User manual IRIS READIRIS PRO 12 GETTING STARTED GUIDE

[. . . ] Readiris Pro 12 Getting Started Guide The purpose of this guide is to get you up to speed with how the program works and how to make it work better for your purposes. We will show you step by step how to get up and running at fast as possible Program setup 1. 2. 3. 7. 8. To begin go to File > Select Source and select the entry marked twain for your scanner. If this box is empty then you will be unable to scan from Readiris. [. . . ] The letter shapes begin to have gaps and incomplete Text shapes. Since this is not too extreme there is about 75% accuracy. There would be a lot of needless clean up to deal with in the output document. Text Image "Autoformatting" recreates a f(ICsimile cop. " of the original document: the te:\t blocks. graphics and tables arc Text recreated in the same place and the word and paragraph formatting are maintained across the recognition. Here the letter shapes begin to fill in and become fuzzy. Letters like a, e, and o's are almost completely obscured. Text Accuracy is reduced to about 20% which is not usable. Text Image II Autoformtlftina" recreates a ltalmo. copy of the arigiDal docummt: the tat b1ocb, pIphics and tables Il'e recnatecl in the IIIIIle pl8ce 8Dd the word Text 8Dd paraanph farmtlfti"l Il'e maintJtinM ICI'OIIthe recopition. Text The way to cope with the situation is to scan or rescan the document in grayscale. This will allow you to adjust the image within Readiris to either lighten or darken as needed. See the next page for an explanation of this Text process. 4/10 Adjust Image After scanning the document in Grayscale, go to View menu and uncheck display documents in color. Go to view again and click on Actual Size. This will magnify the image so you can see the letter shapes to gauge how light or dark they are. Next go to Process on the file menu and choose Adjust Image. Move the brightness slider and click apply. Repeat until satisfied with the appearance and then click OK. Click Recognize + Save and the results should be improved for the problem image. For documents that have stray marks scattered across the page you can use the Despeckle (remove specks) tool to remove them from the image. The procedure is the same as above. 5/10 Output Formats Readiris Pro 12 is about providing choices to help you accomplish your goals. Many times though it may confusing to know what format to use in what situation. Below are listed every file format available in the program. On the next page we will discuss these in more detail. [. . . ] These sub options are available depending on what degree of final editing is required. - Use columns instead of frames Uses columns instead of text boxes (frames) to position the information on the page - Insert column breaks Confines text to the column where located instead of flowing to the next column 7/10 Word (DOCX) for Word 2007 & 2010 Word Markup Language was introduced in Word 2003 and is the standard format in Word 2007 and is based on XML (extensible markup language) replacing the binary format used in previous versions of Word. The same options that work for RTF apply here as well. DOC A binary format containing text formatting information (as well as scripts and undo information) used by Microsoft Word versions prior to Word 2007. [. . . ]