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title: "Ectaco C-Pen. 3.0 Multilingual Handheld OCR Scanner Pen (3.0)"
brand: "c-pen"
price: "€ 2.21"
currency: EUR
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reviews_count: 11
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# instant data capture 238 languages 5.1 x 1.2 x 0.74 in Ectaco C-Pen. 3.0 Multilingual Handheld OCR Scanner Pen (3.0)

**Brand:** c-pen
**Price:** € 2.21
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Elevate your scanning game with the C-Pen 3.0!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Ectaco C-Pen. 3.0 Multilingual Handheld OCR Scanner Pen (3.0) by c-pen
- **How much does it cost?** € 2.21 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sk](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/5469009-ectaco-c-pen-3-0-multilingual-handheld-ocr-scanner-pen)

## Best For

- c-pen enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted c-pen brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Scan & Go:** Capture text on-the-fly with unmatched speed!
- • **Versatile Scanning:** Scan from curved, laminated, and patterned surfaces.
- • **Portable Powerhouse:** Lightweight design for on-the-go professionals.
- • **Multilingual Mastery:** Read and translate in over 238 languages effortlessly.
- • **Seamless Integration:** Works flawlessly with your existing software.

## Overview

The Ectaco C-Pen 3.0 is a cutting-edge handheld OCR scanner that allows users to capture text from various surfaces and instantly input it into applications. Weighing just 2.93 ounces and measuring 5.1 x 1.2 x 0.74 inches, it is designed for portability and ease of use, supporting over 238 languages for seamless translation and learning.

## Description

The C-Pen is an affordable and reliable handheld data entry alternative to fixed desktop scanners. Letting you capture the exact segment of the text you need, it instantly inserts scanned data into the desired field within your applications. Seamlessly integrating with the software you are already using, you can now scan from curved, laminated and patterned surfaces - something standard scanners just can't do. Significantly faster and more flexible than a desktop scanner it connects easily with your laptop or Win XP based handheld device and is lightweight and extremely portable. You can use the C-Pen in the library, at the office or even on a plane. Able to read printed text in over 238 languages it lets you send a phrase or a whole paragraph from foreign books or documents to your PC for phonetic pronunciation or to speed up translation and learning. Now you need never again copy-type long sentences or number combinations from contact sheets, business cards or any other printed surface, eliminating the costly and time-consuming mistakes which often occur during manual data entry. *List of supported languages. Latin, Cyrillic or Greek characters: 34 Main Languages for which FineReader Engine provides dictionary support and spelling check system: Armenian (Eastern, Western, Grabar), Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch (The Netherlands and Belgium), English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German (new and old spelling), Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Nynorsk and Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish and Ukrainian. Additional Languages with Latin, Cyrillic or Greek characters: Abkhaz, Adyghian, Afrikaans, Agul, Albanian, Altai, Avar, Aymara, Azerbaijani (Cyrillic), Azerbaijani (Latin), Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Blackfoot, Breton, Bugotu, Buryat, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Chukchee, Chuvash, Congo, Corsican, Crimean Tatar, Crow, Dakota, Dargwa, Dungan, Eskimo (Cyrillic), Eskimo (Latin), Even, Evenki, Faeroese, Fijian, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, German (Luxemburg), Guarani, Hani, Hausa, Hawaiian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Ingush, Irish, Jingpo, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay-balkar, Karakalpak, Kasub, Kawa, Kazakh, Khakass, Khanty, Kikuyu, Kirghiz, Koryak, Kpelle, Kumyk, Kurdish, Lak, Latin, Lezgi, Luba, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malinke, Maltese, Mansy, Maori, Mari, Maya, Miao, Minangkabau, Mohawk, Moldavian, Mongol, Mordvin, Nahuatl, Nenets, Nivkh, Nogay, Nyanja, Ojibway, Ossetian, Papiamento, Provencal, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romany, Rundi, Russian (old spelling), Rwanda, Sami (Lappish), Samoan, Scottish Gaelic, Selkup, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Shona, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Sunda, Swahili, Swazi, Tabasaran, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tajik, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tswana, Tun, Turkmen, Tuvinian, Udmurt, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Uzbek (Latin), Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yakut, Zapotec, Zulu.

Review: A useful piece of technology - Like a few other reviewers, I also am a graduate student. I bought this after growing tired of typing in long sections of primary texts to have for purposes of comparisons. It does take some practice to get used to using, but after several months, it's become easy. Different lighting levels, fonts, types of paper, etc do influence how well the pen recognizes words, but again, it's just something to which you become accustomed. There are also certain combinations of letters that the pen consistently gets wrong ("li" becomes "u," and double-t's are often misread, for instance), which is annoying, but easy enough to fix. Superscript numbers and italics also give the pen problems, the former more so than the latter. The only truly major gripes I have are about recognition of Greek characters and customer service. In my studies, I use Greek texts often, and I had hoped that the pen would provide an easy way to input Greek characters and words. Unfortunately, while the pen usually gets most of the letters right (pi's and double letters being the major exceptions) it generally does a poor job capturing the accents and rough breathings, both of which are important. Also, as other reviewers have noted, Etaco is not exactly a customer-service oriented company. The support section of their website is sadly lacking...anything, really. That being said, they have not abandoned this version of their product completely yet: a new software update was introduced a month or so ago that did help some of the problems of mentioned above. On the plus side, the pen has worked in every program I've tried (Word, Onenote, Firefox, Access), and the software and hardware are easy to install. I've gotten it to work on two different desktops and even a old, feeble netbook with no problems (two of those running XP, one Windows 7). Also, it is very portable, although you'll probably want to use something like an eyeglass case to keep it safe while on the move. To conclude, the C-pen is not perfect, but it will save the user a great deal of time and make research much easier. To me it was certainly worth the money, even though there are many occasions where I still find my flatbed scanner much more useful.
Review: Amazing... Saves a lot of time... - I help out with paying bills for a non-profit organization. I don't get paid or anything, so it's kind of nice to not have to spend more time than I need to doing that. As it's important to me to enter details in the records, I tend to enter a lot of data in a transaction, and then there's just the mass of data that has to get handled when processing credit card bills and the like. Though I've had trouble scanning MIRC and the more squared off fonts, the OCR is pretty good. It can get tricky with the tiny fonts that appear on some bill summaries, but one can often compensate by learning how fast to scan. The button on the scanner that acts like a tab is incredibly useful: scan, click to next field, scan, etc., without having to keyboard. I find the software features a bit lacking. It seems too tedious to switch modes that do things like filter out $ signs and comma's from monetary amounts when the application doesn't accept those characters in a numeric field. The feature works, but sadly, I find it easier to manually delete than to switch back and forth between text scanning and filtered number scanning when processing a lot of transactions where you have to go back and forth between scanning modes. Scanning whitespace can terminate the OCR and I find that annoying. Even with the difficulties, if the one I have breaks, I'll be getting another. It saves a heck of a lot of time.

## Features

- The C-Pen is an affordable and reliable handheld data entry alternative to fixed desktop scanners.
- Letting you capture the exact segment of the text you need, it instantly inserts scanned data into the desired field within your applications.
- Seamlessly integrating with the software you are already using, you can now scan from curved, laminated and patterned surfaces - something standard scanners just can't do.
- Significantly faster and more flexible than a desktop scanner it connects easily with your laptop or Win XP based handheld device and is lightweight and extremely portable.
- Able to read printed text in over 238 languages it lets you send a phrase or a whole paragraph from foreign books or documents to your PC for phonetic pronunciation or to speed up translation and learning.
- This is an aftermarket of generic part

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B000EOMZO6 |
| Brand | C-pen |
| Built-In Media | Handheld OCR Scanner Pen |
| Connection Type | USB |
| Connectivity Technology | USB |
| Customer Reviews | 3.7 out of 5 stars 115 Reviews |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 07331424021405 |
| Item Weight | 0.18 Pounds |
| Manufacturer | GnhBos Inc., DBA AramediA |
| Media Type | Business Card |
| Minimum System Requirements | IBM compatible PC Intel Pentium 200 MHz or higher processor//64 MB RAM// 290 MB free hard-disk space//USB connection |
| Model Name | C-Pen. 3.0 |
| Optical Sensor Technology | C pen |
| Resolution | 300 |
| Scanner Type | Scanning Pen |
| Standard Sheet Capacity | 1 |
| UPC | 789981045698 |

## Product Details

- **Scanner Type:** Scanning Pen
- **Brand:** C-pen
- **Model Name:** C-Pen. 3.0
- **Connectivity Technology:** USB
- **Resolution:** 300
- **Item Weight:** 0.18 Pounds
- **Standard Sheet Capacity:** 1
- **Optical Sensor Technology:** C pen
- **Minimum System Requirements:** IBM compatible PC Intel Pentium 200 MHz or higher processor//64 MB RAM// 290 MB free hard-disk space//USB connection
- **UPC:** 789981045698

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A useful piece of technology
*by S***K on April 16, 2011*

Like a few other reviewers, I also am a graduate student. I bought this after growing tired of typing in long sections of primary texts to have for purposes of comparisons. It does take some practice to get used to using, but after several months, it's become easy. Different lighting levels, fonts, types of paper, etc do influence how well the pen recognizes words, but again, it's just something to which you become accustomed. There are also certain combinations of letters that the pen consistently gets wrong ("li" becomes "u," and double-t's are often misread, for instance), which is annoying, but easy enough to fix. Superscript numbers and italics also give the pen problems, the former more so than the latter. The only truly major gripes I have are about recognition of Greek characters and customer service. In my studies, I use Greek texts often, and I had hoped that the pen would provide an easy way to input Greek characters and words. Unfortunately, while the pen usually gets most of the letters right (pi's and double letters being the major exceptions) it generally does a poor job capturing the accents and rough breathings, both of which are important. Also, as other reviewers have noted, Etaco is not exactly a customer-service oriented company. The support section of their website is sadly lacking...anything, really. That being said, they have not abandoned this version of their product completely yet: a new software update was introduced a month or so ago that did help some of the problems of mentioned above. On the plus side, the pen has worked in every program I've tried (Word, Onenote, Firefox, Access), and the software and hardware are easy to install. I've gotten it to work on two different desktops and even a old, feeble netbook with no problems (two of those running XP, one Windows 7). Also, it is very portable, although you'll probably want to use something like an eyeglass case to keep it safe while on the move. To conclude, the C-pen is not perfect, but it will save the user a great deal of time and make research much easier. To me it was certainly worth the money, even though there are many occasions where I still find my flatbed scanner much more useful.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing... Saves a lot of time...
*by K***N on July 18, 2013*

I help out with paying bills for a non-profit organization. I don't get paid or anything, so it's kind of nice to not have to spend more time than I need to doing that. As it's important to me to enter details in the records, I tend to enter a lot of data in a transaction, and then there's just the mass of data that has to get handled when processing credit card bills and the like. Though I've had trouble scanning MIRC and the more squared off fonts, the OCR is pretty good. It can get tricky with the tiny fonts that appear on some bill summaries, but one can often compensate by learning how fast to scan. The button on the scanner that acts like a tab is incredibly useful: scan, click to next field, scan, etc., without having to keyboard. I find the software features a bit lacking. It seems too tedious to switch modes that do things like filter out $ signs and comma's from monetary amounts when the application doesn't accept those characters in a numeric field. The feature works, but sadly, I find it easier to manually delete than to switch back and forth between text scanning and filtered number scanning when processing a lot of transactions where you have to go back and forth between scanning modes. Scanning whitespace can terminate the OCR and I find that annoying. Even with the difficulties, if the one I have breaks, I'll be getting another. It saves a heck of a lot of time.

### ⭐ DO NOT BUY THIS!!
*by E***G on January 8, 2010*

Ok, well I bought this pen and I regret the trouble it has caused so far. First off, I ordered the pen from two different sellers. The first pen came in a plastic package that was taped together with scotch tape. The contents were just kinda shuffled inside and the cardboard label inside was in backwards. For a NEW item, it was pretty crappy looking. I RMA'd on arrival. The second pen came in a box, you would think much better. Same components but just as bad! The box is small and the CD-Rom install has to fit in diagonally to fit. This basically means the pen and wires in the box push against the CD-Rom the whole time. When I tried to install the drivers I found out that I couldn't because the CD-ROM was BENT! In this day and age, what lack of attention does it take to pack something so poorly that it bends the cd? So not having drivers, I went to the install website and downloaded the drivers and software. I installed them and attached the pen. No Dice. The Pen would eventually show up as "hardware found" but when I went to the drivers directory from the install, windows would say "windows cannot find the software to install the device". BUT that's not all! There's More! After installing the drivers, my trackpad would not operate correctly. I could not longer left click with it. Very hard to uninstall something in windows without a left click. Also my LAN network icon in network settings disappeared. I think the drivers installed caused massive hardware conflicts. So all in all, Lousy packaging, junky product, software actually did worse than nothing by harming my computer, and according the seller "that's just how they ship the product to us". So not to leave out blame, horrible manufacturing company for such a cheaply un-thoughtout product, and of course to those third party sellers. They are trying to sell us something they know is sub-par for $100. They just hope it is too much of a hassle for you to RMA once you get what you aren't expecting. p.s. This is the most negative review I have written for a product (which it deserves) and I have about 18 years of extensive computer experience.

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