About Us

WizCom Technologies Ltd. is the world leader in personal, portable scanning pens that help people read and use text. Our pocket-size, user-friendly pens enable people to understand and use printed material without disrupting their reading process – anytime and anywhere. Our pens help students of English as a first or second language, as well as people working in multilingual environments, enhance their fluency and speed up reading comprehension.

WizCom pioneered this unique type of reading tool, and our pens are used by students, professionals, and laypersons around the world. Our innovative technology can be found in our own products, as well as in a variety of applications offered by our partners.

Founded in 1995, WizCom is publicly traded on the Prime Standard stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany.

Markets
WizCom has a strong presence in the consumer and special needs markets in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Mediterranean. Our customers are people who want to understand and use text better – students, professionals, and laypersons of all ages. Available in a wide variety of languages, our line of translation, definition, and note-taking pens is geared to meet the unique needs of each customer.

People with dyslexia, aphasia, and literacy issues (from grade school and up) use our Readingpen® products to acquire reading skills and boost self-confidence. The Readingpen® line is proven to enhance reading ability, confidence, the learning process, and the academic success of people with learning disabilities. The National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI) has recognized the Readingpen® as a technology-based approach that helps students with reading disabilities read and comprehend text.

In addition to continuing to develop pens for traditional markets, WizCom is currently ramping up to enter the general educational arena. Our unique pens for this market are designed to help pupils of all ages (kindergarten through 12th grade) with non-disability literacy issues improve their reading skills.
  
Distribution
WizCom pens are sold in retail outlets and online through a network of regional partners around the globe. They are also sold through Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreements with leading companies such as Don Johnston Incorporated and PenPower Technology Ltd. In addition, we license our proprietary translation databases to leading content providers such as Answers.com.

To date, nearly 1,000,000 WizCom products have been sold in dozens of countries around the world.

Products
Each WizCom product is shaped like a pocket-sized pen with a display screen and buttons. Users scan printed text with the small optical scanner in the tip of the pen, and the device translates, defines, reads aloud, or stores the text quickly and accurately – anytime and anywhere.

Depending on the model, our pens can:
•  Define and translate scanned everyday words, phrases, and professional terms into any of 25 languages
•  Read scanned words aloud
•  Store scanned text and transfer it to a PC or handheld device (online or later)
•  Use special display and audio features to help people with special needs (such as dyslexia, aphasia, and literacy issues) understand what they read

Our products include:
•  Translators – including the QuicktionaryII and QuicktionaryII Professional pens (offering the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Collection of professional dictionaries)
•  Note takers – including the InfoScan and QuickLink Pen Elite pens
•  All-in-one – the SuperPen Translator pen translates, defines, and stores text for transfer. The SuperPen Professional pen defines and stores English text for transfer, and offers a wide variety of professional dictionaries
•  Special needs – The Readingpen® Basic Edition and Readingpen®II assistive reading pens are specially designed to help people with reading disabilities. Using a well-known monolingual dictionary, these pens display words in large fonts, divide them into syllables and letters, and sound them aloud. The Readingpen® line offers an exciting and stimulating way for struggling student readers to improve essential components of reading mastery.

Translation dictionaries
Some of our pens feature built-in licensed dictionaries from Houghton Mifflin, Oxford University Press, Brockhaus Duden New Media, Taishukan Publishing Co., Van Dale Lexicography, or Norstedts Ordbok. Others enable users to download and use our 30 proprietary translation dictionaries.

Customer support
We take pride in our personal approach to customer support, which is available directly from WizCom or locally through our distribution outlets.

Partners
WizCom works with a number of leading content and technology partners. We provide our unique scanning technology, hardware platform, and proprietary content to companies around the world under licensing and OEM agreements. We also license third-party applications and content for use in our pens.

Technology
Our products are based on our unique expertise in linguistics, image acquisition, and processing. We have 'first' and 'best-of-breed' achievements in the fields of microelectronics, electro-optics, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) algorithm engines. We also incorporate leading third-party technology, such as the Real Speak™ text-to-speech module by ScanSoft®.

We put much thought into usability, ergonomics, and other issues of utmost importance to the user.