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Delray Beach, FL โ€" September 12, 2003 - Readiris Pro text recognition software converts paper documents (captured with scanners, all-in-one devices or digital cameras), PDF documents (even read-only files!), image fax files into editable text, saving the private and professional user cumbersome manual retyping.
Introduced on the Mac OS and Windows platforms in late 2002, Readiris Pro met a large success in the IT press. PC Plus, Mac Format, Windows Magazine, PC Answers, PC Direct and PC Format all published rave reviews of Readiris Pro.
โ€œWe are pleased to see that the latest release of our Readiris Pro Software receive lots of recognition from the press,โ€ according to Pierre De Muelenaere, president and CEO of I.R.I.S. The first six months after the launch of Readiris Pro 8, the revenue derived from the sales of Readiris Pro products has increased more than 22% compared to the same period after the launch of Readiris Pro 7. This performance reflects an increased visibility of the Readiris product on the market.โ€
This summer, Readiris Pro received several awards in the United Kingdom.
PC Plus, in its August issue, gave Readiris, an overall mark of 8, adding a series positive comments: โ€œIf you fancy moving closer to the paperless office by moving your printed documents into the digital world, then Readiris Pro is the tool to help. โ€œThe wizards turn a potentially complex task into something anyone can get along with.โ€
In June, Mac Format rated Readiris Pro 4/5 and the following review: โ€œIt's a nice touch of flexibility and works extremely well for multi-column layoutsโ€โ€ฆ. "Reasonably accurate results and the only OCR solution available if you're running Jaguar. The price is reasonable and support is good."
In France, Readiris reached a 18/20 rating from PC Direct in February as well as the โ€œBest Performancesโ€ award: "Readiris is multilingual, fast, intelligent and Web & PDF compatible."
And it was the same success at PC Achat in January: Readiris received a 8/10 mark and the 5 stars โ€œRecommended - Quality/Priceโ€ award: โ€œA performing and complete OCR toolโ€ฆ A multilingual OCR software, fast and accurate, able to respect the document layout and to generate PDF and HTML files.โ€
Readiris Pro just received a โ€œthumbs upโ€ in Personal Computer World September issue with 5 stars for the quality of its features: โ€œWhere Readiris Pro 8 truly excels is in processing documents that contain a mix of images, tables, text and font styles and sizesโ€ฆ. Other additions include recognition of read-only PDF files and an option to output scanned documents as WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) HTML, retaining the original layout content. We tried this latter feature on a numbers of scans and were impressed.โ€
In competitive reviews, Readiris Pro achieved the highest scores. (Some of these reviews specifically concern the OCR software; others evaluate complete solutions delivered by scanner vendors.)
For instance, in Belgium and in the Netherlands, Readiris Pro has received the highest note of โ€œ4 โ€" starsโ€ three times with very positive comments about the quality as the best OCR.
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Computer Magazine (Belgium- December 2002) gave a 4 stars quotation to Readiris Pro.
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Computer Totaal! (The Netherlands โ€" February 2002) gave Readiris 4/5 bullets.
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In Personal Computer Magazine (The Netherlands โ€" January 2003) Readiris Pro also received 4/5 stars.
In latest July, a US journalist of CRN's web site (www.crn.com), while testing an HP ScanJet 8290 scanner, was astonished by the OCR quality of Readiris Pro: โ€œThe unit comes with robust image-editing software that enables images to be scanned within seconds, I.R.I.S. Readiris Pro 8.0 OCR. The OCR application capability is remarkable. It rarely misses a character and automatically finds errors, allowing for instant correction.โ€ The HP solution was rated 4-stars.
In PC-World of July 2003, in a comparative test involving the Microtek ScanMaker 6800, the Epson Perfection 3200 Photo and the HP Scanjet 5550c, the journalist writes: โ€œFor the work of Optical Character Recognition, the HP scanner is, without any doubt, the best choice."
Another computer journalist from Windows XP Magazine (in the August issue) appreciated the easy editing of the recognized document: "Readiris goes far beyond simply lifting words from a scanned page, and is capable of reproducing entire documents, maintaining flow from text box to text box, differentiating between fancy fonts and entire graphics, and packaging the result in a form that's easy to both edit and read."
In the UK magazine PC Answers (in June 2003), due emphasis is put on the number of output formats and the multilingual capacities of Readiris: โ€œReadiris Pro 8 is the perfect solution to generate fully searchable PDFs, create web pages in HTML format or generate editable word processor files - all this in a large combination of languages.โ€
Even read-only PDF files can be converted in computer-editable documents with Readiris. This feature was enjoyed by PC Format (UK) in its May issue: โ€œFree your words from inconvenient paper with Readiris - a professional OCR package capable of doing anything from pulling content from your scanner to converting locked PDFs into editable documents."
โ€œThis important series of awards constitutes real recognition of the considerable efforts made by our development team. Mind you, this effort is continued, and the next version of Readiris Pro should help us to continue to make significant progress,โ€ says Catherine Rochigneux, marketing manager at I.R.I.S. โ€œOver the past years, the I.R.I.S. OCR technology has become a standard on the market and is used by large scanner manufacturers including Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, Agfa, Canon, Teco, Sharp and Kodak, among others.โ€
About I.R.I.S.
Image Recognition Integrated Systems (I.R.I.S.), a Belgian company founded in 1987 and listed on Euronext Brussels (IRI), is a leader on the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) market, the Automatic Document Reading (ADR) and the Electronic Document Management markets. I.R.I.S. also develops market leading pen and business card scanners. For more information, visit the I.R.I.S. website at http://www.irislink.com.
Contact:
Michael Becce
MRB Public Relations, Inc.
Phone: 732-758-1100 x102
mbecce@mrb-pr.com
PHOTOS AND SCREEN SHOTS ARE AVAILABLE
Journalists can register on the I.R.I.S. Extranet web site by clicking on the link http://www.irislink.com/partners/press/index.html. They will receive a personal login and password to access the Extranet web site where more corporate and product information is available.
