User manual IRIS READIRIS 12 PRO GETTING STARTED GUIDE

[. . . ] These can be used by checking the "enable image capture " option. More information can be found here; http://support. apple. com/kb/HT3669 In most cases you will need to run Readiris in 32 bit mode since most scanner drivers are not 64 bit compatible. Go to the Readiris application and get info to make that change. Set the everyone permissions to Read/Write Highlight the Readiris. app and click on the gear icon to access the get info option. Readiris 12 Pro Mac Getting Started Guide -- I. R. I. S. [. . . ] The Send to allows you to select which application you want the results sent to. If it's not in the list click on Choose to navigate to it in your Applications folder on your Mac and select the preferred application. Of course that application has to be able to work with the selected format. These can be saved as the default or a reusable profile by going to the Settings menu and choosing Save as default or Save. Image Quality Another aspect to consider is Readiris can only convert images that are correctly oriented. It will not work if they are sideways or upside down. If you find this happens use the rotate tool to turn the image or click the Settings and select Detect page orientation prior to the scan and the program will do it for you. Since Readiris works by comparing images of letters to known letter shapes and making the conversion. It depends on crisp clean letter shapes to do this. If the image is to light or dark then the results suffer. Below are actual results from the program and the images it was working with. This is the ideal image to work with as seen from the perfect results. "Autoformatting" recreates a facsimile copy of the original document: the text blocks, graphics and tables are recreated in the same place and the word and paragraph formatting are maintained across the recognition. The letter shapes begin to have gaps and incomplete shapes. Since this is not to extreme there is about 75% accuracy. There would be a lot of needless clean up to deal with in the output document. "Autoformatting" recreates a f(ICsimile cop. " of the original document: the te:\t blocks. graphics and tables arc 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. Accuracy is reduced to about 20% which is not usable. II Autoformtlftina" recreates a ltalmo. [. . . ] Below is a IRS 1040 form that Readiris has no hope of replicating. In fact if you tried to create this from scratch in Microsoft Word it would be a long complex task. That is the rule of thumb for these kinds of documents. If they cannot be created in the word processor without extraordinary effort then Readiris will have the same difficulty. [. . . ]