How does the IRISPen interact with other applications?
The IRISPen is designed to directly enter printed (or typed) text from magazines, newspapers, catalogues, brochures, letters, memos etc. into any Windows or Mac OS application. The user loads the IRISPen software in the background where it stays resident. When he wants to enter some text, he simply slides the pen-sized scanner over the text line. The scanned image is transmitted to the IRISPen software that recognizes the characters thanks to the PCR-II module and inserts the recognized text in the active Windows or Mac OS application at the cursor position. The IRISPen uses keyboard emulation to this end, no DDE or OLE is involved: even the least integration effort by the user is avoided, and it works everywhere! (On the Mac OS platform, keyboard emulation can be replaced by an AppleEvent.) All this is done instantaneously, with unprecedented speed: on a fast computer, it takes no more than a fraction of a second for the text to appear on your screen.
