OMNIPAGE PRO OFFICE V14 CD MOST

by ScanSoft

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• ASIN: B0000XNXTW
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 12, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,520 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #69 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Scanning & OCR

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

OmniPage Pro 14 Office will help your organization reach new levels of productivity by eliminating the manual reproduction of documents. Precision OCR technology, advanced layout analysis, and powerful editing tools allow business professionals to efficiently turn office documents into over 30 different PC applications for editing, searching, and sharing. Custom workflow creation makes it easier than ever to handle large volumes of paper--helping to streamline the conversion process and complete work faster than ever. Robust new tools enable you to print to PDF, turn text documents into audio books, and add digital signatures to your electronic documents. Save time and money like never before with the world's most powerful document conversion application.

Features:

• Unmatched accuracy: brand new OCR engines ensure the highest accuracy available--well over 99% accurate.
• Precise layout retention: Text formatting looks just like the original. Edited text now flows naturally around any graphic object no matter what size or shape.
• PDF printing: OmniPage now creates PDF files from any application. Simply print to PDF to turn any file into a perfectly formatted searchable PDF file.
• Custom workflows: OmniPage tailors itself to your needs, distilling all your favorite multistep batch conversion processes into single mouse click or voice command.
• Secure archive creation: digital signatures and encryption will ensure that the documents you turn into PDF files will not be tampered with--security and authenticity are ensured.
• Audio book publishing: paper and electronic documents can now be converted into natural sounding audio files for playback or burning to CD.
• Voice control: use your voice to edit documents and activate workflows, or have OmniPage read back text for easy proofing.
• Microsoft Office 2003 support: now users can output to all Office 2003 applications including the new Word ML format.
• Vertical dictionaries: legal, medical, and financial terminology and jargon are now recognized, ensuring fast and accurate recognition of important documents.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OmniPage Pro 14 is amazing, April 15, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: OMNIPAGE PRO OFFICE V14 CD MOST (CD-ROM)

I have been an OmniPage user for several years and find version 14 by far the easiest and most powerful version. Its ease of busting .pdf files is incredible. Although it took me a few hours of playing with the software to understand some of its nuances, I find that I can scan, edit, and transfer into Word with ease. If I'm scanning a clean copy of a document, with my adf on my scanner, I can very easily scan in a multipage document, OCR it, organize it, and save to Word. Once in Word it is easy to convert the .rtf to .doc, and wham! it is ready to go.

I have some difficulty in editing graphics linked to text in multiple columns once it is in Word, but it is becaue I don't understand the complexities of how Word does formatting, not because of any deficiencies in OmniPage 14.

Yes, there is a learning curve with the program, but that is to be expected when purchasing or upgrading any software, isn't it?

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Significantly better than prior versions., February 26, 2004

By 

Diego Banducci (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: OMNIPAGE PRO OFFICE V14 CD MOST (CD-ROM)

Over the years, Scansoft has developed an ugly reputation for shipping software before its prime (Omnipage Pro 12 locked up under Windows XP), but this version runs clean out of the box and the accuracy is excellent.

The interface is still not user-friendly, so you'll spend a lot of time trying to understand it. The translation from PDF into Word works sporadically. In some cases, I had to translate from PDF into TIFF and then back into Word using OCR.

All in all, a useful program, but could be better.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unusable for professional batch use, December 8, 2005

By 

Michael Bayer "Senior IT Consultant" (Berlin, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: OMNIPAGE PRO OFFICE V14 CD MOST (CD-ROM)

There is no way of using OmniPage Pro 14 in a professional way for batch processing.

We need to do some serious OCR in a productive law firm environment. Ironically, Omnipage's OCR works well ... BUT: there is a so-called "BatchManager" included, which is supposed to let you define workflows. For example, you may want to watch a folder for incoming files to do OCR and move the scanned files to an output folder.

However, this "BatchManager" seems to be programmed in an incredible quick and dirty way. After a certain amount of scanned documents, the BatchManager would not even open anymore.

It pulls 50% CPU and lots of memory (on a big, fat production server) and is only trying in vain to display itself.

You cannot open it anymore. You cannot stop it anymore. Neither booting the server nor killing system processes does any good.

Conclusion: OmniPage Pro 14 might we fine for doing some pages at home in your private office. Professional usage might endanger your environment, so you better look someplace else.