WizCom SuperPen Professional, Portable Business Library

WizCom SuperPen Professional, Portable Business Library
by WizCom

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Category: CE
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Manufacturer: WizCom
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Model: WSPP
Product features:

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
The American Heritage Stedman¿s Medical Dictionary
Roget¿s II: The New Thesaurus
The American Heritage Student Science Dictionary
The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Geography

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Customer Review: Once you get it to work it is very useful
Summary: 4 Stars

As many others, I wasted 2 hours before I got this device (synchronization) to work. As someone said the whole product seems as if they stopped developing 5 years ago. But keep in mind that devices produced some years ago can still be very useful ;) Plus the age is reflected in a fair price.

I'm looking forward for such a scanner to be part of every mobile phone but until then this is the product to buy.

Especially as you can avoid waisting the mentioned 2 hours if you are lucky enough to stumble apon this review :}

I really find this product very useful and time-saving. I read a lot and always highlight important passages in my books. The process of going back and typing all the highlighted passages was very tedious and time consuming.

With the Superpen, scanning the passages is now a breeze. However, one must get used to it first. For example, there is a certain way to hold the pen (a certain angle) and certain speed to scan your text. If you do it right, you might get a 100% correct output. However, if you do it wrong, you might get an output as low as 30% of the intended result. Take time and experiment and in no time you'll find yourself an expert at scanning text with this device.

One problem I found in the beginning was the synchronization process between this device and my computer. The pen just couldn't synchronize with my computer, and I spent hours going through the support web pages and installing and re-installing the software a couple of times. At the end, the problem turned out to be the USB cable not fully snapped inside the SuperPen. Make sure you hear the snap when you insert the front end of the USB cable into the SuperPen. This can easily be overlooked as the cable will seem to be snuggly inserted into the device.

If you need for any reason to change the properties of your USB driver to hardware flow, do the following in Windows XP:

Start / control panel / system / hardware / device manager

When you are at the device `manager screen' click on the `+' sign next to `Ports (COM & LPT)'. Make sure your USB cable is plugged into your computer. Then right-click on `Prolific USB-to-serial COMM port', and click on properties. Go to the `Port settings' tab, and in the `flow control' menu, select hardware.

If you often take notes and find it time consuming to type the passages you highlighted, this pen will be a required item that you won't be able to live without.

This pen also has other features such as reading a word aloud (it even comes with headphones), and giving you a definition of any word you scan. You can also scan passages in different languages, such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish.

I really recommend this product, but keep in mind that you have to be patient at first and be willing to spend time learning how to use this product. Once this is done, you won't believe how you ever lived without it!

It even worked on my MacBook with BootCamp. Use Quicklink to synchronize! I never got InfraRed and AddOns to work, but thats not important.

After I found out that synched files are automatically saved as text files (.doc extension but plaintext, not only .qnt files as stated otherwise) I readily gave it 4 stars.

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