Hi There YouTube pretty excited right now this has finally arrived this is the
iris scam they're a subsidiary of canon I believe I've asked and booked five
handheld scanner now this is completely portable comes with a 4 gigabyte SD card
which will enable me to scan without a computer so I could just scan pages of
books it comes with bundled OCR software that
stands for optical character recognition so let's open the box and see what's
included
right so this appears to be the devices so apparently there's no manuals
included so it says to get started and it gives you a URL www.narang.com
/and a QR code so yeah and what's this this is a mini USB cable so that would
be useful for charging the device entirely sure if you can scan while it's
connected to the PC be quite the funky if it does is I think the battery only
lasts for about a hundred images which isn't really a lot well and there's the
SD card so a should be four gigabytes but I can't really read that let's open
the case never open these ah there let's see oh it's branded I this four gigabyte
and there's a pouch and does this the normal Oh software serial so suppose
you'll need that to activate any OCR iris pro 15 I'm guessing that's polish
leggy me I guess that's Italian I'm not even
going to try that I'm guessing that's meandering though right let's fire up
this bad boy and do some scanning right now one criticism of this scanner is
that it's difficult to use it's overly complicated a lot of reviews and I don't
think it's that bad I'll try and give you a rough overview on how it works now
to turn it on there's a long press okay you have a little SD card icon a flasher
that means it's saving to sd card I think that's the default is pretty
simple on here you've got an option to save it in different formats JPEG PDF
and PDF multiple pages so that's quite simple I'm gonna keep it on PDF this
topic button changes the DPI so that's dots per inch so it's changed
it to 300 600 1200 so that's quite simple and there are of of options
playback see what you've done so that's about it so long key press is power off
so it's not too complicated okay if you want some of the more advanced features
you'll probably have to have a look on the online manual that being a bloke I
haven't looked at the instructions yet really shit what I most like about this
scanner is its portability you can just throw it in your bag with your laptop
and you can just go out for the day not an advantage over a flatbed scanner is
it silent doesn't have any birthing motors no flashing bright lights no
clunking backwards and forwards being a book scanner where it really comes into
its own this scanning books like dirt so I'll show you an example here I've got a
very old nice antique book obviously putting it on a flatbed scanner could
damage delicate pages don't really want to do that my books and I think we
should look after books you know for future generations so what I'm going to
do now is just scan this very nice map of London just for the benefit of this
video and I'll show you how it turns out now I've set this on 2p
F if you can see there it's 1200 dpi so start scanning I just press the middle
Scan button as you can see the scan scanning lens I think that scored is
offset to one side that's designed so it can fit white in the margin of a book
which is ideal for what we're going to do now so now that scan icon is there we
can slowly slide it over the page being very steady and careful and when we
finished press scan again and now that shows a little preview of what we've
just scanned I think that's a great feature it means you can see what you've
kept cheered so it doesn't come to a time when you were playing say half a
day later than you think oh that really didn't scan but I'll have
to do it again I know that's now capture it quite as
good image of that plan okay so let's see how that's turned out now mice now
Beave done all our scanning and I'm feeling pretty scanned out and I want to
connect this to my PC and just download the images I've taken so I'll give you a
very quick overview how to do that now first of all it comes with a micro USB
cable so obviously fit that in the mini USB ports on the side of the device look
at into your computer of choice and now to make it recognizable as an external
drive for long press the power button we now have a USB icon come up that means
low and behold that chime means that the PC has recognized it as an external USB
Drive and guilt I can now see all the scans I've taken so let's have look and
see how that maps turned out yes it's a pretty good quality scan yes that should
be useful it's turned out really good I'm quite proud of that so okay then now
I'm going to show you using screen capture the live scan software that
comes bundled with it so okay let's check that out now I've connected the
device to the PC and I've started the instant result software this will allow
me to scan in real time and boy dev I capture will appear on the screen so
let's give this a go let's click the Scan button and
carefully position the scanner over the page okay and slowly swipe the device
over the page now I've selected this to be a color of image you can also select
it so you be grayscale or an actual text page and then capture using the OCR like
that's done now so if I click the scan again we can now see what we've got this
is a 1920s representation of the poll of London from an old Burke just quite like
the picture and it's color nice vivid colors trains boats scary I guess that's
a boy let's hope it's not online that could go horribly wrong right so
quite happy with that no how do we save this oh we can rotate cool that's
rotated save image
okay I can see if this is let's say now I'm quite happy roof capturing images
using instant result now let's give it a go on a page of text or a typical page
with text and an image scary picture went to me of somebody I know
let's click scan and hopefully it's good to go
so again slowly pollito you though the text you want to capture keeping it nice
and level
awesome okay click scan again to stop now I want to rotate this okay and let's
try and export this to word just see what happens
or should I do OCR let's do it to word first let's call that OCR content
now hopefully that'll save as a Word document
let's try OCR again you see our content yep then that does exactly the same
thing that saves it as a Word document so cool by going to My Documents now
look for some documents are you see our content that's both the same file size
so that's okay so it's have a look at this
blabbers later
whoo-hoo
that's pretty awesome isn't it Lucky's captured the picture as well I
wasn't expecting that at all well awesome
that is amazing them people have got different definitions of amazing but I'm
quite amazed with that so yeah it's all good
gets two thumbs up for me and if you occur curious to see how that
plan of London turned out here it is now
yes really nice quality this is zoomed in quite a bit but yeah very pleased
it's in case of copyright claims this is Geo graffia
1923 limited so they're fifty-five Fleet Street London if they're still going so
probably not they so to quickly sum up I really like this handheld scanner super
easy to use very portable yeah one of my favorite gadgets at the moment they
reasonably-priced you can pick this up at amazon for under sixty quid and which
at the cost of regular flatbed scanner seemed you can do a lot more with this
is well worth it okay I'll include the link below and as always thanks for
watching bye