Readiris Pro 11 - Features

Readiris Pro 11 is a major release and features substantial improvements over previous versions. The power of the new OCR software boosts text recognition accuracy to unprecedented levels, check the Readiris Pro 10 features below:

> Recognition accuracy & speed > Handprinted text recognition > Document layout retention options > Extensive PDF support and creation > Supported languages & fonts > Supported document types > Output formats > User interface > Useful Barcode Recognition > Supported scanners & digital cameras > Additional features

Recognition accuracy & speed

Spectacular Speed and Accuracy     Improved
Readiris Pro perfectly reproduces texts, titles, capital letters, handprint, paragraphs, barcodes, columns, font types, font sizes, numbers, tables, graphics, etc. Get an editable document exactly identical to the original in record time (up to 1600 characters recognized/second) with over 99% recognition rate (on good quality documents the recognition rate goes up to 100%)

Learning Fonts
If Readiris is unsure about a reading result, the doubtful character (or character string) is displayed with its parent word and the proposed solution is presented if you agree with or correct the proposed solution. Readiris saves the solution in the dictionary as sure. Future recognition will no longer require your intervention.

Page Deskewing
The command "Deskew Page" straightens pages which were scanned at an angle for optimised OCR recognition accuracy

Unique handprinted text recognition    NEW

Recognize handprinted text your wrote!
Equipped with the I.R.I.S. ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) engine, Readiris Pro reads formatted handprinted capital letters, figures or symbols. Scan documents containing formatted manual notes and they will be promptly recognized.

What is handprinting and what is handwriting?
With handprinting, the "block letters" are separated and the recognition
software has an easier job to isolate the individual characters.

Handwriting is used to describe continuous, "cursive" handwritten text, the symbols within a word or character string touch, it is impossible to say where one symbol ends and another starts.

Document layout

Intelligent Page Analysis & Powerful Autoformat(tm) Technology
Improved
Readiris Pro automatically identifies the texts, tables and graphics on the scanned document and perfectly reproduces them in the output file. It`s even possible to choose your preferred paper format (A4, Letter, etc.).

Text formatting
When processing a document you can select how you want the recognition result to show in your new document:
- "Create Body Text": you get a continuous, running text. All formatting, if any, is done afterwards by the user.
- "Retain Word and Paragraph": the font type (serif - sans serif, proportional - fixed, normal - condensed), size and typestyle (bold - italic - underlined - superscript - subscript) are maintained across the recognition, tabs and the alignment of each block are recreated and tables are recaptured correctly.
- "Recreate Source Document" recreates a facsimile copy of the original document with text blocks, tables, graphics, bulleted and number lists recreated in the same place and the word and paragraph formatting maintained across the recognition. You get a true copy of your source document, be it a compact and editable text file, no longer a scanned image of your document.

Table recognition
Readiris outputs tabular data to spreadsheets and word processors: tables get reconstructed cell by cell in worksheets and inserted as table objects in word processor files.

A very easy editing tool
Enable the option "Use Columns instead of Frames" to facilitate the recognized text editing. Words flow from one column to the next: modifying the text becomes very easy.

Extensive PDF support and creation

Convert PDF files to editable documents
- Convert PDF to text: you can open image-based PDF documents, execute the recognition and save the OCR result to an editable text document (in any supported text format).
- Convert image PDF to text PDF: you can execute the recognition on image-based PDF files and save the OCR results... as text-based PDF documents! (Text-based PDF files are searchable and editable,
"image-only" PDF files are not.)
- "Unlock" PDF content: you can convert "read-only" PDF documents, where the text is normally inaccessible to documents where the text can be accessed freely!

Create PDF files     Improved
Generate PDF files with text placed over the image and you`ll obtain the perfect archiving format with a nice on screen legibility and an optimized file size.

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Supported languages & fonts

Impressive foreign language support    Improved
Display the Readiris interface in one of the 7 available languages (English, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian) and recognize up to 117 foreign languages:

Afaan Oromo, American English, British English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Asturian, Aymara, Azeri Latin, Balinese, Basque, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Brazilian, Breton, Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Haitian (Creole), Hani, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Javanese, Kapampangan, Kicongo, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luba, Luxemburgh, Macedonian, Madurese, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx (Gaelic), Maori, Mayan, Mexican, Minangkabau, Nahuatl, Norwegian, Numeric, Nyanja, Nynorsk, Occitan, Papiamento, Pidgin English, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Roman, Romanian, Rundi, Russian, Samoan, Sardinian, Scottish (Gaelic), Serbian, Serbian (Latin), Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sotho, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tatar, Tok Pisin, Tonga, Tswana,Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Waray, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Zapoteco, Zulu, Bulgarian - English, Byelorussian - English, Greek - English, Macedonian - English, Russian - English, Serbian - English, Ukrainian - English, Hebrew (optional), Simplified Chinese (optional), Traditional Chinese (optional), Japanese (optional), Korean (optional).

Optional languages available as separate add-ons:
Hebrew (optional), Simplified Chinese (optional), Traditional Chinese (optional), Japanese (optional), Korean (optional).

Recognized alphabets
Readiris recognizes all American and European character sets, including the Baltic, Central-European, Greek and Cyrillic ("Russian") alphabets. Optionally, you can read Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean.

Recognized fonts
Readiris reads fonts with a size range of 6 to 72 points and
copes with drop letters
Readiris reads virtually any printing quality: typeset, typewritten, laser
printed, inkjet printed, letter quality dot matrix printed texts and draft
dot matrix printing. Handprinted fonts are also recognized

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Supported document types

Supported file formats    Improved
Readiris opens black-and-white, greyscale and color images. Adobe Acrobat PDF documents and DCX fax (multipage version of the Paintbrush format), DjVu (*.djv), JPEG, JPEG 2000 (*.j2c, *.jp2), Paintbrush (*.pcx, compressed), PNG, TIFF and Windows bitmap (*.bmp) images are supported.

New Input Formats     New
Readiris Pro reads most popular image formats. From now, you can also open and recognize the highly compressed JPEG 2000 and DjVu files.

Easy Handling of Multipage Documents
Change the page sequence with a simple drag-and-drop. Right-click on the documents you need to recognize to select them and quickly generate one output file per page.

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Output formats

Gigantic list of output formats     Improved
According to your editing needs, choose the appropriate output format amongst the tremendous list of applications and files. Send the recognized document directly to your favorite application (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Corel WordPerfect, Sun StarOffice, etc.) or save it as an external file.

Microsoft WordML Output     New
The new Microsoft WordML format is now supported by Readiris. It allows you to generate text files offering a higher quality than RTF files.

Splendid output files in color     New
Readiris Pro reproduces not only the graphics in color but also colored text and colored backgrounds. Effortlessly get a retyped and reformatted document 100% similar to the original!

Output modes
Select an output mode: save the results to an external file (with a document format supported by your text application), place the results in the Windows clipboard or send the recognized document to a target application.
- "Open after Saving" opens the recognized document once it`s saved. (The Windows file types determine which application will be started up.)
- "Send by E-mail" creates a new mail message and inserts the recognized document as mail attachment!
- "Create One File per Page" sees to it that each page of a multipage document is saved in a separate file. If the user gives the file name text.doc, the files will be called text-1.doc, text-2.doc etc.
- "Create One File per Document" saves separated documents, not complete batches (Readiris Corporate).

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User interface

Very Intuitive User Interface    Improved
Let you guide by the renewed Readiris Pro interface and get your documents retyped in your favourite application in just a few clicks. A new status window gives you all the information you need about your scanned documents (source, resolution, times, image processing, etc)

Smart tools for easy use
- Right-click any text zone to send it to your clipboard
- Easily print an overview of your scanned documents
- Send the recognized document in a new e-mail and share it
- Right-click any image or PDF in your Explorer to automatically open it in Readiris Pro.

OCR Wizard
The OCR wizard offers a semi-automatic way of recognizing documents. The wizard guides you through the OCR process comfortably: answer a few simple questions and you`ll obtain quick and easy results.

7 Languages
Display the Readiris interface in one of the 7 available languages: English, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish or Brazilian

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Useful Barcode Recognition    New

Barcodes are printed on your documents? Draw a frame around them with thenew "barcode" button and the information they contain (text or figures) willbe retyped in the output file.

All widespread bar code symbologies are supported: Codabar, Code 128, Code 39, Code 39 extended, Code 39 HIBC, Code 93, Discrete 2 of 5, EAN-13, EAN-2, EAN-5, EAN-8, Interleaved 2 of 5, MSI pharmaceutical, MSI-Plessey, Kodak patch code, PDF-417, PostNet, PostNet 32, PostNet 52, PostNet 62, UCC-128, UPC-A and UPC-E.

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Supported scanners and digital cameras

Scanners supported:
Acer, Agfa, Black Widow, Brother, Canon, Compaq, Epson, Escom, Fujitsu, Genius, HP, Kodak, Lexmark, Logitech, Microtek, Mustek, Niscan, Primax, Ricoh, Silitek, Tamarack, Umax, Visioneer, Xerox, Yellow Dragon etc. and all Twain compliant devices.

Digital Cameras supported:
Canon, Casio, Fuji, HP, Kodak - All TIFF and JPEG formats generated by digital cameras are recognized.

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Additional Features

Convenient Interval Scanning Mode     New
This new mode offers a great ease when scanning books on a flatbed scanner: define the right timespan between 2 scans and easily place a new page on your scanner.

Document Panel
The document panel displays statistics and information on all scanned pages - the image source and resolution, the scanning and recognition time