IRIS to Supply OCR Software for HP LaserJet 3100 Monochrome Printer-Fax-Copier-Scanner.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)--March 16, 1998--Image Recognition Integrated Systems (IRIS) announced Monday that it has signed a licensing agreement with Hewlett-Packard Company to integrate its innovative 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. (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 into the HP LaserJet LaserJet is the brand name used by the American computer company Hewlett-Packard (HP) for their line of dry electrophotographic (DEP) laser printers. Technology HP LaserJets employ electro-photographic laser marking engines sourced from the Japanese company Canon. 3100 monochrome printer-fax-copier-scanner. The announcement was made by Pierre DeMuelenaere, president of Belgium-based IRIS, the leading OCR software developer in Europe. Readiris 3.95, the recent upgrade of the firm's popular OCR software, was selected as the most appropriate for HP's versatile new "all-in-one" product. The HP LaserJet 3100 printer-fax-copier-scanner is expected to sell for $699 (U.S. street price). "We're pleased to be partnering with HP on this exciting new product," said DeMuelenaere. "This OCR software is highly regarded throughout Europe and now it will have considerable distribution in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . IRIS appreciates the confidence HP has shown and we look forward to a long an mutually beneficial Adj. 1. mutually beneficial - mutually dependent interdependent, mutualist dependent - relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed; "dependent children"; "dependent on moisture" relationship." This new version of Readiris recognizes 32 languages, including American English American English n. The English language as used in the United States. Noun 1. American English - the English language as used in the United States American language, American , Brazilian, British English British English n. The English language used in England as distinguished from that used elsewhere. , Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Luxembourg, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. Other features of this software include: -- Improved accuracy for touching or broken characters, degraded characters, faxes and dot matrix documents -- Flexible media handling for scanning everything from business cards to legal-size documents -- Ability to recognize two different alphabets on the same document -- Ability to automatically reconstruct the layout of the original document, including columns -- Ability to correct OCR errors (degraded characters, faxes, etc.). The system will stop on the problem and display the image of the symbol to the users, who can make the correction. The results of the training can be saved -- Table reading IRIS is a Belgium-based company that was founded in 1987. It specializes in developing products in the fields of imaging, optical character recognition, and document management. In addition to Readiris, the firm is also the developer of: -- The IRISPen Executive: A highlighter-sized OCR device with bar code and text-to-speech module -- The IRISPen Translator: Software which translates text printed in foreign languages. Bi-directional software available in English-French, English-German, English-Italian, English-Spanish. An English-Japanese version is also available. -- Cardiris: Business card scanning software ReadIRIS 3.95 is available through: I.R.I.S. Inc. 1600 N.W. Boca Raton Boulevard, Suite No. 20 Boca Raton, Florida Boca Raton ("bōkə rə-tōn") is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida incorporated in May 1925. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 86,396. 33432 Telephone: 800/447-4744 561/395-7831 Web site: www.IRISUSA.com Fax: 561/347-6267 CONTACT: David Reeves or Kelley Derynda, 561/391-8717 |
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