Readiris Pro 9: OCR application offers improved accuracy, has some quirks.(Reviews)

Accurate optical character recognition (OCR) is difficult to achieve. An OCR program must not only decipher text printed in different fonts, sizes, and alphabets, and convert it to editable text, but also distinguish between text, graphics, and tables. Thanks to a new OCR engine, IRIS's Readiris Pro 9 largely meets these challenges.

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New and Improved

Since we last reviewed Readiris (FLAWED; October 2002), the program has adopted some features of ScanSoft's OmniPage Pro X (GOOD 1/2; June 2002; currently incompatible with OS X 10.2 and later). It ...

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