Operation Manual

Section 8: Saving Documents

Note: Readiris, by default, saves all pages to a single output file. In case you want to generate a separate

file for each scanned page, select Create one file per page.

Please note that the option Create one file per document exists only in Readiris Corporate where we

have the distinction between page vs document (i.e. possibility to separate and save pages in different

documents).

Note: once you've saved your documents, they are not automatically removed from the Readiris interface.

This way you have the opportunity to change the settings, if necessary, and to save your documents in

other formats as well.

Appending PDF documents

You can add pages to existing PDF documents.

 Select PDF as output format.

 Click the PDF output format button.

 Select an existing PDF document and click Save.

 Readiris now asks you whether to append or overwrite the existing file.

 Select Append to add the pages to the document.

Starting a new project in Readiris

To start a new project in Readiris:

 Click the trash can Delete All icon at the bottom of the Pages panel.

This command erases your document from Readiris so you can start a new one.

Available Output Formats

Below you find an overview of the supported output formats.

 PDF

PDF stands for "Portable Document Format". It is a format developed by Adobe Systems Inc. to

facilitate document exchange. PDF files are device-independent and resolution-independent, and can

be opened on any Operating System (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Android, etc.) PDF files are

mostly used for storage purposes. Note that the content of PDF files cannot be edited (easily).

With Readiris you can generate 4 types of PDF files:

o PDF Image-Text (= PDF Searchable Image) 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.

o PDF Image. When you select this file type, Readiris doesn't execute the text recognition on

your document. Your PDF file will not be text-searchable, it only contains the image of your

original document.

o PDF Text-Image (Readiris Corporate only). 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.