OmniPage Pro 8.0

by Nuance Communications, Inc.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00002S7X1
• Item model number: 2801A-COO8.0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,829 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #43 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Scanning & OCR
  • #87 in Software > Operating Systems > Macintosh
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

OmniPage Pro 8 is an OCR (optical character recognition) program, and its sole function is to import pictures of pages of text and convert these pictures of words into editable text. It works with virtually every scanner available, and it is so good at what it does it should be bundled with all of them.

Only a few years ago, OCR packages were terribly slow and horribly inaccurate. OmniPage Pro will shatter any preconceptions you may have had regarding an OCR package--it has extremely accurate recognition, and on a contemporary G3 Mac it flies.

Version 8 has some exciting improvements as well. The TruePage feature maintains the page layout and graphics of the original scanned document, columns and all, and translated documents can be exported to HTML format for use on the Web. A built-in proofreader not only checks the scanned image for errors, it displays the original scanned document for manual (visual) checking by comparison.

We could see that there might be diminishing need for a product like this, as many content producers are Web savvy from the start. But those who need it often have a lot of scanning to do. OmniPage Pro 8 can not only help tame that mountain of paperwork, but it'll also help you get it on the Web quickly. --Mike Caputo

Amazon.com Product Description

OmniPage Pro 8.0 for Macintosh easily converts paper documents to computer-editable documents with better than 99 percent accuracy so you can use them in your favorite applications. OmniPage Pro for Macintosh also retains color images from the original page.