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ReadirisTM Pro 12 User Guide

Chapter 1 – Introducing Readiris 4 spreadsheet, archive them as PDF or XPS files, etc. To recognize faxes and convert PDF documents, drag their image

Chapter 14 – Recognizing barcodes 94 o Select the symbologies you want Readiris to recognize. o Determine whether you want Readiris to verify or rem

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 95 INDEX Aaccuracy vs. speed... 54 ADF ... 85 adjusting scanned documen

Index 96 Ggraphics options ... 79 grayscale image ... 26 Hhandprinting ... 89, 90 Hebrew documents

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 97 PDF options ... 72 PDF output ... 61, 71 product support ...

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 5 solutions you confirm are memorized, increasing the system speed and confidence and rendering the system more intelli

Chapter 1 – Introducing Readiris 6 THE READIRIS SERIES The table below gives an overview of the available versions: Readiris Home 12 Limited features

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 7 Readiris Pro 12 Asian Readiris Corporate 12 Asian Basic features Basic features 128 recognition languages 128 re

Chapter 1 – Introducing Readiris 8 BMP, PCX. Generates four types of PDF files, PDF-iHQC (level I), four types of XPS, XPS-iHQC (level I), DOCX, ODT,

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 9 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLING READIRIS SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS This is the minimal system configuration required to use Readiris:

Chapter 2 – Installing Readiris 10 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION To install the software:  Log on to Windows as administrator or make sure you have the nece

ReadirisTM 12 Pro – User Guide 11  Repeat the installation process to install any additional software from the CD-ROM. UNINSTALLING THE SOFTWARE Th

Chapter 2 – Installing Readiris 12  be entitled to special offers on I.R.I.S. products. To register: Use the Registration wizard on the Register men

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 13 CHAPTER 3 GETTING STARTED RUNNING READIRIS To run Readiris:  Start Readiris from the Windows Start menu or double-

Chapter 3 – Getting started 14 Step 1 Select the image source. You can capture images using your scanner or open image files. Select the rotation and

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 15 Select the required output format or application in the Send to or External file list. Click the various tabs and se

Chapter 3 – Getting started 16 The Readiris interface is composed of:  the SmartTasks (in the middle) The SmartTasks are predefined commands that al

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 17 The document panel displays statistical information about the documents that are open in Readiris, such as the scan

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 19 CHAPTER 4 THE READIRIS SMARTTASKS USING THE READIRIS SMARTTASKS When starting Readiris, click anywhere in the Readir

Chapter 4 – The Readiris SmartTasks 20 The various SmartTask buttons allow you to: 1. Scan and recognize documents and send them directly to Word for

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 21 The documents will be sent as PDF Image-Text by default via your default e-mail application. See the section Formatt

Chapter 4 – The Readiris SmartTasks 22 o When you select Image files and click the SmartTask, Readiris opens the Input dialog box in which you can se

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 23 CHAPTER 5 SCANNING DOCUMENTS SELECTING THE OPTIONS Before scanning paper documents or opening image files, you can s

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide iii Table of Contents Copyrights ...

Chapter 5 – Scanning documents 24 This way, scanned or opened images will be split up in windows automatically. You can also use the windowing tools o

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 25 Tip: you can also drag image files to the Readiris image window to open them. Tip: Right-click any image file you w

Chapter 5 – Scanning documents 26  Select the image file of your choice and click Open. Note: the options of the Input dialog box also apply to do

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 27 When you process paper documents, Readiris will start your scanner as soon as you click the Scan button and display

Chapter 5 – Scanning documents 28 Format and Resolution Readiris supports a wide range of paper formats and resolutions. Note that it is recommended

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 29 Note that this option never increases the resolution of images scanned with too little detail. Scanning multipage d

Chapter 5 – Scanning documents 30 Using a digital camera Select Digital camera when you are using a camera as scan source. Readiris uses special recog

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 31  When you are done defining all the settings (Scanner settings, Options), click Scan to scan documents. Note: pay

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 33 CHAPTER 6 ADJUSTING SCANNED DOCUMENTS When opening or scanning extremely light or extremely dark grayscale and color

Table of Contents iv Scanning paper documents ... 26Chapter 6 Adjusting scanned documents ...

Chapter 6 – Adjusting scanned documents 34 o Select Smoothen color image to even out the image. This option renders grayscale and color images more

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 35 Example 1: lighten a dark image to eliminate the page background. (Color image) (Binarized image. The default bina

Chapter 6 – Adjusting scanned documents 36 (Binarized image. The default brightness settings yield fragmented characters) (The darkened image yields

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 37 Despeckling removes small spots from black-and-white images.  Click Apply to preview the results.  If the result

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 39 CHAPTER 7 SAVING DOCUMENTS AS IMAGE FILES Paper documents you scan do not need to be OCRed right away. They can be s

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 41 CHAPTER 8 WINDOWING DOCUMENTS WINDOWING DOCUMENTS AUTOMATICALLY When scanning or opening documents, Readiris will au

Chapter 8 – Windowing documents 42 Page analysis detects text, graphic and table zones automatically. Barcode zones and handprinted zones need to be d

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 43 The part of the page you select will be analyzed automatically. You will be prompted whether you want to exclude the

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide v Creating XPS documents ... 75Selecting the XPS options ...

Chapter 8 – Windowing documents 44  Draw a frame around the text blocks, graphics, tables, barcodes and handprinting zones you want to window. For

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 45 ones. Whenever two windows of the same type intersect, they become a polygon automatically. Automatic page a

Chapter 8 – Windowing documents 46  Right-click any of the selected windows, point to Window, then to Type and then click the required window type.

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 47 or Right-click the selected windows, point to Window, then click Delete. Deleting small windows Some documents, fax

Chapter 8 – Windowing documents 48  On the File menu, click the command Load Layout.  Select the layout file you saved.  To apply the layout to

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 49  Click Recognize + Save to execute the OCR.

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 51 CHAPTER 9 RECOGNIZING DOCUMENTS INTRODUCTION To recognize documents, Readiris applies linguistics during the recogni

Chapter 9 – Recognizing documents 52 sure of but also allows to increase the system's accuracy. All solutions you confirm are memorized temporari

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 53 The 5 most recently selected languages are moved to the top of the language list. Important: select the document l

Chapter 9 – Recognizing documents 54 Recognizing documents with mixed languages Readiris also allows you to enable mixed character sets. That way Read

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 55 Font type Readiris distinguishes between "regular" and dot matrix printed documents. Dot matrix symbols (o

Chapter 9 – Recognizing documents 56  Click Fixed if all characters of the typeface have the same width. This is often the case in old typewriter do

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 57  At the end of the recognition, Readiris enters the interactive learning phase. The characters the recognition sys

Chapter 9 – Recognizing documents 58 Use this command for damaged characters which could be confused with other characters if learned. E.g. the number

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 59  Click Recognize + Save to recognize the document.  Readiris enters the interactive learning phase. Use the but

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 61 CHAPTER 10 FORMATTING AND SAVING DOCUMENTS FORMATTING DOCUMENTS The documents you OCR in Readiris can be saved in va

Chapter 10 – Formatting and saving documents 62 o sends documents to an application, which will open automatically, or; o saves documents as an ex

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 63 Note that when saving a multipage document as external file, you can create a separate output file for each page in

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 1 Copyrights ReadirisPro12-dgi-110209-04 Copyrights © 1987-2009 I.R.I.S. All Rights Reserved. I.R.I.S. owns the copyrig

Chapter 10 – Formatting and saving documents 64 Layout options  The option Create body text avoids text formatting by Readiris. Readiris generates

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 65 o The option Use columns instead of frames creates columnized documents. Columnized texts are easier to edit than d

Chapter 10 – Formatting and saving documents 66  The option Merge lines into paragraphs enables automatic paragraph detection. Readiris wordwraps t

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 67  Click the Paper size tab and use the arrow buttons to apply and exclude paper sizes.  Readiris will go through

Chapter 10 – Formatting and saving documents 68 For more information on formatting options, see the section Formatting text documents. SpreadsheetML

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 69  The option Convert figures into numbers encodes recognized figures as numbers. As a result, you can exec

Chapter 10 – Formatting and saving documents 70  The option Merge lines into paragraphs enables automatic paragraph detection. Readiris wordwraps t

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 71 CREATING PDF DOCUMENTS Readiris generates four types of PDF output: Text, Text-Image, Image-Text and Image. To gene

Chapter 10 – Formatting and saving documents 72 PDF Text-Image When you select PDF Text-Image, Readiris recognizes text and creates searchable PDF doc

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 73 Create bookmarks The option Create bookmarks creates bookmarks for each text block, graphic and table in Adobe Acrob

Chapter 10 – Formatting and saving documents 74  On the PDF Options tab, select the required compression level. Readiris Pro supports Level I - Goo

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 75 REPURPOSING PDF DOCUMENTS Next to generating PDF documents, Readiris can also repurpose PDF files: Readiris converts

Chapter 10 – Formatting and saving documents 76 XPS stands for XML Paper Specification and is a fixed-layout format developed by Microsoft. To genera

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 77 XPS Text-Image When you select XPS Text-Image, Readiris recognizes text and creates searchable XPS documents that co

Chapter 10 – Formatting and saving documents 78 IHQC COMPRESSING XPS DOCUMENTS Besides four types of "regular" XPS output, Readiris offers i

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 79 SELECTING THE GRAPHICS OPTIONS Depending on the output format and target application you select, advanced graphics o

Chapter 10 – Formatting and saving documents 80 Tip: When saving documents as HTML files to post on a web site, reduce the resolution to 70 dpi (scree

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 81 CHAPTER 11 SAVING AND LOADING SETTINGS Any settings you specify in Readiris are saved automatically for future use a

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 83 CHAPTER 12 RECOGNIZING MULTIPAGE DOCUMENTS OPENING AND RECOGNIZING MULTIPLE IMAGE FILES Readiris is designed to proc

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 3 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCING READIRIS SAVE TIME, AVOID RETYPING Congratulations on acquiring Readiris. This software package

Chapter 12 – Recognizing multipage documents 84 Note that you can also drag-and-drop image files from Windows Explorer to the Readiris image window to

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 85 SCANNING AND RECOGNIZING MULTIPAGE DOCUMENTS Readiris is designed to process documents consisting of multiple pages.

Chapter 12 – Recognizing multipage documents 86 The scanner will automatically scan another page after the indicated number of seconds without you hav

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 87  Drag the page to the correct position.  Or right-click a page and click Move Page Up or Down. Deleting a page:

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 89 CHAPTER 13 RECOGNIZING HANDPRINTED TEXT Next to typed text, tables, graphics and barcodes, Readiris recognizes hand

Chapter 13 – Recognizing handprinted text 90 Recognized symbols Handprinting recognition is limited to the Latin alphabet and supports numerals (0-9),

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 91  Use a sufficiently thick ballpoint. Black pens yield better results than blue pens. Do not use pencils.  Don&ap

Chapter 13 – Recognizing handprinted text 92 The horizontal underlining bar does not have to touch the rest of the font form. Tip: when less than opt

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 93 CHAPTER 14 RECOGNIZING BARCODES INTRODUCING BARCODE READING Next to optical character recognition of 128 languages,