Features

• Create any number of different file types without having to launch a new application
• Convert your PDF into a. TIF image or an easily-edited text file -- or convert your. TIF to a PDF document
• Advanced security features like password protection, and hidden files no hard drive search can access
• Flexible file org tools combine with powerful search and retrieval functions, to make storing and finging your documents a snap
• Stronger data compression with no loss of quality

Product Description

OmniPage Pro Office - ( v. 14 ) - upgrade license - 5 users - EDU, GOV - Win, English ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

Universal OCR 3.0 has an impressive list of features: it supports an incredible 33 languages; it's 99 percent accurate; it uses any model scanner; and it scans, formats, and changes languages with the touch of a button. It also learns new characters; its 32-bit power easily reads low-quality print; it retains formatting and recognizes tables in spreadsheets; it includes a Page Analysis Mode; its Twain compliant technology automatically configures to ALL modern scanners; and it includes Internet Explorer Multilingual Edition. Now your scanner can turn foreign language text into editable text files that can be used by your word processor, spreadsheet, publishing software--just about anything. The Universal OCR is designed to work independently, or fully integrates with the Universal Translator Deluxe to extend the latter's powerful language translation capabilities to printed media. ... Read more

Reviews (1)

Save your money Language Force makes inferior products
Anything I ever bought from this company Language force has been pure garbage. It never works the way they claim it is suppose to, just read all the reviews about the language translantors they make. Save your money. ... Read more

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good enough
if you want a scanner to give you high quality pictures, this is not the one for you... the quality is fairly good but ive seen better. I do recommend it if you dont care much about the quality because the price is very good. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

Pagis Pro Millennium offers five integrated applications in one suite, enabling customers to maximize the value of their scanners, digital cameras, and electronic files.

• Pagis provides the capability to scan and organize electronic versions of documents and photos. Key features include:
  • Extensive search and retrieval of both electronic and image document files using text, keywords, dates, names, and file types. Pagis integrates seamlessly into the Windows Explorer file structure, making it easy for users to organize and find their files.
  • Support for files on local, removable, and network drives; management of all these from the Pagis Inbox
  • Shared network access by multiple Pagis users to a single Pagis database for workgroup collaboration
  • Compressed file format for efficient use of disk space and faster e-mail communications over networks, reducing bottlenecks
  • Full thumbnail support to visually manage scanned documents, photos, application files, and Web pages
  • Electronic document viewer to view files independent of the original application
  TextBridge Pro Millennium turns paper documents into electronic files without retyping. With better than 99 percent accuracy, TextBridge Pro retains the format and layout of the original document and lets users output to their favorite word processor, spreadsheet, Web authoring tool, e-mail package, or other application. This latest version of TextBridge Pro is Windows 2000 certified, providing support for the latest Microsoft operating system.

  Kai's PhotoSoap 2 provides quick and easy photo organizing, editing, restoration enhancements, and special effects as well as options for creating unique output for print and export to the Web, including photo albums.

  Pagis Forms Fill-In allows users to simply scan in a form, tab, and type. It alleviates the need for a typewriter or filling in by hand.

  Pagis Copier makes color copies, using a scanner and color printer, saving users a trip to the copy machine.

Reviews (10)

Works well for me - but not really supported anymore
I have used this product for 3 years now. It worked well on Win NT and on Win 98SE. I upgraded to Win XP and it still works fine. It is functionally rich and I couldn't live without the form filling component. Don't expect much support from ScanSoft. They appear to have dropped this product from their roadmap and are now concentrating on others.

Doesn't work well with XP
Initially it works well with XP until about the 3rd consecutive scan. After that is jams the scan cue and eventually will hang.
My advice is to save your money if you have XP. Get a Hewlett Packard printer, which has a decent driver and an excellent user interface to merge files together into a single document. Then drag the files it into Adobe Acrobat. I have a lexmark X125, which has a very poorly designed user interface with very few options for scanning.

Don't Upgrade your OS to XP!
I have had Pagis and its upgrades for a number of years. After many problems such as described in the other negative reviews, I was reduced to mostly using it to scan text to file or as a copying function. I do prefer its copying function to that which comes with my scanner. I upgraded to XP and Pagis text scanning and copy function continued to work well until I bought a new scanner. When I experienced problems with my new scanner, I paid 9.75 to Scan Soft for email technical support and apparnetly I paid that to be told that Pagis is not compatible with XP. Evidently they have no intention of upgradng or solving this problem. I'm through with Scan Soft products!

Software great, BUT WYSIWYG
Don't expect much from scansoft in either updates or customer concern. I would've paid for a new XP compatible upgrade. However Scansoft showed me no concern or regard for us ... who bought the original pagis and then the upgrade. I will do without an "easy" document handling solution before I will deal again with Scansoft Inc.

A fantastic program.
I've owned Pagis Pro Millenium for the past three years and found its ability to perform key word searches on saved Word documents invaluable. I maintained a folder with over 3,000 resumes in it and using this program, I was able to do key word searches to locate potential candidates for our clients. It would then rank the resumes by the number of hits. Thanks to Pagis Pro, we did not have to trouble our candidates with forms that attempted to key word their attributes. I was using both Windows 98 and Windows 2000 with HP Scanners and never had the problems that the other reviews profess. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

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)

As good as it gets
I hate scanners. They're slow, cumbersome, and incredibly inefficient. I always end up with a document that's garbled and filled with incoherent symbols. Worse of all, I spend a ton of time proofreading and retyping words (sometimes complete paragraphs!) that for some reason or another got lost. Somehow OmniPage Pro 12 Office gets it right. Matched up against other scanning software, it's surprisingly accurate and features a lot of practical bells and whistles. My favorites: being able to convert spreadsheets into Excel files, edit PDF files, and scan two pages at once. Good stuff, definitely worth checking out.

Perfection
A real time-saver. I send literally hundreds of PDF files to clients every week. In the past, I'd create a design, e-mail a PDF to them, and they'd call back with suggestions and changes. A lot of telephone tag and a lot of redesigning. Now I have them fax or mail me their specs, I scan with OmniPage Pro 12 Office and then create a PDF with their exact specifications. Works exceptionally well and cuts down on translation mistakes. I can also convert files into HTML and post them on our Web site so clients can view our proposals whenever they want. Still learning the software-there's a lot of great features here-but I'm very pleased so far. A stellar addition to my workspace, thumbs up!

Omnipage Pro 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 [a fee]to submit a problem form. Imagine, paying them to spend time fixing their own mistake! This is a bad way to conduct business.

Valuable, but not the best
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. OP12 is a good package and can serve some needs adequately, but for my work, FR6 is superior in every respect. 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.

Both do a good job of scanning. FR6 offers the option of more control over the scanning process, but OP12 generally does well with its automatic settings.

OCR is another story, for several reasons. First of all, when the going gets tough, OP12 quits in a huff, at least on my system. It will suddenly crash with 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. FR6 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 altogether 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, OP12 is a good product and will no doubt serve many people well. If it comes free or at a very low price my advice would be to try it and see if it fills your needs. However, FR6 is more generally useful, faster, and trouble-free -- and significantly cheaper.

Will O'Neil

PS: I should remark that in the past I have complained of a few shortcomings in FR6 relating to scanning. I have now concluded that these were a result of scanner problems and/or some faulty settings on my part.

Quality + Speed + Accuracy = Very Satisfied Customer
More accurate than any other scanning software on the market. Equipped with a bevy of good features, many of which you'll actually use. Can even scan and manipulate PDFs. This feature alone is worth the price, which is very reasonable given the power and performance. Have purchased ScanSoft products before for their speed and reliability. Omnipage Pro 12 Office is another impressive leap forward. Highly recommended. ... Read more

Product Description

EzData can help you eliminate costly overhead by reducing the amount of time to get your data into a database. Customers from every industry including medical, legal, small business, education, research, travel, and more are successfully using EzData to streamline their processes. With EzData you can create processable forms in a matter of minutes. The database is automatically generated for you as you create the form. Its simply the best low cost solution for intelligent character recognition (ICR), object mark recognition (OMR), and bar-code form processing. Whether your business is processing 5 forms a day or 5000 EzData can handle it. Our custom TWAIN compliant scanner interface makes form capture and processing forms simple. Place a form on the flatbed scanner or a stack of forms in the document feeder and press the scan button. In a matter of seconds your forms will be begin processing and be displayed for review or automatically saved to the database. For batch processing you can automatically review the HTML processing report to validate the results. Get EzData form processing software and form creation software today and discover how simple it can be to create custom forms and capture handwritten data using our highly accurate handprint character recognition engines. ... Read more

Features

• Quickly and easily create forms for automatic processing
• Mulitple character recognition engines for form processing
• Microsoft Access database automatically generated for forms
• Customizable dictionary lookup for automatic data correction
• Supports processing of text, checkbox, image, and barcode fields

Amazon.com Product Description

TextBridge Pro 11 is the simple and fast way to convert paper into editable electronic documents, saving time and increasing productivity. New OCR engines deliver the most accurate TextBridge results ever--even on complex pages with graphics and tables. A completely redesigned user interface and a new text editor make processing and proofing faster and more intuitive.

TextBridge Pro 11 features improved accuracy resulting from redesigned recognition engines, which saves proofreading time and makes users more productive. As always, direct OCR is a feature that allows users to move text directly into Microsoft Word and other word processing documents, but now, tables and graphics will be retained as if the document was processed in OmniPage Pro. The new WYSIWYG text editor is intuitive and easier to operate. In addition, color text and color backgrounds are now recognized, for accurate retention of color documents.Note: This is the 25-user version. ... Read more