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Readiris Pro 12 Getting Started Guide 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 
document. 

Summary of Contents for READIRIS PRO 12

Page 1: ... 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 t...

Page 2: ...ption 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 archiv...

Page 3: ...d 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 p...

Page 4: ...tter 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 Images are on the left and the resultant text on the right 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 maintai...

Page 5: ... are Next go to Process on the file menu and choose Adjust Image This brings up the window below Move the brightness slider and click apply Repeat until satisfied with the appearance and then click OK Click Recognize Save and the results should be improved for the problem image For documents that have stray marks scattered across the page you can use the Despeckle remove specks tool to remove them...

Page 6: ... or capture the text from the scanned image Microsoft Word 97 2000 2003 RTF This is used when you want to edit change or capture the text from the scanned image Cross platform and fully featured for a large number of programs Adobe Acrobat Reader Image Text This is used when you just want a copy of the scanned image and have no interest in changing the document This creates a dual layer file with ...

Page 7: ...rs are able to read and write RTF documents Most word processing software supports RTF format import and export often making it a common format between otherwise incompatible word processing software RTF is capable of the same formatting precision as Microsoft doc format without the threat of macro viruses RTF is used for documents sent to Microsoft Word and is appropriate when the goal of the con...

Page 8: ...r Additionally it can be used to send the result to a web page editor like Adobe Dreamweaver When used for Excel there are two relevant formatting options Create body text Straight text using the same font and font sizes There will be no text wrapping or merging of cells Retain Word and Paragraph Formatting Maintains fonts and font sizes Text wrapping and merging of cells will be used to position ...

Page 9: ...text using Latin characters Traditional format used for Window now being replaced by Unicode Unicode or UTF 8 A double byte format capable of displaying Asian Arabic or Cyrillic characters along with the traditional Latin character set XPS A Microsoft format similar to a PDF file but is based on XML instead of the PostScript language XPS files can be opened with Microsoft s XPS Viewer included wit...

Page 10: ... on screen Readiris is intended to convert pictures of letters and numbers to actual text and numbers Lines and boxes are usually graphical elements or table borders that require more advanced features of the word processor Below is an 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 if it is p...

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