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DESCRIPTION
Readiris Pro is the most powerful and accurate OCR software for Mac OS X. It accurately and rapidly transforms your paper documents, your PDFs and images files into editable information ready to be use.
Completely redesigned for Mac OS X, Readiris Pro offers an easy to use user interface, which clearly guides you through the recognition steps. Extremely powerful, Readiris Pro exactly recreates the original format of your documents and replaces columns of text, tables, and graphics in the output file.
A large choice of output formats allows you to choose the format that best suits your needs. You can recreate a document in word processors or in spreadsheet programs, to get indexed PDF files with both the image and the text or to easily create web pages thanks to the WYSIWYG HTML output format.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 11.6.4: You have to contact support@irisusa.com for the update.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 9 or later.
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| Readiris Pro User Reviews (31 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Feb 11 2009 |
NEALNT I have version 11.6.6. It crashes anytime you try to do more than one scan. I have a Canon 8400F. I have the twain driver. I have been complaining to IRIS for months. They have not been responsive. I asked for my money back. Again no response. I have a Mac pro Intel os 10.5.6
(Version 11.6.3) | |
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 | Dec 9 2008 |
AIKOUSHA Back again, since I'm still in search of the elusive working OCR package for the Mac. Don't know if this works well on Windows, but I'll probably learn that soon, as given a choice for a wireless laptop, I'm probably going with windows so I can use both a Mac and Windows (for those few things that still can't be done on a Mac). Too bad the guy I met last time I tested this software no longer works at the store. I actually tested version 11.6.3 , funny that it's not available on MacUpdate, yet... Don't be dismayed, this program has ALL the problems it had the last time I reviewed it. The only thing it seems to have different is a bunch of links to SANE to attempt to get older scanners to work with the OCR. It's too bad that when I finally jumped through the hoops to get SANE installed (took over two hours of installs, component searches, code compiles, and restarts, before that was going), SANE worked, but no matter what I did, Readiris recognized SANE, but still couldn't access my scanner. So, using this required that I scan through Photoshop or VueScan, and then read the files in Readiris. Painful and time-consuming, but at least I don't lose the "scans" when Readiris INEVITABLY crashes. No matter what, I cannot recognize more than 3 pages at a time... Guaranteed crash. It still doesn't recognize common type, consistently misinterpreting scratches, unable to understand baselines, periods, colons, semicolons, hyphens, em-dashes, etc., identical to the last time. So, again, I can't recommend this, and unless you absolutely have to have it for work, I'd stay away from it, and the company. For those looking for a kanji based OCR (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.), DON'T EVEN BOTHER. According to their website, it doesn't exist for the Mac, hasn't for quite a while, and I'm guessing won't be available for years. (So, what were they selling before? Vaporware?). A SUGGESTION FOR READIRIS: Save all the recognized material to a file that acts like a log, instead of waiting for the entire process to complete before writing to an output file, that way, when the program crashes, you only have to start where the log file ends! Also, USE the splines from an actual typeface in order to learn the shapes that are scanned. Most people have the most commonly used typefaces, and businesses often purchase the typefaces they need for the documents they scan (in order to reproduce them exactly), so this should be an easy thing to implement and use... assuming you code in-house, and aren't just absconding with the work of others.
(Version 11.6.2) | |
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| Nov 22 2008 |
SURFSPIRIT Readirirs Pro is Slow and outdated, it mostly find text as images not doing any ocr, so is very trouble to work with it. I have found Adobe Acrobat Pro that does OCR very well, so to every mac user that is searching for an OCR App, try Adobe Acrobat Pro, OCR is very accurate and fast! One big advantage from Adobe Acrobat Pro is that the original image is always shown, when you do a text selection it pastes the OCR copy, so even if the OCR has some mistakes you can see what´s the mistake when looking to the screen original image.
(Version 11.6.2) | |
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| Sep 14 2008 |
Q00P To start with, buying this software gets you an email stating: Your software key is XXXX Please note that this software key will not work if you reinstall your software, you can ask a new software key when needed through our customer service: - for North America: supportusa@irislink.com - for other countries: support@irislink.com Eh? What? We need to ask for a new key on reinstall? Okay, fine! Stupid, but let's install the software since we paid for it... I am sorry but, having used this software in a business setting for 7 months, we would like to let you know that this is NOT WORTH PAYING FOR. We have struggled all the time, and finally we saw the light. The computer crashed and we needed to reinstall OS X from scratch, plus all applications. Starting Readiris it asks for the software key. Hm, bugger! Mailing support@irislink.com for a key. 24 hours later, STILL NO KEY! As a business we are stranded until we get another key. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!
(Version 11.6.2) | |
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| Mar 13 2008 |
K0GG I click to download a demo, fill in my email and country and I am taken to some flash demos that say I get a special offer if I watch them. I then get an email saying, " You recently requested a flash demo about Readiris Pro 11 features." NO I DID NOT, I wanted to download a demo of the application. If you don't do one, don't offer one. The offer is $59.99-US/Canada, EUR99.99-Rest of World = GBP76.60 or $155.51. What type of special offer is it that insultingly, over charges the Rest of the World? You can keep your product and your 'special' offer insult.
(Version 11.6.2) | |
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| Feb 28 2008 |
JIMW If it does not seem to work with your scanner and you are using Leopard or Tiger on an Intel Mac-- Try doing a ;'Get Info' on the app and checking the 'Rosetta' Box. It worked for me.
(Version 11.6.2) | |
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| Oct 14 2008 |
SINGLETON JIMW If it does not seem to work with your scanner and you are using Leopard or Tiger on an Intel Mac-- Try doing a ;'Get Info' on the app and checking the 'Rosetta' Box. It worked for me. Thanks for your help. This worked for me as well. I was totally frustrated before finding your solution.
(Version 11.6.2) | |
| Feb 27 2008 |
YRM the price they charge for the non-us market is a rip-off: EUR 159.99 - which is something about USD 241,65 compared to the US/Canada price-tag of USD 129,99. converted to EUR 86,06. no. more. words.
(Version 11.6.2) | |
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| Feb 27 2008 |
JIMW A user response to some of your questions: The companies headquarters is in Belgium. They have a support and sales office in Florida. The U.S. head-count seems very limited and overworked. They seem to actually try hard and try to do the right thing but they work under a European Management Team that seems to be clueless about good customer service, and solid products. They do provide complete contact and location info on their website and have attended MacWorld for the last several years. In my opinion the hoops that one must go through to register or reregister the product is ridiculous. The product has been around now for quite a while, and has been somewhat improved over the years. It is cross-platform as as such the GUI tends to suffer. Unfortunately it seems to be the only scan-to-text option out there right now for OS X. The alternative is to type it in by hand or use a speech to text product, such as iListen which from an accuracy perspective is little better and sometimes worse. Recognition quality does improve a bit over time and with training but that takes a lot of additional time to initially perform as well. The bottom line is that if you need to use a product like this it sort of works but I 'wouldn't write home about it' regarding its performance, GUI, or support. It is better than nothing when the alternative is nothing or next to nothing - i.e.retype it in or a speech to text product.
(Version 11.6.2) | |
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| Feb 27 2008 |
IMHO I bought this software some years ago, after using Omnipage, that became too expensive for me to buy a new version for OSX. ReadIris turned out to be almost useless. I sent an e-mail to the developers and after some time and a new e-mail they sent me an update - that turned out te be as worthless as the version I bought. Even with a very clean text ReadIris gave as a result a text with many errors and in several font types and font measures. Be warned!
(Version 11.6.2) | |
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| Feb 27 2008 |
WIZZARD1 THis is not an updater but a link to download not a demo version but four flash movies on the production. In software update never works or crashes. They told me that this would be fixed. Have to constantly send emails and waste my time to get updates which the program should provide. The person at the other end of the support email is just one person with no power and no management to discuss with either as they seem to be in a different country. the support person does only what he is able or mandated to do. I have tried to escalate but it is no help as it seems to be only him. While it is excellent software and it works for the most part, the support is neither timely or helpful especially when trying to get updates. The policy seems that even a minor revision can be chargable. Sorry you should not have to fight for the updates and they also should not be chargable. Does anyone actually know where the developers or main company live or a method to get ahold of them. All I get is promises ...
(Version 11.6.2) | |
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