
Chapter 3 Character Input
3.1 Open Penpower mini ScanEYE II
1. Go to Start/Programs/Penpower miniScanEYE II /Penpower miniScanEYE II to start
the program.
3. Open any word processor (i.e Microsoft Word or Wordpad) and place your cursor in
there as usual before you start typing.
4. Place the desired document to be scanned on the table and run your pen along the
characters.
5. The characters that the pen has passed through will be recognized and the results will
be directly passed into your desired word processor.
2. After starting the program, you will notice an icon appearing beside your clock as il
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lustrated.
6. Click on the mini ScanEYE II icon in
the taskbar beside the clock and click
on exit to close the mini ScanEYE II
software.
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3.2 Scan Direction
mini ScanEYE II must be used to scan the characters in a consistent direction, any
changes to the direction will cause inaccurate recognition results.
1. ClickontheminiScanEYEIIicononyourtaskbarbesidetheclockandgototherst
option, which is the settings.
3.3 Scanning Vertically Aligned Text
When scanning vertically aligned text, please scan the text in top to bottom fashion
and have the characters centered at the middle of your pen as indicated by the centre
marker line.
2. Go to the General tab and you will be
abletochangethecongurationset
tings according to how you hold the
pen and the direction which you want
to scan.
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Chapter 3 Character Input
3.4 Scanning Horizontal Text
When scanning horizontal text, you can choose the left-hand or right-hand option and
please the pen on the text, moving from left to right or right to left depending on the op
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tion you have set previously.
Right hand: Scanning from left to right or Scanning from right to left
Left hand: Scanning from left to righ or Scanning from right to leftc.
Note: Penpower mini ScanEYE II is able to scan and recognize one row of characters
at any time, please place the pen in such a way that the centre marker is at the
centre of the character.
3.5 Scanning Horizontal or Vertically Aligned Text
When you install the Penpower mini ScanEYE II, the default setting for the text
direction is detect automatically. However, you can manually set the desired text direc
tion of your choice and start scanning too. You can still leave it at default being detected
automatically but however, as mini ScanEYE II will need to detect the text direction,
scanning speed will be slower too.
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If you know that all your text is in a
certain direction, you can set the mini
ScanEYE II to scan in only one direction
based on the setting just discussed: Hori
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zontal or Vertical.
1. Click on the mini ScanEYE II icon on
your taskbar by the clock and click on
therstoption,whichisSettings.
2. Go to the Property tab and choose your
desired text direction under Orienta
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tion.
Every time a character has been recog
nized, mini ScanEYE II will pronounce
that character either in Mandarin or Can
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tonese.
1. Click on the mini ScanEYE II icon in
your taskbar and go to Settings.
2. Go to General and you will see an op
tion called Sound, where it allows you
to choose between None, Mandarin or
Cantonese. Click OK to apply the new
settings.
3.6 Reading Aloud As You Scan
3.7 UI language settings
Open Version window from the
main menu of mini ScanEYE II. You may
chooseTraditionalChinese,Simplied
Chinese or E
ng
lish for UI language. After
choosing the UI language, you may check
the description. If the description does not
display properly, which means your Win
dows OS does not support the language
display.
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Chapter 3 Character Input
3.8 Traditional/Simplied Chinese Recognition
Before using Penpower mini ScanEYE II, please ensure that the style of Chinese has
beenconguredtosuityourneeds.Differentcongurationwillyielddifferentresults
when scanning.
Tip: mini ScanEYE II can actually convert Traditional text on your document to a
Simplied Chinese oriented result, in which you can select a different combination.
Tip: When scanning handwritten text, the
scanning results may vary according to handwriting, so the optimal
recognition can be achieved when
the text is properly aligned and the
size must be within the scanning
range of the pen.
2. Go to the Property tab.
Recognition: You can select a variety of
text which can be recognized, in which
English & Numeral, Chinese and
Japanese can be selected based on the
document you desire to scan.
Content: You can select whether the text
you are scanning is printed text or
handwritten text.
1. Click on the Penpower mini ScanEYE
II icon on your taskbar beside the
clock, click on Settings and select the
style of BIG5 (Traditional Chinese),
GB(SimpliedChinese),Japaneseor
English.
Recognition: Based on the text to be
scanned, choose the correct recognition
kernel.
Recognition Results: Select the style of
Chinese in the targeted scanning results
Use English Message: Switches between
English/Chinese interface.
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3.9 Practise
According to what has been discussed previously, please scan the illustrated text
below,inahorizontalandverticalfashion.Donotintroduceabruptchangeswhenscan
ning, i.e the speed of moving your pen or scanning too fast. It will take approximately 5
seconds to complete scanning the text below.
If you have successfully scanned the text with the correct recognition results, you are
now ready to put mini ScanEYE II to actual use!
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Chapter 3 Character Input
3.10 Using Balloon UI
When using mini ScanEYE II in Balloon UI, all scanning results will be directly transferred to the desired application. You can continuously scan through text and all results
will be instantly transferred to the desired application.
For example, scan “
蒙恬全螢幕手寫精靈
” into MS Word continuously.
Correct a Certain Character
When you want to correct a certain character, all you need to do is to leave your cursor on the character for 1-2 seconds and a window showing a list of suggested corrections
will be presented to you. This will enable you quicker correction and a faster way of
inputting characters into your desired application.
Tip: You only need to leave your cursor on the character, you do not need to click any
buttons.
When the pop up window appear, you will
have a list of suggested corrections, character
combination buttons
or hover your
cursor over the display original text button
.
*. Candidates
Ifyoundaincorrectcharacterinyourresultbox,youcanusethecandidatefunction
to replace with the correct character.
1. As per the illustration, the character has been recognized incorrectly.
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*. Pre-emptive Linking
Inanycontinuoustext(2characters),therstcharacteristhesecondcharacter’s
uplink,whilethesecondcharacteristherstcharacter’sdownlink.Forexample
科技
,
where
科
is
技
’suplink,whilethecharacter
技
is
科
’sdownlink.
1. When using the mini ScanEYE II, the recognition results will be directly transferred
to the desired application.
2. As shown in the illustration, the character
恬
has been recognized incorrectly as 恰 as
well as
科
which also has been incorrectly recognized as
料
.
2. Leave your cursor on the character for 1-2 seconds and a window
showing a list of suggested corrections will be presented.
3. If the correct character appears among the list of characters pre
sented, you can click on the character to have your current incorrect
character replaced.
5. Lastly, notice that the wrong character has been replaced.
3. Leave your cursor on the character
恰
for
1-2 seconds and a window will pop up
listing possible characters. In the pop up
window, click on the magnet which is fac
-
ing left (uplink) and you will notice
another pop up window which shows you a
list of combination which the system thinks
are possible replacements for the resulting
recognition.
4. Leave your cursor on the character
料
for
1-2 seconds, which will once again invoke
the pop up window with the list of possible
replacements. This time round, click on the
magnet which is facing right (downlink)
and the very same panel will pop up again
with a list of combination of characters for
you to choose from.
5. After the correct combination, the correct resulting text will now
appear in the result box.
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Chapter 3 Character Input
*. Character Combination
When the strokes in a character are distanced too far from one another, they are usu-
ally recognised as different characters rather than 1 character. Now you can actually
make use of the inbuilt character combination function and combine both characters into
1 single character.
Scan the characters
棟樑
and assuming that the result do not appear correctly, you
might get
木東樑
asillustratedinthegure.Astheremightbesomevaryingissues,now
the character has been split into 2 different characters, being
木
and
東
.
Leave your cursor on the character
木
for 1-2 seconds and a window will pop up with
a list of buttons. Click on the second button
(INSERT PICTURE HERE) and you
will have the separate characters combined into a single character
棟
.
*. Character Split
On the contrary, when the strokes in 2 characters are too close to each other, they may
be recognized together as 1 character. The character split function can be used to split the
strokes into 2 separate characters.
Scan the characters
日月星辰
, assuming that both the characters 日 and 月 are being
recognized as 1 character, resulting in
明
. As both the characters are too close to each
other, they are being recognized as 1 character by the system, resulting in
明星辰
.
Leave your cursor on the character
明
for 1-2 seconds and a window will pop up with
a list of buttons. You can click on
(INSERT PICTURE HERE) to split up the charac-
ter
明
into 2 characters, resulting in 日 and
月
.
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Displaying Original Form
After making changes to the results, you can check your original scan to look at the
difference and look at the original text when scanned.
1. Scan the desired text and the recognition result will be directly transferred to the
desired application.
2. Leave your cursor on the character for 1-2 seconds and a window will pop up with a
list of buttons.
3. Hold down the third button
from the left and you will see the original text being
displayed.
Punctuation in Balloon UI
Click on (INSERT PICTURE HERE) and a panel listing
of punctuation marks will be displayed accordingly, allowing
you to input half shaped or full shaped punctuation marks.
Online Translation
The Balloon Interface provides you the online translation function. Whenever you do
not know the scanning Chinese or English words, you may check the translation via the
online translation function.
When moving your cursor over the scanned word, a pop-up window will appear. Click
button to start online translation function. The translation window will close when
moving cursor to other area.
In the translation window, you may click
button to read out the unfamiliar Chinese
or English words aloud. Click
or to check the last or next word. Click to
see phrase and further explanation.
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Chapter 4 Penpower Transeye
Chapter 4 Penpower TransEYE
This is a Chinese-English bi-directional translation software, which includes Chinese-
English/English-Chinese dictionary lookup and Chinese-English/English-Chinese phrasal
translation.
4.1 Open Penpower TransEYE
Go to Start/Programs/Penpower miniScanEYE II/Penpower TransEYE.
Tip: You can also start the translator from the Penpower mini ScanEYE II icon on
your taskbar.
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4.3 Chinese Character Dictionary
1. Click on to enable the Chinese dictionary.
2. In similar fashion, input the Chinese character that you want to look up in the text
eld in the top left hand corner. Hit Enter and the system will present the explanation
in English.
4.2 English Character Dictionary Lookup
1. Click on .
2. On the top left hand corner, enter the English word that you want to look up in the dic
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tionary and hit Enter. The explanation in Chinese will pop up almost immediately.
There are a number of buttons which you can see the usage example or the detailed
explanation.
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Chapter 4 Penpower Transeye
4.4 English Phrasal Dictionary
1. Click on to enable the English phrasal dictionary.
2. In the top left hand corner, input the text to be translated and explained in the eld
and click on to translate.
Tip: During English phrasal translation, avoid inputting Chinese half-shaped punctua-
tion to increase the translation accuracy.
4.5 Chinese Phrasal Dictionary
1. Click on to invoke the Chinese-English translation.
2. In the above frame, input the phrase or paragraph where appropriate and click on
to start the translation. The result will be displayed in the frame below.
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Clicking on will command the system read out the character to you, whereas if
you are in phrasal translation mode, it will read out the phrase to you. It will start reading
from the point from where you place the cursor right to the end of the phrase.
In the translation software, you will notice other buttons which perform the following
functions as illustrated below:
Due to the pre-emptive nature of the Transeye, you do not need to input the characters
completely. Hitting Enter will usually let the system complete the word and translation
for you.
/ : Back/Forward buttons let you
check the meaning of the next character
or the previous one.
: Cut function
: Copy function
: Paste function
: Delete function
: System Settings. This will invoke the
same settings window that you have seen
previously.
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Chapter 4 Penpower Transeye
4.6 Translating Scanned Input
Other than checking up on words or phrases through the use of keyboard, you can also
make use of mini ScanEYE II to input the phrase for you, while the original text will be
displayed at the bottom of the window for you.
When translating a single word, inputting the word with Scaneye will let you input
the complete phrase. Every push on the button on the pen will incur the translation on the
next word and so forth.
Clicking on the Next button or the Back button will allow you to scroll
through to the next or previous character in Transeye’s dictionary database, allowing you
to look up on more meanings on the word’s variants.
You can zoom in or out by clicking on , adjusting the size of your scan-
ning proportionally. You can also save the scan as a picture by clicking on . When
prompt for a directory to save it in, type the lename of your choice and choose the folder
to save the picture in.
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You can also translate the whole paragraph of the scanning you have made with mini
ScanEYE II by clicking on , which will in turn translate whatever you have scanned
into the opposite language. You can perform the translation phrase by phrase, or choose
to have the translation done to the whole paragraph at one time.
You will not be able to use the Back / Next buttons when you are in
phrasal translation mode.
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