{"id":1930,"date":"2009-01-17T20:23:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T18:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2009-01-17T20:34:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T18:34:24","slug":"pen-scan-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/01\/pen-scan-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Pen scan it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always wondered why it is not possible to scan just a few sentences from a book. As there are some products <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/26\/technology\/circuits\/26pogue.html\">on the market<\/a>, I ordered such an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irislink.com\/c2-1052-225\/IRISPen-scanner---Ideal-pen-scanner-for-printed-text-retyping-.aspx\">IrisPen<\/a>. It took only 15 minutes to convince me, that this device is largely useless &#8211; a cheap plastic pen with a flimpsy contact but rather rigid USB cable.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/screenshot-2.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2\" title=\"screenshot-2\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1931\" \/><br \/>\nWhat I even did not consider that syllabicated words at the end of every line can not be recognized by any OCR. So scanned words will require a lot of editing &#8211; while it may be better to invest into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodtyping.com\/\">typing course<\/a> using all your fingers, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 15.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always wondered why it is not possible to scan just a few sentences from a book. As there are some products on the market, I ordered such an IrisPen. It took only 15 minutes to convince me, that this device is largely useless &#8211; a cheap plastic pen with a flimpsy contact but rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/01\/pen-scan-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pen scan it<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2334,2335],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","tag-ocr","tag-usb-cable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}