Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Wichita KS
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I have read a couple of reviews on the wizcom OCR text scanning pen. says you can OCR scan then beam to visor as text or address book (for biz cards); or scnc the text with a pc. If this thing works it would be very useful to me. Has anyone found it useful? Is it accurate? Does it work well with a lot of different fonts and sizes as claimed (site says 6pt to 22pt)? Is it worth the money (they run from $130-$150)?

Registered: Dec 2000
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I've got one

I brought the QuickLink pen about two months ago. Got it from Amazon.com for $128. I think that the QuickLink pen is very useful. It makes input of info. into the Visor a lot faster. The pen can scan a variety of font sizes. It's recognition very pretty good, but sometimes it does fail. I would estimate that the accuarcy is about 90%. The funny thing is that I think the quicklink has an internal word bank that sometimes get activate when it cannot recognize a word because sometimes when I scan medical text, I would get a word that is completely wrong. Other time if it cannot recognize a word, it would just leave a (~) in place of the letter it failed to recognize. There's also a sight lag time for the processor to recognize the scanned text, lag time is not very long hardly noticable.

The beaming of info. to the Visor is very simple. I have not use the direct to PC scan yet. I carry the Quicklink in my white coat pocket. I would scan my patient's lab reports, pathology finding, and past medical histories, beam the info. to the visor's memo. pad, and from there tranfer the info. to my patientkeeper.

Overall, I think the Quicklink is very useful for what I do. I would recommend it.

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Fat's

Registered: Nov 2000
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I pruchased one a while back, I had some spare change and a burning desire to blow it on a gadget. I personally do not use it that much, usually its simpler for me to just type it on my Stowaway. It is fairly accurate however & has good battery life. For what you want it sounds like it should work perfect.

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Matt Nichols
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Module

Weren't they suppose to release a scanning module for the Visor? Any word on that?

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Yeah, I read about that a while back. However, I don't see how a module will be any different or better than the pen alone. The pen has 2mb of internal memory so I guess a module could use some of that for file storage. Functionally I think the the pen is as good as a module.

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Fat's

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Well the advantage of a module would be that you could send the text to any app, just not memo & address book. So then you could be in WordSmith or ThinkDB and add the text directly to the app.

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