IRIS ReadIris Pro 11.0 (Mac)

List Price: $129.95 Discount Price: $95.00

Features:

• Recognizes 118 languages
• Outputs to: PDF, RTF, HTML, Text, Image and more
• Perfect recognition of color documents
• Paste scanned text and graphics into any application
• Barcode and handwriting recognition

Accessories:

Apple Mac OS X Version 10.5.1 Leopard [5-User Family Pack]

Customer Reviews:

Now crippled for Leopard [Posted on 2007-12-02]
Unlike several of the other reviewers, I've been a happy user of ReadIRIS for several years. I'm a graduate student, so there are lots of times when I need to pull text out of pdfs from older journal articles. ReadIRIS wasn't perfect, but compared to the time it would take to do the same thing by hand, it was worth it. So when a new version was announced for Leopard, I decided to get a copy.

That will be the last copy I'll buy. The software appears to work fine, but the publisher has decided to treat paying customers like criminals. When you install the software it asks you to enter a serial number. Fair enough. However after entering the serial number you have to either call the publisher (during business hours of course) or go online and register to get a 'key'. The key is linked to the the machine you install it on. But don't get too comfortable - you can't write this down in case you need to reinstall or buy a new computer. If you do either, you're going to have to get a new key. Seems like a way to force personal information out of you so that you can support their marketing department.

Given that, I'll wait until another company releases something. In the mean time, be ready to set up a new filter on your email program to get rid of their spam.

Biggest disappointment in years, avoid like the plague! [Posted on 2007-12-26]
Without a doubt the single most disappointing software purchase I have made in years.

I bought this as I thought it was high time for an upgrade from my old OCR software and boy was that a mistake! Within two days I had switched back to the old software.

Not only was the recognition far from acceptable, it lacks even basic features that I consider essential such as the ability to manually define row and column positions when reading table data (a primary use for me).

Now I can see why they don't actually offer a downloadable demo, only a flash video. I can't imagine that anyone would actually pay for this piece of junk if they had tried it first.

Useless For Japanese Types For Mac (Leopard) Users [Posted on 2008-01-20]
I bought Readiris Pro 11 beacause their website was stating how powerful it was even in recognising Asian (japanese) types.
They don't have a dedicated version for Asian types for Mac users as for Windows, but it was said an add-on was available. So, I bought it and asked them for such add-on, they sent me a link to download a full Asian Mac version.
It installed easily but is useless, because Readiris shuts down each time I load an image with japanese types, and they stopped offering any help or clues. Maybe it's not compatible with Leopard, but no warning is presented regarding this issue in the program or their wesite.
I still would like to have a solution to recognise Japanese letters being offered from Readiris for Mac Leopard users...offering me their Windows Asian version would be fine!

Takes more time to register than you will spend with the software [Posted on 2008-05-25]
Seriously, this is one of the worst application ever made. It crashes on Leopard. If you ever need to update or reinstall, you have to email them for a link to download the update by FTP. Then email them again to get a software key. A software key? This is in addition to the registration code that you also have to enter. It would be less frustrating to transcribe everything by hand. Purchased. Installed. Registered. Emailed. Entered key. Deleted application from my drive.

This program is junk! [Posted on 2008-06-14]
Over the years I have bought thousands of dollars of stuff from Amazon, and have almost always been satisified. I have had to return a few items, but I have never been motivated to write a review until now. The so called "handprinting" recognition doesn't work, even on the .jpg file provided on the CD, and after a few tries even recognition of printed material produces either garbage or a blank page or crashes, in fact repeatedly. The "documentation" is incomplete, unclear, obviously written by someone not proficient in English. Technical support? Forget it! They don't reply. I'm not too upset that amazon.com will refund only half of the purchase price for returning it, as I am glad to have this albatross off my back, and it's my mistake for not reading the earlier reviews. I won't make that mistake again! F. Peñalosa.

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