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Introduction

Congratulations on acquiring Readiris. This software package will undoubtedly be of great help in recapturing your texts, tables and graphics, barcodes and handprinted text.

As efficient as computers are, you have to key in your information first. If you have ever retyped a 15 page report or a large table of figures, you know how tedious and time-consuming it can be. Use this state-of-the-art OCR package to automatically convert paper documents or scanned image files into text searchable and editable documents that can be archived and shared.

Scan a printed or typed document, indicate the zones you want to recognize with Readiris - or have the system detect them for you - execute the character recognition and export the document to your word processor. Documents composed of many pages are processed from start to finish in a single effort. A few mouse clicks beat long hours of work as Readiris converts your paper documents into editable computer files: it’s up to 40 times faster than manual retyping.

To speed up the process even more you can also use the Drop2Read utility. Simply specify four basic settings - recognition language, output format, destination folder and target application and drag your scanned documents to the Dock icon. They will be processed on the spot.

General information

Readiris is based on the most advanced recognition technologies. Font-independent text recognition is complemented by self-learning techniques. The system is able to learn new characters and words through contextual and linguistic analysis. This means that the OCR accuracy of the recognition system will improve as it goes along.

Readiris also recognizes tabular data and recreates them as worksheets in your spreadsheet software or as table objects inside your word processor; your numeric data are immediately ready for further processing.

Readiris supports up to 125 languages: all American and European languages are supported, including the Central-European, Baltic and Cyrillic languages as well as Greek and Turkish. Optionally, Readiris can read Hebrew documents and four Asian languages - Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese and Korean. Readiris even copes with mixed alphabets: the software detects “Western” words that occur in Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Asian documents - many untranscribable proper names, brand names, etc. are written using the Western symbols.

Readiris uses linguistics during the recognition phase, not afterwards. As a result, Readiris recognizes all kinds of documents with top accuracy, including low-quality documents, faxes and dot matrix printouts. It copes beautifully with badly scanned and copied documents containing too light or dark font shapes. Joined characters are resolved while fragmented characters, such as dot matrix symbols, are recomposed.

Besides that, Readiris has a user verification function. When activated, the user verification function (Interactive learning) not only flags the characters the recognition system isn't sure of but also allows to increase the system's accuracy. All solutions you confirm are memorized, increasing the system speed and confidence and rendering the system more intelligent as you go along. This powerful learning tool also allows you to train Readiris on special characters such as mathematical symbols and dingbats and to handle distorted fonts.

To increase your productivity further, Readiris not only recognizes your texts, but can format them for you as well. Various levels of formatting are available. When you make use of “autoformatting”, Readiris recreates a facsimile copy of the scanned document: the word, paragraph and page formatting of the original document are retained. Similar typefaces are used and the point sizes and type styles as used in the source document are maintained across the recognition. The placement of columns, text blocks and graphics follows your original documents. Readiris can even include the background photo of a scanned page in the recognized document. And as Readiris supports grayscale and color scanning effortlessly, you can recapture any graphics - be they line art, black-and-white photos or color illustrations. When a document contains tables, Readiris reorganizes them in real cells and recreates the cell borders of the original tables.

In other words, Readiris allows you to archive a true copy of your documents, be it editable and compact text files instead of scanned images.

Readiris is Twain and Image Capture compliant and supports a wide range of flatbed and sheetfed scanners, “all-in-one” devices or “MFPs” (“multifunctional peripherals”) and digital cameras.

READIRIS SERIES

The Readiris series consists of the following versions:

•  Readiris Pro 12

•  Readiris Corporate 12

•  Readiris Pro 12 Asian

•  Readiris Corporate 12 Asian

The table below gives an overview of the available versions: