Readiris Overview
Readiris is an OCR and PDF software application for Windows and macOS from IRIS that converts scanned documents, images, and PDFs into editable and searchable formats. It recognizes text in many languages and turns paper or image-based documents into editable Word, Excel, and other files, and it offers PDF tools for converting, merging, splitting, annotating, protecting, and compressing documents, plus text-to-speech for reading documents aloud. It is aimed at users who regularly digitize paper and need accurate conversion with document-management features. It is a paid product. It can export recognized text to formats including searchable PDF, Word, and ePub, and it handles batch processing of many files at once, which suits digitizing stacks of paper documents efficiently. This page points to the genuine Readiris source from IRIS, not a third-party host.