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Ectaco C-Pen 20 Handheld Scanner | 
 enlarge | Brand: C-pen
Category: CE
List Price: $200.00
Buy New: $119.00
You Save: $81.00 (40%)
New (12) from $119.00
Rating:  24 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
MPN: C-Pen Scanner
Model: CPen 20
EAN: 7331424021405
ASIN: B000EOMZO6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New; In stock; We ship internationally. Member of the Better Business Bureau.
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| Features:
| • | just scan the pen over your favorite book | | • | the text will automatically be uploaded on to the device and translated to your language choice. | | • | Deluxe NTL-2I, Deluxe NTL-2K, Deluxe NTL-2P, Deluxe NTL-2Pg, Deluxe NTL-2R, Deluxe NTL-2S and Partne |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The Ectaco C-Pen scanner is an amazingly convenient handheld data entry tool for use with the NTL-2Ch, NTL-2F, NTL-2Gm, NTL-2I, NTL-2K, NTL-2P, NTL-2Pg, NTL-2R, NTL-2S, Alpine-2Ch, Alpine-2F, Alpine-2Gm, Alpine-2I, Alpine-2K, Alpine-2P, Alpine-2Pg, Alpine-2R, Alpine-2S, Deluxe NTL-2Ch Deluxe NTL-2F, Deluxe NTL-2Gm, Deluxe NTL-2I, Deluxe NTL-2K, Deluxe NTL-2P, Deluxe NTL-2Pg, Deluxe NTL-2R, Deluxe NTL-2S and Partner 850 series devices. Letting you capture the text you need, just scan the pen over your favorite book, restaurant menu, newspaper, or anything else you can think of and the text will automatically be uploaded on to the device and translated to your language choice.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 Junk December 31, 2008
Robin Schumacher
With all the glowing reviews, I bought this thing to help me with my PhD work. Turns out the thing is just junk. Barely reads anything from your average book and stops half-way through most sentences. Really bad. And I'm pretty technically savvy so I don't think it's me.
 If you're a grad student, you NEED this pen November 24, 2008
A. Zaman (State College, PA)
This pen has saved me hours, possibly days, of writing and typing, and probably scores of hand cramps as well. It works exceptionally well; almost entirely accurate with just a little bit of practice. True, you have to be tethered to a computer, but for the benefits of the C-PEN, I don't mind taking my laptop to the library with me or sitting next to my desktop if I'm reading at home. It does have accuracy issues with passages that have already been underlined in pen or pencil (which unfortunately, a lot of people tend to do even with library books), but has absolutely no trouble so far with highlighted text. It makes it easy for me to record notes or quotes from books for review later, as I can avoid having to transcribe it by hand it or type it from the get go.
NOT PERFECT - JUST GREAT November 18, 2008
C. C. Mantis (Seattle)
Lots of other reviews get into the details, so I won't bother. Let me just give my opinion of how I like the performance of this pen.
I do a fair amount of scanning and use this pen for spot scanning. It is even good enough that I have found myself using this pen to scan multiple pages, although that's not what it is best at.
The only challenge I have is when I'm trying to scan near the spine of a book. When the surface is not flat, the scan can go off into left field. When that happens, I simply go back - highlight the garbage - and rescan a bit slower and it seems to pick it up fine.
Some have said it is not that fast. I find it almost as fast as I can scan a line. I don't know what they expect from a pen scanner, but all in all this picks up very well, is extremely accurate, and is fast.
Someone else complained about having to carry the driver disk around with them. I don't have any problem with this either and use the pen on both a desktop and a laptop.
Keep the pen angle about right and you can scan up a storm.
I give it about 95% + accuracy (closer to 99% without spine pages.)
Poor Software Compatability November 2, 2008
G. Duchak
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Useful and genererally works BUT the DC needs to be loaded each time the pen is used making it impossible to use on a laptop unless you carry the CD with you.
Not perfect...but it works. October 18, 2008
Michael Richard Stout
I gotta admit it does make some mistakes, but it is a lot easier to use this product than to have to write evrything out.
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