Not too long ago we launched our Connect Desktop app with the main objective to enable our Bluetooth digital highlighter C-Pen Connect to scan text to computers.
But Connect Desktop app has a hidden superpower that makes it a great companion to our ReaderPen as well. ReaderPen’s Scan-to-File function saves your scans as .txt files – and these files are easily accessed by Connect Desktop.
How-to
After you have digitized the content you want to save, read, remember and learn simply connect the ReaderPen to your computer and select U-disk. Right-click on the text file saved in your ReaderPen and open with Connect Desktop. From here, the text file can be edited, it can be listened to, and a local copy can be saved on your computer.
The procedure in images
The images show how it looks on Windows, but it is just as powerful on MAC.
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Some background…
Check the videos below if you need some more background on Connect Desktop app or some ReaderPen user advice.
There are typically four main reasons to use pen scanners.
- As an alternative to traditional keyboards.
- To capture notes and quotes from books and papers.
- Language understanding and literacy.
- Assistive tech, or more specifically a reading assistant.
C-PEN Keyboard is our solution to item#1, and adds an optional solution to #2.
When you capture notes and quotes you may not always prefer the scan & save companion apps provided us, but instead prefer to use Google Docs (or another Google service), Microsoft office apps, Evernote, or something else completely. C-PEN Keyboard allows you to do just that by being the bridge between text printed on paper and your favorite note taking/saving/word processing solution.
With C-PEN Keyboard it is possible to transcribe printed text into practically any app or system, whether on a smartphone, a tablet or a computer.
Mobile
Mid 2019 we released our Bluetooth enabled C-PEN Connect together with traditional companion apps for Android and iOS/iPADOS. With these apps it is possible to scan and save text, have text read out aloud, and have text translated. It is also possible to upload and share the saved text to e.g. cloud drives in order to collaborate more easily.
Now, brand new from the C-PEN dev team, we launch C-PEN Keyboard for Android. And it is compatible with C-PEN Connect.
EDIT 2020-02-18:
C-PEN Connect app for iOS now featuring C-PEN Keyboard.
Desktop
On MAC OSX and Windows TS1 pen scanner is used with C-PEN Core software – which includes keyboard support.
EDIT 2020-03:
Recently, using Connect Desktop app, the keyboard function is also supported on MAC and Windows using C-Pen Connect.
Embedded
Our ReaderPen, LingoPen and DictionaryPen models have embedded support for C-PEN Keyboard and supports English, French, Spanish (ReaderPen) and English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish (DictionaryPen) respectively.
Below is a video showing ReaderPen used to capture text to a Google Docs document on a Chromebook.
Dictionary Pen video guides
Recently we released C610D Dictionary Pen video guides (above).
Reading user guides is not something that the average user spend to much time doing and we hope these video clips will ease the pain getting started with the product (and hopefully turn out useful to those of you considering a #dictionarypen and want to know what you get).
In short the #dictionarypen scans and stores text in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian. It contains multiple Oxford dictionaries and natural speaking TTS pronouncing single words as they are looked up/translated in the dictionary. The internal memory enables storage of 100’s of thousands pages of text (and can be used as general USB drive). It can also emulate a keyboard to scan and input text to a computer (no drivers to install). And doubles as a voice recorder… (click for detailed description).
