Operation Manual

What's new in Readiris 16

 New interface

 OCR quality indicator

 Right-click conversion

 Support of new input formats

 New image enhancement tool: line removal

 New image enhancement tool: dither removal

 Automatic scanner detection

 Improved Text Corrector

 Improved thumbnail handling

 Improved 3D perspective correction

 Improved recognition capabilities

New interface

The ergonomy of the Readiris interface has been improved (see the topic Exploring the interface).

OCR quality indicator

When you scan or open a document, you instantly get a "Try again" warning message and Troubleshooting

tips ("Get more help" message) if there are recognition problems with your page (see the topic How to

obtain good recognition results ).

Right-click conversion

You can select the document(s) you want to recognize and convert them to Word, Excel or Pdf directly from

your desktop, without opening Readiris (see the topic How to do a right-click conversion).

Support of new input formats

You can open Microsoft Office (Word, Excel or PowerPoint) documents and combine them with image files

like PDF or TIFF to generate new files such as a PDF searchable file.

New tools to improve the quality of your input document

Line Removal

You can remove horizontal and/or vertical lines from your document to facilitate the recognition process

and improve the recognition quality (see topic Ignore Lines)

Dither Removal

If you have image files containing text in colored background and scanned in black and white, you can

remove the dithering (i.e. black & white spots) to facilitate the recognition process and improve the

recognition quality (see topic Dither Remove).

Automatic scanner detection

Readiris 16 performs an automatic scanner detection the first time you scan with an installed scanner. (see

topic Selecting the Scanner Settings).

The current supported devices are mainly I.R.I.S., Canon and HP devices.

Improved Text Corrector

You can link the zoom levels of the original image and the recognized text and have a synchronized view

(see topic Using the Text Corrector).