Readiris 15 User Guide
Table of Contents Readiris 15............................................................................................................................................... 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 1 What's new in Readiris 15................................................................................................................... 3 Legal Notices ............................
Readiris 15 - User Guide Using Font Dictionaries ................................................................................................................. 36 Using Training Mode ..................................................................................................................... 36 Section 6: Optimizing the Scanned Documents .................................................................................... 39 Adjusting the Image Quality..............................................
Table of Contents How to separate document batches................................................................................................. 76 How to separate batches of image files............................................................................................ 78 How to recognize forms .................................................................................................................... 80 How to process low-resolution images................................................
Readiris 15 RI_15_dgi_06102015-03 Welcome to the Readiris documentation. The aim of this documentation is to help you get up to speed with using Readiris. It covers Readiris' installation and setup, the basic processing steps and the application's commands and working areas. At the end of the documentation you find an How to section in which particular questions are addressed. The procedures described in this documentation are based on the Mac OS Yosemite operating system.
What's new in Readiris 15 Improved User Interface New OCR engine New Asian OCR engine Multi-thread Processing New Activation Procedure New Output Formats: E-pub and Audio New online Storage Systems: Box: OneDrive, SharePoint Possibility to append PDF documents Possibility to import password-protected PDF files New PDF compression New PDF / A-2 format Easy Web viewing PDF files Improved User Interface The Readiris interface has been improved.
New online Storage Systems: Box: OneDrive, SharePoint The documents you process with Readiris can now be sent to Box and Microsoft OneDrive. Readiris Corporate also sends documents to Microsoft SharePoint. Possibility to append PDF documents In Readiris 15 you can add pages to existing PDF documents. When you save new scans to a PDF document that already exists, you have the possibility to append the existing document with the new pages.
Legal Notices Copyrights Copyrights © 1987-2015 I.R.I.S. All Rights Reserved. I.R.I.S. owns the copyrights to the Readiris software, to the online help system and to this publication. The information contained in this document is the property of I.R.I.S. Its content is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of I.R.I.S. The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement which states the terms of use of this product.
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Section 1: Installation and Activation System requirements This is the minimal system configuration required to use Readiris: A Mac computer with a 64 bits Intel processor The operating system Mac OS X 10.8 or higher. Earlier versions of the Mac OS operating system are not supported. 300 MB of free hard disk space. Installation and Activation Installation Insert the Readiris CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive of your computer. Then click the Readiris CD-ROM icon on the Desktop.
Readiris 15 - User Guide When the installation is finished, click Close. The Readiris folder is added to the Applications folder by the installation program. Software Registration Registering is required to get Technical Support. It also offers other benefits, such as free updates, free trial downloads, video tutorials, discount on new products, and so on. To register Readiris: On the Help menu, click Register Readiris to be directed to the Registration page. Fill in your data and click Submit.
Check for updates When you register your copy of Readiris you are entitled to free software updates. To check if updates are available: On the Help menu, click Search for Updates. Note: Readiris automatically checks for updates every 30 days. Uninstalling Readiris To remove Readiris from your computer: Click Finder and open the Applications folder. Drag the Readiris folder to the Trash. Readiris will be removed from your machine.
Section 2: Getting Started Exploring the interface The new Readiris interface looks as follows: The interface consists of the following components and panels: 1. The Readiris menu bar The Readiris menu bar regroups all the commands and options available in Readiris, including advanced settings. 2. The top toolbar The top toolbar is by far the most important tool in Readiris. It contains all the basic commands you need to process your documents. The commands are classified per group.
Readiris 15 - User Guide 3. The Scanned image When a document is scanned or opened into Readiris, its image is displayed. The different recognition zones are displayed. The zones can be edited with the tools in the Image and Layout Editing panel. 4. The Pages panel Each page you scan or open in Readiris has its thumbnail displayed in the Pages panel. The pages are processed top-down. To change the order of the pages, you drag a page from one location to another.
Configuring your scanner in Readiris Readiris supports all Twain 1.9 compliant scanners, all Image Capture compliant scanners, and IRIScan 2 and higher scanners. Most Image Capture scanners are plug and play. Before you can use a Twain scanner, however, its drivers need to be installed on your Mac. Twain scanners Connect your scanner to your Mac and power it on. Install your scanner's Twain driver.
Readiris 15 - User Guide To check if the scanner driver has been installed successfully: In the Readiris menu, click Preferences. Click the Scanner tab. You should see your scanner listed*. *This is not the case for the IRISCard Anywhere, IRIScan Anywhere and IRIScan Book scanners. If your scanner is not listed, its driver has not been installed successfully. Note that the IRIScan settings at the bottom are only available if an IRIScan Express 2 scanner is connected.
Section 3: Basic Document Processing Processing documents with Readiris is fairly straightforward when using a basic configuration. In this section we discuss which steps to take when doing such a basic configuration. For detailed information about all the configuration steps, see sections 4 to 10. Step 1: Scan or Open your images In order to scan paper documents your scanner must be correctly configured. See the section Configuring your scanner if necessary.
Readiris 15 - User Guide The images are displayed in the interface. Step 2: Modifying the images The images you scan and load into Readiris can be modified easily: To change the order of the pages, drag the thumbnails to a different position in the Pages panel. To delete a page, select a page and click the delete icon. To delete a zone, select it and press the Backspace button on your keyboard. If necessary you can modify the recognition zones.
Section 3: Basic Document Processing Step 4: Select the Output format In the Format group, click the output format you want to generate. You can, for instance, save your documents as DOCX documents to do text editing, or save them as PDF documents for storage purposes. If the format of your choice is not listed: Click the down arrow. Select the format of your choice and drag it to the Favorites list. Configure its formatting options.
Readiris 15 - User Guide Starting a new project When you are done saving your scanned documents, or when you want to start over: Click New on the top toolbar. This command erases your documents from Readiris so you can start a new project. Automatic Processing If you want to speed up the processing in Readiris or need to process batches of scanned documents, you can use the Automatic Processing feature.
Section 3: Basic Document Processing Tip: To add the Automatic Processing feature to the top toolbar: Ctrl-click inside the top toolbar, and select Customize Toolbar. Then drag the Automatic Processing icon to the toolbar and click Done. Tip: Besides Automatic Processing, Readiris Corporate also offers Batch Processing and Watched Folder features to process larger batches. Saving and loading settings Note that Readiris saves the processing settings automatically when closing the application.
Loading Settings To load a settings file you saved: On the Settings menu, click Open Settings. Browse for the settings file you saved. Restoring Factory Settings On the Settings menu, click Restore Factory Settings.
Section 4: Scanning and Opening Documents General Processing Options When scanning and opening documents, Readiris applies several general processing options. To access these options: On the Readiris menu, click Preferences. The Preferences window opens on the General tab. The options you set here are applied as default to all the documents you'll open or scan. Preprocessing Options. Smoothen color and grayscale images This option is activated by default.
Automatic despeckling Sometimes documents contain a lot of "noise" - little black spots that occur when scanning lowquality documents or using bad scanner settings. To remove these little black spots, use the Despeckle slider. The more you move it to the right, the larger the spots that will be removed. Page Analysis Options Note that you can also access these options via the Settings menu. Page Analysis Page Analysis is selected by default. This option divides your documents into recognition zones.
Scanning Documents Readiris is Image Capture and Twain compliant. It supports almost any flatbed and sheet-fed scanner, all-in-one device, digital camera and scanner currently available. Before you begin: make sure your scanner is connected to your computer and configured correctly. To do so, go to the Readiris menu and click Preferences. If you see your scanner listed on the Scanner tab it is correctly installed. If you don't see it, refer to the topic Configuring your scanner.
Scanning with I.R.I.S. scanners IRIScan Express 2 When using an IRIScan 2 scanner there are specific settings you can apply. On the Readiris menu, click Preferences. Click the Scanner tab. Format You can either choose an automatic scanning format or a custom format for which you can indicate the page height and width. Depth Readiris supports black-and-white, grayscale and color images. Resolution Select a scanning resolution of 300 dpi.
IRISCard / IRIScan Anywhere / IRIScan Book Preliminary note The IRISCard and IRIScan Anywhere, and IRIScan Book scanners are designed to be used on their own, disconnected from any computer. The documents you scan are stored in the scanner’s internal memory (or optional SD card / USB flash drive). From there they can be loaded into Readiris. So, note that these scanners are not Twain-driver scanners that can be used from within any application to scan documents.
Readiris 15 - User Guide You can also open multiple images files at a time: Select the first image file and hold down the Cmd-key as you select additional images or; Select a continuous range of image files by clicking the first image and holding down the Shift key as you select the last image. Should you want to abort the loading process, click the x icon in the top right corner of the progress bar.
Section 4: Scanning and Opening Documents If Readiris does not detect your image is a digital camera image: Ctrl-click the page thumbnail. Select Digital Camera Image. Deskewing Digital Camera Images When photographing documents with a digital camera, it may happen that the documents are shot from an angle, which gives them a 3D effect and renders the recognition impossible. To solve this issue, you can deskew your digital camera images: Open your digital camera image.
Readiris 15 - User Guide Tips for making digital camera images 28 Always select the highest image resolution. Enable the macro mode of the camera to take close-ups. Enable the document mode of the camera (if any). Only use optical zoom, not digital zoom. Hold the camera directly above the document. Avoid photographing documents at an angle. Produce stable images. Disable the flash when photographing glossy paper. Avoid opening compressed camera images.
Section 5: Selecting the Recognition Options Readiris converts scanned images, image files and PDF files into editable text documents and textsearchable PDF documents. In order for Readiris to recognize the text in your images, you need to select the correct recognition options. By far the most important recognition option is the document language. To select the document language: Click the language list, and select your document language.
Readiris 15 - User Guide + * / % , plus sign asterisk slash percentage sign comma . ( ) - = period opening parenthesis closing parenthesis hyphen equation sign $ £ € ¥ dollar sign pound sign euro sign yen sign Recognizing Western words in non-Latin alphabets When you are processing Cyrillic, Slavic, Greek or Asian documents that also contain "Western" words written in the Latin alphabet - such as proper nouns, then it is recommended to select one of the available Language pairs.
Section 5: Selecting the Recognition Options Unlike secondary languages, there are no limitations here. Note: the tooltip of each page in the Pages panel indicates which language applies to that page. Recognizing Secondary Languages inside a single document (Readiris Corporate only) When your documents contain text in multiple languages, it is recommended to select a main recognition language, combined with several Secondary languages.
Advanced Text Recognition Options Next to the document language you can also configure Advanced Text Recognition Options in Readiris. You can modify the document characteristics Font type and Character pitch, which play an important role in the recognition process, favor recognition accuracy over speed or vice versa and use User Lexicons to assist the recognition. To access the Advanced Text Recognition Options, click Settings > Advanced Text Recognition Options.
Section 5: Selecting the Recognition Options Note: the Font type and Character pitch settings do not apply when processing Asian or Hebrew documents. User Lexicons (Readiris Corporate only) During recognition, Readiris is assisted by linguistic databases to recognize text correctly. These linguistic databases are standard lexicons and are available for every supported language. As powerful as these standard lexicons may be, the recognition accuracy can still be boosted using customized user lexicons.
Using user lexicons (This section applies to Readiris Corporate only) During recognition, Readiris is assisted by linguistic databases to recognize text correctly. These linguistic databases are standard lexicons and are available for every supported language. As powerful as these standard lexicons may be, the recognition accuracy can still be boosted using customized user lexicons.
Section 5: Selecting the Recognition Options E.g. Notre-Dame-de-Paris stays Notre-Dame-de-Paris Tip: watch out for hyphenation at the end of a line when you import text files or copy-paste words that cover two lines. Numbers are rejected. Digits, however, can occur inside product names and are included. E.g. FAT32 stays FAT32. Systolic 150 will become Systolic Training Mode (This feature is not available for Asian languages) To improve the recognition results, you can use Readiris' Training Mode.
Readiris 15 - User Guide Using Font Dictionaries As stated above, it is recommended to use the Training Mode combined with a Font Dictionary, in order to store the training results permanently. To create a new Dictionary: Enable Training mode as explained above. Click Training > New Dictionary. Process your document, go through Training Mode (explained below) and Save your document. Click Training again and now select Save Dictionary.
Section 5: Selecting the Recognition Options If you are using the New Font Dictionary option and Save the Dictionary afterwards, you won't have to go through the same steps again. Click Finish to accept all solutions the software offers. If the results are incorrect: Type in the correct characters and click the Learn button. Note: if you are dealing with documents that contain special characters that are not available on your keyboard, click the browse button to open the Character Palette.
Section 6: Optimizing the Scanned Documents The documents you scan and open in Readiris can be optimized in several ways with the Image and Layout Edting toolbar on the right side of the interface. Deskewing pages When a page has been scanned crookedly it can be deskewed - or straightened. To deskew a page: select the page, then click the Deskew icon. Deskewing digital camera images Readiris automatically detects if an image was made by a digital camera. Notice the camera icon on the page thumbnail.
Readiris 15 - User Guide Click Apply to deskew the image. Rotating images To rotate an image, click the Rotate icon. Then click the required option. Adjusting the Image Quality The recognition results depend a great deal on the image quality of your documents. If you're scanning very low-quality documents, Readiris will not be able to recognize them properly. The reason for this is that Readiris works by converting pictures of text characters into actual text characters.
Section 6: Optimizing the Scanned Documents To improve the recognition results: Check the Scanner Settings and make sure your documents have been scanned in a resolution of 300 dpi and in color. If that's not the case, re-scan your documents using these settings. Then access the Image Adjustment options: Click the Adjust icon on the Image and Layout Editing toolbar. Smoothen (color or grayscale) image This option is selected by default.
Readiris 15 - User Guide Contrast Move the slider to increase or decrease the contrast between the text and the background. Example The image below results in broken text characters. In this case you need to increase the contrast to obtain satisfactory results. Despeckle Sometimes documents contain a lot of "noise" - little black spots that occur when scanning lowquality documents or using bad scanner settings. To remove these little black spots, use the Despeckle slider.
Section 7: Editing the Recognition Zones Introduction When you scan a document or open an image file in Readiris, each page is divided automatically into recognition zones. Readiris uses these zones to determine how each part of your documents must be converted. If your document does not contain any zones, no recognition will be done. In Readiris there are 4 kinds of recognition zones. You have text zones, image zones, table zones and barcode zones. Notice that each zone type has its own color.
Readiris 15 - User Guide Modifying the automatic Page Analysis Readiris divides documents into text, table and graphic recognition zones when the option Page Analysis has been activated. This automatic page analysis can be modified in several ways. For instance, you can expand and reduce zones in size, move zones to a different location, manually create new zones, change the zone type of existing zones, change the sort order, and so on.
Section 7: Editing the Recognition Zones Then click and hold the mouse button and draw a frame around the section to want to recognize as text. Note that barcode zones must always be drawn manually. They are not created automatically by the Page Analysis feature. Changing the zone type Click the Layout icon to display the Layout tool. Click the zone type you want to create. On the right side of the tool, set the option to Click on existing zones to set as ....
Readiris 15 - User Guide Note that only zones of the same zone type can be connected. OR Close the Layout tool. Click a zone to select it. The entire zone is now marked in its corresponding color and the markers on the borders are displayed. Click one of the markers and expand a side of the zone until it overlaps with another zone of the same type. The two zones are merged into one.
Using zoning templates When you want to scan many similar looking documents, it might be useful to apply zoning templates, instead of editing the recognition zones each time. In a zoning template you indicate what your documents look like and where the text, picture or tables zones are located. This way, Readiris only looks in the indicated areas, saving you a considerable amount of time. To create a zoning template: Scan the first document. Edit the zones to your liking.
Readiris 15 - User Guide Manually copying the zoning layout. It is also possible to manually copy the zoning layout from one page to another: Cmd-click the zones you want to copy to another page. Tip: make sure the Layout tool is closed. Otherwise, Cmd-click won't work. 48 Then press Cmd+C on the keyboard. Go to the page to which you want to copy the zoning layout. Click inside the image and press Cmd+V on the keyboard.
Section 8: Selecting the Output Format The documents you process with Readiris can be saved in a large number of output formats, ranging from plain text files to fully formatted Word processing and Spreadsheet files, and PDF files. With Readiris you can also turn Image PDFs - in which you cannot select or copy any text - into fully textsearchable PDF documents. The output formats are displayed in the Format group. The default formats are PDF, DOCX, ODT, EPUB and Audio.
Readiris 15 - User Guide PDF Image-Text. This file type is most commonly used. It contains two layers: the recognized text, and the original image on top of the text. This way, you have both access to the recognized text and you still see the original image. Note: since the image covers the text, any recognition mistakes will not be visible. PDF Text-Image. This file type is the opposite of PDF Image-Text. It contains the original image in the background, and the recognized text on top of the image.
Section 8: Selecting the Output Format TXT (Unicode text) A TXT file is a standard text document that contains unformatted text. TXT files can be opened in any text editing or word processing application. No Layout options are available for TXT files. EPUB EPUB is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). EPUB is designed for reflowable content, meaning that the presentation of the content automatically adapts itself to the device on which it is opened.
Layout Options The Layout Options play an important role when generating Word processor documents (DOCX, ODT, RTF), Spreadsheet documents (XLSX) and Web page documents (HTML). They determine for a large part what your final documents will look like. Which layout options are available depends on the output format you select. When you select an image output format, such as PDF Image, or TIFF, for instance, these options are not available.
Section 8: Selecting the Output Format Example of body text The option Retain word and paragraph formatting keeps the general format structure of your scanned document. The font type, size and type style are maintained across the recognition process. The tabs and the alignment of each block are recreated. The text blocks and columns aren't recreated; the paragraphs just follow each other. Tables are recaptured correctly.
Readiris 15 - User Guide Columnized texts are easier to edit than documents containing multiple frames: the text flows naturally from one column to the next. Note: should Readiris be unable to detect columns in the source document, then frames are still used as substitute solution. Tip: use this option when generating Word documents. The option Insert column breaks inserts a hard column break at the end of each column, which maintains the format of the text.
Section 8: Selecting the Output Format This option is useful when processing tables of different sizes and different headings. The option Retain word style and text paragraphs keeps the general format structure of your scanned document. The font type, size and type style are maintained across the recognition process. The tabs and the alignment of each block are recreated. The text blocks and columns aren't recreated; the paragraphs just follow each other. Tables are recaptured correctly.
Selecting the Graphics options The Graphics Options determine how the images will be presented in the output documents, e.g. in black-and-white or in color. They also define their resolution. Note: when you select an output format or application that does not support images, then the Graphics Options will be unavailable in Readiris. Below you find a description of what each option does. Color type Readiris saves graphics in their original depth by default.
Section 8: Selecting the Output Format Select Use input images size to generate output documents that have the exact same size as the original files. If you want to use a standard page size - in case you want to print your documents for instance - select Use first fitting size from standard size list. Then select your preferred page sizes. Now sort the selected page sizes in the order of your preference. Readiris tries to use the first page size in the list.
Readiris 15 - User Guide Image-Text. This file type is most commonly used. It contains two layers: the recognized text, and the original image on top of the text. This way, you have both access to the recognized text and you still see the original image. Note: since the image covers the text, any recognition mistakes will not be visible. Image. When you select this file type, Readiris doesn't execute the text recognition on your document.
iHQC Compression In Readiris you also have the possibility to hyper-compress your PDF documents with iHQC. iHQC stands for intelligent High-Quality Compression, I.R.I.S.' proprietary, efficient compression technology. iHQC is to images what MP3 is to music and what DivX is to movies. iHQC is available for Image-Text and Image PDFs. Select the compression type: Good quality - best compatibility: no use of wavelet compression (JPEG2000) and no use of symbols compression (JBIG2).
Readiris 15 - User Guide EPUB Options EPUB is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). EPUB is designed for reflowable content, meaning that the presentation of the content automatically adapts itself to the device on which it is opened. EPUB also supports fixed-layout content. Note that Readiris only creates body text in EPUB files. Images are not included. The option Merge lines into paragraphs is selected by default.
Section 9: Saving Documents The documents you process in Readiris can be saved to different destinations: You can save them locally as file. In this case the documents are simply stored on your computer and you can export and share them later. The pages that are opened in Readiris are saved into a single output file, except when you select an image file as output format. In that case Readiris saves them as separate image files. You can open them in an application.
Readiris 15 - User Guide When you select an online Storage application, specify the location where you want to store your documents. Now close the settings and process your documents in Readiris to send them to the configured destination. Appending PDF documents In Readiris 15 you can not only generate new PDF documents, but also add pages to existing PDF documents. Select PDF in the Format group. Select PDF+ in the Destination list. Process your document and click Save.
Section 9: Saving Documents To configure a connection: Click the down arrow in the Destination group. Click the plus sign at the bottom of the window. Select an account from the Account type list. Note: this can also be done via Readiris > Preferences > Accounts. Google Drive Enter your Email and Password, then click Sign in. Select the option that allows Readiris to access your account. Select the folder to which you want to export documents, and then click Finish.
Readiris 15 - User Guide Select the folder to which you want to export documents, and then click Finish. Dropbox Preliminary note: the Dropbox application must be installed on your computer and must be configured for your Dropbox account. Click Select to specify to which Storage Folder you want to export documents. When you are done, close the Preferences window. Microsoft SharePoint Enter your Username and Password. Enter the server to connect to. Then click Browse.
Section 9: Saving Documents Saving the Contents of Particular Zones Besides saving entire documents, you can also save the contents of particular zones: Ctrl-click the zone you want to recognize. Then click Copy as ... The results are copied to the clipboard. You can now paste them into other applications. Note that you can also send content directly to Evernote, if the connection is configured correctly.
Section 10: Processing Batches of Documents Batch Processing (This section applies to Readiris Corporate only) When you are processing entire batches of image files you can use Readiris' Batch Processing folder. Batch Processing executes the recognition on all scanned images in a specific folder. Indicate to Readiris in which folder your documents are located, start the processing and all your documents will be converted to the required output format.
Readiris 15 - User Guide If you want Readiris to delete the original images from the Input after processing, select Delete images after processing. When you are done selecting the options, click OK for Readiris to start Batch processing the folder. Readiris processes the images of all supported file formats. You cannot limit the recognition to files of a specific file format. The recognized documents get the same file name as the original image files.
Section 10: Processing Batches of Documents Watched Folder Options In case you want to process the underlying subfolders of the Watched Folder, select Process subfolders. If you want Readiris to overwrite existing output files in the Text output folder, select Overwrite text files. If you want Readiris to delete the original images from the Watched Folder after processing, select Delete images after processing.
How to How to configure your scanner in Readiris Readiris supports all Twain 1.9 compliant scanners, all Image Capture compliant scanners, and IRIScan 2 and higher scanners. Most Image Capture scanners are plug and play. Before you can use a Twain scanner, however, its drivers need to be installed on your Mac. Twain scanners Connect your scanner to your Mac and power it on. Install your scanner's Twain driver.
Readiris 15 - User Guide Once the scanner has been configured you can start scanning, using the default scanner settings. How to recognize barcodes Readiris supports most widespread 2D barcodes, both laser printed and inkjet printed. In Readiris Corporate, barcodes can also be used to separate documents in a batch. Note that in this case the content of the barcodes is not converted into text, the barcodes are only used to do the separation. Recognizing barcodes manually Scan or Open your document.
Recognizing barcodes to separate document batches (This section applies to Readiris Corporate only) Barcodes can be used as separators to separate documents in a document batch. Readiris can automatically look for barcode pages and mark them as cover page, indicating the beginning of a new document. On the Settings menu click Document Separation and Indexing. Select Detect cover pages with a barcode. If necessary, indicate specific content Readiris should look for.
How to process digital camera images Readiris automatically detects when images have been made by a digital camera and uses special recognition algorithms to process them. To open digital camera images: Click File on the top toolbar. Select your digital camera images and click Open. In the page thumbnail, you see a little camera icon, which indicates Readiris recognizes the image as digital camera image.
Deskewing Digital Camera Images When photographing documents with a digital camera, it may happen that the documents are shot from an angle, which gives them a 3D effect and renders the recognition impossible. To solve this issue, you can deskew your digital camera images: Open your digital camera image. On the Layout and Editing toolbar, click the Deskew icon. Drag the corners one by one in the direction of your text. Click Apply to deskew the image.
How to separate document batches (This section applies to Readiris Corporate only) When you are scanning entire stacks of paper - on a scanner equipped with a document feeder for instance - it can be useful to indicate where one document ends and another begins. That way, Readiris can generate a separate output file for each document. This avoids your having to scan only one document at a time. Example Let's say you're scanning a stack of 30 pages.
How to In case you want Readiris to generate an XML index file containing detailed information on the processed documents, select the option Generate an XML index. An XML index file will be created per document. The index file contains detailed information such as the detected barcode separator, the page range, the output file name and the cover page text (if selected). To include the text of the cover pages in the XML index, select the corresponding option.
Readiris 15 - User Guide The page thumbnail in the Pages panel now displays the cover page icon. Note: in Thumbnail view, each cover page is put on a different line, to facilitate the overview. Click the Save button to process the documents. How to separate batches of image files (This section applies to Readiris Corporate only) When you are processing batches of image files and don't want Readiris to convert them into a single output file, you can use cover pages to separate them.
How to The page icon turns into a Cover page icon. Note: if you want the cover pages to be included in the output documents, select the corresponding Document Separation options: On the Settings menu, click Document Separation and Indexing. Then select Recognize cover pages.
How to recognize forms Note that Readiris is not designed to recognize complex forms. Readiris recognizes documents by converting pictures of text characters and numbers into actual text and numbers. Forms, on the other hand, contain many graphic elements such as lines, boxes, check boxes and the like, which complicate Readiris' tasks.
How to Tip 2 (Readiris Corporate only) Make sure that favor OCR accuracy over speed when processing low-quality documents: Click the Settings menu. Click Advanced Text Recognition Options. Make sure the option Favor accuracy over speed is selected. Note: When you are processing low-resolution faxes, there is no need to take special measures.
