Opening Image Files

Besides scanning documents, you can also open image files and PDF files with Readiris.

Readiris supports the following image file formats: GIF images, JPEG images, JPEG2000 images, Photoshop images, PNG images, (uncompressed, packbits and Group 3 compressed) TIFF images, multipage TIFF images, Windows bitmaps (BMP) and PDF documents.

To open existing image files:

Click the File button.

Then select the images files you want to process, and click Open.

You can also open multiple images files at a time:

Select the first image file and hold down the Cmd-key as you select additional images or;
Select a continuous range of image files by clicking the first image and holding down the Shift key as you select the last image.

Should you want to abort the loading process, click the x icon in the top right corner of the progress bar.

Tip: when loading multipage image files (TIFF images) and PDF documents, you can define the page range (in case you only need a certain chapter of a document for instance)

Notes:

When you click the File button on the top toolbar after you saved your current document, you are prompted whether you want to delete the current document. Click No to add image files to the recognized document or click Yes to start a new document.
When you try to open a password-protected PDF document you will be asked to enter the password.
When an image has been analyzed in Readiris and its recognition accuracy is not sufficient, a warning sign is displayed both in the Page thumbnail and below the top toolbar.

Other ways of opening image files

You can drag and drop files to the Readiris icon in the Dock.
The files will be added after the images that are already loaded into Readiris.
You can drag and drop files into the Readiris interface that is already opened.

Tip: when you drag files to the Pages panel, you can choose where they will be inserted.

Note: when you have split documents, you cannot insert pages before the first page of Document 1. See How to separate documents for more information.

You can drag and drop image files from the Photos app into the Readiris interface that is already opened.

Note: it is not supported to drag images files from the Photos app to the Readiris icon in the Dock.

Ctrl-click any image file you want to open, point to Open With and click Readiris. The Readiris software will open and display the image.
Ctrl-click any image file you want to open, point to Services and select the conversion option of your choice: Convert to XLSX, Convert to PDF or Convert to DOCX.
Or select any image file you want to open, click the Finder menu > Services and select the conversion option of your choice.

This option converts your files without opening the Readiris interface, but uses the settings that have been configured in the interface.

For more information see Converting Image Files from Finder.

Readiris can be set as target application of your scanner, if your scanner supports that feature. That way you scan documents on your scanner and transfer them to Readiris, just by clicking your scanner buttons. See your scanner documentation for more information.

Tip: to process batches of images files, see the topics Automatic Processing and Batch Processing.