C Technologies Mobile Information Collector C-Pen - Manual (Page 9)

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• Position and movement of C-Pen
It is important how you hold and move C-Pen over the
printed text. Please see Reading text, p. 22 or read the
Quick Start folder to learn how to use
C-Pen correctly. It is crucial that you follow these
instructions in order to get the best results.
• The language of the text
Set the text language of the text you wish to read, to
get the most suitable OCR. See Text Language, p. 55.
• Deformed characters
Anything that is not a printed character, and any
character distorted by a mark or smudge on the paper
may be unrecognizable.
• Overlapping characters
Characters in the text should not overlap.
• Italics and underlined text
Italics are slightly difficult for C-Pen to read in some
fonts. Underlined text is also difficult for C-Pen to
read because the underline changes the shapes of the
descenders of the letters g, j, p, q and y.
• Text colors - text and surface
C-Pen cannot read some combinations of text colors
on colored surfaces, such as red or yellow text on a
white or red background.
Text that is highlighted by a traditional highlighter
marker can be read in some cases, depending on the
color and darkness of the ink.
• Small or large character sizes
The size of the characters should be 5–22 points.