Go directly from ink to the software you use most often. Eliminate re-keying and slash your paperwork time. Back up and quickly retrieve handwritten documents on your PC. It's all possible with the Logitech io2 Digital Writing System.
The new, smaller-sized Logitech io2 pen fits your hand like a premium pen, so you can write comfortably. Take notes or draw sketches in ink on the smart paper and a tiny camera captures your work, storing up to 40 pages at a time. Intelligent power management maximizes every battery charge.
The smart digital paper consists of a printed dot pattern which locates words and images on the page, and ensures they appear in the same place in digitized files. When you dock your digital pen, your text and sketches are automatically transferred to your PC where you can easily find them, use them, and share them.
- Take direct action
New WriteSync technology integrates handwritten or typed text directly into Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, and Lotus Notes. The text opens in the application -- immediately take action, save it, or send it. Custom applications are also available.
- Convert handwriting to digital text
Includes FREE software that learns your handwriting to turn notes -- including tables, shapes and charts -- into digital text that you
- Search and organize files
Logitech io2 software helps you find what you´ve written. Enter any word into the io software search function and get a list of every handwritten file that contains that word. Never lose notes again!
- Export graphics into the most popular formats
Easily use drawings and graphics in almost any application. You can export images up to 300 dpi in the most widely-used graphical formats, including BMP, JPEG, PNG, JIF, TIFF, and EMF.
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The Logitech io2 Digital Writing System is the fastest and most effective mobile solution for writing on the go. It's the perfect tool for turning handwritten information into digital documents. Use it with e-mail and Microsoft Word to increase productivity, or integrate it with applications for paper-based workflow solutions and automating business processes. Export easily to Microsoft Word, or Microsoft Journal
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The Logitech io2 Digital Writing System is the fastest and most effective mobile solution for writing on the go. It's the perfect tool for turning handwritten information into digital documents. Use it with e-mail and Microsoft Word to increase productivity, or integrate it with applications for paper-based workflow solutions and automating business processes. Export easily to Microsoft Word, or Microsoft JournalCustomer Reviews:
Great piece of gear, too bad it's dying technology........2007-05-04
1) I've tried at length to find different products beyond standard ruled paper for this thing, to no avail. At this point even a standard notebook would require special mail ordering, but if you know where to look, the costs can be defrayed. I bought a set of 15 "digital notebooks" with roughly 100 sheets each on eBay for about $15.00 USD + ~$10 shipping. In general, however, it's a very specialized piece of gear that demands very specialized parts -- no, you cannot write on normal paper or print out the "Anoto" sheets you need on your own. If I could just find a dayplanner that works with the pen I'd be able to justify the cost, but I can't
2) Let me reiterate that you must use specialized paper. My recommendation is that if you're willing to pay the price for the io2, you better be ready to pay for the XPaper program and extra paper (which runs at $15 for a ream of 100, by the way) so that you can print your own forms and have a good bit more functionality.
3) It seems like dead technology. Most of the excitement I've seen buzzing around this piece of gear seems to date back to 2005. Pretty much everything you see now developed for digital pen technology is all you can expect ever will be developed for digital pens; look over whats available closely, see if any of it will REALLY help you as an individual user, and then make the decision to buy.
4) Of course -- the high price now needs addressing. If you're prone to losing pens, getting pens stolen, etc etc... well, do not buy this pen. You're going to drop $150+ into a piece of gear you're going to have for about a month and a half before it gets stolen. Paranoia marks all my attempts to keep accountability of my pen.
5) It just doesn't write as well as I'd expect a $150 pen to write. I mean, it's a blue ink ball point BIC pen with a fancy camera on its nose. Don't expect something that writes as well as say, a gel pen or space pen. I did, and I was sorely disappointed. Which brings me to my next point.
6) Handwriting recognition. I won't even go into depth here. I just hope you have really, really neat handwriting. Like, your handwriting looks like you traced a typed sheet of paper.
All in all, I like it, but I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. I work in a personnel administrative capacity, so it's heavily useful to me, but I think it'd be even more useful to say, a college student who needs to have his notes collected in one place. Imagine a college student who has digitized, searchable notes and who can e-mail his notes to a friend who missed the lecture in thier full, handwritten format -- footnotes, sidenotes, doodles and all. It has a lot of unrealized potential, and I wish I could exploit its functionality to its fullest, but I just cannot at my level and at the level of availablity of products that work with it.
Quite Useful.......2006-11-16
Better have neat handwriting.......2006-08-30
1) You cannot go back and change words that are already written
2) You must write on a special type of paper which is horrendously expensive
3) The pen is ridiculously large (I have large hands and still lacked the ability to hold the pen without getting hand cramps)
4) The pen writes like a low cost pen, which will cause trouble to users who prefer finer writing implements
5) There is only one learning session for the handwriting recognition, so the program will not advance with your handwriting
There are benefits of the pen; the image produced of the notes is very accurate (I used this when I lost a few pages of notes). The battery is long-lasting. Interface is very user friendly if you have some experience with computers.
I would not recommend buying this product as a student. In the business world it may hold more functionality due to its e-mail and other features that are compatible with Outlook (especially to those who do not enjoy typing). I was convinced this product was amazing at first, but my experience has had many pitfalls. If you do possess decent handwriting, I believe the product will work much better. Hope I could be helpful.
Save time: Put the price in dollars in a shredder.......2006-08-15
Lots of room for improvement.......2006-07-11
Negatives:
*The pen is really large. I was expecting it to be the size of a premium pen based on what I read on the internet. It's actually larger than that. There are actually warnings in the manual about not using the pen for extended periods of time because of this. It's fine for short periods of notetaking, but I'm taking notes sporadically for 4-8 hours at a time and my hand gets really sore after a while. And once my hand gets sore, my handwriting gets a little shaky which brings me to problem #2...
*The handwriting recognition software is pretty bad, even with the latest update. I think if I were sitting at my desk printing perfectly all day long, then the software would work pretty well. But from my perspective, it fails the "real world" test. When I'm actually out and using the pen, the software doesn't have flexibility to deal with simple things that most people do as they write for longer periods -- angled text, letters with variable spacing, letters/numbers that look similar. You have to print very consistently and very precisely to get good recognition. Obviously handwriting recognition like this is a huge task and very difficult. The documentation that comes with the pen makes it clear how you need to write to make it work well -- unfortunately, the marketing information makes it sound like you can just go ahead and write away and it can handle anything, which is very misleading. FYI, the handwriting recognition software is made by a 3rd party, which means that Logitech offers basically zero support for it.
*All of the software that comes with the io is pretty poorly designed, not user-friendly, and requires you to jump through a lot of extra hoops to just get your data in a usable fashion. It's almost like they designed the main software with the assumption that the primary reason you're using the pen is to get a graphical output of your writing. My reason for using it is to do handwriting recognition and get text output for use in other applications. If you just want a picture of what you've done, the pen works great. But if you want to actually get text out of the process, it's a hassle.
*Because of all these problems (poor handwriting recognition, badly designed software), I have a sneaking suspicion that it probably takes me longer to process my notes using the io pen than it would if I took my notes with a regular pen and then typed it all into the computer.
Positive things:
*The battery life is really phenomenol. I've never had the battery die on me, despite long periods of taking notes.
*The storage size is great -- again, I've never run out of room.
*It's lighter than carrying around a tablet PC.
*The training of the handwriting recognition is pretty simple and doesn't take a long time.
*The handwriting recognition software has a customization feature, where you can add new words to your custom dictionary. This is handy for me because I use quite a few abbreviations and technical words that their standard dictionary doesn't recognize.
*They give you lots of paper as part of the pen package to get started, as well as several extra ink refills. The paper isn't really that expensive, but it can be hard to find if you're on the go.
*At the end of the day, you still have a paper copy of your notes if something happens to your pen. This is something that a tablet PC can't offer.
My recommendation is to not purchase this product unless you're only looking for graphical output (ie a picture of your notes) and have large hands. If you want text to import to other applications or if you have smaller hands, this might not be a good choice for you. I think this technology has great promise, but there's still a long way to go.
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