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Table of Contents
Readiris 17 ..................................................................................................................................... 1
Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 1
What's new in Readiris 17 .............................................................................................................. 2
Legal Notices ............................................................................................................................... 3
Section 1: Installation and Activation ................................................................................................. 6
System requirements .................................................................................................................... 6
Installation and Activation ............................................................................................................. 7
Software Registration .................................................................................................................. 10
Search for updates ..................................................................................................................... 11
Uninstalling Readiris ................................................................................................................... 12
Technical Support ....................................................................................................................... 13
Section 2: Getting Started .............................................................................................................. 14
Exploring the interface ................................................................................................................ 14
Changing the user interface language ........................................................................................... 16
Configuring your scanner in Readiris ............................................................................................. 17
Section 3: Basic Document Processing ............................................................................................. 18
Undoing an operation ............................................................................................................... 21
Starting a new project .............................................................................................................. 21
Automatic Processing .................................................................................................................. 22
Saving and loading settings ......................................................................................................... 23
Section 4: Scanning and Opening Documents ................................................................................... 24
Preprocessing Options ................................................................................................................. 24
Page Analysis Options ................................................................................................................. 26
Scanning Documents .................................................................................................................. 28
Scanning with I.R.I.S. scanners .................................................................................................... 30
Opening Image Files ................................................................................................................... 31
Other ways of opening image files ............................................................................................. 32
Opening Digital Camera Images ................................................................................................... 33
Tips for making digital camera images ........................................................................................ 33
Converting Image Files from Finder .............................................................................................. 34
Section 5: Selecting the Document Language ................................................................................... 36
Section 6: Using Training Mode ....................................................................................................... 39
When is it better not to use Training Mode? ................................................................................ 39
Using Training Mode ................................................................................................................. 40
Combining Training Mode with Training Results Sets .................................................................... 41
Section 7: Optimizing the Scanned Documents ................................................................................. 43
Adjusting the Image Quality ......................................................................................................... 46
Section 8: Editing the Recognized Documents ................................................................................... 50
Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 50
Viewing the Recognition Zones .................................................................................................. 50
Modifying the automatic Page Analysis ....................................................................................... 51
