BeLight Software
and I.R.I.S. announce the start of long-term collaboration - October 7th,
2003
I.R.I.S. Group, a publicly traded company (Euronext: IRI),
market leader in Automatic Document Recognition (ADR),
Electronic Document Management (EDM) and Optical Character Recognition
(OCR), and BeLight Software, developer and publisher of Business Card
Composer for Mac OS 10.2, announced today a long-term strategic collaboration
to integrate powerful OCR technologies in BeLight Software Mac OS X products.
BeLight Software enters the corporate customer market bringing new possibilities
to business users.
Bundling Readiris Pro with Business Card Composer is the
first step on this way.
Readiris Pro is an easy-to-use text recognition software which converts
paper documents into editable text like MS Word documents or Adobe PDF
files.
Business Card Composer is the only specialized Mac OS X software for creating
and printing business cards.
This is a complete solution, providing user with end-to-end capabilities
from the design process to printing out the cards.
The combination of the 2 products allows business and small
office users to get all the advantages of converting paper documents into
digital format and ability of producing cards. This solution makes the
usage of your printer and scanner hardware more effective. Store and organize
your contacts, create and print your business cards!
These bundles are available now at BeLight Software Web
site:
BeLight Business Card Composer + I.R.I.S. Readiris Pro for Mac
BeLight Business Card Composer + I.R.I.S. Readiris Pro Corporate Edition
for Mac
Regeneration of existing business card and business card
management are projects on the drawing board.
The days to keep your business cards in rubber bands are almost over.
The combination of Business Card Composer and Recognition technology in
a user-friendly application is a powerful solution. You can convert your
business cards into text fields and vice versa.
Bertrand Fontaine, Sales OEM Director, concludes: “We’re
delighted to start a long-term collaboration with BeLight Software, upcoming
leader in solutions for creation and handling business cards on the Macintosh
platform.
The I.R.I.S. OCR technology provides a performing tool to transform paper
information printed on business cards into editable text. It will allow
BeLight to target a large public positioning Business Card Composer as
the best solution to create and print out business cards. The perfect
business card consists of simplicity and good taste like the products
of BeLight Software.”
About I.R.I.S. Readiris Pro for Mac
Readiris Pro is an easy-to-use software allowing the user to convert paper
documents into electronic files. It offers the functionality, productivity
and the combination of speed and accuracy needed by home and business
users and allows to transform all kind of paper documents, letters, magazines,
newspapers, scientific documents, faxes etc into editable files. Readiris
Pro preserves the original document layout perfectly with its columns,
graphics, tables or colour pictures.
The Corporate version of Readiris Pro for Mac is aimed at
professionals who need a performing tool to convert larger volumes of
paper documents as well as business cards into electronic information.
It scans and recognizes your business cards and convert them into real
address records. All American and European languages are supported, including
the Eastern-European languages. You can export the results as a file to
any application or the fields can be directly integrated into contact
management software such as AppleWorks 6,Now Up-to-date & Contact,
Microsoft Outlook Express (Mac OS 8.6-9.x) and Microsoft Entourage (Mac
OS X) – to instance for mailing purposes.
To get more information about Readiris Pro for Mac, please
visit I.R.I.S. web page at:
http://www.irislink.com/opt/uk/products/readiris/corporate/mac/index.html
About Business Card Composer
Written in Cocoa, Business Card Composer for Mac OS X 10.2 is a convenient
program for business and home use.
The package comes with over 500 various images and backgrounds, 100 prepared
designs. It also contains marvelous Mac-style artwork. Composer allows
use prepared paper stock layouts for printing the cards (paper stock from
such manufacturers as Apli, Avery Zweckform, Herma, Herlitz, DECAdry,
Sigel and more.)
To get more information about Business Card Composer please
visit web page at:
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/composer/
About BeLight Software
BeLight Software was founded in January 2003 by a team of very different
people in Odessa, Ukraine.
Common goal is to provide people with the latest available technologies,
as no technology can live without human practice. Now the company develops
and publishes Mac OS X software, combining newest computer abilities and
usage simplicity.
For more information about our company visit the BeLight Software at:
http://www.belightsoft.com/company
To get more information
BeLight Software
Press contact: Helen Nersesova
E-mail: press@belightsoft.com
http://www.belightsoft.com/
Phone/Fax: +380 48 7385840
Journalists can get Business Card Composer for Evaluation
by clicking on the link http://www.belightsoft.com/company/evaluate.php
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 in the “Document
to Knowledge” market, and provides extremely high-quality solutions
for converting paper documents into electronic formats for archiving,
storing, managing and sharing digital information.
In 2002, the revenue of I.R.I.S. Group was € 41.646.974. I.R.I.S.
has more than 220 employees based in Louvain-la-Neuve and Brussels (Belgium),
Massy and Rueil-Malmaison (France), Luxembourg and Delray Beach (USA).
I.R.I.S. has been awarded "Enterprise of the Year 2002" by the
Belgian committee of the worldwide "Entrepreneur of the Year"
competition.
For more information on our company, our solutions or our
products, visit the I.R.I.S. website at:
http://www.irislink.com
To get more information
I.R.I.S. Europe Headquarters
Press contact: Virginie Stainier
Tel: +32 (0) 10 48 75 13
Fax: +32 (0) 10 45 34 43
E-mail: virginie.stainier@irislink.com
Journalists can register on the I.R.I.S. Extranet web site
by clicking on the link
http://www.irislink.com/group/press.
They will receive a personal login and password to access the Extranet
web site where more corporate and product information is available. |
