Readiris 12 Home for Pc Single Full

by I.R.I.S.

Product Features

• Readiris 12 works with scanned paper documents, PDF files and image files.
• Accurate & Fast OCR Conversion
• SmartTasks buttons
• Easy Export to Word, Excel, Acrobat,.
• Powerful Indexing Tool

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 2 x 9.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002CTSC70
• Item model number: RIPC12HOME
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 1, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,291 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

I.R.I.S Readiris v.12.0 Home Edition OCR Utility - PC

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great software at a bargain price!, February 12, 2010

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A. L. Genzale (Providence, RI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Readiris 12 Home for Pc Single Full (CD-ROM)

I purchased ReadIris 12 Home Edition three days ago from Amazon and have tried all of its features. It is easy to use and fast at scanning pages. You can set the program to scan to many different programs and formats including MS Word, Excel, Openoffice, and Corel Wordperfect Office, and it can scan in formats such as doc, odt, rtf, and PDF. The best results to OCR text appear to be to the PDF and ODT formats. The best results for OCR are on clear text without a lot of complex fonts, but the program has a learn feature improve OCR results. The Pro and Corporate editions have some extra features, but for home users the Home Edition is a powerful program that is easy to use, scans quickly, and is a great bargain.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product for Home use., April 10, 2010

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Samuel Moore "sam" (SoFLa) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Readiris 12 Home for Pc Single Full (CD-ROM)

I purchased this software to convert a book that my son had written on a typewriter. I scanned over 500 hundred pages front and back and only had one scan error. The product performed as advertised and loaded easily first time. Would recommend to anyone that has a need.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars most time-consuming software ever - stay away!!, July 24, 2011

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skmd - See all my reviews

This review is from: Readiris 12 Home for Pc Single Full (CD-ROM)

This is the most cumbersome piece of software ever, it creates far more work than it saves. 1) For every minute you spend having this program scan and recognize your document, you will spend 10 minutes reformatting or correcting the word documment it created. 2) it does not recognize slash marks, such as URL's or dates, "07/24/11." It turns anything with a slash into an italic, which means going back through the whole document and fixing anything with a slash. 3)the default recognition process involves separating every paragraph, or any non-adjacent text, into a separately formatted section - if you want the whole page formatted as it is, you have to go through additional steps to make sure that happens correctly. 4)(and most infuriating)your finished document cannot be seemlessly merged into an existing Word document - it is created in a box that is then inserted into a Word document like a graphic. This means you can't cut and paste anything from the box, the box travels as a unit, and must be formatted so that it falls in the same layer as the existing text - otherwise as you make changes to your document, you will find this text box superimposed on your existing text. More steps. 5) Inserting page breaks into your scanned document? Good luck - you may find the page you were working on has moved to the end of the document, or been layerd on another page, or disappeared entirely.
Tech support is non-existent; search the website for a button that says "contact us," finally find it and the only option is to send them an email, which they of course ignore.
I recently used the (free) OCR software on my printer/scanner/fax (I won't mention the name because this is not a plug for that product) and it is like heaven compared to this piece of junk - much simpler, faster and more accurate.