I.R.I.S. Group and BeLight Software have announced a “long-term strategic collaboration” with the goal of integrating OCR (optical character recognition) technologies in BeLight’s Mac OS X products.
One of those products is Business Card Composer for Mac OS X (10.2 and higher), software for creating and printing business cards. For now the companies are bundling Readiris Pro, text recognition software that converts paper documents into editable text (such as Microsoft Word documents or PDF files), with Business Card Composer.
Readiris Pro is targeted to home and business users who need to transform all sorts of paper documents — such as letters, magazines, newspapers, scientific documents and faxes — into editable files. It preserves the original document layout with columns, graphics, tables or color pictures.
Business Card Composer comes with over 500 various images and backgrounds and 100 prepared designs. It lets you use prepared paper stock layouts from such manufacturers as Apli, Avery Zweckform, Herma, Herlitz, DECAdry, Sigel and more.