Why should I acquire an IRISPen when I already have an OCR solution?
Some people may feel that they dont need an IRISPen as they already have a flatbed or sheetfed scanner and an OCR software package such as Readiris. This impression is actually dead wrong: performing OCR with a flatbed scanner and using an OCR pen scanner are simply not the same application. An OCR package such as Readiris is designed to read large volumes of text, the IRISPen is an optimized tool that reads small bits of text. Given that task, the IRISPen effortlessly incorporates a flexibility which no other system can offer. Well give some examples where the advantages of a pen scanner for specific applications are strikingly obvious. • If you have to enter small portions of text into a wordprocessor, the IRISPen is your ideal partner. Even a traditional OCR solution is no competition when it comes to scanning excerpts and abstracts. To read a few lines of text, youd have to scan an entire page with your sheetfed or flatbed scanner, draw a frame around the text snippet to be recogni
