Operation Manual

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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 Windows 7 operating system.

This documentation is written with the assumption that you know how to work in a Microsoft Windows

environment. Consult your Windows documentation if necessary, in case you are not familiar with menu

commands, dialog boxes, drop-down lists, docking windows and so on.

The information in this documentation is subject to change without prior notice.

For additional information about Readiris, open the Help menu. There, you have access to Getting Started

videos, a Knowledge Base, I.R.I.S. support, etc.

Introducing Readiris

Readiris is I.R.I.S.' flagship document recognition software. With Readiris you can scan paper documents,

open Microsoft Office documents, image files and digital camera images and turn them into fully editable

text documents and text-searchable PDF documents you can save, share and send to the Cloud. Readiris

supports a wide range of output formats, the most important ones being Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel

and PDF.

The documents Readiris generates can either be saved on your computer, directly sent via e-mail or

exported to Cloud applications such as Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box and OneDrive. With Readiris

Corporate you can also send documents to Microsoft SharePoint, Therefore, IRISNext and FTP.

Readiris recognizes documents in 137 languages. All American and European languages, including the

Central-European, Baltic and Cyrillic languages as well as Greek and Turkish are supported. Readiris also

recognizes Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew, as well as four Asian languages: Japanese, Simplified and Traditional

Chinese and Korean.

Besides text recognition, Readiris offers powerful compression features for PDF and XPS files, thanks to

I.R.I.S.' compression technology iHQC.