I.R.I.S. Readiris Pro 12 Betriebsanweisung

ReadirisTM Pro 12 User Guide

Chapter 1 – Introducing Readiris 4 and drag your scanned documents to the Dock icon. They will be processed on the spot. General information Readiris

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 5 are memorized, increasing the system speed and confidence and rendering the system more intelligent as you go along.

Chapter 1 – Introducing Readiris 6  Readiris Pro 12  Readiris Corporate 12  Readiris Pro 12 Asian  Readiris Corporate 12 Asian The table below

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 7 recognition Korean recognition Hebrew recognition recognition Korean recognition Hebrew recognition Generates 4 types

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 9 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLING READIRIS SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS This is the minimal system configuration required to use Readiris:

Chapter 2 – Installing Readiris 10  Double-click the Readiris installer and follow the on-screen instructions.  Agree with the terms of the licen

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 11 SOFTWARE REGISTRATION Remember to register your Readiris license. By doing so, you will:  be kept informed of futu

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 13 CHAPTER 3 GETTING STARTED RUNNING READIRIS To run Readiris:  Click the Readiris icon on the dock.  Or double-c

Chapter 3 – Getting started 14  the main toolbar (left toolbar) Use the main toolbar commands and options to scan and recognize documents.  the im

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 15  When a document has been opened or scanned in Readiris you can view its page thumbnails in the image drawer. Cli

Chapter 3 – Getting started 16 The drawer also allows you to delete pages by dragging them to the Dock trash. CHANGING THE USER INTERFACE LANGUAGE Re

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 17 Operation:  Connect your scanner to your Mac and install the corresponding drivers and/or software. Test your scan

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 19 CHAPTER 4 USING DROP2READ Drop2Read is a simple yet efficient utility that allows you to recognize documents instan

Chapter 4 – Using Drop2Read 20 Click the lists to change the settings. Any settings you change will be saved when you close the Drop2Read window. The

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 21 CHAPTER 5 SCANNING AND OPENING DOCUMENTS SELECTING THE OPTIONS Before scanning paper documents or opening image fil

Chapter 5 – Scanning and opening documents 22 o Click Detect Page Orientation to rotate pages automatically to the correct orientation. Note that th

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 23 Tip: Ctrl-click any image file you want to open, point to Open With and click Readiris. The Readiris software will o

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Chapter 5 – Scanning and opening documents 24 you want to delete the current document or not. Click No to add image files to the recognized document o

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 25 Calibrate Click the Calibrate button should it be necessary to calibrate your scanner. Format You can either choose

Chapter 5 – Scanning and opening documents 26 Note that this function is not the same as the one you find in the Adjust image options on the Process m

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 27 Note: pay attention to line skew. Line skew over 0.5° increases the risk of OCR errors.

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 29 CHAPTER 6 ADJUSTING SCANNED DOCUMENTS During recognition Readiris converts color and grayscale images into binarize

Chapter 6 – Adjusting scanned images 30 Note: sometimes smoothening is the only way to separate text from a colored background. (Original image) (Bi

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 31 (Binarized image. The default binarization settings yield a black image) (The lightened image yields satisfactory

Chapter 6 – Adjusting scanned images 32 o Use the slider to increase or decrease the Contrast. The Contrast settings determine the contrast between d

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 33 You can also save a selection of pages by clicking Save Selected Pages on the File menu.

Table of Contents iv Chapter 6 Adjusting scanned documents ... 29Chapter 7 Zoning documents ...

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 35 CHAPTER 7 ZONING DOCUMENTS ZONING DOCUMENTS AUTOMATICALLY When scanning or opening documents, Readiris will automat

Chapter 7 – Zoning documents 36 Page analysis detects text, graphic, table and barcode zones automatically. Handprinting zones need to be drawn manual

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 37 ZONING DOCUMENTS MANUALLY Besides zoning documents automatically by means of Page Analysis, Readiris allows you to z

Chapter 7 – Zoning documents 38 For information about recognizing barcodes and handprinting, see the sections Recognizing barcodes and Recognizing han

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 39 Drawing polygons Zoning documents manually is not limited to rectangular shapes. You can create polygonal zones by m

Chapter 7 – Zoning documents 40 Changing the zone type To change the zone type of a zone, Ctrl-click the zone and select the required zone type. You c

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 41 Moving zones  Select the zone you want to move.  Click inside the zone and drag the mouse to modify the position

Chapter 7 – Zoning documents 42 Deleting small zones Some documents, faxes for instance, often have "stray" dots on pages, causing Readiris

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 43 The layout will be applied to the scanned or opened documents. When you want to use the same zoning template next ti

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide v Chapter 11 Recognizing handprinted text ... 73Index ...

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 45 CHAPTER 8 RECOGNIZING DOCUMENTS INTRODUCTION To recognize documents, Readiris applies linguistics during the recogn

Chapter 8 – Recognizing documents 46 allows to increase the system's accuracy. All solutions you confirm are memorized temporarily during recogni

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 47 Important: select the document language before executing page analysis when you are dealing with Asian or Hebrew do

Chapter 8 – Recognizing documents 48 Recognizing documents with mixed languages Readiris also allows you to enable mixed character sets. That way Read

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 49 Note: the tooltip of each page in the drawer indicates which language applies to that page. DEFINING THE DOCUMENT C

Chapter 8 – Recognizing documents 50 To select the font type:  On the Settings menu, point to Font type.  The font type is set to Automatic by de

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 51 Important: these document characteristics do not apply to Asian or to Hebrew documents. USING INTERACTIVE LEARNING R

Chapter 8 – Recognizing documents 52 If the results are correct: o Click the Learn button to save the result as sure. The learning results are tempo

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 53 or o Click Don't learn to save the result as unsure. Use this command for damaged characters which could be

Chapter 8 – Recognizing documents 54 USING FONT DICTIONARIES When scanning many documents of the same type, font quality and printing quality, you may

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 55 CHAPTER 9 FORMATTING AND SAVING DOCUMENTS FORMATTING DOCUMENTS Readiris allows you to recognize and save your docum

Chapter 9 – Formatting and saving documents 56 (gridded) (non-gridded)  Readiris offers 4 types of PDF output. See the sec

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 57 Safari, to Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, Preview and plain-text applications such as TextEdit. Depending on the ou

Chapter 9 – Formatting and saving documents 58  Select the required output format from the Format list. The available layout options for the select

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 59 Note: when the system is unable to detect columns in the source document, this formatting mode uses frames as a fall

Chapter 9 – Formatting and saving documents 60  The option Retain colors of text maintains the original colors of the text across the recognition. 

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 61 Depth Readiris saves graphics in their original depth by default. Readiris can also save graphics in black-and-whit

Chapter 9 – Formatting and saving documents 62 SAVING DOCUMENTS AS IMAGE FILES Although Readiris is an OCR application it also allows you to save your

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 63 Note: the options on the Graphics tab DO NOT apply when you are saving documents as image files. They do apply to g

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 1 Copyrights ReadirisPro12-dgi-200609-01 Copyrights © 1987-2009 I.R.I.S. All Rights Reserved. I.R.I.S. owns the copyrig

Chapter 9 – Formatting and saving documents 64 To generate PDF output:  Click the output format icon on the main toolbar and select PDF from the For

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 65 PDF Image-Text When you select PDF Image-Text, Readiris recognizes text and creates searchable PDF files that contai

Chapter 9 – Formatting and saving documents 66 Version Select which version of the PDF format you want to generate. Note: It takes Adobe Acrobat 5.0

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 67 Embedding fonts prevents font substitution and ensures that readers, regardless of their computer configuration, see

Chapter 9 – Formatting and saving documents 68 REPURPOSING PDF DOCUMENTS Next to generating PDF documents, Readiris can also repurpose PDF files: Read

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 69 When you generate OpenDocument text, Open XML (docx and xlsx) or RTF documents, you can select or exclude the prefer

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 71 CHAPTER 10 SAVING AND LOADING SETTINGS When you exit Readiris you will be prompted so save any settings you specifi

Chapter 10 – Saving and loading settings 72

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 73 CHAPTER 11 RECOGNIZING HANDPRINTED TEXT Next to typed text, tables, graphics and barcodes, Readiris recognizes hand

Chapter 11 – Recognizing handprinted text 74 Recognized symbols Handprinting recognition is limited to the Latin alphabet and supports numerals (0-9),

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 75 INDEXAaccuracy vs. speed... 47 adjusting scanned documents 29 Asian documents ... 4, 45 Asi

Index 76 Hebrew documents ... 4, 45 HTML output ... 57 II.R.I.S. ... 11 Image Capture ...

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 77 restoring factory settings ... 73 right toolbar ... 13 rotation ...

ReadirisTM Pro 12 – User Guide 3 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCING READIRIS SAVE TIME, NO MORE RETYPING Introduction Congratulations on acquiring Readiris. This