- New version of the recognition engine
- The ability to convert Word, Excel and PowerPoint files into indexed PDFs
- Access to document conversion by right-clicking with the mouse
- New user interface
- Addition of a quality indicator for imported documents
- Improved tool to handle pages within a document
- Automatic detection of IRIS scanners
- New version of the image pre-processing engine
- Improved perspective correction module
Optical Character Recognition
"OCR" is the abbreviation of "Optical Character Recognition", it describes the process whereby an image is captured of a paper document after which the text is "extracted" from that image. Hence, paper documents are converted into editable computer files. And that's precisely what text recognition is all about: entering texts into your computer without retyping them. After all, as efficient as computers are, you have to key in your information first!
Possible Conversions

Convert your PDFs
Readiris 16 for Windows converts your PDFs into Word, Excel, text or even fully editable indexed PDF, while preserving the original layout.
List of output formats: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, ODT, ePub, Audio, RTF, HTML, TXT, TIFF, JPEG, PNG
Convert your images
Readiris 16 for Windows is compatible with many image formats and extracts the text contained in the images to convert it into editable digital text in many word processing packages such as Word, Excel, Notepad, etc.
List of compatible image formats: JPG, GIF, PSD, PNG, TIFF, BMP
List of output formats: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, ODT, ePub, Audio, RTF, HTML, TXT, TIFF, JPEG, PNG
Convert from scanner
If you have a scanner, Readiris 16 for Windows can easily take control to facilitate the scanning and conversion of your paper documents. You will then be able to scan your documents and extract the text from them to make them editable or simply search the content.
Compatible scanner types: TWAIN
List of output formats: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, ODT, ePub, Audio, RTF, HTML, TXT, TIFF, JPEG, PNG
Convert your MS Office files
Readiris 16 for Windows lets you convert any Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file into a PDF, Audio, ePub, or image file.
List of output formats: PDF, ePub, Audio, TIFF, JPEG, PNG
Manipulate PDFs
Create indexed PDF filesThis format is identical to the original PDF file except that it adds a layer of indexed text. This means you can easily search for the information you need in a document or a large volume of archived documents.
Password-protect your PDFs
Readiris 16 for Windows makes it easy to add a secure password to prevent copying, editing, printing, and even text extraction in your PDF files.
Compress your PDFs
Considerably reduce the size of your images and PDF files thanks to IRIS's exclusive hypercompression technology. This feature lets you reduce the size of your original files by a factor of up to 10* (or 50 with the Corporate version) without impairing the visual quality. Compressed documents in standard PDF format are fully indexed and compatible with any PDF viewer.
Add, delete, organize pages in your PDFs
Use the page-handling module in the Readiris 16 for Windows interface to add, delete, or even organise the pages of your PDF documents.
Merge your PDFs
The PDF merge tool lets you merge several PDF files or even several files of different formats (PDF, image, Word, Excel, or PowerPoint) in a single file. You can then easily manipulate the pages and choose the export format that best suits your needs (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, ODT, ePub, Audio, RTF, HTML, TXT, TIFF, JPEG, PNG).