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Selecting the PDF Options
Selecting the PDF Options
The documents you process with Readiris can be saved as PDF documents.
About PDF documents
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).
To save documents as PDF documents:
Select PDF in the Output group, and then click the down arrow beneath it to configure the settings.
Or if PDF is not displayed in the Output group, click Other.
Select the desired PDF type from the drop-down list:
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.
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.
PDF Text (Readiris Corporate only). This file type contains the recognized text, but does not
contain the original image of your document. Any images in the original document are included as
graphics in the PDF file.
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.
Note: any recognition mistakes will be visible in this format.