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USER'S GUIDE
So, the IRISPen offers OCR at its best: the unique PCR-II technology -
PCR is short for “Pen Character Recognition” - executes character recognition
despite every handicap imaginable.
THE IRISPEN IS A LINE SCANNER
The greyscale image and the scan test windows illustrate another character-
istic of the IRISPen, central line tracking. It is an essential feature: although
you scan strokes of about 0.4" (1 cm.) high, containing in many cases several
lines of text, the IRISPen recognizes only a single line of text per scan.
In the above example, we have scanned with a single stroke two complete
lines and the major part of a third line. Another column separated by a gutter line
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