The Scanmarker Air is compatible with any application, including Word, Excel, Gmail, Facebook, Outlook, Cloud Drive and more. Text will be scanned wherever you want it to, making it easy to scan and share without needing to type. Scanmarker Air doesn’t need much to run properly, essentially just needing the ability to support bluetooth. To reliably use the Scanmarker Air accurately, we feel your child should be able to do the following: Portable, lightweight and easy to use. The USB-connected version of Scanmarker Air for those who only require scanning to computer. The device does not have any built-in speaker, so you will have to rely on the app to hear loudly the text you have just scanned and, it can also be translated into 45 languages which are supported in the Offline mode (or up to 130 languages in Online mode).

Note: Inside the case, the C-Pen Reader is equipped with a 600 MHz CPU and 4 GB of internal memory life. Because we found it to be a little more sensitive to non-smooth hand movements and because it took some practice before we started seeing really good accuracy, we would probably only recommend this product to students 10 and up.TEXT-TO-SPEECH: reads words and full lines of text aloud to help promote independent reading for those suffering with learning difficulties

One thing to be aware of that flustered some past users is that the Scanmarker Air can’t connect to two bluetooth devices at the same time. If you decide to move away from your computer to a mobile device, for example, you have to disconnect from your computer before trying to pair it to your mobile device as your mobile device won’t “see” it. Menu and Function Selection The C-Pen Reader is one of the three available devices from the same manufacturer (the other two being the Exam Reader and the Dictionary Pen, which have a larger library with more languages), all of them sharing the same dimensions and weight (measures 5.3 x 1.3 x 0.7 inches and weighs 1.7 ounces) and the main differentiating design factor is the colour: the case of the C-Pen Reader is all white. Because of the small form-factor, the device can be used by adults, but it is also suitable for children, especially because it is reasonably lightweight and it allows for a comfortable grip even with smaller hands. ULTRA-FAST SCANNING: the Scanmarker Air enters text 30 times faster than typing, saving you valuable note taking time Unfortunately, the Scanmarker air is not a stand alone device in that It does require a computer or mobile device and app to use. As far as reading and translations go, English, Spanish, German and French didn’t seem to give us any issues, but users do report having some problems in languages that don’t use the Latin alphabet, such as Japanese Kanji.Students younger than that may not have the dexterity yet or might just get too frustrated and give up. How do I know if my student is ready for this scanning pen?

On the whole, for the price we would say it does a pretty good job as a read aloud scanning pen. What ages is the Scanmarker Air appropriate for?The Scanmarker Air connects to your home computer by USB or bluetooth (it even comes with a little bluetooth adapter that you plug into your USB port), and connects to a mobile device by bluetooth.

We found the Scanmarker’s app to be pretty straightforward and well laid out. It wasn’t confusing or hard to use at all, you simply scroll down to find things to adjust and tweak. You can, for example, adjust: As a rule of thumb, the device can scan text that is less than 0.4” wide (the effective scanning width of the device). How easy is it to hold? One thing to note that took some past users by surprise is that your device activation requires an internet connection, as does any time you pair it to a new device. Like other reading pens, the Scanmarker Air is really built around OCR (optical character recognition) technology. As you scan a sentence, the device sort of takes a picture of the text and then software works to convert that picture into digital text that can, for instance, be translated or read out loud. The Scanmarker app also gives you two options, scan to the Scanmarker application and scan to external applications. If you choose the latter, you can then scan to a wide variety of supported tools, like Word, Excel, Gmail and Facebook, or send things to the Cloud (Google Drive and iCloud, for example) which is cool and pretty useful if you need to save something for later use. Ease of Scanning Text

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The C-Pen Reader follows the same concept as the other pen scanners (it allows you to scan various paragraphs from books or any type of documents and, using the Optical Character Recognition technology, it converts the data and ports it into a digital format, which can later be read or edited), but it’s main audience consists of people that suffer from dyslexia or other types of reading difficulties and for users with visual impairments. The Scanmarker Air does take some practice to get working accurately. Compared to more expensive devices it seems a little more sensitive to jittering, which can cause it to not read text properly. While these days it’s not all that common to not be around a wifi connection or be in range of 4/5g (especially as a student) this is something to be aware of that has caught some users off guard. Overall, we feel the Scanmarker Air is an affordable and pretty accurate reader pen. If you don’t mind working alongside your computer or mobile device, and don’t mind needing a bit of practice, given the price we think it can represent a good value as an assistive device to students with dyslexia and other reading difficulties.