1. Learning to Scan (using the Trainer) 

This tutorial will help you learn to scan using the Trainer supplied in the package.

 

1.     Slide the Trainer onto the tip of the Pen (instead of the cap) and press into place.

2.     Turn the Pen on by pressing the red Power key. Select the Quicktionary icon from the Pen Main Menu by tapping on it with the stylus or by using the direction keys

3.     Position the Trainer at the end of the practice sentence with the Pen facing the text.

4.     Position the Pen so that the text is centered between the feet of the Trainer.

5.     Glide the Pen from right to left in a straight line over the text. Start scanning 1cm from the end of the sentence and finish 1cm after.

 

Use the following practice sentence:

 

This sentence will help me practice scanning.

 

Note: The Pen default is set to right-handed scanning. To change the Pen display to left-handed scanning, use the Set Right-/Left- Handed option from Preferences in the Pen Main Menu.

Positioning of Text for Scanning with Trainer

 

2. Editing and Entering Text

 

Use the Virtual Keyboard to enter or edit text with the stylus. To access the Virtual Keyboard select  from the application toolbar.

The Virtual Keyboard

The Editing Area

This is the insertion point for new text, as indicated by the blinking cursor. Use the stylus to enter or edit text with the character keys, or scan text directly into the editing area.

Scanned text is underlined. Tapping any key other than  or  will accept the inserted text.

 

Text can be erased by:                          

1.  Using  to delete individual characters.

2.  Highlighting the text with the stylus and selecting , or typing/scanning over the highlighted text.

 

 The Auto Complete Feature

The auto complete list provides potential endings to inserted characters. Tap on the top right box to open the pull down list in order to select the desired word. The selected word will appear in the edit area.

The Auto Complete List

Note: The auto complete list only contains words from the selected dictionary.

 

The Keyboard

The keyboard layout corresponds to the selected scanning language settings

 

3. Quicktionary Tutorial

This tutorial will take you through the basic use of the Quicktionary application. The English to French dictionary is used as an example.

 

1. Accessing the Input Screen

a.  Press the red ESC key to turn the Pen on.

b.  From the Pen Main Menu, enter the Quicktionary application:

• By pressing ENT when the icon is highlighted.

• By tapping on the icon with the stylus. The Input Screen will appear:

2. Selecting a dictionary

a.  Select  from the toolbar by tapping with the stylus or by pressing ESC and using the direction keys.

b.  Choose Select Dictionary from the drop-down menu.

c.  Select a dictionary whose source language is English, such as English to French or English to Spanish.

 

3. Scanning a line of text

 Scan the following sentence: This is a test sentence. 

The Split Screen will appear :

Note:

• ƒ   The Split Screen appears whenever more than one word is scanned.
• ƒ   The scanned text is displayed in the upper section.
• ƒ   Selecting a word in the upper section using the direction keys or stylus causes the word to be highlighted and its translation displayed in the lower section of the screen.

 

Scanning Tips: If the scanned text has many errors, or if you wish to scan another line, simply scan again and the text on screen will be overwritten. You can also use the Virtual Keyboard to edit scanned text or to input new text.

 

4. Split Screen: Translations

a.  Select the word ‘test’ (tap with the stylus or scroll across using the right direction key).

b.  Scroll through the translations in the Split Screen using either the up/down direction keys or by activating the scroll bar with the stylus.

The Split Screen highlighting the word ‘test’

 

5. Accessing the Dictionary Screen

Select the highlighted word by pressing Enter or tapping the word with the stylus, to view the Dictionary Screen.

The Dictionary Screen showing the entry for ‘test’

 

6. Using the Alternative Entries list

a.  Select  to view a list of additional entries for the word ‘test’. Alternative Entries may include identical or related entries from the current dictionary.

Alternative entries list for the word ‘test’

b.  Select  to return to the Split Screen.

 

7. Hear text read aloud

a.  Press ESC to access the toolbar. The voice icon will be highlighted. Press ENT. The text on screen will be read aloud.

The voice icon highlighted in the Split Screen

 

b.  When the sentence has been read aloud, the highlight will disappear from the voice icon. Press ENT to access the Dictionary Screen.

c.  Press ESC to access the toolbar. The voice icon will be highlighted. Press ENT. The word on screen will be read aloud.

The voice icon highlighted in the Dictionary Screen

 

4. Notes Tutorial

This tutorial will take you through the basic use of the Notes application.

The tutorial has two parts:

• ƒ   Using Notes on the Pen
• ƒ   Managing Notes files in the PenExplorer

 

Using Notes

1.  Accessing the Input Screen

a.  Press the red ESC key to turn the Pen on.

b.  From the Pen Main Menu, enter the Notes application:

•  By pressing ENT when the icon is highlighted.
•  By tapping on the icon with the stylus. 

The Notes opening screen will appear:

2.  Scanning a line of text

Scan the following line:

Roll the scanning device over printed words

The following screen will appear:

3. Inserting and deleting paragraphs

a. Select from the Notes toolbar. You will see adrop-down menu with two options:

b. Select New Paragraph. The cursor will move down to the next line.

c. Scan the following line:

and see how the words appear on your Pen.

 The following screen will appear:

c. Go back to <|| and select Delete Paragraph. A confirmation message will appear. Select OK. The new paragraph will disappear and the cursor will return to the end of the first line.

d. Scan the above sentence again.

The following screen will be visible:

4.  Deleting and Editing text

a. Select  to delete the last scan (which is underlined).

b. Select  to open the Virtual Keyboard. Insert the following characters using the stylus:

or tap them in.

c. Select  to close the Virtual Keyboard.

The edited text will appear on the screen:

5.  Cross-referencing words using the installed dictionaries

a. Tap the word 'device' with the stylus. The blinking cursor will appear at the point you tapped.

b. Select  from the Notes toolbar.

 

Note:

• ƒ   If this is your first time using this function, and there is more than one dictionary on the Pen whose source language  matches the current scanning language, the Select Dictionary pop- up will appear. Select the AHD Office dictionary. If you have already used this function, go to  and choose Select Dictionary.
• ƒ   If there is only one dictionary corresponding to the current scanning language, this dictionary will be selected automatically.

 

c. A pop-up similar to the following will appear. The dictionary entry will vary depending on which dictionaries are installed on your Pen.

c. Scroll through the dictionary entry using  and .

d.  Select  or press ESC to close the pop-up.

 

6.  Hear scanned text read aloud

Select  from the Notes toolbar. The entire sentence will be read aloud.

Note: This function is only available when the Pen contains support for reading aloud in the selected language.

 

7.  Working with files

a. Select  from the Notes toolbar. You will see a drop-down menu with three options:

b. Select Rename Current File. The Virtual Keyboard will open and the file name 'file001' will appear highlighted in the editing area. This is the default file name.

c. Using the stylus, change the name of the file to 'scanning'. Select  to accept changes.

d. Select  to create another file. Scan in the following text:

 

This is another scanning example

 

d. Go to  and select Rename Current File. Change the file name to 'example'. Select  .

e. Go back to  and select Open File. You will see that there are now two files on your Pen. Open the previous file, 'scanning'.

f.  Go to  and select Delete File. You will see both files again. Select the second file and press  when prompted.

 

Note: All scanned text is automatically saved in the current file under a default file name. If you have  scanned text on your screen and you choose to create a new file, you can return to the previous text by selecting Open File in  and scrolling down to the last file saved.

 

8.  Return to the Pen Main Menu

Select  from the Notes toolbar to close Notes and return to the Pen Main Menu.

 

Managing Files Using the PenExplorer

The PenExplorer must be installed in order to transfer Notes files between the Pen and PC. If you have not yet installed the PenExplorer see Installing the PenExplorer on page 3.

1.     Turn your computer on and connect your Pen to the PC with the USB cable.

2.     From the Pen Main Menu, select Connect to PC:

• By pressing ENT when the icon is highlighted.

• By tapping on the icon with the stylus.

3.     The WizCom PenExplorer window will open and the icon  will be seen in the notification area of the windows taskbar.

4.     Double-click on the Notes folder to open it. You will see the files you saved in the Notes folder.

5.     Click on a file in the Notes window to highlight it. Right-click to open the drop-down menu and select the function you wish to use.

Note: You can copy files to and from the Notes folder using standard Windows functions, such as drag-and- drop, copy- paste and using the PC shortcut keys. See File Management on page 51 for information on saving files for transfer to the Pen.

6.     Press the red ESC key on the Pen to exit the PenExplorer and return to the Pen Main Menu. The PenExplorer window will close on the PC.

 

5. Scan to PC Tutorial

This tutorial will take you through the basic use of Scan to PC.

Scan to PC is used to scan text and send it directly to the PC. Text can be scanned into any file or application on the PC that has a blinking cursor.

The PenExplorer must be installed in order to use Scan to PC. If you have not yet installed the PenExplorer see Installing the PenExplorer on page 3.

 

Establishing Pen-PC Communications

Make sure the USB cable is connected to both the Pen and PC.

On the Pen:

1.  Press the red power key to turn the Pen on. If you do not see the Pen Main Menu, select  to exit the current application and return to the Pen Main Menu.

2.  From the Pen Main Menu select Scan to PC.

The message "Connecting to PC..." will appear.

 

Note: If the message "Error Connecting to PC" appears, check that the USB cable is connected to both the Pen and PC.

 

Pen-PC Communications:

When the Pen and PC successfully establish communications, the PenExplorer Scan to PC  icon will appear in the Windows taskbar.

The Pen will enter the Scan to PC application.

The following screen will be seen on the Pen:

Set the scanning language to English as follows:

1.  Select  from the toolbar by tapping with the stylus or by pressing ESC (red key) and using the direction keys.

2.  Choose Set Scanning Language from the drop-down menu and select English.

 

Using Scan to PC

 

On the PC:

1.  Open a Microsoft Word Document.

2.  Set the language to English using the language option in the Formatting Toolbar.

The Language option in the Formatting Toolbar

3.  Make sure that a blinking cursor is visible, indicating that text can be inserted into the document

 

Note: Scan to PC can be used with any computer application that text can be inserted into (has a blinking cursor), e.g. most Microsoft Office applications, MSN Messenger and the address bar of Internet Explorer.

 

On the Pen:

Scan to PC has two modes: Auto Send and non-Auto Send. The Pen's default setting is Auto Send.

 

Using Auto Send mode:

1.  In  confirm that the Auto Send option is on (checked), and that  appears on the top of the screen.

2.  Scan the following line:

Auto Send mode sends my text directly to the PC.

The 'Sending...' message appears on the Pen Screen:

The scanned text is sent to the PC with the following result:

Using non-Auto Send mode:

1.  In  change the Auto Send option to off (not checked), and see that  (the Send icon) is now visible in the toolbar.

2.  Scan the following line:  

 

Select Send to send this text to the PC.

 

The following screen should appear :

Scanning Tips: In non-Auto Send mode, if the scanning results are bad, simply scan again before you send the text, and the text on screen will be replaced with the newly scanned text. This is not possible in Auto Send mode, as the text is sent immediately to the PC.

 

3.  Make sure the same Microsoft Word file as before is open on the PC and that the blinking cursor is visible.

4.  On the Pen select Send by either tapping on it with the stylus or pressing the Enter key.

5.  The 'Sending...' box should appear on the Pen screen.

 

The scanned text is sent to the PC with the following result:

Changing Scan to PC Settings in the PenExplorer

The Scan to PC settings in the PenExplorer determine what key is inserted after each line of text is sent to the PC

application. The default setting is Space, meaning that a space is inserted after each scan appears in the application.

To change the setting:

 

1.  Right-click on the PenExplorer icon  in the notification area of the Windows taskbar. A menu list will appear.

2.  From the menu list, click on Separator Character. A list will appear, showing the four available options. The current setting is checked.

Scan to PC Settings in the PenExplorer taskbar menu

3.  Select the setting you wish to use. This setting will be applied for the next scans.

To exit Scan to PC, select  from the Scan to PC toolbar. The Pen will return to the Pen Main Menu, and the PenExplorer icon will disappear from the Windows taskbar.