Handheld Text Scanner Pen with 20+ Language Translation

Three reasons it stays in your bag

Scan a line, keep the words

Place the pen flat on the text, align the arrow with the line and press lightly. The indicator lights up when the pen is ready, then you move at an even speed. Flat, aligned passes return clean, editable text, and that is the whole trick. Heavy pressure does nothing for the scanning window, so keep the touch light.

Read in 20+ languages

Recognition covers more than 20 languages, including English, Japanese, German, French, Arabic and Chinese. The scanned output can be translated, so a foreign-language handout becomes readable in your own language without a separate copy and paste step.

Works with the Office apps you use

Scanned text lands in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. For data entry, scan a row of figures from a printed report straight into a cell instead of typing each one. The pen connects to the laptop with a simple USB cable.

Four steps to your first scan

1. 1
   Connect the pen

   Plug the USB cable into your laptop and attach the other end to the pen. Open Word or Excel so the scanned text has somewhere to land.

2. 2
   Lay the pen flat

   Place the pen flat on the printed text so the scanning window sits on the line.

3. 3
   Align and press

   Line up the arrow on the pen with the text line, then press lightly until the indicator lights up.

4. 4
   Scan at an even speed

   Move along the line at a steady pace with no jerky strokes. Check the text on screen before you move to the next line.

From line-by-line copying to one pass

From first scan to a steady routine

1. First use
   First line lands in Word

   Connect the USB cable, open Word or Excel, press the pen lightly over a printed line and move at a steady speed. The scanned text should appear as editable words.

2. 3 uses
   Speed and alignment settle

   By the third session you know how to line up the arrow with the text and keep the pen moving evenly, which tends to give cleaner results.

3. 30 days
   Scanning becomes a habit

   After a month of study or office work, the pen is the default way to capture passages and short data instead of typing them out.

Pen scan, phone app or typing