What is I.R.I.S. OCR Registration?

Question

I want the full form of I.R.I.S. & OCR. How the registration of the same is useful?

Answer 1

Its Iris...not an acronym, ReadIris actually. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. An OCR is simply a software which extracts text from images. Suppose you have a paper book you would like to digitize; you could take snaps of the book and save the images. But then you cannot perform stuff like search for words or phrases, copy-paste and edit the text etc.

So the alternative lies in scanning the pages and running them through an OCR software like Read IRIS which will convert the images to a text format and you can then store it as doc, pdf or txt file.

How the registration is useful? That depends on whether you have any use for an OCR app. Remember that OCRing complete books is not an easy task at all. But if you do like to do that, or OCR few pages I'd rather recommend you try out the ABBY Fine Reader. You can download ABBY-FR demo with ReadIDIS demo and compare the results for yourself.

http://www.irislink.com/c2-480/Readiris-Pro-11-OCR-software.aspx
http://www.abbyy.com/finereader_ocr

Answer 2

Was it the software for an "all-in-one" printer/scanner?

IRIS OCR is Optical Character Recognition software, that (tries to) convert a scanned document to text

Well the registration pops up in All Programs menu when you buy a new printer,, If it was an all-in-one printer, i guess theres nothing to worry about