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Then I tried Readiris, which was ported across from Windows I think. I have found the OCR engine quite accurate. The ability to save the file as pdf, doc or xls is great. There are more export options available too. You can also save documents in a multi-page format, which is handy for pdf. #Readiris v.14.0 pro ocr for mac upgradeI was able to upgrade from my version 16 software for $69. This necessitated leaving MacUpdate and going into the IRIS website. I did have trouble activating version 15 a few years ago, but I got a prompt response from the support site and had no further problems. ![]() I had no problems installing, activating and registering version 17 in High Sierra 10.13.4. ![]() I think the software does what it claims to do. The UI is a bit Windows like, but that does not worry me. I got this when it was just about the only game in town. Updates are very expensive and in my experience, very little changes from version to version. Bugs continue unabated and usability is never improved. If you are having problems and need a point update, e.g. ![]() 12.04 to 12.05, you have to call them up, deal with the usual nonsense, and beg, plead, and demand until they send you the release, which really should be going to all customers automatically. Releases are expensive through the company but they constantly spam you with "great deals!" and "last chance!" (especially for their associated pen reader) - a lot like owning Toast, in that regard. Seems the only time they realize you're a customer is when they want to sell something. The rest of the time it's hard to convince them. Meanwhile ABBY does just about everything ReadIRIS does, only faster and more accurately. I own Prizmo but have not tried its OCR yet. The program does have a lot of features and such so I have to give it to them, and it does work pretty well at character recognition. SO frustrating! I have just bought the new v14 (up to 14.0.3 already - MacUpdate please catch up!) and it is the same mess that it always was. If I break the job down into sections of four or five pages then the job often completes before crashing but this is really pretty poor - don't they ever test this app? The underlying OCR engine seems generally excellent, and the UI this time is ALMOST decent.įirst it crashes all the time, particularly with longer files - not very long, you understand, but when trying to scan a simple text-only document of 15 pages it crashes EVERY time when it gets to the "formatting" stage. Secondly, although it outputs into MS Word. docx format, every page is contained within a text frame. This is an incredible nuisance if you are trying to recreate a multi-page document - you have to go through and copy the text out of the farme on every page and paste it into a new document before you end up with one long document. There doesn't seem to be any way of controlling this behaviour either.Īnother minor inconvenience is that when you import you have to uncheck the Page Analysis checkbox in the import dialog every time unless you want ReadIRIS to create multiple frames on every page which always seem to be bad guesses. There is a preference to not have this checked but it doesn't seem to work. Get these issues sorted out and the app will be very decent and fairly reasonably priced. Without this it is very annoying and much more of a hassle than it should be. Buy it at your peril until they sort it out. #Readiris v.14.0 pro ocr for mac installI'm not going to do a thorough review on this, with the 12 version, as I didn't do anything but a rough test on the Asian option.Īgain, I "suckered" a store to install this.ĭidn't crash on the couple of pages I gave it (but didn't send it enough to test it, as it used to guarantee crash with 3 pages or more. The interface is a little better than it used to be.Īccuracy is horrible (still), but a little better than v11. The interface is clumsy and difficult to use if you need to alter anything. If you do everything automatically, it's good. and out of about 800 characters on the first page, there were more than 150 significant errors. It mis-recognized OBVIOUS and simple (less than 8 stroke) characters, would blow punctuation constantly (there are about 30 different "parenthesis" types, it seemed to only recognize 5, and blew the rest, changing them to ").") Full-width and half-width spaces vanished. On a list where there were duplicate lines with just a number change at the end of the line, it would not recognize each line differently, even though it's a clean and well-defined scan with 0° rotation, and monochrome. ![]()
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