ReadIRIS Professional OCR Software for MAC
$30 Mail in rebate available.

Scan - Recognize - Share

You will save time and effort with Readiris Pro 11 which not only retypes the text but also reproduces the layout of your original documents until perfection. Columns of text, titles, fonts, bullets, tables, graphics, etc ... are perfectly recreated.

The PDF capabilities of Readiris Pro 11 will astonish you: you will be able to transform the information locked in PDF files into editable text and also turn your documents into PDF files, offering an optimized file size. Archiving and sharing information become easier than ever!


Incredible benefits

• Instantly retypes your paper documents with perfect layout reproduction
• Quickly turns your PDF files into editable documents
• Easily generates a wide variety of output formats(PDF, HTML, RTF, Text, image files, etc.)

1. Save Time and Effort with a Fast & Accurate Productivity Tool Totally redesigned for the latest Mac OS X versions. Don’t retype anymore! Readiris Pro converts in seconds paper documents and PDF files into electronic and editable files and reaches up to 99.9% accuracy!
   
   
2. Create Advanced PDF Files Easily create 4 types of PDF files (image over text, text over image or text or image only) and optimize the file size for an easier archiving and sharing.
   
   
3. Turn PDF Files into Editable Documents Capture the information locked in PDF files and incorporate them into editable documents with a perfect layout reproduction.
   
   
4. Very High Number of Output Formats: RTF, HTML, PDF, TEXT, etc. Transform your documents in the format that best suits your needs and edit them into your favorite application.
   
   
5. Excellent Format Retention Exactly recreates the original document layout: Readiris Pro reproduces all text formatting including columns, paragraphs, titles, bullets, tables and graphics.
   
   
6. New and Easy-to-Use User Interface A very simple, intuitive, brushed metal user interface easily guides you through the recognition steps: the OCR process is easier than ever!
   
   
7. New Bar Code Reading capabilities Simply draw a bar code zone and the bar code information will automatically be retyped!
   
   
8. Unique Handprinting Recognition engine Write your own personal notes, scan them and they will be promptly recognized!
   
   
9. New Configurable Toolbar Show, hide, change the location of the toolbar icons and create your own custom toolbar like in Mac OS X standard applications.
   
   
10. A Multilingual Software Readiris Pro 11 offers 6 user interface languages (English, French, Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish) and recognizes up to 118 languages! In other words, with Readiris Pro 11, all your paper documents will be recognized and converted to editable text faster, easier and more accurately than ever before!

Recognition, accuracy and 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 you 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 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.

• 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!

Supported languages & fonts


Impressive foreign language support Improved
Display the Readiris interface in one of the 6 available languages (English, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish) and recognize up to 118 foreign languages:


American English,Afaan Oromo, 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,Uzbek, 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

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.

Output Formats


Gigantic list of output format 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 or save it as an external file.

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).

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

• Easily copy/paste text and graphic zones from Readiris to any application
• 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.

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.

Supported Scanners and Digital Cameras


Scanners supported: Supports all TWAIN compliant devices

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

System Requirements
Minimum

• G3 Mac OS computer
• Mac OS X version 10.3 or later. Earlier versions of the Mac OS operating system are not supported!
• 110 MB of free hard disk space

Readiris Pro 11 OCR Software for MAC with $30 Rebate