The DocuPen from Planon is a battery-operated handheld scanner that's ideal for portable scanning purposes. It can store up to 100 pages in its internal flash memory, and it scans at approximately 4 to 8 seconds per page. The DocuPen scans a full 8 inches, side to side, so you can scan an entire page, including text and graphics in as little as 4 seconds.
Scan newspapers, magazine articles, books, notes, receipts, contracts, sketches, and more. The DocuPen scans in monochrome at 200 x 100 dpi or 200 x 200 dpi resolution. It integrates with Outlook, Word, and other computer applications, so you can easily convert scanned images into editable text and e-mail documents.
Weighing just 2 ounces, the DocuPen is easy to transport, while the included ScanSoft Paper port image software with OCR helps you to get the best results from your scans. Ideal for business executives, lawyers, mortgage brokers, real estate agents, sales people, construction, architects, engineers, accountants, insurance adjusters, government, teachers, students, and others, the DocuPen allows you to scan documents while on the road or out of the office. After scanning, you can transfer data to your PC via a USB or serial interface. Compatible with PC platforms only, the DocuPen comes backed with a 90-day limited warranty.
What's in the Box
DocuPen, four energizer coin cells, USB cable, CD ROM, quick start sheet, calibration sheet, warranty card, operation manual, leather case
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Includes Planon DocuPen handheld scanner USB cable 4 Type-389 batteries leather case PaperPort software driver installation guide.
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The DocuPen from Planon is a battery-operated handheld scanner that's ideal for portable scanning purposes. It can store up to 100 pages in its internal flash memory, and it scans at approximately 4 to 8 seconds per page. The DocuPen scans a full 8 inches, side to side, so you can scan an entire page, including text and graphics in as little as 4 seconds.Scan newspapers, magazine articles, books, notes, receipts, contracts, sketches, and more. The DocuPen scans in monochrome at 200 x 100 dpi or 200 x 200 dpi resolution. It integrates with Outlook, Word, and other computer applications, so you can easily convert scanned images into editable text and e-mail documents.
Weighing just 2 ounces, the DocuPen is easy to transport, while the included ScanSoft Paper port image software with OCR helps you to get the best results from your scans. Ideal for business executives, lawyers, mortgage brokers, real estate agents, sales people, construction, architects, engineers, accountants, insurance adjusters, government, teachers, students, and others, the DocuPen allows you to scan documents while on the road or out of the office. After scanning, you can transfer data to your PC via a USB or serial interface. Compatible with PC platforms only, the DocuPen comes backed with a 90-day limited warranty.
What's in the Box
DocuPen, four energizer coin cells, USB cable, CD ROM, quick start sheet, calibration sheet, warranty card, operation manual, leather case
Product Description
Planon DocuPen is a handheld scanner that operates on batteries for full portability purposes. The DocuPen is capable of storing up to 100 pages into memory and takes approximately 4 to 8 seconds per second. The DocuPen is different from other pen scanners in that it scans a full page width and therefore scans the entire page including text and graphics in just 4 seconds. Other handheld and pen scanners only scan single lines of text or records handwriting and cannot scan graphics making them much less practical. In comparison, the DocuPen is truly a breakthrough in technological development because it fully realizes the potential of what other pen size scanners tried to accomplish. The need for convenient out of office scanning is enormous but has not been satisfied because the products to date did not fulfill that need adequately. As the fax evolved from the telex, to successfully satisfy its communication need, the DocuPen is the practical solution to the pen scanners finally opening the market for wide spread acceptance.Customer Reviews:
Getting Good Scans.......2004-08-02
The technology is simply mind boggling, the way they cram all that impressive technology into one small pen-shaped like device.
I was impressed with the scan quality of the device as well, considering that its a small pen-shaped device. The sample scans on the DocuPen homepage is truly an indication of the quality of an attainable scan. I scan mostly documents, bank statements, deeds, receipts etc. In fact all of those scans of those documents all turned out good, as good as the quality indicated on the site.
As for the OCR feature, the OCR was decent. OCR basically onverts your text based document scans into editable text, but then again OCR was never a good or perfect technology. In fact the DocuPen never really promoted the OCR feature from my recollection. I have a high-res flatbed scanner, and when I used the OCR feature, I still get errors from the conversion and that's from a hi-res flatbed scanner.
I love how light weight it is and how portable it is. Truly a tool for road warriors.
I am also looking out for Planon's future DocuPen version which I hear is sometime soon.
Very hard to use; terrible OCR capability.......2004-07-30
Main problem is that it is really hard to get decent scans. After a few hours I was getting about 1 in 3 usable (with 2 out of 3 failing before the page was done). The problem appears to be getting the rollers to turn consistently. They are quite stiff, and the moment they stop turning - which can easily happen - the scanner assumes the page is done. There is no way to delete the last scan using the device itself; you have to attach it to the PC for that. So even though you know you've just done a bad scan which is eating up the memory, you can't delete it. Presumably with time scanning would get easier, but this inability to delete a known bad last scan seems a serious shortcoming to me given how many scans end up being bad.
Even if you get a "good" scan (which with this device at 200dpi b/w is far from great), the OCR software (PaperPort) is appalling. It is totally incapable of making sense of multi-column text like magazines, it seems, and repeated everything several times in one big mess. In frustration I installed an old copy of OmniPage Pro, which despite being about 4 or more years old, did a much better (but still not satisfactory) job. As I want this scanner almost entirely for OCR applications, it fails to meet my needs and it is going to be returned.
Scanning Needs Satisfied.......2004-06-19
I have used up the one set of batteries already and basically I scanned up to 220 pages which is 20 more pages than what the manual recommends.
The time wasted on driving around to find a photocopying machine or flatbed scanner and actually doing the photocopy can now be eliminated with the DocuPen. Just take the DocuPen and capture your required document on the spot.
Also getting the scanning technique down was not hard at all, as I got the technique down after 5 trial scans on a regular Word file print out. What I like about the DocuPen is that we are actually a part of the scanning mechanism, a really cool idea & concept.
This product works great for Me.......2004-06-19
For some people I know that if a product does not work, it may be in part due to something in the computer system itself. Take a look into the system first to see if its compatible with the product, because the product worked wonders for me.
The DocuPen literally took me like 3 scans to get the technique down. And I get very legible scans.
It seems that many expect pure carbon copy duplicates, but that's not really the concept behind the DocuPen, because I really see it as a tool to scan documents and other materials for reference that does not need to be super high quality. If need be, then use a high resolution flatbed scanner. The key difference is in the fact that it is totally portable, something that a flatbed scanner is not.
The free software is also amazing, its called PaperPort from ScanSoft that integrates with various programs from my computer like Outlook, Word, etc...I am also impressed with the OCR feature within PaperPort because it does a very good translation of scanned text image into editable text.
By the way, the technical support staff is superb in assisting with technical needs, because I only had a slight issue but was resolved immediately.
Only Connect - Not a Chance.......2004-06-11
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