I was less happy about the total absence of any text-editing features inside Readiris. I could combine multiple text regions into one, fix the app's occasional mistakes in identifying text and image regions, and click a button to de-skew a distorted image.
I also liked the way a smaller toolbar at the right of the screen let me second-guess the app's interpretation of my documents' page layout. I like the way I could choose input and output options from a toolbar on the left of the screen.
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When I decided to perform a manual OCR operation-because the input material had a complicated layout that I knew was likely to cause problems in any automated operation, or because I wanted only to apply OCR to one part of a page-the whole process was equally straightforward. When I chose from the list of standard tasks, Readiris ran automatically, and the only things I needed to do were select an image file to read (or click a few buttons in a dialog to tell the program to read from my scanner) and give a name to the output file.
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These tasks include scanning to Word, OpenOffice, or Excel, and saving to PDF and Microsoft's XPS document-storage format. If you don't use the OCR Wizard, you can choose from a list of standard tasks listed in the background of the main editing window. I was puzzled for a moment by options to save to Netscape and Mozilla formats, but those options turned out to create standard HTML files. Output formats include multiple varieties of PDF, Microsoft Word, and formats.
When you start Readiris, it optionally launches an OCR Wizard that walks you through the steps of getting a document from your scanner into whatever format you specify. Readiris can optionally create an XML-based index of these documents, but, unlike its rivals, it won't let you fine-tune the kind of processing it performs when it finds specific numbers in bar codes. Like its corporate-level rival products, it supports bar code processing, and can automatically route documents to specified folders if the document has a bar code that includes a specified number. Readiris comes in Pro and Corporate flavors both have the same basic document-reading capabilities, but the Corporate version (which I tested) adds the ability to perform OCR automatically on files dropped into a "watched folder," includes a feature that lets you create an XML-formatted document index, create encrypted PDFs, and streamlines processing of multiple documents.
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