Pagis Pro Millenium

by Nuance Communications, Inc.

Product Features

• Pagis Pro Millennium is several things bundled into one package, including
• ?Full version of TextBridge Pro Millennium leading OCR software
• ?Full version of Kai's PhotoSoap2 color photo editor
• ?Full version of Pagis Scanning utilities
• ?Pagis Scanning Interface, ?Pagis Editor, ?Forms Fill-In, ?Document Search

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• 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: B00004S3C6
• Item model number: 31-09683-00
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,044 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #69 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Scanning & OCR
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

?A big part of Pagis Pro is TextBridge Pro. Textbridge Pro is very sophisticated OCR software (Optical Character Recognition), which converts a scanned image of a text page into editable text characters for your word processor. It is easy to use, and it will work standalone, or from the menu of most word processors, or integrated into Pagis Pro. TextBridge Pro generally can preserve the original page formatting in regard to fonts, columns, tables, and color images (if desired, there are many options). There are installable dictionaries for 56 languages!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great concept, poor execution, October 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Pagis Pro Millenium (CD-ROM)

I bought Pagis because of its full range of functions (copier, fax, storage, search engine) and its file mgt system, with easy access thru Windows Explorer-type folders. Unfortunately, I've had nothing but trouble getting it to work as advertised. Incessant crashes, cumbersome scanner interface, patches that don't work, I wish I had $1 for every time I had to un- and re-install this program. The indexing function is a time-consuming nightmare which crashed on (rather than simply bypassing)any file deemed "corrupted." This aborted a 2-3 hour indexing session and required me to start all over only to have it choke again. The OCR for indexing is buggy, and I was able to show tech support verified examples of the search engine completely missing strings that were readily visible in the indexed document. I grew tired of the "re-install and re-index" routine and chalked it up to experience. Pagis was a monumental waste of my money and the many hours I spent trying to get it to work.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars great when it works, August 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Pagis Pro Millenium (CD-ROM)

I used Pagis Pro 3 (part of PP Millenium)for several months. It was very slow and crashed from time to time. I did like it's features, though. I was able to customize scans and got good copies. Textbridge worked OK with b & w typed material but made lots of errors with color magazine articles and took ages to correct.

Since upgrading to IE5.5 I haven't gotten Pagis to work. Scansoft's patch and technical support haven't solved the problem either.

Overall, a good program (when it works), but buggy.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save Your Money, January 14, 2001

By 

R. Lade "prophoto" (Palm Beach, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pagis Pro Millenium (CD-ROM)

Go out for dinner with the money you'd have spent on this program! I haven't had so much trouble with software since the Norton System Works nightmare! Not only is this program slow to operate, it tends to stop other thing from operating...like my scanner. And that's the device that this software is supposed to enhance. Not in this lifetime! I spent many hours trying different combinations of scanner drivers and updated drivers from Mustek all to no avail. Nothing I tried would allow all of my scanner fuctions to operate. When I could scan photos, the Text Bridge program in Pagis wouldn't work. When I got the Text Bridge program to function, the photo editing portion of the scanner software wouldn't work. Then, when I tried to scan a picture directly into an editing program, things locked up and my only out was to do "control - alt - delete" to open task manager and "end task" that way so I could get out of the locked program.

I'm not going to take up a lot of your time or mine here. In short, find another way to do what Pagis Pro says it will do and won't. Fortunately, I bought this at Costco so it's returnable. Guess where I'm going tomorrow!