10-14 September 2002
France, Porte de Versailles - Paris Expo
Hall 4, stand F16
Brussels, 2nd September 2002 - I.R.I.S. Group, a publicly traded Belgian
company (Euronext Brussels: IRI), market leader in Automatic Document
Recognition (ADR), Electronic Document Management (EDM), Archiving and
Storage and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is pleased to announce that
it will be exhibiting at Apple Expo 2002 in Paris, where it will be
launching its latest technical innovations in the Mac world, and for the
Mac OS X platform in particular. The introduction of this new range of
products confirms the technology development provided by I.R.I.S. on the
Mac platform.
Products presented:
READIRIS PRO 7 MAC OS X NEW!
Readiris Pro 7 Mac is a user-friendly software for converting paper
documents into editable electronic files. Readiris Pro 7 Mac transfers l
etters, magazines, newspapers, scientific documents, faxes, etc., into
editable files, while reproducing perfectly the original page formatting,
including columns, graphics, tables and colour images.
WORLD PREMIERE! ASIAN OCR ADD-ON
Option for Readiris Pro 7 Mac OS X
"Asian OCR add-on" is a software option for Readiris Pro 7 which recognises
four Asian languages: Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, and traditional
Chinese.
WORLD PREMIERE! BUSINESS CARD SOFTWARE ADD-ON
Option for Readiris Pro 7 Mac OS X
Installing this option enables business card recognition through Readiris.
Thanks to optical character recognition, you can enter your contacts
without having to retype them.
BUSINESS CARD SCANNER ADD-ON
Option for Readiris Pro 7 Mac OS X
This business card scanner is optimised for this specific purpose and has
many advantages in comparison with other types of scanner. It takes up
hardly any space on the desk, and quickly enters cards with different paper
and print qualities; you don't even have to select a card format. Just
insert a business card in the scanner, and the process starts
automatically!
It consists of:
The Business Card Scanner
The Business Card Software
WORLD PREMIERE! IRISPEN II MAC OS X
IRISPen II is a scanning pen enabling you to enter data (texts, figures,
barcodes and hand-written figures) in any Mac OS application. The result is
an editable text which is inserted at the cursor position.
WORLD PREMIERE! IRIS BUSINESS CARD READER II MAC OS X
IRIS Business Card Reader II for Mac OS X is the fastest, most efficient
tool for entering your business cards in your Mac. Simply slip a business
card into the scanner, and in just a few seconds, the information will be
recognised and transferred into your contacts manager.
IRIS Business Card Reader II helps you keep your database up to date
without time-consuming manual inputting.
Optimised by I.R.I.S. technology, the OCR software recognises perfectly the
information on any business card and repositions it in the corresponding
fields.
Demonstration of our Innovations
If you would like to make an appointment to see a product demonstration at
the I.R.I.S. stand, Hall 4, Stand F16, please contact Miss Fatima El Allaly
- Eliotrope Agency - by e-mailing her at: elallaly@eliotrope.fr or by
telephoning +33-(0)1-53 17 16 47.
About I.R.I.S.
Image Recognition Integrated Systems (I.R.I.S.), a Belgian company founded
in 1987 and listed on Euronext Brussels (IRI), is a leader on the Optical
Character Recognition (OCR) market, the Automatic Document Reading (ADR)
and the Electronic Document Management markets.
The I.R.I.S.' activities are organized in two major areas:
"Office Products & Technologies"
I.R.I.S. develops and markets worldwide a complete range of OCR
applications for home and office users.
Its well-known products are:
IRISPen II: a pen scanner that allows text and figures capture in any
application at the stroke of a hand. The pen scanner is available in the
Standard version (reads text and figures) and Executive version (reads
text, figures, handprinted numbers, barcodes and includes a text-to-speech
module).
Readiris Pro: an OCR package for flatbed scanners, "all-in-one" devices and
digital cameras. Readiris Pro recognizes colour documents in up to 93
different languages, sends the recognition results directly to Word or
Excel, saves the OCR results in the best known formats including HTML, and
supports PDF format. To date, more than 8 million copies have been sold.
Readiris Pro has been selected by Hewlett-Packard, Agfa and Compaq,
Panasonic, etc.
IRIS Business Card Reader and Cardiris: a complete hardware and software
solution to scan, index and recognize business cards. Your contacts are
easily exported to your PDA's or contact database with a single click
export to Outlook or the export options of Cardiris.
"Professional Systems"
I.R.I.S. also offers solutions for the professional user to de-materialize
paper documents, share and distribute the documents over the
Intranet/Extranet/Internet and archive and store the electronic documents.
The main solutions are:
Automatic Document Reading (ADR) and Intelligent Document Recognition
(IDR): document capture of forms (ADR) and non-structured documents (IDR)
in paper or electronic formats.
Electronic Document Management (EDM): organizing, indexing, querying and
sharing of electronic documents.
Knowledge Management: high-level consulting services to organize, preserve
and optimally use the collective knowledge present in a company. The implementation of Enterprise Information Portals: development and
implementation of integrated portals based on I.R.I.S. DocShare for
professional associations and large-scale companies.
Archiving and Data storage: design, architecture and installation of
storage, archiving and electronic data security solutions.
In 2001, I.R.I.S. Group had a sales of ? 35.340.034. I.R.I.S. has more than
240 employees based in Louvain-la-Neuve and Brussels (Belgium), Massy and
Rueil-Malmaison (France), Luxembourg, Boca Raton and Atlanta (USA).
Press contact in the Netherlands:
Raek! Communicatie
Doddendaal 27
5655 EL Eindhoven
Telefoon: 040-251 89 38
Fax: 040-251 86 29
Email: Raek@wxs.nl
For more information on our company, our solutions or our products, visit
the I.R.I.S. website at http://www.irislink.com.
How to get more information
I.R.I.S. Europe Headquarters
Press contact: Catherine Rochigneux
Tel: +32 (0) 10 48 74 38
Fax: +32 (0) 10 45 34 43
E-mail: catherine.rochigneux@irislink.com
Press contact: Caroline Roussel
Tel: +32 (0) 10 48 74 56
Fax: +32 (0) 10 45 34 43
E-mail: caroline.roussel@irislink.com
Journalists can register on the I.R.I.S. Extranet web site by clicking on
the link
http://www.irislink.com/partners/press/index.html. They will receive a
personal login and password to access the Extranet web site where more
corporate and product information is available.