I.R.I.S. Renews Its Complete Pen Scanner Family

Published 2nd March 2006

. IRISPen™ Express

. IRISPen™ Executive,

. IRISPen™ Translator Express

. IRISPen™ Translator Executive


Brussels, 2nd March 2006 – I.R.I.S. Group, a publicly traded company (Euronext: IRI), market leader in Automatic Document Recognition (ADR), Electronic Document Management (EDM) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) announced the renewing of its complete Pen Scanner Family: the IRISPen™ Express, the IRISPen™ Executive, the IRISPen™ Translator Express and the IRISPen™ Translator Executive, USB text recognition pen scanners.

Over the past years, I.R.I.S. has been consolidating its leader position in the text recognition pen scanner, with its performing “Pen Character RecognitionTM” technology. The IRISPen has acquired a high reputation and an important brand awareness.

Today, I.R.I.S. reinforces this leadership with the introduction of new version of their IRISPen™ Express, IRISPen™ Executive, IRISPen™ Translator Express and IRISPen™ Translator Executive.

USB powered and connected, they transform the tedious manual encoding tasks in a fast and amusing scanning. Printed text and figures are instantly entered into any application, right at the cursor position. Through a technology bundle with the specialized translation software @promt, the IRISPen Translator is enhanced with high-end translation capabilities. The introduction of the Translator versions has extended I.R.I.S. targeted customers

Pierre De Muelenaere, President and CEO, comments: “The new IRISPen™ are based on a new design, the most compact ever. Smaller than a regular highlighter the new IRISPen™ reveals to be the most portable ever. It connects easily to the USB port. It is delivered with the powerful recognition software based on the unique PCRTM technology of I.R.I.S. It will please any user who needs a small portable electronic hi-lighter which retypes text instantly”.