Readiris für Mac

I used PDFScanner for both scanning and ocr-ing, then switched to Adobe Acrobat because the ocr was not very good and I already paid for the Adobe subscription. Then topped the subscription because I switched to Affinity 😁 However, now I needed an alternative for ocr-ing, so I bought a perpetual license of the Essentials version of ReadIris for Mac. The good: ocr works great, in Dutch as well. Reasonable price of € 39 without subscription. The bad: cumbersome user interface. For example, there is a popup-style scanner window that you need to close manually, while any other app I've ever used for scanning closed automatically of had the panel as part of the application. Also, there are buttons that don't work, but urge you to pay for an upgrade. Custom service closed my ticket after 24 hours because I didn't respond fast enough. The ugly: The app often crashes at scanning.

This still not even Universal? What developer are you?

this does absolutely nothing to enhance the pleasurable experience of scanning with HP utils. why buy something that will not complement the util? to me, this is a ripoff type software that is not required for basic scanning documents.

TwainProxy is *still* 32-bit only. Seriously??? First I had to buy VueScan because Epson has stopped supporting their TWAIN scanning software, and now Canon/IRIlink has failed to create a 64-bit version of TWAINProxy???

No thanks, I'll stick to the last boxed copy of ReadIRIS until this issue is remedied/fixed, if ever.

At this rate, I don't think ReadIRIS 18 will ever come out...

I have been using Readiris Pro for a number of years. I have not had the problems reported below. (fingers crossed). There is a dearth of OCR software for the mac and when my previous software (OmniPage I think) stopped being supported I had to look elsewhere. ViewScan has rudimentary OCR and did the trick for a while. Then I tried Readiris, which was ported across from Windows I think. I have found the OCR engine quite accurate. I have spent little time teaching it. The ability to save the file as pdf, doc or xls is great. There are more export options available too. You can also save documents in a multi-page format, which is handy for pdf. I was able to upgrade from my version 16 software for $69. This necessitated leaving MacUpdate and going into the IRIS website. I did have trouble activating version 15 a few years ago, but I got a prompt response from the support site and had no further problems. I had no problems installing, activating and registering version 17 in High Sierra 10.13.4. I think the software does what it claims to do. The UI is a bit Windows like, but that does not worry me. Windows is quite friendly these days. So I take of ½ a point for that. I will continue to use it.