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Review
Created: May, 2000
The Quick Link Pen from Wizcom Technologies is pretty cool.
Shaped and weighted much like an extra-fat highlight marker,
it has a display screen and nifty control buttons.
Roll it over text and it scans that text into memory for later
transmission to your computer. It is neat and affordable. But
amazement soon evaporates when you realize this James Bondesque
gizmo looks better than it performs. It is not that it performs
poorly -- it just doesn't do a heck of a lot.
Most often, we scan documents to import a photograph, illustration,
chart, contract or budgetary report into the computer. We scan
text when we do not want to transcribe it by hand. The Quick
Link Pen is simply not practical for these uses.
The unit requires you to slide it over the text, much the same
way you would when highlighting with a marker. The built-in
recognition software is not bad and, with careful lining up
of the roller and the paper, the text does get scanned. But
this is a tedious process and you'd probably be better off typing
a report than scanning it with this gizmo.
In the pen's defense, it does work and is easy to use. Pump
in the batteries and you're off. The options are navigated through
arrow keys on the unit.
And there are options that widen the scope of its use. The Quick
Link Pen can be used as a quasi-address book. Business card
information can be scanned into the unit, with the information
maintained in a database. It also scans information from tables
into a cell-structured spreadsheet-style format. The information
can then be exported into the computer.
Unfortunately, the font sizes on most business cards make scanning
the information difficult. During testing, data had to be scanned
many times, consuming more time the old-fashioned typing method.
Porting the information into the computer is easy enough --
but after trying to scan accurately a document of any length,
anything else will seem easy.
Wizcom must have realized this product would have an identity
crisis. A desktop movie that is included on the accompanying
CD shows users how to scan with the Quick Link, through a fictitious
and admittedly entertaining story of a private investigator
who uses his pen to scan pertinent information from packages
carried by people he is trailing. Entertaining, yes. Realistic
or resembling any real-life use anyone might have for this product?
No.
This product might be of some use to university students who
are in the library finding bits of research for their essays.
But for most people, the Quick Link Pen Scanner is better seen
then used.
Reviewers rating: 2.5 / 5
Comments: The Quick Link Pen by Wizcom Technologies
works adequately and looks cool. Someone might actually find
a use for it.
System requirements: 16 MB RAM, 8 MB hard drive space.
More info: http://www.quicktionary.com
Price: $129.95 US, $195 Canadian
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