What is Readiris?
Readiris is an optical character recognition (OCR) software application developed by Belgian company IRIS. It specializes in converting scanned paper documents, PDF files, and digital camera images into editable electronic formats such as Microsoft Word, Excel, searchable PDFs, and more.
The software uses advanced OCR technology to recognize text and reproduce it as a digital document. This allows users to edit paper-based files, share the contents for collaboration, reuse excerpts in other documents, enable text search in scans, or archive important documents digitally.
Some key features of Readiris include:
- Convert scans and images captured by digital cameras or smartphones into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, searchable PDF, and other formats
- Supports over 130 languages for OCR
- Maintains original document formatting like columns, tables, bulleted lists, etc. after conversion
- Built-in PDF editor to annotate, highlight, edit scans and PDFs
- Automated document separation for multi-page scans
- Cloud integration to scan and convert documents on-the-go from iOS and Android devices
The software also offers advanced automation through its SDK/API and integration with business applications like SharePoint and OneDrive. Overall, Readiris increases productivity by eliminating tedious retyping and enables digital archiving for scans and image-based files.
Adobe Acrobat DC, CamScanner, NAPS2, ABBYY FineReader PDF, Microsoft Lens, CopyFish, ABBYY Screenshot Reader, Capture2text, Prizmo, OSS Document Scanner, GImageReader, ABBYY FineReader Online, Textify, Windows Fax and Scan, Adobe Scan, GetWindowText, OpenScan, PaperScan, Smart Scanner, OmniPage Cloud Service, Condense, Ocrkit, TextDetective, ZoomReader are some alternatives to Readiris.