Readiris 16 for MAC OS X is an optical character recognition (OCR) software package that converts an image, a PDF file, or a scanned document into a fully editable text file. Thanks to the power and accuracy of its recognition engine, Readiris 16 for MAC OS X extracts the text from your documents with precision while preserving the layout of the original file.

• New version of the recognition engine
• The ability to convert Word, Excel and PowerPoint files into indexed PDFs
• Access to document conversion by right-clicking with the mouse
• New user interface
• Addition of a quality indicator for imported documents
• Improved tool to handle pages within a document
• Automatic detection of IRIS scanners
• New version of the image pre-processing engine
• Improved perspective correction module

Readiris 16 for MAC OS X converts your PDFs into Word, Excel, text or even fully editable indexed PDF, while preserving the original layout. 
List of output formats: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, ODT, ePub, Audio, RTF, HTML, TXT, TIFF, JPEG, PNG 

Readiris 16 for MAC OS X is compatible with many image formats and extracts the text contained in the images to convert it into editable digital text in many word processing packages such as Word, Excel, Notepad, etc.
List of compatible image formats: JPG, GIF, PSD, PNG, TIFF, BMP
List of output formats: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, ODT, ePub, Audio, RTF, HTML, TXT, TIFF, JPEG, PNG

If you have a scanner, Readiris 16 for MAC OS X can easily take control to facilitate the scanning and conversion of your paper documents. You will then be able to scan your documents and extract the text from them to make them editable or simply search the content.
Compatible scanner types: TWAIN
List of output formats: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, ODT, ePub, Audio, RTF, HTML, TXT, TIFF, JPEG, PNG

Readiris 16 for MAC OS X lets you convert any Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file into a PDF, Audio, ePub, or image file.
List of output formats: PDF, ePub, Audio, TIFF, JPEG, PNG

Considerably reduce the size of your images and PDF files thanks to IRIS’s exclusive hypercompression technology. This feature lets you reduce the size of your original files by a factor of up to 10* (or 50 with the Corporate version) without impairing the visual quality. Compressed documents in standard PDF format are fully indexed and compatible with any PDF viewer.

The PDF merge tool lets you merge several PDF files or even several files of different formats (PDF, image, Word, Excel, or PowerPoint) in a single file. You can then easily manipulate the pages and choose the export format that best suits your needs (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, ODT, ePub, Audio, RTF, HTML, TXT, TIFF, JPEG, PNG).

Readiris 16 for MAC OS X has a scanning module that can drive any Twain scanner without using external software. This module facilitates the importing of documents into Readiris 16 for MAC OS X and guarantees that documents optimised for archiving, sharing, or editing will be created every time.

Readiris 16 for MAC OS X makes it easy for you to export all the documents you convert to the cloud hosting service of your choice so that you have access to them wherever and whenever you want!
List of compatible services: Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Evernote, Box,

The text editor in Readiris 16 for MAC OS X lets you edit the text in your documents before you export them. This feature is very useful when you want to validate your content.

“OCR” stands for “Optical Character Recognition’’. This is the process whereby an image of a paper document is captured and the text is then extracted from the resulting image.

Readiris 16 is an OCR software package that automatically converts text from paper documents, images or PDF files into fully editable files without having to perform all the tedious retyping work!
The optical character recognition (OCR) technology used in Readiris 16 allows very accurate document recognition whilst preserving the original page layout.