Customer Reviews

IRIS ReadIris Pro 10

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Ten years ago I wrote a book, got the usual rejections, and put it aside in favor of writing what I knew I could sell for magazines. Since then I've kept telling myself I need to shop it around again, but didn't have the energy, till last month.

I dug it out, re-read it, decided it needed updating, and explored methods of getting it into an alterable computer format like Microsoft Word. It was originally written on a Brother wordprocessor format.

Paying somebody to re-type it into Word would have been probitively expensive ($900+), and Kinko's had a program

to do it, but it was also prohibitively expensive ($1000+).

We shopped around & bought the ReadIris Pro 10 software through Amazon, scanned 390+ pages in, converted them to live-document status, and I'm now going through and revising the book.

The translation is about 90% accurate on text; aside from not following indents, double-spacing, and paragraphing exactly, it occasionally has a problem with ", ', and one or two other letters, but it did what I bought it to do, and I'm delighted with it. Kinko's would only offer 75% accuracy on their system.

No idea what it does with more complicated composition like photos, charts, tables, and so on.

For my purposes, I'm quite satisfied. No problems encountered yet.

Denis Prisbrey

I am not one to gush about products, but IRIS really delivers bigtime. I LOVE the professional Read IRIS OCR product 10.0 version. It is fantastic! If your lot in life is similar to mine, you will fall in love with IRIS, too -- i.e., someone who spends half his/her existence scanning docs, converting image and word files to adobe and emailing revisions endlessly back and forth. IRIS is very user friendly, not to mention WAAAAAYYYY cheaper than Adobe writer and does everything it does and more, including producing the best, cleanest OCR scans EVER, and that includes a lot of expensive equipment I've used in the past. This product saves me so much time and money. I use it virtually every day to scan documents and to convert tif image files to adobe format. It is really really easy to learn to use; very intuitive, and you can pick it up easily without reading any manuals if you are at all familar with OCR-type software. One feature I am gaga over is that you can convert numerous documents into one Adobe file easily just by clicking on each file, instead of having to save them as separate files, and you can save all different file formats as one Adobe file, as well. Also, if you email to people who have trouble opening image files, converting your tifs to Adobe will be a snap for you and save you headaches in having to resend. I've never had someone ask me, gee, how do you open an Adobe file? Also, if your image files are too large for your email program (like mine -- a measly 2 MBs!), IRIS can be preset to automatically compress your Adobe files so they are as small as possible. I just sent a 21-page Adobe file that was mere KB's. IRIS pro ROCKS!

Just about the only thing I find this program useful for is creating a PDF file out of a scanned document. The OCR functions yield too many errors and are barely acceptable when compared with those of Omni-Page Pro, or even Readiris 8, which came with my printer/scanner.

The Irispro 10 is what I've been looking for. I've yet to discover all it's features, but it's basic function meets my expectations.

Great product! Easy to setup and use. It automatically found a suitable driver for my old AcerScan 310U scanner. Readiris selected it, installed it, and used it. Scanning text to PDF was EASY! I expected a lot of OCR recognition editing pain and misery like in the old days but that didn't happen. Thanks Readiris.

do not recommand anyone about this product.

this is not helpful at all

and the document was not come out as it appear in the instruction.