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Penpower Chinese Expert User Manual V ersion: V2.3 Release: November , 2009 Edition: 2[...]

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Contents Chapter 1 Pr oduct Features .............................................................................. 1 - 1 1.1 Product Features ................................................................................................. 1 - 1 1.2 V ersion Introduction..............................................................................[...]

3.6.8 Delete Phrase .......................................................................................... 3 - 2 4 3.6.9 Export ..................................................................................................... 3 - 2 4 3.7 Pronunciation Practice .................................................................................[...]

5.14 Mixing T raditional and Simplified W riting .................................................... 5 - 2 1 5.15 Switching V ersions.......................................................................................... 5 - 2 1 5.16 Settings .......................................................................................................[...]

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Chapter 1 Product Features 1-1 Chapter 1 Product Featur es 1.1 Product Featur es Penpower Chinese Expert provides a comprehensive Chinese learning environment by immersing you in a Mandarin listening and speaking environment. Penpower Chinese Expert lets you learn Mandarin from any source including web sites, books, newspapers and magazines. • Li[...]

1-2 Chinese Expert 1.2 V ersion Introduction 1.2.1 W riting Pad V ersion W ith the writing pad, you can write or modify any Chinese text easily and use Penpower Chinese Expert for listening comprehension, reading, speaking, writing, and translation. For East Asian languages, handwriting is the most natural way to enter characters into a computer . [...]

2-1 Chapter 2 Installation Chapter 2 Installation 2.1 System Requirements 1. Intel Pentium CPU or above 2. 64MB RAM (128MB RAM recommended) 3. 150MB disk space 4. W indows 7/V ista/XP/2000 5. USB port 2.2 Installation 1. Insert Penpower Chinese Expert setup CD into the CD-ROM drive. The installation program will start automatically . Please select [...]

2-2 Chinese Expert 2. Click [ Next] to install. 3. Read the license agreement, select [ I accept the terms of the license agreement] . Click [ Next] to continue. 4. Select the destination location folder and click [ Next] .[...]

2-3 Chapter 2 Installation Note: If your software is an older version, please update to the latest version. Y ou can choose either [Remove now , and exit setup program.] or [Remove later , and exit setup program.] to continue using your current version. Note : If you install the Penpower Chinese Expert Standard V ersion, please follow the below ins[...]

2-4 Chinese Expert 7. Fill in the Product ID , Name , Email and Phone no. , and then click [ Activate Softwar e ] to activate the Penpower Chinese Expert . When the activation is successful, we will send you an email. Note: 1. The Product ID is sticked on the installation CD. 2. If you have ever activated the PCE on your computer before, you can ju[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-1 Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3.1 Starting Penpower Chinese Expert After the Chinese Expert software is installed, there will be a new shortcut on the desktop. Double click this icon to start the Penpower Chinese Expert . 3.2 Introduction to the Main Interface 3.2.1 T ranslation Mode When the Chinese Expe[...]

3-2 Chinese Expert Function Buttons New Open Save Save as Help W ord Segmen- tation Phrase database Auto insert all phrases Settings Re-edit article Dictionary Machine T ranslation About User Dened Dictionary T ranslation Mode 1. T ext to speech : Click the T ext to speech button to hear theprogram speak the text in the Chinese panel. The T ext-[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-3 Function Buttons T oolbar Tip-Show T ranslation and note Sentence Segmentation Articles/ phrase List Chinese Article or Sentences 3.2.2 W ord Segmentation Mode Click the W ord Segmentation Mode button. T oolbar Go back to the article T ext to Speech Record your own voice Delete this Recording Redo phrase Segme[...]

3-4 Chinese Expert 1. T ext to speech : Hear the Chinese speech in the Chinese pane. 2. Human V oice : Hear a pre-recorded human voice speak the default Chinese phrases. Click the Human V oice button to hear the voice, click it again to stop. 3. Record your own voice : T urn on the Recorder . 4. Delete this recording : Delete the recorded le. 5.[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-5 3.3 File Management 3.3.1 New Article Click New to open the Location of the article dialog box. Enter the article name and directory path, then Click OK to open a new article. Note: By default the new article is called untitled and has the My Document folder as its directory path. Click button to select a new [...]

3-6 Chinese Expert 3.3.2 Opening an Existing File Click the Open button to open an existing le or recent les. If you select Open , the Open dialog box appears. Select one or more .pce les, then click Open to import its contents into Penpower Chinese Expert . If you select Recent les the Recent les dialog box appears. All recently edi[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-7 3.3.4 Abstract In the main menu, right-click on an article and select Abastract from the option list that appears. The Abstract dialog box will then appear . Y ou can check for information related to the author of the article. Y ou can then press Advanced to edit the information in the abstract. In the Edit au[...]

3-8 Chinese Expert 3.3.5 Save File Modied articles that have not yet been saved have an asterisk (*) after their name to indicate that the article has been modied and hasn’t been saved yet. Click the Save button to save the selected le to the default folder in the .pce format. The asterisk will dis- appear . Note: The Save command saves [...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-9 3.4 Sentence Segmentation Sentences can be quickly split into segments of distinct words using the smart sentence segmentation technology to make learning words easier for you so you are able to under- stand the entire sentence. 3.4.1 Automatic Sentence Segmentation Press the Sentence Segmentation but- ton, wh[...]

3-10 Chinese Expert Selecting Hanyu pinyin (numeric tone) displays the Hanyu pinyin with numbers to indicate the tone of the character as dis- played on the right: Selecting Zhuyin shows the Zhuyin as on the right: Zhuyin can help you learn the Zhuyin used for each word. Penpower Chinese Expert automati- cally breaks the entire article down into in[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-1 1 3.4.2 Basic Chinese Learning Functions in the Sentence Segmentation Pane T ip-Show T ranslation and Note In the Penpower Chinese Expert Sen- tence Segmentation pane, you can hover the cursor on any word or term to see the English translation and a few notes pertain- ing to the selected word or term. Lookup O[...]

3-12 Chinese Expert TTS Speech The T ext-to-Speech (TTS) synthetic speech technology allows you to hear words on-screen, allowing you to listen to the pronunciation a nd tones of the words. Hover the cursor on a word or term, right-click and then click T ext to speech to hear the word or term. Change Pronunciation Certain words may have multiple pr[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-13 Click Practice to open the Practice dialog box where you can practice writing the char- acter . When done, you can click Grade for the program to evaluate your written character . Click Erase to repeat the practice session.[...]

3-14 Chinese Expert Quickly Open Phrase Database Double-click a word or term to search for the word in the phrase database. For example, for the term 台灣 , you can quickly open the phrase database to check the pronunciation, meaning, meaning, notes, or even modify the pronunciation of this term. Note : If the selected phrase is not in the phrase[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-15 3.4.3 Build Phrase Manually Certain terms such as names and other pronouns may not always be properly segmented. Y ou must build the phrase with the Build Phrase Manually method to add it into the phrase database. For example, 洋基 is the name of a baseball team, but the name is broken down into two separat[...]

3-16 Chinese Expert 3.4.4 Redo Phrase Segmentation Phrases built in one particular sentence will not be automatically combined in other sentences. Phrase building only combines words and terms in the current sentence. If the term appears in other sentences, use the Redo phrase segmentation command to quickly combine them all. For example, in sectio[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-17 3.5 Auto Insert all Phrases Press the Auto insert all phrases button, and the system will display a Please select the words dialog box. Y ou can select one word at a time, or press the Add all button to import all of the words on the left column into the word database (self-select) on the right column, then p[...]

3-18 Chinese Expert Note: The pronunciation system shown in the Chinese pronunciation area of the Pen- power Chinese Expert phrase database dialog box depends on the Pinyin settings. If the Pinyin settings are set to Zhuyin , then Zhuyin is displayed; if set to Hanyu pinyin , then Hanyu pinyin is displayed. Note: The phrases listed in the database [...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-19 3.6 Phrase Database Management Click the Phrase database button to display the Penpower Chinese Expert Phrase Database dialog box. Database sources 1. T erms added using the Build phrase command in a certain sentence within the article. (Please refer to 3.4.3 Build Phrase Manually .) 2. T erms added through t[...]

3-20 Chinese Expert V oice Phrase Search Click the Oral exam button and the message Please speak the word you want to search appears. Say the phrase in Chinese. If you say the phrase correctly , the phrase will be displayed and highlighted in blue. For example, after saying 洋基 , the term 洋基 is high- lighted in blue. 3.6.1 Phrase Search T ex[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-21 3.6.2 Speech Practice Click the Speech practice button. In the Speech practice dialog box. Select a phrase to practice. 1. Display/Hide Pinyin : Display or hide the Pinyin of the selected phrase. 2. T ext to speech : Hear the Chinese in the Chinese pane. 3. V oice recognition : Clicking this button will displ[...]

3-22 Chinese Expert 3.6.4 Listen to Pronunciation Y ou can hear pronunciations of the selected phrase with either the T ext-to-Speech or Hu- man voice commands. T ext-to-Speech T ext-to-Speech (TTS) pronounces words using a computer-renerated voice to help you quickly learn the pronunciation and tone of words. Select a term such as 洋基 , then cl[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-23 3.6.6 Add Phrase Click the Add phrase button. In the Add phrase dialog box enter a new phrase such as 王建民 and then click OK . In the Phrase Input dialog box, correct any characters wit h the wrong pronunciation in the Phonetics eld. Y ou can also click the button to hear its pronunciation. In the Not[...]

3-24 Chinese Expert 3.6.7 Edit Phrase Click a phrase such as 紐約 , then click the Edit phrase button. In the Note area, you can provide a note for a term such as 美國大都市 in the Phrase Input dialog box. If there are any words with multiple pronunciations - 約 for example has two options - select the one you want. After making the change,[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-25 If the you select Save as CSV File , a Save As dialog box will launch. Enter a le name and select where to save the le. Press Save and all of the words in the previous list will be saved as CSV les. Software such as MS Excel can open the CSV les and its content can be printed out via a printer for[...]

3-26 Chinese Expert 3.7 Pronunciation Practice 3.7.1 TTS Speech The Penpower Chinese Expert uses TTS synthetic speech technology to help you with pronunciation in a fast and intuitive manner . Click the T ext to speech button on the toolbar below the English/Sentence S egmen- tation pane to listen to the standard pronunciation for the entire docume[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-27 Notes: 1. If the words have notes, the notes will be shown after the translation. 2. If you have checked the “Show both T raditional and Simplied Chinese characters in the online translation window“ option in Settings, the translation tip will display with both T raditional and Simplied Chinese char[...]

3-28 Chinese Expert T o add a Chinese phrase, click the Add phrase button. The phease will be added to the database for the current article in the Phrase Input dialog box. If this phrase already exists in the data- base, a reminder is displayed. 3.8.3 Manual T ranslation Click the indented Sentence Segmenta- tion button to switch to the English pan[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-29 T ranslate New Article Create a new article and then click the T ranslation button. In the Article setting dialog box, select a Pinyin setting and click OK . The translation of the entire article is shown in the English pane. T ip: T ranslation engine setting: Choose the PCE setting to support the Chinese art[...]

3-30 Chinese Expert T ranslate Segmented Article If sentence segmentation has already been performed on the article, you must rst click the indented Sentence Segmentation button to restore it to the state. Now click the T ranslation button and the translation of the entire article will appear in the English pane. If you are viewing the article b[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-31 3.9 User dened dictionary Y ou can dene your dictionary’ s functions at the main editing page of the User dened dictionary by adding frequently-used words or difcult words convenience. 1. Click the User’s dened dictionary button, open the User dened dictionary dialog box, select the New [...]

3-32 Chinese Expert 3.  After pressing OK , you can immediately see the new word in the window , and the word comments at the bottom. 4. After selecting the word, select an option on the right ( Modify , Delete , Speak etc). Y ou can also Import or Export the content of your customized dictionary for future use. Note: If you would like to select[...]

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert 3-33 3.10 Re-edit Article The Re-edit article command can be used to clear all edits made to the content of the current article. Only the original Chinese text in the Chinese eld will be retained. Note: The Re-edit article command will clear only the segmentation in the Sentence Segmentation pane or the English[...]

3-34 Chinese Expert 3.1 1 PCE Share Click About button and select [Connect to PCE Share W ebsite] . Y ou can connect to Sample Lessons , Community and Share My les on the PCE Shar e W ebsite . 3.12 About Click About button and select [About] to open the About dialog. Y ou can check your PCE version information here. Upon choosing the User r epor[...]

4-1 Chapter 4 Settings Chapter 4 Settings 4.1 PCE Settings 4.1.1 Language Setting Y ou can view the Penpower Chinese Expert interface in T raditional Chinese, Simplied Chinese or English. Click the Settings button. In the Settings dialog box, you can choose between T radi- tional Chinese, Simplied Chinese, or English in the Language Settings [...]

4-2 Chinese Expert 4.1.4 Converting T radictional and Simplied Chinese Setting Bidrectional Conversion of T radictional and Simplied Chinese Setting provides two options: Character -by-Character and W ord-by-W ord . If you choose Character - by-Character , PCE will change the characters to either T raditional or Simplied Chinese, for examp[...]

4-3 Chapter 4 Settings 4.2 Language Settings for English Envir onments If you use the W indows 2000/XP English operating system, the Penpower Chinese Expert may not properly display Chinese characters. For example, Chinese text entered into the Chinese pane appears as strange code, the sentence headings in the article pane appear as strange codes, [...]

4-4 Chinese Expert 4.2.2 W indows XP English Operating System Click the Start button, and then select Settings . Click Control Panel , double-click Regional and Language Options and then click the Languages tab. In the Supplemental language support area, select Install les for East Asian Languages , and then click OK . A notication to restart[...]

5-1 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion 5.1 Hardware Specications • Dimensions: 1 10mm x 90mm x 22mm • W eight: 110g (excludes USB cable) • Active Pad Area: 55mm x 45mm Left mouse button Right mouse button Handwriting/Mouse mode button Handwriting/Mouse mode button: Clicking this button switches between the hand[...]

5-2 Chinese Expert 5.2 Penpower Jr . Introduction • Unicode recognition kernel Supports the Unicode system to input T raditional and Simplied Chinese easily . • All-in-one recognition kernel of Big5 and GB The characters that can be recognized includes more than 23,000 Chinese words, 4941 words unique to Hong Kong, alphabet, numeric, symbols[...]

5-3 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion • T ransparent signatur e Superimpose your signature directly into a Microsoft W ord or Excel document without changing the docum ent layout. Or insert y our signature into IE, Netscape and Eudora e- mails and send it to other people. • Pop-up bar The visual user interface is hidden but always available. The [...]

5-4 Chinese Expert Installing the Penpower Chinese Expert also automatically installs the Penpower Jr . Y ou can also install the Penpower Jr . by selecting the [ Penpower JR] option. Select the language version you want to install, then click [ Next] . Follow the instructions on screen and carry out the installati on process as directed. When inst[...]

5-5 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion Note: Y ou can select between three types: typical, compact, or custom. Note: Y ou can select what language you would like the Penpower Jr . to recognize. Note: Y ou can have the handwriting software start up when the windows starts. Please connect the touch pad via USB port.[...]

5-6 Chinese Expert 5.4 Starting the Penpower Chinese Expert Note: Before installing the Penpower Chinese Expert on the W indows 2000/XP English operating system, you must enable the T raditional or Simplied Chinese encoding support under Regional and Language Options on the Control Panel. The process for setting up Chinese language support is sl[...]

5-7 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion 5.5 T ouch Pad Operation 1. Move: Place the pen on the touch pad, and then move it on the panel gently . 2. Click: Press the pen down on the surface of the touch pad and lift. 3. Dragging: Press the pen d own on the sur- face of the touch pad lift q uickly , and then press down again. On the second touch move the[...]

5-8 Chinese Expert 5.6.2 Handwriting Mode T askbar Suspend: T emporarily close the toolbar . T o reopen the toolbar , select the Suspend and click Writing Mode . TIP: Y ou can also minimize the handwriting mode toolbar by double-clicking it. Horizontal/V ertical Switch: Switch between the horizontal and vertical layout of the tool- bar . V ertical [...]

5-9 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion 5.7 Full Screen Handwriting Mode There are three different options of Full Scr een Mode displays in the main menu. Single-word writing Y ou can only write one word at a time. Y ou cannot start writing the next word until the current word has been recognized. T wo-sides writing After the rst stroke is made, a v[...]

5-10 Chinese Expert Incorrect: The two parts of one word are written far away from each other . The strokes may be rexognized as two words. Auto Phrase Correction The Penpower Jr . automatically proofreads your writing content to improve the recogni- tion rate. For example, if you continuously write 『天下太平』 (peace on the earth), but the [...]

5-1 1 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion 5.8 Balloon UI This unique user interface lets you edit recognition results freely in any application. The visual user interface may be hidden but is always available. When you want to correct a word, just hover your cursor on a word and a toolbar will eventually pop-up. TIP : Y ou do not need to click anything[...]

5-12 Chinese Expert 2. For example, the character 『恬』 is wrongly recognized as 『恰』 . 3. Hover your cursor on the word 『恰』 for a moment, the toolbar pops up. 4. Click the candidate word if the correct word is there. 5. Otherwise, click the AI button to open the AI correction dialog. 6. Input the correct word 『恬』 , and then cl[...]

5-13 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion 2. Hover your cursor on the word 『恰』 for a moment, the toolbar pops up. 3. Click the button to open the win- dow of pre-related phrases. If the correct phrase 『蒙恬』 is in the list, click it to update the result. 4. Hover your cursor on the word 『料』 for a while, the toolbar pops up. 5. Click th[...]

5-14 Chinese Expert 5.9.3 Merge When some strokes of one word are written far away from each other , they may be recog- nized as several words. Y ou can use the Merge command to combine them into one word. 1. W rite two words 『棟樑』 though Free Writing mode. The result would display on your screen. 2. If 『木』 and 『東』 is written far[...]

5-15 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion 5.9.5 Phrase Correction In Full Screen mode, if you wish to enter a common phrase (such as an idiom) and if you are not sure of how to write one of the characters, you can substitute a similar-sounding character instead. If you are not sure of the given character ’ s pronunciation either , choose any at random[...]

5-16 Chinese Expert 4. Y ou can click the / / button to toggle other Zhuyin homophone/Cantonese homophone/Hanyu homophone. 5. Click 『豫』 to replace 『玉』 . 5.10 Homophone If you forget how to write a certain words or it is too complicated to write, you can write down a homophone to display the word that you would like to input. For example[...]

5-17 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion 5.1 1 Related Phrase 5.1 1.1 Input words by Related Phrase 1. W rite the rst word of a phrase. e.g. If you want to input the phrase 『一年四季』 , just write the rst word 『一』 . 2. T ap the middle button on the touch pad to switch to Mouse mode. All the phrases begin- ning with the word 『一?[...]

5-18 Chinese Expert Update the phonetics on the right side. Click the / buttons to hear the pronuncia- tion to check if the one you selected is correct. Note : The maximum length of a phrase is 200 words. The phonetics of the phrase is only for the V oiceReader to read the given text properly. Correcting the phonetics for a phrase is optional. Clic[...]

5-19 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion 3. W rite your symbol twice according to the instructions. 5.12 Learning String A string is represented by a single symbol. Y ou can write the symbol anytime and the recognition engine will recognize it as the entire string, minimizing needless writing. 1. In Mouse mode, click the Learning T ool button and click[...]

5-20 Chinese Expert 4. Click the Manage DB tag. Y ou can browse though the animated symbols for strings or any of the strings you have assigned a symbol to. 5.13 Gesture The Penpower Jr . supports four standard writing gestures. Y ou can write these gestures to perform certain keyboard actions. 1. Delete: simulates the DELETE key . 2. Backspace: si[...]

5-21 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion 5.14 Mixing T raditional and Simplied Writing 5.15 Switching V ersions 1. In Mouse mode, click Penpower Junior options, then click V ersion . 2. For the W in2000/XP/V ista operating systems for T raditional Chinese, T raditional Chinese (Hong Kong) or Simplied Chinese, the output of the handwriting recogni[...]

5-22 Chinese Expert 5.16 Settings In Mouse mode, click the Setting button or in Handwriting mode, click Setting from the menu. At the Setting dialog box, choose the settings for the recognition engine, output format or writing inking. 5.16.1 Recognition Setting Mode: The Recognition mode of Chinese, English, Numeral, Symbol and Japanese can be se- [...]

5-23 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion HongKong Character: This recognition mode is available only when the Penpower Jr . is set to BIG5 or BIG5+HK . Y ou can connect to http://www .micr osoft.com/hk/hkscs/default.asp x to down- load the HongKong characters list. 5.16.2 General Setting Half shape/Full shape : T o decide whether the handwriting result[...]

5-24 Chinese Expert 5.16.3 W riting Setting Ink color: Select the color of inking. Y ou can adjust the smoothness of color gradation when select- ing Multiple . Ink width: Select the thickness of inking. Ink sound: Select the sound effect while writing. Pen style: Select the pen style. Speed: Select the writing speed. The less the relative value is[...]

5-25 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion : Select the color of inking. : Select the thickness of inking. : Select the pen style. : Clear all. : Undo one stroke. : Redo one stroke. 4. Click the button to cancel signature. 5. Click the button to insert your signature at the position of your cursor . 5.17 Signature 1. Move your cursor to where the signatu[...]

5-26 Chinese Expert 6. Click the button to overlap your transparent signature in an MS W ord or Excel document. Note: Y ou can use the transparent signature in the latest version of W ord and Excel, but Ofce 2007 does not support this function. Y ou may make notes and commentary by using the transparent signature feature.[...]

5-27 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion When you move the cursor outside the interactive scope, the tip disappears. In the window , you can press the Play button, the Character / , or the phrase expla- nation buttons. Online T ranslation is used in the bal- loon interface. When you want to look up a character ’ s translation, select the button from [...]

5-28 Chinese Expert 5.19 Using Penpower Jr . in MSN Messenger Note: This required MSN Messenger version 6.1 or higher version. In the Handwrite mode, you can adjust the font size and the font color . When done, you can write on the tablet and the words will appear in your selected font size and color . If you want to clear the words you have writte[...]

5-29 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion 5.20 Input T ools Installing the Penpower Jr . also installs the Penpower Input T ools . Note: Before running the Penpower Input T ools, make sure the Penpower Jr . has been started. Oth- erwise you’ll be asked to start the Penpower Jr . rst. TIP: Hover your cursor on the Penpower Input T ools to expand it [...]

5-30 Chinese Expert 5.20.2 Keyboard Input T ool Keyboard: Simulated software keyboard. Inner Code: e.g. The inner code of [ ☆ ] in hexadecimal is A1B8. Click A 1 B 8 in that order in the screen to display [ ☆ ]. 5.20.4 Symbol Input T ool Special symbols are displayed on several tables. Select a table and click the desired symbol. Y ou can custo[...]

5-31 Chapter 5 W riting Pad V ersion 5.21 Fast User Switching The Penpower Chinese Expert (W riting Pad) supports Fast User Switching when you have more than one user account in W indows OS. Fast User Switching allows all users to use the Penpower Chinese Expert and the Penpower Jr . without reinstalling on each ac- count. T o activate Fast User Sw[...]

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6-1 Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion 6.1 Hardware Specications • Dimensions: 131mm x 31mm x 19 mm • W eight: 45g (excludes USB cable) • Interface: USB 2.0 • Scanning speed: 15 cm/sec • Character size: 5-22 pt Function button: When scanning words, the function button can be used as the Enter function. When y[...]

Chinese Expert 6-2 • A brand new ergonomic design Provide a comfortable handle which ts all left and right-handed users. Scan away effort- lessly with its transparent scan tip. Where you see, where you scan. • The best input device Unlike the complicated process of the traditional scanner , W orldPenScan provides the easiest way for inputtin[...]

6-3 Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion 6.3 Installing the PCE and the W orldPenScan Insert the Penpower Chinese Expert (PCE) setup CD into the CD-ROM drive and the system will automatically start the setup. Y ou must run the Driver Installation program rst. The setup program will guide you through the installation of the Penpower Chinese Expert or t[...]

Chinese Expert 6-4 6.3.1 W orldPenScan Softwar e Installation Please install the W orldPenScan by selecting the W orldPenScan before installing the Penpower Chinese Expert . Select your installation language, then click Next . Follow the instructions on screen and carry out the installation process as directed. When the installa- tion is completed,[...]

6-5 Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion 6.3.3 Hardware Installation 1. Plug in the W orldPenScan pen into your computer ’ s USB port and a window may appear . Select [No, not this time] and click Next to continue. Note: Some computers may shut down accidentally after connection. This is due to lack of power to support several USB devices. T o avoid th[...]

Chinese Expert 6-6 6.4 Starting the Penpower Chinese Expert Note: Before installing the Penpower Chinese Expert on the W indows 2000/XP English operating system, you must enable the T raditional or Simplied Chinese encoding support under Regional and Language Options on the Control Panel. The process for setting up Chinese language support is sl[...]

6-7 Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion 6.5 Start the Penpower W orldPenScan Go to [Start/All Programs/Penpower W orldPenScan/Penpower W orldPenScan] or double click the shortcut on the desktop to start the W orldPenScan toolbar . 6.5.1 T oolbar 1. Scan Mode: Provide [Scan & Recognize] and [Send Image] , click to select scan mode. If you select Scan[...]

Chinese Expert 6-8 8. Settings: provide Recognition Setting, General, Property , T ranslation W ebsite Set up and Interface Language settings. 9. Minimize : click to minimize the toolbar to T askbar . 10.Click to minimize the toolbar into a tray icon. Double-click the tray icon on the bottom-right of the screen to open the toolbar . Right-click to [...]

6-9 Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion 6.5.4 Online T ranslation 1. Click [Online T ranslation] and select a translation W ebsite from the toolbar . The software will then open Internet Explorer , visit the translation W ebsite, and then open the [T ranslator Online] window . 4. If you have scanned more th an one word, you can press the function k ey o[...]

Chinese Expert 6-10 6.6 Recognition Language Before scanning, check that the Recognition Setting has been congured to your desired language. Different congurations will yield dif ferent results when scanning. 1. Click Settings icon on the W orldPen- Scan toolbar and select the Recognition Setting . T ip: W orldPenScan can actually convert T r[...]

6-1 1 Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion 6.7 Scan Direction In the [General Setting] page, you can select the appropriate Scan Mode and congure the pen to suit left or right-handed holders. * Scan Direction Settings W orldPenScan must be used to scan the characters in a consistent direction, any changes to the direction will cause inaccu- rate recog[...]

Chinese Expert 6-12 6.7.3 Scanning Horizontal T ext When scanning horizontal text, you can choose the left-handed or right-handed option. Place the pen on the text and move from left-to-right or right-to-left depending on the scan- ning direction settings you previously set. Right hand: Scanning from left to right or Scanning from right to left Lef[...]

6-13 Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion 蒙恬掃譯筆中文辨識掃描翻譯 6.7.4 Practice T ry scanning the illustrated text below , in a horizontal and vertical fashion, following the guidelines above. Do not make abrupt motions when scanning like immediately changing the speed of your scan. It will take approximately 5 seconds to scan the text b[...]

Chinese Expert 6-14 Every time a character has been recog- nized, W orldPenScan will pronounce that character in Mandarin . 1. Click Settings icon on the W orld- PenScan toolbar . 2. On the General tab select None or Speak in the Sound area. 6.8 Speech-While-Scanning 6.9 Property Settings In the Property Settings page, you can select Scan Mode , Co[...]

6-15 Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion 6.1 1 Interface Language Interface Language Settings lets you choose T raditional Chinese , Simplied Chinese or English for the user interface language. After choosing the language, you may check the description on the interface. If the description does not display prop- erly , this means your W indows OS does[...]

Chinese Expert 6-16 6.1 1 Using the Balloon UI When using the Balloon UI , all scanning results will be directly transferred to the desired application. Y ou can continuously scan through text and the results will be instantly dis- played on the desired application. For example, scan 蒙恬全屏幕手寫精靈 into MS W ord. 6.1 1.1 Correcting a S[...]

6-17 Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion *. Pre-emptive Linking In any consecutive set of characters (2 characters), the rst character is the second char- acter ’ s uplink, while the second character is the rst character ’ s downlink. For example, in 科技 , 科 is 技 ’ s uplink, while the character 技 is 科 ’ s downlink. 1. When using[...]

Chinese Expert 6-18 *. Phrase Correction In Full Screen mode if you wish to enter a common phrase such as an idiom and if you aren’t sure how to write one of the characters you can substitute a similar -sounding character instead. If you are not sure of the character ’ s pronunciation either , choose any at random. When you have nished scann[...]

6-19 Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion 6.1 1.2 Displaying the Original Form Click [Original Image] button on the toolbar to open the Original Image windows. It displays the scanned images. 6.1 1.3 Punctuation in the Balloon UI Click and a panel listing punct uation marks will be displayed accordingly , allow- ing you to input half shaped or full shape[...]

Chinese Expert 6-20 6.1 1.4 Online T ranslation The Balloon Interface has an Online translation command. Whenever you do not know certain Chinese or English words, you may check its translation with the Online translation function. Hover your cursor over the scanned word, and a toolbar appears. Click the Online trans- lation button. In the T ransla[...]

6-21 Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion 6.12 Penpower Assistant T ools Installing the W orldPenScan also installs Penpower Input T ools and Penpower T rans- lator . Note: Before running Penpower Input T ools, make sure the W orldPenScan has been started. Other- wise you will be asked to use the W orldPenScan rst. TIP: Hover your cursor on the Penpow[...]

Chinese Expert 6-22 * Keyboard Input T ool Keyboard: Simulated software keyboard. Inner Code: e.g. The inner code of [ ☆ ] in hexadecimal is A1B8 . Click A 1 B 8 in order on the screen keyboard to display [ ☆ ]. * Symbol Input T ool Special symbols are grouped on several tables. Select a table and click the symbol that would like to display . Y[...]

6-23 Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion 6.12.2 Penpower T ranslator This is a Chinese-English bi-directional translation software, which includes a Chinese->English / English->Chinese dictionary lookup and a Chinese->English / English->Chinese phrase translation. Click the Start button, and then select All Programs . Select the W orldPenSca[...]

Chinese Expert 6-24 * English Article T ranslator 1. Click the Sentence En. -> Ch. button on the left. 2. In the upper left-hand corner , input the text to be translated/explained and then click to translate. T ip: When you translate a whole article, make sure there’ s a period at the end of each sentence. Having a period at the end of each se[...]

6-25 Chapter 6 Pen Scanner V ersion When you are looking up a single word you do not need to enter the entire word. If the word you wish to look up shows up in the list, use the direction keys to select that word as the input, then press Enter to look up that word. * T ranslating Scanned Input If you start the T ranslator by running the Penpower T [...]

Chinese Expert 6-26 Click the System Setting button. On the Setting dialog box, you can set T ransla- tion results and Spelling Setting . Y ou can also save the scan as a picture by clicking . When prompted for a directory to save it in, type the lename of your choice and choose the folder to save the picture in. Y ou can also translate the whol[...]

Chapter 7 Penpower V oice Reader 7-1 Chapter 7 Penpower V oice Reader The Penpower V oice Reader utilizes a state of the art text-to-speech technology , it will read in uent Mandarin or Cantonese of any articles. Y ou can use it as a tool for fast proofreading or in teaching the correct Mandarin/Cantonese pronunciation. 7.1 Run Penpower V oice R[...]

7-2 Chinese Expert 7.3 Exit Penpower V oice Reader 1. Click the button, select Exit . 2. When you see the following Close Penpower V oice Reader image, the Penpower V oice Reader will turn off and the icon on the upper right corner will disappear . 7.2 V oice Reader Settings Click the button, select Setting , the Setting window will appear . Speech[...]

Penpower Chinese Expert V2.3 User Manual Penpower T echnology Ltd. Release: November , 2009 Edition: 2[...]