What do PCR, PBR, PHR and IBR mean?
The abbreviation PCR concerns the IRISPen, PBR and PHR the IRISPen Executive. IBR stands for I.R.I.S. Bank Reader, we normally speak of the IBR-2001. (Dont confuse with IBCR, another I.R.I.S. product designed to read business cards.) In each instance, the abbreviation indicates unique and proprietary technology of I.R.I.S. PCR stands for Pen Character Recognition, it indicates the powerful recognition software from I.R.I.S. specifically designed to recognize images scanned with a pen scanner. Given the unstable scanning by the human hand holding a pen scanner, the recognition technology has to cope with images of very bad quality. The images can be – and in most cases are – highly distorted. The highly specialized character recognition software PCR-II is nevertheless able to cope beautifully with this low-quality material. It allows real-time text recognition despite wavy, low-contrast and poor quality images containing highly distorted font shapes, and incorporates advanced image proc
