Readiris Pro 11 Corporate Edition

By Dale Farris, Reviews Coordinator Golden Triangle PC Club April 2006 General Overview Readiris Pro 11 Corporate Edition is a unique production Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program that scans, converts, automatically processes and optimizes your documents. It processes an unlimited number of paper documents and images four times faster than any OCR package. How does it work? 1. Scan your document Simply scan your paper text or open a PDF file or an image document. Readiris Pro 11 Corporate Edition opens the most common used images and PDF files. It can process an unlimited number of paper documents. 2. Convert it into editable text or PDF Once you opened your file into Readiris, just click on “recognize and save.” Within seconds, your document is converted into digital files you can edit, share and save! 3. Export your file Automatically send the recognized document into your favorite application, such as Word, Excel, Acrobat (PDF), Internet Explorer (HTML), WordML, SpeadsheetML, or save it as an external file. Thanks to the watched folder feature, Readiris Pro 11 Corporate Edition can automate the entire process. OCR had never been so easy! Features Fast and accurate recognition Powerful PDF support Large list of output formats Large volume recognition Automated processing Business Cards recognition More Features Convert documents in editable text Readiris Pro 11 Corporate Edition performs all the tedious retyping work for you in no time. Simply recognize your documents within Readiris and within seconds it is converted into digital files you can edit, share and save! Automated processing Watched folders, batch OCR and indexing through automated bar code reading are unique features that allows the automatic processing of your documents. Business cards recognition Scan and recognize your business cards and export the resulting contacts to your favorite contact manager. Readiris Pro 11 Corporate Edition even synchronizes your Address Book with your IPod, "PDA" or mobile phone. Corporate Edition Specific Features Advanced PDF Generation Exceptional tools allow you to create PDFs with optimized file size: - Digital signature of your PDF - Generate the PDF type that best suits your needs: image over text, text over image, text or image only - Optimize the PDF size: reduce the image resolution or the JPEG file quality. Or save your PDF using JPEG 2000 compressed format to get the smallest file size. Perfect for archiving and sharing! - Directly create a PDF without recognizing the scanned document with the “Save full page as image” function Easy Separation of Batches into Several Documents When scanning batches, insert a blank page between your different documents. Readiris separates them, recognizes and saves them into a different output file. Or simply right-click a page to transform it in a cover page and to manually separate your scanned documents. Powerful Indexing Based on Bar Code Reading Separate your documents by blank pages followed by a page containing bar codes. More than 20 bar codes are automatically recognized (even the PDF 417 barcode) and the embedded information is saved in an XML index. Efficient Batch OCR Batch OCR executes the recognition on all pre-scanned images in a specific folder. The recognized documents get the same file name as the image files. Productive Watched Folder Readiris Pro 10 Corporate Edition can set up a “watched folder”. Readiris systematically executes the recognition on any image file dropped in this folder. You can leave the OCR software running day after day... Acquire new documents and they will be recognized promptly. A Unique Tool to Update Your Address Book Scan, recognize and export your business cards directly to your favorite contact manager (Outlook, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes, Palm Desktop) or save your electronics contacts in a vCard file, in HTML or in a structured file and import them into any contact database. Common features to Pro and Pro Corporate Edition Optimized Engine for Speed and Accuracy - NEW New set up procedure for a more convenient installation Very Intuitive User Interface - IMPROVED - A new Unicode interface allow to switch from one language to another, whatever the alphabet - Buttons and toolbars are revisited in the XP look and feel - 21 Interface languages Powerful Page Analysis Automatic identification of text, table and image zones PDF Capabilities - PDF input Readiris Pro 11 offer a larger support of PDF types, increasing the PDF compatibility. -PDF output Four types of PDF output are now available: image over text, text over image, text or image only. Turn any documents into a light and easily shared PDF file, the perfect format for any document archiving. - Faster opening of PDF 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 The Best Multilingual OCR Software - Recognizes up to 123 foreign languages - New OCR languages: Moldovan, Bosnian (Cyrillic and Latin), Tetum, Swiss-German and Kazak - For each language, I.R.I.S. has an in-house dictionary build for better integration and fast speed - Offers 21 user interface languages (Arabic, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified) Enhanced Autoformat Technology - NEW replaces text blocks, tables and graphics in the same place maintaining the document layout Recognition of underlines text Performing List Recognition Recognizes and reproduces numbered and bulleted lists Easy creation of web pages Easily generate WYSIWYG HTML documents and edit them with almost any HTML editing applications (FrontRange, GoLive, Dreamweaver, etc.) Improved Flowing TextTM Mode for Easier Editing While you modify the content of the document, the text naturally "flows" from one column to the next. Impressive List of Output Formats - Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Corel WordPerfect, Sun StarOffice, HTML editor, etc. - Microsoft WordML Output The new Microsoft WordML format is now supported. Generate richer editing and formatting text files than regular RTF with the WordML output format - Microsoft Spreadsheet ML Output - Splendid Color Output Files Colored text, backgrounds, graphics are fully reproduced with Readiris Pro. Recreate the look and feel of your originals with great touch and accuracy. One-Click Transfer to Your Clipboard Instantly send a text zone to your clipboard and paste it into any application Printing Function of the Scanned Images Print up to 64 document thumbnails on one page (as in MS PowerPoint) High-Quality Display of the Document Image Recognition of Symbols (©, ®, ¢ etc.) Additional symbols are now recognized, giving a maximum recognition accuracy for professional documents. Better support of “Open source” Readiris Pro 11 is compatible with OpenOffice 2 and StarOffice 2 Unique Hand Print Recognition Equipped with the I.R.I.S. ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) engine, Readiris Pro not only reads and recognizes typewritten text but also hand printed capital letters, figures or symbols. Scan documents containing important manual notes and they will be promptly recognized! Note: Hand printing recognition is limited to the numerals, the uppercase and separated letters (A-Z) and the punctuation symbols "," (comma), "." (dot) and "-" (hyphen). Powerful Barcode Recognition Do your documents contain barcodes? Simply draw a frame around them and the embedded information will be retyped in the output file. Both one-dimensional as bi-dimensional bar codes are recognized Codabar, code 128, code 39, code 39 extended, code 39 extended, code 39 HIBC, code 93, Discrete 2 of 5, EAN-13, EAN-8, Interleaved 2 of 5, Kodak patch Code, MSI-Plessey, MSI pharma, PDF 417, UCC-128, UPC-A, UPC-E Learn function - NEW Input formats - IMPROVED Readiris Pro opens any image and PDF files from which the new formats JPEG 2000 and DjVu files. Intelligent Page Analysis & Powerful Autoformat'M Technology - IMPROVED Readiris Pro automatically identifies Text, Tables, Graphics zones on your documents and maintains the exact layout in the output file. Helps you select optimal page sizes for your output documents (A4, Letter, etc.). Convenient Interval Scanning Mode – IMPROVED Manually set the time interval between scans to greatly simplify the scanning process for multi-page documents on a flatbed scanner. "Do Not Detect Windows on Page Borders" option When doing its automatic page analysis, Readiris ignores any zones that touch the page borders. Small dots won't be considered as a Text or Graphic zone and the recognition and the output result will be improved. Smart tools for a more efficient use - Right-click on a text zone to send it to the clipboard and then paste it into any application - Directly send the recognized text in a new e-mail and immediately share the information - In Windows Explorer, right-click on any image to load it in Readiris, ready to be recognized Recognized Languages The Best Multilingual OCR Software - Recognizes up to 123 foreign languages - New OCR languages: Moldovan, Bosnian (Cyrillic and Latin), Tetum, Swiss-German and Kazak - For each language, I.R.I.S. has an in-house dictionary built for better integration and faster speed - Offers 21 user interface languages (Arabic, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified) Recognized languages American English, British English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Aymara, 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, Luxemburgh, Macedonian, Madurese, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx (Gaelic), Maori, Mayan, Minangkabau, Nahuatl, Norwegian, Numeric, Nyanja, Nynorsk, Occitan, 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, Tok Pisin, Tonga, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Waray, Wolof, Xhosa, Zapotec, Zulu, Bulgarian - English, Byelorussian - English, Greek - English, Macedonian - English, Russian - English, Serbian - English, Ukrainian - English, Hebrew (Readiris Pro 11 Middle-East only) - Simplified Chinese (Readiris Pro 11 Asian only), Traditional Chinese (Readiris Pro 11 Asian only), Japanese (Readiris Pro 11 Asian only), Korean (Readiris Pro 11 Asian only), Arabic (Readiris Pro 11 Middle-East only), Farcy (Readiris Pro 11 Middle-East only). + Moldovan, Bosnian (Cyrillic and Latin), Tetum, Swiss-German and Kazak Targeted Customers Readiris Pro 11 Corporate Edition is a blazing fast, amazingly accurate optical character recognition (OCR) program that is certainly very competitively priced, especially compared with OmniPage Pro 15 ($499.99), and it is also available for Mac machines. Also, the Readiris OCR program likely may already have been installed on many machines around the world, especially systems that may have included a scanner with the price. Readiris has been very aggressively marketed over the years, and the bundling of the software with scanners has resulted in a market very much aware of this program. However, the Pro Corporate Edition of the program provides many additional high-end features that the entry level edition lacked, and with its reasonable price, I think anyone with a scanner will find this program provides great value for their investment. I also suggest folks who may already be running a scaled down version of Readiris to seriously consider upgrading to this feature-rich edition. System Requirements Intel Pentium based PC or equivalent processor Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP 128MB RAM 120MB free hard disk space Price $399 Readiris Pro 11 Corporate Edition About I.R.I.S. I.R.I.S. was incorporated in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) in the year 1987. The company has become a major player in optical recognition, data capture, electronic document management and document storage. I.R.I.S. has gained international renown as an exclusive or privileged supplier of technology for the large scanner manufacturers (HP, Kodak, Fujitsu, Samsung etc.) and has started subsidiaries in France, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the United States. I.R.I.S. develops and markets high-quality technologies, products and services designed to: Capture the incoming (paper or electronic) documents of companies and government agencies Manage documents and their contents electronically, share and archive them internally or via the Internet Consult electronic documents efficiently and store them securely Contact I.R.I.S. Group Headquarters 10 rue du Bosquet B-1348 Louvain la Neuve Belgium +32-(0)10-45 13 64 FAX +32-(0)10-45 34 43 info@irislink.com www.irislink.com USA Headquarters I.R.I.S. Inc Delray Office Plaza 4731 West Atlantic Avenue, Suite B1 and B2 Delray Beach, Florida 33445 +1 (561) 921 0847 FAX +1 (561) 921 0854 info@irisusa.com