Thursday 31st January 2008
The IRIScan 2
Optical character recognition (OCR) has come a long way since those early days of feeding typewritten pages into your desktop scanner, only to spend ages correcting all the mistakes. Now it’s gone portable, with the IRIScan 2 promising the answer ‘to all your retyping needs’.
The gadget is available in two versions, both of them about the size of a rolled-up tabloid newspaper (though considerably more sleek). The ‘Express’ is the basic model, allowing the user to scan anything from business cards to A4 pages into PDF, Word, or Excel spreadsheet format.
The ‘Executive’ model has all these features and more, notably translation software that, the manufacturer promises, ‘will allow the user to understand a document in a foreign language in just a scan and a click’.
Both models are USB-powered and designed to fit into a laptop suitcase. They will scan to a resolution of up to 1,200 dots per inch in colour, greyscale or black and white.
The IRIScan Express 2 is available online for £89, and the IRIScan Executive 2 for £139.
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Nick Britton
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