Readiris Pro 12 Powerful Ocr Solution for Professionals

by I.R.I.S.

Product Features

• Accurately and quickly converts your paper documents and image files into editable, searchable and compressed files
• Automatically send the recognized document into your favorite application, including Word, Excel, Acrobat, OpenOffice Document, XML Paper Specification (XPS), PDF/A, HTML, RTF, with the SmartTasks buttons, you can even export your documents to the chosen application in a single click
• iHQC is the perfect tool to create, share, archive and retrieve color or black & white documents; iHQC allows you to generate fully-searchable PDF, XPS & PDF/A files (containing both the color image and the full-text index) that are up to 400 times smaller than the original color image
• Process up to 50 pages per document
• Your tables are perfectly reproduced in Excel (97-2007), retaining the text and the colored background

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B001U8A312
• Item model number: 456451
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 5, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,937 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #36 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Scanning & OCR

Product Description

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology is becoming very popular due to the increase in demand for e-books, wherein it would take an extensive amount of time to manually convert paper documents. There is also the issue with magazine articles, pages in books, and scanned PDF files prior to OCR technology that were uneditable, therefore leading to frustration in terms of reading and editing. Readiris Pro 12 builds upon OCR with additional features, wherein with its SmartTasks buttons it will output the completed conversion to the software you have chosen, such as Word or Excel, while preserving the format, such as the colored background in a spreadsheet. Input formats - JPEG, BMP, TIFF, JPEG 2000, DjVu; Multi-page documents such as TIFF or PDF file Includes powerful picture enhancement tools Digitize your hand printed notes System Requirements - 486 based Intel PC or compatible Pentium based PC is recommended 256 MB RAM 120 MB free disk space 105 MB of disk space suffices when you do not install the sample files Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows 2000 operating system

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware, June 24, 2009

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David Roth (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Readiris Pro 12 Powerful Ocr Solution for Professionals (CD-ROM)

Terrible company -- beware. Free tech support leads to a voicemail that is ignored (or full). ' I've been waiting a week for them to generate the required install code, even though I have a physical copy with a serial number.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor documentation. High learning curve., September 23, 2009

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Marsha E. Wood (Lansing, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Readiris Pro 12 Powerful Ocr Solution for Professionals (CD-ROM)

I bought the full product after a "light" copy was provided with one of my printer/scanners. Going back and forth between the documentation on the screen and the software itself is a pain. The documentation is not clear and answers are hard to find. I had hopes that Amazon would have a book on using ReadIRIS, but no such luck. The process of the program "learning" to recognize the text is long and painful. An 8 page document took me almost half an hour.

3.0 out of 5 stars Read Iris Pro 12, January 17, 2012

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MDH (Bermuda) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Readiris Pro 12 Powerful Ocr Solution for Professionals (CD-ROM)

I did not purchase this through Amazon but came here to check out the reviews. I downloaded the software online. Having used it to convert about 10 OCR files I found the process quite hit and miss. It does actually work but is appalling at file handling. I found I had to exit the program altogether inbetween file conversions in order to get it to pick up the new input file otherwise, no matter how many times I tried to select the new input file name, it would default to the old input file name (so I kept converting the same file over and over!).It appeared to select the right file name but would just substitute the old one whilst performing the conversion.Seems pretty basic to be able to browse file names on disk, select and process. Also sometimes it would just halt at the end of the conversion and not request an output filename so I had to repeat the process until I could create the correct output file name - again a bit hit and miss.
However once I figured out the anomalies in the software it was useful. I had tried using some free online OCR conversion software and it was long and tedious, often hanging, and then saying online resource busy please try again later. At least this was very quick when it worked. You do of course have to carefully check the output document and then edit out any bad characters.