Irispen Air 7 Review

Simply slide IRISPen™ Air over printed text or numbers from newspapers, magazines, invoices, faxes, letters or any other type of document, and the text will automatically be retyped in your computer. It doesn't matter if you use Word, Excel, or any other text editing application or web-based editor. Anywhere you can type, IRISPen™ Air can type too!
Features:
Scan any kind of document
IRISPen™ Air is made to scan text on any kind of paper document. You can use it to scan text lines in books, magazines, newspaper, letters, faxes or even documents in a binder. The digital highlighter can also be used in many situations including scanning books at the library, translating menus at the restaurant or scanning barcodes from a bank transfer slip.
Small, wireless and easy to use
IRISPen™ Air is very compact and fits well in hand. It only weighs 9 oz. and it is about the same size as a traditional highlighter. You can easily store it in a purse or even a pencil box and carry it along wherever you go. To start scanning, simply synchronize the pen with your computer, tablet or smartphone using the Bluetooth connection. The provided software (for Mac® or Windows®) and applications (for IOS or Android® ) make it very easy to setup and use the pen in any situation.
You scan, it reads out loud and translates!
Let IRISPen™ Air do the reading for you! The digital highlighter features text-to-speech technology which turns any scanned text to audio for you to just relax and listen to. This option is great for children, visually impaired or even dyslexic people. Furthermore, IRISPen™ Air can also translate and read text out loud in 40 different languages – the perfect tool to practice your foreign accent anytime!
Perfect for students, teachers, as well as any private user or professional
For over 25 years, IRIS' family of digital highlighters has been used by thousands of professionals including doctors, teachers, lawyers or accountants in their daily tasks, helping them save countless hours of tedious retyping work. IRISPen™ Air also proves to be an ideal tool for students making researches in books or for writers wanting to save ideas or excerpts from their readings.
A multilingual solution
IRIS’ awarded technology enables you to scan and recognize text in over 130 different languages.
Scan CMC-7 barcodes
IRISPen™ Air is able to scan more than text, logos, signatures and small graphics. It can also scan and recognize MICR CMC-7 font barcodes, which are widely used to scan bank codes, account numbers, check numbers, check amounts, or check control indicators.
Supported languages
- Supported OCR languages: Afaan Oromo, Afrikaans, Albanian, Asturian, Aymara, Azeri (Latin), Balinese, Basque, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Latin), Brazilian, Breton, Bulgarian, Bulgarian-English, Byelorussian, Byelorussian-English, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK), English (USA), Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, German (Switzerland), Greek, Greek-English, Greenlandic, Haitian Creole, Hani, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kapampangan, Kazakh, Kicongo, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luba, Luxemburg, Macedonian, Macedonian-English, Madurese, Malagasy, Malay, Manx (Gaelic), Maori, Mayan, Mexican, Minangkabau, Moldovan, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nahuatl, Norwegian, Numeric, Nyanja, Nynorsk, Occitan, Papiamento, Pidgin English (Nigeria), Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Roman, Romanian, Run di, Russian, Russian-English, Samoan, Sardinian, Scottish (Gaelic), Serbian, Serbian (Latin), Serbian-English, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sotho, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tatar (Latin), Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Ukrainian, Ukrainian-English, Uzbek, Waray, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Zapotec, Zulu.
- Supported OCR languages (offline mode): Albanian, Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Digits, Dutch (Netherlands), English, Esperanto, Estonian, Fijan, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourg, Moldavian, Norsk, Norwegian (Bokmal), Norwegian, Nynosk, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Mexican), Swedish, Swiss (German), Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh, Xhosa, Zulu.
- Supported text-to-speech languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Catalan, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish.
- Supported translation languages: Arabic, English, Hungarian, Malay, Serbian (Latin), Welsh, Bosnian (Latin), Estonian, Indonesian, Maltese, Slovak, Yucatec Maya, Bulgarian, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Slovenian, Catalan, French, Japanese, Persian, Spanish, Chinese Simplified, German, Kiswahili, Polish, Swedish, Chinese Traditional, Greek, Klingon, Portuguese, Thai, Croatian, Haitian Creole, Klingon (plqaD), Queretaro Otomi, Turkish, Czech, Hebrew, Korean, Romanian, Ukrainian, Danish, Hindi, Latvian, Russian, Urdu, Dutch, Hmong Daw, Lithuanian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Vietnamese
Minimum system requirements:
For Windows
- Intel® Pentium® based PC or equivalent recommended
- Microsoft® Windows® 10, 8, 7.
- 1GB of available hard-disk space
- 2 GB of RAM -
- At least one USB port available
- Internet connection for activation/ translation/text-to-speech
For Macintosh
- Mac® OS X (10.8 or above) -
- Intel Core 2 Duo 1.4 GHz (MacBook Air 3.1) or Intel Core Duo 1.8 GHz (MacBook Pro 1.1)
- At least one USB port available
- 2GB of RAM -
- 1GB of available hard-disk space
For IOS devices
- Hardware: iPhone (6S, 6S Plus, 6, 6 Plus, 5S, 5C), iPad (Air 2, Air, Mini 3, Mini 2, Mini)
- IOS: 7, 8, 9 & above
For Android devices
- OS: KitKat 4.4.2 and above
- Hardware: see compatibility list
Box content:
- Pen scanner
- USB cable
- Software PC & Mac
- Bluetooth Dongle ( for PC & MAC under LTE)
- Activation number
- Get started guide
Support:
Free support is available.