Mobile Digital Scribe is the first device ever to capture natural handwriting from any surface, and store it in the receiver for future use. Based on a revolutionary electronic pen that uses ordinary ink refill to write on any paper, the Mobile Digital Scribe stores handwritten notes, memos or drawings for easy upload to any computer at your convenience. No special digital notepad is required. Additionally, if the Mobile Digital Scribe is connected to a computer, handwritten text and drawings are displayed directly on the computer screen.
Features The first device ever to capture natural handwriting from any surface, and store it in the receiver for future use. No special notepad, digital pad, or ink is required. Included handwriting recognition software (OCR software) turns your handwriting into digital text. Full editing capabilities allow you to easily modify your notes. Export notes via JPEG format and share notes with other users via E-mail or Instant Messaging. Write on any paper up to Letter or A4 size 12 OCR languages supported (English, Spanish, Traditional/Simplified Chinese, Korean, Janpanese, French, Dutch, Italian, German, Portuguese, Swedish and Russian) Great for Legal and Medical professionals. Students don't need to carry their laptops to class, write on paper and upload your notes when you are back in the comfort of your room.
Tech Specs USB Specification: USB 1.1 and 2.0 compliant Transfer Rate: 480 Mbps USB 2.0 Cable Length: 4 Feet Each Humidity: 20-80% RH, (Non Condensing) Operating Temperature: 68 ~ 122 ?F ( 20 ~ 50 C) Storage Temperature: 32 ~ 158 ?F ( 0 ~ 70 C) Cable Type: Mini USB to USB type A male Power Consumption: 5V System Requirements: -Microsoft Windows® 2000, XP or Vista -Minimum 128MB RAM -50MB available hard disk space -Minimum 32-bit color quality -Office XP, 2003 or 2007 -USB Port
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Title should note that this price is after mail-in rebate.
It appears that the item is $44.95 after rebate at Amazon.com, at least until they run out. Their site currently says "only 4 more in stock".
Severalpeople on the net have reported that this pen works with OS X. At least, they report that pages of notes they've captured with the device in mobile mode can be transferred to the mac as tiff files, and that it works in mouse/pen mode with the computer, possibly after a downloadable firmware upgrade.
Looks like Amazon's low-stock warning was a false alarm or they received a new shipment, as their site no longer says there's a limited number available.
I received the pen, connected the base to my mac, updated its firmware to 1.76 (that's a direct link to the download) so that it'd work with a mac, rebooted my computer, unplugged the base, clipped it to some paper, wrote a bit, then plugged the base back into the computer. Everything I wrote transferred over to the computer automatically as a tiff file (deposited into a folder I'd pre-designated), and looked very very good. I haven't used it extensively for any length of time, but the result of this cursory test exceeded my expectations.
It's a lightweight piece of kit. I could actually imagine myself finding a use for this.
I didn't yet try the OCR software. It's Windows-only. I'll load it into VMware Fusion one of these days and see if it can decipher my handwriting, which I doubt.
Tried the bundled OCR software on Win XP inside VMware Fusion, it worked surprisingly well on my print writing. Out of my 29 word example, it got 25 words right, then garbled the last 4 (which were admittedly written less legibly than the rest). I can't even read my cursive, so I didn't try it. I also scribbled a couple of Chinese characters (ni hao) and it recognized those and converted them to text (in a separate pass with the OCR software set to simplified Chinese). I can post an example if anyone cares for that level of detail.
Mouse mode does work. There's a bit of lag, it'd suck for gaming, but could potentially be of use with photoshop (note: the pen is not pressure sensitive).
I half-busted one of the base unit's clips trying to clip it to a stack of paper larger than it can accept. So my recommendation would be "don't do what I did". Other than that hiccup, my thoughts on the GPEN200N are pretty positive so far.
Message edited by: czyz on 2009-09-24 15:33:38 CDT
Hmm, I just followed the instructions. I connected the cable, ran the firmware updater, and it just worked. Not sure what I'd do had it bricked. I'd probably try powering it down by pressing and holding the one button on the base, powering it back up, updating again, etc.
It's unfortunate they didn't really cover the use of that button to power the base up and down. But I'm not sure that'd help with your issue.
I wrote a message to IOGear about the base's clip, and they wrote back to me within a couple of days. So they're not unresponsive. Might be worth writing them about your issue.
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