IRIS - IRISPen 457887 Executive 7 Pen Scanner with OCR I Recognising Text & Graphics Pen I Text Recognition I USB I Digital Highlighter I Reader I Translator I Pen Scanner I Windows - Black

As a student, I purchased this product as a means of helping me to save time whilst note-taking for my essays. Admittedly, it has saved me some time and is somewhat faster than having to type the notes up manually, however, the Iris Pen frequently makes errors when scanning - the correct punctuation is rarely recognized, the letter 't' is often substituted with the letter 'f' and 'o's oddly have been known to come out as '()', and that is just to name a few examples. Therefore, I obviously find myself having to constantly going back over what I have scanned and editing what can often be around a quarter of the words scanned, which can consequently be quite time consuming - not as time consuming as manually typing up all my notes, but time consuming and frustrating nonetheless.The biggest problem I have with this product, however, is the near-blinding red light that is activated when the scanner comes into contact with the page. Without trying to exaggerate, the light is honestly far too bright (the sort that leaves you with colours flashing in front of your eyes every time you blink for a while afterwards) and has been leaving me with painful headaches after continual use. I just wish there was a way of turning the light off!

After reading very mixed reviews I wasn't expecting great things, but this highlighting tool has made life so much easier. I'm a university student with a mountain of reading to do, and I condense my notes into Microsoft word quite often. So, this tool has the potential to save me SO much time and effort.The software was easy to download and install (I use Windows 10). The highlighting skill does take some time to perfect. When I first tried I was moving across the page far too fast, but, I've figured out a good steady pace which provides near perfect results. Very few errors.Delighted with the product, I'm recommending this to all my student friends!

As a postgraduate student I would like to recommend this fantastic Iris Notes Air 3 win or mac where you could write important notes and transfer them immediately on your computer. It is not only a pen as you have the device comprised in the delivery that is saving and transferring your notes.Extremely easy to use, even for school children.Absolutely great.It is a fantastic tool for everyone.Thank you Iris in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium,Thank you RTL infos to inform us about their discovery.Thank you Amazon.Brigitte

I am very very disappointed with this product. I have 4 apple devices. I was able to download the app and pair the pen via Bluetooth with no problems for both my iPhone and my iPad. HOWEVER - the pen would not pair with either my Macbook or my MacPro and the software crashes every time I try to scan directly onto a word document OR I try to save the the scanned text using the software provided. I have absolutely no functionality. I've spend hours trying to get the damn thing to work but it just will not. I emailed the company CANON and apparently I will get a response in 3 to 5 days. This is not good enough. I checked their website so see if there are any compatibility problems with my version of OS X and apparently there are not.Shoddy product and poor support. Don't waste your money!

Rubbish product. Looks cheap and flimsy. The thin card pack looks as though it should contain a CD but all you get is a note telling you to download the software - which I did and then followed the instructions very carefully - including connecting the special Bluetooth dongle at the right time (why isn't my already installed Bluetooth setup adequate?). Switched on the scanner pen and ---- nothing. Then a deathly Cx000000? message came up and the computer was all but rendered useless as the message reappear every few seconds, even after cancellation. I did manage a System Restore so was able to start again.I tried a second instal yesterday and, after a lot of coaxing, managed to get the scanner working - not as I would have hoped, though. On shutdown I again got numerous messages warning me of failed this, that and the other, Cx000 type messages and a refusal to shut down. Eventually it did power off.This morning I was greeted with a blank screen. After a switch off and restart a message came up that Windows was unable to restart, did I want to do a repair? You bet your sweet **** I did.After an hour of not appearing to do very much, the message asking if I wanted to do a System Restore came up.After another long period of anxiety, Windows started and seems now to be OK but that cursed Iris Pen 7 Air is never going near it (or any of my other machines ) again.Windows 7 HP

It did what it said on the tin but the software obviously struggles with any text written in a 'non-standard' font which makes old text or unique material difficult to transcribe. The cable at the top made it awkward to use and it could only translate one line at a time if you did it with a perfectly steady hand which made progress slow.It was okay, would award 2.5 stars if I could do 1/2 stars but not worth the price or the time.

This is truly the worst product I have ever purchased. It just does not work. The Bluetooth function on mine never worked so I didn’t get to use the App. The Windows download most frequently produced a jumbled illegible mess despite the fact that I have clear handwriting. Customer support is limited , and by email but that wasn’t really the problem. The key problem is that this is a product that doesn’t work. I appeal to Amazon to withdraw it from sale. Please save other people from wasting time with this terrible product. I would give it zero stars but that was not an option.

How I worked without this pen I don't know, easy to use, can also scan images as well as text also has a translate function on a number of languages.