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Known for its accuracy and ease of use, OmniPage Pro 10 has earned its reputation as one of the most popular Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applications available. By converting printed documents into editable text, this program frees the user from hours spent retyping letters, papers, contracts, and more.

Pages from books, magazines, and faxes are easily processed using the automated wizard. Process pages directly from your scanner or from one of six popular image file formats. You can even import text directly into a document that you are working on in Word or another application without opening OmniPage Pro. The application lets you choose whether you would like to save plain text, text with formatting, or text and images with formatting.

The most visible improvements to this version fall under the page layout heading. For example, the OmniPage True Page output format provides a nearly perfect replicate of the printed page for easy export to desktop publishing software. There is also a new feature that can read recognized text out loud to aid in proofreading.

The manufacturer claims that OmniPage can recognize text on almost any document, including poor photocopies or faxes with better than 99% accuracy. Our tests showed much poorer accuracy on photocopies, faxes, and color printouts, but the results were good enough to represent a significant timesavings over retyping documents. Other documents were handled remarkably well, including text and images scanned from a full color magazine. --Elizabeth Wall ... Read more

Reviews (3)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCT
This is just a great product - I was great value - so i found it.

Great features but fatally flawed
I was very impressed with the quality OCR and the ease of use. However, I experienced frequent stability problems where the program refused to scan. When I spoke with Caere's technical support, they informed me that the program required 80% free system resources in Win 98. I found that I dropped below 80% when running only virus software, Outlook, Word and a few smaller programs. This rendered Omnipage of no use to me. Without this flaw I would have given it five stars.

easy to use
hello just installed it the other day and have had grreat responses from the people here at work on how much easier it is to use versus our other scanning programs. so this will be the only program that we will use from now on. ... Read more

Features

• Command-line integration -- Call up any executable program that meets your needs
• Keep a list of your changes after each document is processed, in a. lst file -- constantly updated lists capture and log each change
• Partial document recognition speeds up the conversion process
• Automatic document orientation detection and text deskew features
• IRISpdf 2 Server supports the following files for input -TIF, PDF, BMP, PCX, PNG, DCX, JPG, JPEG, IMG, PSD, PCT

Amazon.com Product Description

OmniPage Pro 11 is the fastest, easiest way to turn paper documents into digital files you can edit. It features superior accuracy and the ability to convert PDF files into Microsoft Office documents. OmniPage Pro 11 extends its recognition capabilities from 13 to 114 languages and from one to three alphabets, including Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic. This new version also handles grayscale and color images. It can use the extra pixel-depth information in grayscale images to internally generate black-and-white images for optimized OCR performance.

The new page formatter in OmniPage Pro 11 allows you to maintain every aspect of your original document, including columns, tables, and font styles. You can save documents in PDF format for archiving or sharing: image and paper documents can be transformed into PDF files for searching, preservation, and cross-platform distribution. The new IntelliTrain feature takes note of the changes you make in the proofing process. It then goes on its own "search and destroy" mission to find any recurrence of similar errors and corrects them automatically.

New despeckle enhancements allow you to take degraded documents like faxes and copies and recognize them with accuracy. And the ability to maintain text alignment and cell styles of spreadsheets and tables (even no-grid tables) means you won't have to worry about retyping or reformatting. You can also perform OCR functions directly from your favorite Microsoft programs for hassle-free OCR. This feature works with Office 97, 2000, and XP. WYSIWYG HTML output means you can easily turn documents into Web pages. With this version, the program can now also recognize color backgrounds and color text.

This version of OmniPage Pro 11 supports five users and comes packaged in one box with five CD-ROMs. ScanSoft includes a single set of supporting media and documentation. ... Read more

Features

• Multiple optical paths per channel provide optimum averaging of pixels/pitch
• Accurate chromaticity within. 003
• Scratch-free glass cover for lens for accuracy and protection
• Includes special MancoOPTIX attachment for hooded CRT monitors

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Perfect for home users, Pagis ScanWorks is a versatile product that enables you to edit and organize both photos and documents. ScanWorks offers incredible features like fun photo editing, one-button color copying, faxing, forms fill-in, annotations, easy e-mailing of color photos, and so much more. Discover all the ways ScanWorks can help you be creative with photos, plus keep track of receipts, bills, business cards, and other important documents. ... Read more

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TextBridge Pro Millennium, Business Edition, is a paper-to-Web-content solution for your business. It is designed to be a high-speed, highly accurate paper-to-PDF, paper-to-HTML generator and corporate-level OCR (Optical Character Recognition) product. This new release offers a 27% improvement in PDF file compression, which means faster transmission and display of images that have been converted to PDF by using this product.

This product is suited to companies in paper-intensive industries (including the legal, health care, pharmaceutical, and education fields) and scanning-service bureaus, as well as government entities. Once information has been published to PDF format, it is easy to archive, search, retrieve, and share throughout an organization on the corporate intranet, Internet, or removable media such as CD.

There are no limits to the number of PDF files that can be created or output. While TextBridge Pro Millennium is designed to recognize complex formatting such as columns and cell tables, it is not a forms-scanning package. It is designed to work with all scanners that are compliant with TWAIN (industry-standard interface), with the exception of triple-pass scanners and Visioneer's sheet-fed scanners. The quality of scanner that is used and the level of controls that the device offers play significant roles in determining the quality of a scanned image. ... Read more

Reviews (2)

OCR OK!
As opposed to the previous reviewer, I have found the product excellent in both pure OCR and tabular data. Maybe my standards are lower, having graduated from a definite One-Star product, Caere's OmniPage Limited Edition that came packaged with my Canon scanner.

Don't waste your money. Nothing has changed!
Scansoft's promise of 99% accuracy is dead on if the only thing you want to scan is pure text. This product is garbage if you choose to scan tables. Oddly table and column recognition were supposed to be the most touted improvements. In my opinion, nothing has changed since Textbridge 98. The text recognition is excellent. But everything else is GARBAGE! Much as is my rating of this product! $372.99 of PURE GARBAGE. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

TextBridge Pro incorporates powerful optical character recognition (OCR) technology and an easy-to-use interface so you can quickly convert paper documents into fully editable text files, complete with the original layouts. Files produced by TextBridge Pro are compatible with many word-processing, desktop-publishing, database, and spreadsheet applications. It comes with recognition for English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish. ... Read more