Readiris™ 17 No retyping. No paper. Just smart documents. for Windows® #1 Conversion Software Table of Contents Readiris 17 ..................................................................................................................................... 1 Introducing Readiris ...................................................................................................................... 1 What's new in Readiris 17 .............................................................................................................. 2 Legal Notices ............................................................................................................................... 3 Section 1: Installation and Activation ................................................................................................. 5 System Requirements ................................................................................................................... 5 Installing Readiris ......................................................................................................................... 6 Activating Readiris ........................................................................................................................ 7 Software Registration .................................................................................................................... 8 Search for updates ....................................................................................................................... 9 Uninstalling Readiris ................................................................................................................... 10 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................... 11 Section 2: Getting Started .............................................................................................................. 12 Using Readiris for the first time .................................................................................................... 12 Exploring the interface ................................................................................................................ 13 Customizing the interface ............................................................................................................ 16 Changing the user interface language ........................................................................................... 18 Configuring your scanner ............................................................................................................. 19 Section 3: Basic Document Processing ............................................................................................. 22 Basic Document Processing .......................................................................................................... 22 Saving the processing settings .................................................................................................. 24 Loading settings ...................................................................................................................... 25 Restoring factory settings ......................................................................................................... 25 Using the Wizard ........................................................................................................................ 26 Section 4: Selecting the Recognition Options .................................................................................... 28 Recognition Options .................................................................................................................... 28 Document Language ................................................................................................................ 28 Other Recognition Options (Readiris Pro + Corporate) .................................................................. 28 Other Recognition Options (Readiris Corporate only) .................................................................... 30 Advanced Recognition Options ..................................................................................................... 32 Acquire options........................................................................................................................ 33 Font type and Character pitch ................................................................................................... 33 Barcodes ................................................................................................................................ 34 Document Processing ............................................................................................................... 34 Teaching options ..................................................................................................................... 34 Language options .................................................................................................................... 34 Section 5: Scanning and Opening Documents ................................................................................... 35 Scanning Documents .................................................................................................................. 35 Selecting the Scanner Settings ..................................................................................................... 36 Scanning batches of documents ................................................................................................... 39 Opening Image Files ................................................................................................................... 42 i Table of Contents Opening options ...................................................................................................................... 43 Other ways of opening image files ............................................................................................. 43 Processing Batches of Image Files ................................................................................................ 44 Teaching Mode ........................................................................................................................... 45 Section 6: Adjusting the Image Quality ............................................................................................ 48 Section 7: Editing the Recognized Documents ................................................................................... 52 Modifying the Page Options .......................................................................................................... 53 Editing the Recognition Zones ...................................................................................................... 55 Using Zoning templates ............................................................................................................... 61 Using the Text Corrector.............................................................................................................. 62 Section 8: Adding Annotations for PDF export ................................................................................... 64 Using Annotations ....................................................................................................................... 64 Annotation types ........................................................................................................................ 67 Text to Speech ........................................................................................................................... 67 Watermark ................................................................................................................................ 69 Sticky Note ................................................................................................................................ 71 Free text ................................................................................................................................... 72 Web Link ................................................................................................................................... 74 Audio Record ............................................................................................................................. 75 File Attachment .......................................................................................................................... 77 Highlight, Underline or Strikethrough Text ..................................................................................... 78 Stamp ....................................................................................................................................... 79 Section 9: Saving Documents ......................................................................................................... 82 Available Output Formats ............................................................................................................ 85 Adding Properties to Documents ................................................................................................... 89 Saving Scanned Documents as Image Files .................................................................................... 90 Selecting the Formatting Options .................................................................................................. 91 Layout Options .......................................................................................................................