TECHNOLOGYTopScan Ltd. has developed a proprietary technology that combines unique image processing algorithms with advanced electro-optics. The company has filed international patents that address the issue of data/text collection using a totally unconventional method - asynchronous scanning.
TopScan's scanning concept uses a standard low-cost linear CCD (charge coupled device) sensor to capture the image. Smart algorithms compensate for image distortions caused by non-uniform and erratic hand scanning movement or asynchronous scanning.
TopScan's intellectual property on this approach creates a significant barrier-to-entry to potential competitors in the low-cost, high-performance range of handheld data entry products.
Competitive AdvantagesOur radical technological solution abides by three guiding principles: Price, Performance and Practicality.
Good Value For Your Money
Our proprietary solution has inherent cost advantages. TopScan products use only standard off-the-shelf components.
By leveraging on its open-system design, ScanMarkerTM opens up to a wide variety of third-party software applications. This unique synergetic solution harnesses on additional processing power and technology of the connected device to increase the value to the end user.
Conventional handheld scanners incorporate a wheel-based correction mechanism as their asynchronous scanning solution. In contrast, TopScan's solution utilizes patented image processing algorithms and therefore requires no moving parts. TopScan products are the only handheld scanners with a unique transparent tip. The result is a wide and clear view of the text being scanned.
Different people hold their pens in different wrist angles or tilts of the pen. Our electro-optics team has engineered a solution that enables the user to scan naturally and comfortably at any angle -- much like writing with a regular pen.
Wheel-based pen scanners are restricted to a horizontal scanning direction along the line of text. TopScan's transparent tip has no moving parts that need to grip the paper. This wheel-less solution enables image processing to occur along both the x-and y-axis paving the path for future developments of mouse and digital pen functionalities.
