Iris READIRIS PRO 12 User Manual

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. 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. To
fix, install the latest version of the scanner software. Click on the Scanner button
and find the closest match to your scanner. This step selects the scanner profile.
If there is no match choose Twain other models. Note that you can use the
Open button to process already scanned images or PDF files.

2. Set the paper size and color. Grayscale or Color produces better results for

documents that your want to edit or change and makes available the image
adjustment option to improve results that will be discussed later.

3. ADF = Automatic Document Feeder. This is the on/off switch. Checked is on,

unchecked is off.

4. Scan another page after is for flat bed scanners to set a time interval to place

new pages on the glass and have the program continue automatically.

5. Invert is for situations where the scanner returns a black page with white text

6. Digital Cameras can be used to process images from that source

7. Process as 300 DPI is for existing image files that may have scanned at a lower

resolution. 300 is the optimal balance between good scan speed and accuracy.
Increased resolutions may actually degrade results.

8. Smoothen color images improves the appearance of grayscale and color images

that may be on your document.

Auto Exposure – Automatically sets brightness
and contrast for the scan. When unchecked
adjustment sliders will appear on the left, if
available for your scanner model.

Invert – Corrects white text on black background
problem.

Process as 300 DPI - Overrides scan settings to
force 300 DPI

Smoothen color images – Improves appearance
of images that are scanned with the text on the

Readiris Pro 12 Getting Started Guide

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Prior to clicking on Scan or Open you can set the options
button to have the program perform automatic operations on
the scanned image.

If the pages are crooked use Page Deskewing. If they need to
be rotated then select the appropriate option there. Page
Analysis is set by default and is necessary for the OCR. Leave it
checked unless you intend to manually zone the document.

New to version 12 are smart tasks located in the main screen.
These allow you to quickly access the most commonly use
formats.

The output formats are restricted to those appropriate to the
option selected. To configure right click on the desired smart

task.

You can use your scanner or open a pre-scanned image or PDF
file. Then click configure to select other options.

Also new to this version is iHQC or intelligent high quality
compression for PDF and XPS formats. Level one is standard in
the Pro version with higher levels reserved for the Corporate
Edition. It allow the scanning and archiving of full color
document that are no bigger than comparable black and white
scans.

The flexibility to select other formats can be found by clicking
on the Format button at the bottom of the left toolbar. This
will display the window on the next page where you can
select between send to or External file.

Recognize + Save.
Process the images to the selected
output format.

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Send to - When you process the document by

clicking on Recognize + Save it will prompt you to
save the file and then open it in the selected
Program.

External File - Allows you save the file without

opening, sending by email or opening the file as
with Sent to. Email works only with Outlook or
Outlook Express

The Layout tab has selections for the degree of
formatting accuracy that you will to apply. Pictured
is the maximum.

Note when on ly the Recreate sou r ce is
selected that e ach paragr aph is
contained wi thin a text box.

Zoning

When you scan or open your first image will notice the numbered and color
coded boxes that appear on screen when you scan a document. These are
called zones and correspond to the 2nd through 6th buttons on the right
toolbar. The numbers are the order in which they are processed.

It is crucial to know that Readiris is an Image and PDF processing software.
There is no editing of the document from within Readiris. Any needed editing
will be done in the output document. Instead it examines the picture that
comes from the scanner and decides what it can do with each section of the
document. The way it lets you know how it will process these sections is with
these color codes.

These zones are necessary because they direct how the processing occurs. If
there are no zones then there will be no output. This can be a way of excluding
unneeded information by simply deleting the zone over that area.

Text = Orange

Picture = Blue

Table = Purple

Bar Code = Green

Hand printing = Light blue

These can be altered in several ways if they don’t suit your purpose. They can

be deleted by selecting with the top arrow button then tapping the delete key
on your keyboard. The appropriate zone then can be redrawn using one of
those tools. Alternatively you can right click on the zone and choose Window >
Type and select the desired treatment.