When you scan a document or open an image file in Readiris, each page is divided automatically into recognition zones.
To visualize the recognition zones, click the Layout icon in the Image and Layout Editing toolbar. Readiris is now in Layout mode.
Readiris uses the zones to determine how each part of your documents must be converted. If your document does not contain any zones, no recognition will be done.
In Readiris there are 4 kinds of recognition zones. You have text zones, image zones, table zones and barcode zones.
Notice that each zone type has its own color.
Text zones |
Orange |
Image zones |
Blue |
Table zones |
Purple |
Barcode zones |
Green |
The zones are also numbered; notice the number in the top left corner of each zone. The numbers run top-down and from left to right. When you select an output format that does not preserve the original layout, this will be the order in which the zones are saved in the output document.
Note: Zones can also be selected when the Layout mode is not enabled: E.g. to copy as ...
Several viewing options are available allowing you to inspect the opened images and their recognition zones.
Use the size icons Fit to width and Fit to window in the bottom right corner of the interface.
Or move the slider to zoom in and out.
Note that you can also use keyboard shortcuts to apply these viewing options.
Shift-click on an image to toggle between Zoom to 200% (at cursor location) and Fit to window.
Cmd-Shift-click to toggle between Zoom to 200% (at cursor location), Fit to width and Fit to window.
Use Cmd + and Cmd - to zoom in/out progressively.
Click the Magnify icon
on the Image and Layout
Editing toolbar.
Then move the Magnifying glass over the image.
Or Alt-Shift-click to display the Magnifying glass.
You can also use the keyboard to zoom in on images:
Shift-click on an image to zoom in.
Then Alt-click on the image to grab it and move to another section of the image.
To zoom back out, Shift-click on the image again.
Or
Shift-Alt-click on an image to display the Magnifying glass.
Hold down the mouse button and move the Magnifying glass over the image.
Readiris divides documents into text, table and graphic recognition zones when the option Page Analysis has been activated. This automatic page analysis can be modified in several ways. For instance, you can expand and reduce zones in size, move zones to a different location, manually create new zones, change the zone type of existing zones, change the sort order, and so on.
Tip: pay
attention to the messages at the bottom of the interface when using the
Layout toolbar. They provide useful
information.
Note: if you need to do text corrections start the Text Corrector by clicking the corresponding
button. 
Click inside a zone.
Notice the markers on the sides and in the corners of the zone.
Click on a marker, hold the mouse button and drag the frame to the required size.
Click inside a zone you want to move.
The entire zone is now marked in its corresponding color.
Hold the mouse button, and drag the frame to the position of your choice.
Click the zone you want to delete.
Or Cmd-click to select multiple zones.
The entire zone(s) are now marked in their corresponding color.
Then press the Backspace button on your keyboard or right-click and choose Delete zone(s).
On the Edit menu, click Delete All Zones.
On the Edit menu, click Delete Small Zones.
All zones that are smaller than 50 pixels will be removed.
Click the Layout icon to display the Layout toolbar.
Click the zone type you want to create. E.g. Text.
Click and hold the mouse button and draw a frame around the section to want to recognize as text.
Note that barcode zones must always be drawn manually. They are not created automatically by the Page Analysis feature.
Ctrl-click a zone, and then select the required zone type from the Context menu.
OR
Click the Layout icon to display the Layout toolbar.
Select the zone you want to change.
Click the required zone type icon in the Layout toolbar. E.g. Graphic.
Then click the required zone type icon again.
Tip: notice the tooltips at the
bottom of the interface. They describe which actions you can do.
Click the Layout icon to display the Layout toolbar.
Click the Sort icon.
The numbers now disappear from the zones.
Now click the recognition zones one by one, in the order you want to sort them in.
Zones you do not click, will be excluded from recognition.
When you have click all the zones on the page, Readiris automatically
quits the Sort mode.
You can also quit the Sort mode by clicking the Sort
icon again. You will be prompted whether or not to keep the new sort
order.
Suppose you have two text zones that belong together, and you want to turn them into one single text zone. In that case:
Click the Layout icon to display the Layout toolbar.
Click the Text icon.
Then draw a text zone that overlaps the two zones to connect them.
The two zones are merged into one.
Note that only zones of the same zone type can be connected.
OR
Close the Layout toolbar.
Click a zone to select it. The entire zone is now marked in its corresponding color and the markers on the borders are displayed.
Click one of the markers and expand a side of the zone until it overlaps with another zone of the same type.
The two zones are merged into one.
In case your document only contains content in a certain area of the page, you can use the Frame option to exclude the remainder of the page from the recognition.
Click the Layout icon to display the Layout toolbar.
Click the Frame icon.
Then draw a frame around the section that contains the information.
Everything outside the frame will be ignored.
You will also be prompted whether you want to ignore the same area on all the pages of the current document.
Note: the command Frame Area to Analyze on the Page menu carries out the same operation.
If you are not satisfied with the changes you made, note that you can always redo the automatic page analysis.
Go to Menu Page and select Analyze Page.