Others say...

"Takes more time to register than you will spend with the software"
Seriously, this is one of the worst application ever made. It crashes on Leopard. If you ever need to update or reinstall, you have to email them for a link to download the update by FTP. Then email them again to get a software key. A software key? This is in addition to the registration code that you also have to enter. It would be less frustrating to transcribe everything by hand. Purchased. Installed. Registered. Emailed. Entered key. Deleted application from my drive.

"Useless For Japanese Types For Mac (Leopard) Users"
I bought Readiris Pro 11 beacause their website was stating how powerful it was even in recognising Asian (japanese) types.
They don't have a dedicated version for Asian types for Mac users as for Windows, but it was said an add-on was available. So, I bought it and asked them for such add-on, they sent me a link to download a full Asian Mac version.
It installed easily but is useless, because Readiris shuts down each time I load an image with japanese types, and they stopped offering any help or clues. Maybe it's not compatible with Leopard, but no warning is presented regarding this issue in the program or their wesite.
I still would like to have a solution to recognise Japanese letters being offered from Readiris for Mac Leopard users...offering me their Windows Asian version would be fine!

"Biggest disappointment in years, avoid like the plague!"
Without a doubt the single most disappointing software purchase I have made in years.

I bought this as I thought it was high time for an upgrade from my old OCR software and boy was that a mistake! Within two days I had switched back to the old software.

Not only was the recognition far from acceptable, it lacks even basic features that I consider essential such as the ability to manually define row and column positions when reading table data (a primary use for me).

Now I can see why they don't actually offer a downloadable demo, only a flash video. I can't imagine that anyone would actually pay for this piece of junk if they had tried it first.

"Now crippled for Leopard"
Unlike several of the other reviewers, I've been a happy user of ReadIRIS for several years. I'm a graduate student, so there are lots of times when I need to pull text out of pdfs from older journal articles. ReadIRIS wasn't perfect, but compared to the time it would take to do the same thing by hand, it was worth it. So when a new version was announced for Leopard, I decided to get a copy.

That will be the last copy I'll buy. The software appears to work fine, but the publisher has decided to treat paying customers like criminals. When you install the software it asks you to enter a serial number. Fair enough. However after entering the serial number you have to either call the publisher (during business hours of course) or go online and register to get a 'key'. The key is linked to the the machine you install it on. But don't get too comfortable - you can't write this down in case you need to reinstall or buy a new computer. If you do either, you're going to have to get a new key. Seems like a way to force personal information out of you so that you can support their marketing department.

Given that, I'll wait until another company releases something. In the mean time, be ready to set up a new filter on your email program to get rid of their spam.

"Don't buy it!"
I bought Readiris 11.6 and installed it to use it on my Mac with Leopard. I have an Epson Perfection scanner, which works great with OmniPro and other programs on that same mac.

Well, Readiris doesn't recognize any scanner at all. Their "Support" people take over a week to reply and are rude and unhelpful. Their documentation is terrible (the English is hard to understand and in any case the documentation for version 11 was prepared for version 9 and they have not made updates).

I am getting my money back from American Express (who were very sympathetic to me for having bought a product that doesn't work and for having wasted my time with the developer's worthless "support" staff).

Don't buy this product!