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Mimio writingRecognition 2.0 software plug-in works with the mimio English-language whiteboard-capture system, a PC, or mimio flipChart to convert words written on a whiteboard or flip chart into text for documents. Using CalliGrapher from ParaGraph, this optional plug-in easily translates notes from print or cursive into standard text. After mimio captures the user's handwritten whiteboard or flip chart notes to their PC, writingRecognition converts them to ordinary text, ready to be edited, saved, or dropped into a Windows document.

With text-ordering and selection features, mimio writingRecognition 2.0 is more intuitive than ever. It converts notes into text in the same order as they appear on the board, so if a word is added later writingRecognition recognizes the position of the new item and inserts it into the correct text location. And with the new irregular selection tool, users can choose exactly which notes to convert to text, from a single letter to a large block of text. ... Read more

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• Complete assistance for dealing with lawyers, personal matters, and corporate issues
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• Make your printed document more distinct with 2000 Borders
• 12,000 Clip Art is a vast collection of clip art, photos and sound effects
• Amazing Calendar Maker makes custom calendars on your PC - with just a few clicks
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• Create and place all your text, graphics, tables and charts on a single page
• Update spreadsheets automatically as the numbers are crunched with powerful live-links feature
• Select from 20 eye-catching charts and graphs -- even in 3D stories
• Save documents as a PDF or in HTML format
• Add hyperlinks to all your Web-based documents

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• Import information into a template or build a new resume from scratch
• Resume is Web-ready with just a few clicks
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• Save resumes as PDF documents for future use

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OmniPage Pro Office - ( v. 14.0 ) - complete package - 1 user - EDU, GOV - CD - Win, English ... Read more

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OmniPage Web is a fast and easy way to convert multipage documents into working Web sites. Using the award-winning OmniPage Pro OCR engine and the new Logical Structure Recognition (LSR) technology, OmniPage Web outlines your scanned document and creates a complete Web site with separate Web pages for each page, chapter, or section. ... Read more

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The professional solution to transform your images into fully searchable Color, Grayscale, or B&W PDF This version installs as a standalone application. Thanks to its easy to use API, integrating IRISPdf Server within your own application, such as Scanning software, Document Management software, etc. is simple, fast and highly efficient. IRISPdf Server includes powerful tools for batch processing and an advanced watched folder mechanism allowing easy integration with other imaging applications. IRISPdf Server supports document separation and indexing capabilities based, for instance, on barcodes. IRISPdf Server features useful image enhancement and compression modules, generates structured XML indexes and very small size PDF files containing the full-text index. XML output can also be created as well as RTF and TXT. Multiple output formats can be enabled simultaneously! ... Read more

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If there's one company determined to lead the way into the paperlessoffice, it's Adobe. The Acrobat PDF format has become the standard for digitaldocuments on almost every platform, and now Acrobat Messenger bridges the gapfrom existing hardcopy documents to digital, portable PDF files.

Messenger works as a cradle-to-grave application, taking a paper document allthe way from scanning to end-user delivery. It interfaces directly with ascanner using an ISIS driver, and not the more common TWAIN drivers, becauseMessenger uses its own scanner interface, whereas TWAIN drivers are designed topresent an interface for the scanner within the host application.

The nice things about Messenger are its simplicity (scan, preview, and deliver)and its options for delivery. The Acrobat PDF files created by Messenger can besaved to disk, posted to a Web site, delivered by fax (with the appropriatemodem), sent through e-mail, or printed--any combination of these is possible.

However, at the time of this writing, Messenger runs on Windows NT only, whichis a drawback for the many small offices that aren't running Windows NT.Messenger is a flexible and useful tool, but it needs to have more flexiblesystem requirements.

For the larger office, in which numerous paper documents must be scanned anddelivered or stored, and a PC and scanner dedicated to the task, Messenger is astreamlined application capable of saving tremendous amounts of time. --MikeCaputo ... Read more

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• Enfocus PitStop Server is the stand-alone application for streamlining high volume PDF and PDF/X workflows.
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• The Enfocus PDF Profile empowers total quality control.

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OmniPage Pro 12 is a powerful productivity application that delivers accurate document conversion, turning PDF and paper letters, contracts, tables, and manuals into editable word processing and spreadsheet documents. Ideal for desktop, workgroup, and enterprise users, OmniPage Pro 12 delivers everything you need to convert, edit, process, and share your paper and PDF documents.

OmniPage Pro 12 saves you time by eliminating the need to manually reproduce documents and spreadsheets, delivering highly precise, editable results that can be used in your existing PC applications. It saves you money by replacing manual filing with electronic storage and retrieval. Best of all, it combines desktop ease-of-use with advanced XML, batch processing, PDF, and Open eBook capabilities, all within a single, affordable application. ... Read more

Reviews (10)

Useful but not as good as FineReader overall
I do a great deal of OCR in my research and have scanned thousands of pages each with OmniPage Pro 12 (OP12) and FineReader 6 (FR6). I have also made extensive use of previous versions of both programs. I am happy to have both, because they excel at different things. For my work, however, if I had to choose just one it would have to be FR6. Others might have different preferences depending on what they do and what their equipment and software are.

The bulk of my scanning/OCR involves academic articles and historical materials. For the most part I produce PDF files, although I also scan some tables to produce spreadsheets and do some scanning to Word files. Depending on the quality of the original and my precise purpose I may make a PDF with an image and hidden text, an OCR text file, or an OCR text file with images of uncertain words. I use an HP 7450 scanner connected to a Windows 2000 system with a 1.8 GHz P4 processor and 512 MB of RAM.

For my purposes, OP12's outstanding feature is the quality of its grayscale and color scans. In fact, I even sometimes use it to produce images for processing by FR6. Generally speaking, the PDF image files produced by OP12 seem to run about 80% smaller than those that FR6 produces for equal text quality -- and better rendition of photos! This is not true for black-and-white (1 bit) files, where FR6 seems to have a slight edge. But when the material calls for image output I usually click on OP12.

OCR is another story, for several reasons. First of all, when the going gets tough, OP12 quits in a huff. It will suddenly crash no warning whatever. This seems to be OCR-related, but if it happens while scanning the chances of recovering your already-scanned work are poor. For this reason, I always scan and recognize separately with OP12, since then the crashes usually do not corrupt the scanned images. Depending on the complexity of the material, I may get a crash anywhere from one in every 20 to one in 100 pages.

Naturally, separate scanning and recognition slows the process down. On top of that, OP12 is very slow to start with, at least with "only" a 1.8GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM and all other applications closed. When I need fast results or cannot tolerate crashes I use FR6, which is distinctly faster and seems nearly bulletproof.

Moreover, when accuracy of scanning counts, OP12 is next to useless for my purposes. That's because it is very weak on anything but straight text. Superscripts all look like quotation marks to it and subscripts all come out as commas. It is also very poor with any sort of special symbols or equations. Nor is there any way to correct these mistakes in the editing process -- you're forced to edit the PDFs with Adobe Acrobat, a very slow and laborious process. If you have material with as many superscripts, subscripts, and special symbols as the typical academic article, it is really faster to retype it than to try to do it with OP12. FR6, by contrast, gives reasonably good accuracy with such material and makes it easy to correct the mistakes that do crop up.

In a surprising number of cases, OP12 will rotate the page so that the text is not upright and then proceed "recognize" it as garbage. FR6 is not immune to this, but does it significantly less often.

FR6 is sometimes wrong but never in doubt -- it has never reported being unable to complete OCR of a page, no matter how complex. OP12 is easily confused, especially when the page mixes text and tables, and then insists that you manually zone the page before it will proceed.

Both programs offer an "auto-special" completely automatic mode that will do a decent job on simple material (assuming that OP12 doesn't crash in the middle). When you need to customize settings, however, FR6 offers more range of choices. It also offers more flexibility in correcting recognition errors and in manual zoning, should that be necessary.

Surprisingly for a version 12, OP12 has a great many glitches, bugs, oddities, and time-wasting annoyances that make it seem more like an early beta. About 20% of the PDFs it produces are unreadable -- it's important always to check. The early FineReader versions were extremely rough, but FR6 is a very stable and finished product.

As I say, I don't regret the money I've spent on either of them. However, FR6 is more generally useful, faster, and trouble-free -- and significantly cheaper. If the maker of FR6, ABBYY, would fix their scanning (something I've suggested to them several times) it would clearly be the preferable program. As things are, OP12 fills some needs better.

Will O'Neil

Greatest thing since sliced bread
As I am writing this review OmniPage Pro 12 is whirring away in the background.
I was just minding my own business trying to scan a hard copy report that was made form an 84 page spread sheet. All I got was vertical words. Then it happened; the system said if I wanted the real thing to buy an OmniPage Pro 12 upgrade. All that money for 84 pages? Then I thought of retyping all those pages and it was a no brainier.
I opened the package and started to read the manual. After about five minutes I just decided to take the plunge and put the CD in. five minutes later and the system had installed and checked out the scanner and chose the best approach to scanning to OCR. I used the OmniPage interface once and after playing around realized it was telling me how to use itself with a one-two-three step. Then I realized what the manual was saying and found that I could operate the process even easer from the Microsoft Word program. It works like a charm with no interference to any other process. The scan and OCR calculated that I was copying a table and created one that was appropriate. It even recognized that the page was placed in landscape. I have not tried Excel yet but if it works as well I could kick my self for not doing this earlier.
For those interested this is an XP system.

not clear it's worth the upgrade from 11
I like the new batch mechanism, which has an "output file per input file" option. I haven't particularly noticed a stability problem (Win2K SP4 + OP12 SP1/2). However, the deal with the PDFs is this: when OP12 reads an image PDF, it will only save such PDFs as grayscale (if you ask for image/image+text), and OP12 can only save grayscale/color PDFs at 150dpi. Hence, if you have bi-level input PDFs at >150dpi resolution, you get enormous, ugly 150dpi grayscale output PDFs. On the other hand, OP12 can handle high resolution TIFFs just fine (i.e., it will save them as image/image+text PDFs with the correct resolution). This makes absolutely no sense and is a big step backward from OP11. As the other reviewer notes, they appear not to have any intention of fixing this in OP12.

Omnipage Pro 12 Loves to Crash
Omnipage Pro 12 loves to crash. So much so, that it is impossible to batch convert a folder of files to Adobe Acrobat .pdf "image with text", which is the only really useful Adobe Acrobat format. Here we are in the year 2003, and software developers still haven't figured out how to gracefully exit their programs when the unexpected happens. Ominpage Pro 12 simply cannot deal with Adobe Acrobat .pdf formats well. Review the user groups on Scansoft's website, and you will see two major problems with its Acrobat compatibility. The first is when using Scansoft on an existing .pdf image file. Importing the .pdf file, capturing the text, and saving the file as .pdf "image with text" (which is supposed to save the ORIGINAL image with searchable background text) causes the image to degrade. Don't ask me why, but the image in the output file is not the same quality as the imported .pdf image. So to work around this issue, I started scanning our documents into .tif format (600x600) on our high speed scanner, and then importing the .tifs into Scansoft, for conversion to .pdf "image with text". The resulting .pdf files were graphically sharper than when I had imported existing .pdf files. The big problem is that running the Omnipage Pro 12 "Schedule OCR" on the folder of .tif files, Omnipage Pro 12 simply crashes at random places in the conversion process. No graceful exit. No warning. To summarize, Scansoft's Omnipage Pro 12 is inadequate to save files as .pdf "image with text". It crashes. And this happens on both a Windows 98 PC and a Windows 2000 PC, so it's not a PC-specific issue. Scansoft wants to charge you money to submit a problem form. Imagine, paying them to spend time addressing their own mistake! This is a bad way to conduct business.

Very Productive Tool ! It's killing Adobe too expensive ;-)
Don't hesitate Omnipage is excellent ! and you will save a lot of money compared to Adobe's products. ... Read more