Readiris Manual

I USER'S GUIDE for Mac OS U S E R'S GUIDE II © 2000 I.R.I.S. All rights reserved OCR, Connectionist and AutoFormat technology by I.R.I.S. The Proximity/Merriam Webster Linguibase Copyright 1995 All rights reserved Proximity Technology Inc. Copyright 1995 All rights reserved Merriam Webster Inc. The Proximity/Merriam Webster Linguibase Copyright 1995 All rights reserved Proximity Technology Inc. Copyright 1995 All rights reserved William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. The spelling of this product is based on Proximity Linguistic Technology © 2000 I.R.I.S. All rights reserved © 2000 I.R.I.S. All rights reserved III USER'S GUIDE SAVE TIME, NO MORE RETYPING! Congratulations on acquiring Readiris. This software package will undoubt- edly be of great help in recapturing your texts, tables and graphics. As efficient as computers are, you have to key in your information first. If you have ever retyped a 15 page report or a large table of figures, you know how tedious and time-consuming it can be. Use this state-of-the-art OCR package to automatically enter text in your applications and you'll acquire an unprecedented level of efficiency and comfort! Scan a printed or typed document, indicate the zones of interest - or have the system detect them for you -, execute the character recognition and export the document to your wordprocessor. A few mouse clicks beat long hours of work as Readiris converts your paper documents into editable computer files: it's up to 30 times faster than manual retyping! With the automatic mode of operation, the user's effort is reduced to a single click: he initiates the scanning and saves the text result, all intermediate steps are taken care of by Readiris. After the recognition, you can send the reading results directly to your favorite applications - be that a wordprocessor, spreadsheet or web browser. Readiris recognizes tabular data and recreates them as worksheets or as table objects inside your wordprocessor; your numeric data are immediately ready for further processing. Based on the Connectionist technology from I.R.I.S., Readiris represents the best OCR has to offer. Font-independant feature extraction is complemented by self-learning techniques derived from a proprietary neural network. The system can learn new characters through context analysis: linguistic knowledge about syllables and words improves the OCR performance. Readiris supports up to 54 languages: all American and European languages are supported, including the Central-European languages, Greek and the Cyrillic (“Russian”) languages. Readiris even copes with mixed alphabets: the software detects “Western”…