A recent purchase of the pen found it easy to use, fast and accurate. The C-Pen Reader Pen is a new scanning pen developed by Scanning Pens LTD now available in the US. Limitations with size of text and accuracy of recognition was improved but still required patience with use. The Wizcom pen, more recently purchased, I found to be an improved scanning pen, however it continued to require accuracy with placement of the scanning head and alignment of the pen with line scanned for accurate recognition. Having trialed them with a number of clients, a few really liked them, but they required persistence with use. Starting the scan at the right place, scanning a line of text and stopping the scan to capture a whole line took practice, patience and the right size print. Although they scanned and read text aloud, they worked best for individuals with good fine motor control and patience for scanning hard copy text, listening to the line of print scanned as well as scanning single words and definitions for individuals with reading challenges. The first pens I used were the Quicktionary Pens probably about 10 years ago as a handheld reading tool. Scanning pens with text to speech and dictionary support have been around for quite sometime.
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