IRIS Ships New Version of Multi-Lingual OCR Software.BOCA RATON Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 1998--Image Recognition Integrated Systems (IRIS) Inc., the leader in multi-lingual optical character recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer. software development, has begun shipping Readiris 3.95 for Windows 95 and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. . Its ability to recognize 32 languages distinguishes it from many other OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. software programs. The announcement was made by Pierre DeMuelenaere, managing partner of the Belgium-based IRIS, which has its United States headquarters in Boca Raton. This powerful, easy-to-use 32 bit software program is the best-selling multi-lingual OCR application for Windows. More than 1 million copies of Readiris have been sold. It is one of the most popular OCR software programs for converting every day documents into fully editable text from all major scanner or existing TIFF files. Readiris 3.95 recognizes 32 languages, including American English, Brazilian, British English, Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastonian, French, German, Greek, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Luxemburg, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukranian. This innovative software programs also recognizes two different alphabets (Russian and English or Greek and French, for instance) on the same document. Readiris 3.95 gives access to advanced techniques of artificial intelligence used in the field of IOCR IOCR Indiana & Ohio Central Railroad IOCR Input Output Control Routine (operating system program) IOCR Individual Outage Capacity Region (Intelligent Optical Character Recognition). The recognition is omnifont, allowing it to recognize several fonts of various sizes mixed on the same page. This product broke ground with such innovations as processing multiple alphabets on the same document and extended multi-lingual recognition (32 languages). Readiris 3.95 also features a new kernel to improve accuracy for touching and broken characters. The retail upgrade version is priced at $199 (list). The non-upgrade version is priced at $429 (list). Readiris supports virtually all scanners including Acer, Actown, Agfa, Canon, Epson, Escom, FIC FIC First International Computer FIC Fogarty International Center (John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences; National Institutes of Health) FIC Fellowship for Intentional Community , Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Logitech, Microtek, Mustek, PIE, Primax, Silitek, Tamarack tamarack: see larch. , Umax, Visioneer, Vobis, etc. System requirements for Readiris are: -- 486 based IBM PC -- PS/2 or compatible PC -- 8 MB RAM -- MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. 6.x operating system -- Windows 3.1, Windows 95 or Windows NT. Readiris 3.95 is available through I.R.I.S. Inc. 1600 N.W. Boca Raton Blvd., Suite 20 Boca Raton, FL 33432 Telephone: 800/447-4744 or 561/395-7831 Web site: www.IRISUSA.com Fax: 561/347-6267 CONTACT: David Reeves Kelley Derynda, 561/391-8717 |
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