ScanSoft OmniPage 15 [OLD VERSION]

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Product Features

• New OCR engines cut proofreading time and effort by delivering superior accuracy
• Converted documents look exactly like the original ¿ complete with columns, tables, bullets and graphics
• OmniPage's new engines improve both speed and accuracy to deliver the results you want
• Scanner Enhancement Technology (SET) tools improve the quality of scanned documents, faxes and poor quality copies
• Paper documents can be instantly converted into searchable PDF files for archiving or sharing

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AMPJPY
• Item model number: 2889A-G00-15.0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 28, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,186 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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OmniPage 15, the latest version of the world’s best selling Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, is the most precise way to convert paper and PDF files into your favorite PC applications. Powerful new OCR technology, advanced layout analysis and intuitive editing tools allow you to quickly turn paper and PDF files into editable electronic documents that look just like the original – complete with text, tables and graphics. What’s more, improved speed and time-saving capabilities combine to make document conversion faster and easier than you could imagine. OmniPage 15 includes our award winning voice recognition technology that gives you the ability to proof by voice and quickly turn any document into an audio CD. Save time and money like never before with the world’s most powerful document conversion application.

With OmniPage 15, it's a simple process to convert virtually any document - either paper or electronic – to be saved in over 25 different formats including Microsoft® Word, Excel®, PDF, XML, and PowerPoint®. View larger.

Instantly Convert Paper and PDF Files into Editable Documents
OmniPage 15 is more than simply a paper-to-digital conversion tool. When you want to make paper digital, OmniPage 15 is up to the task with superior speed and accuracy. Powerful new OCR engines improve accuracy by 25% and dramatically reduce your proofreading time. Accurately recognize and format tables, punctuation and symbols to accelerate document conversion tasks. New improved output makes the editing process smoother than ever before with perfectly formatted output that properly flows from column-to-column and page-to-page. Our IntelliTrain proofing system "learns" your editing style by recording previous corrections to generate better OCR results in each successive document.

Share Information with Ease
Sharing paper documents online is now a breeze. Quickly convert information into electronic PDF files, HTML Web pages and email attachments to simplify the distribution of information. Audio Book Publishing allows you to transform both paper and electronic documents into natural-sounding audio files for playback or burning to a CD. Take documents with you wherever you go as .wav files for added portability and convenience.

NEW Tools!
Also included in this upgrade are the NEW Scanner Enhancement Technology (SET) tools which allow you to improve the quality of degraded documents. The recognition of copies, faxes, and other degraded documents is better than ever before. That means less time wasted, no rescans and great conversion results.

Convert Paper into Searchable PDF Archives
Paper can be quickly converted into any number of searchable, secure PDF formats that are space-efficient and easily retrievable on your PC. Because OmniPage 15 is the most accurate, the retrieval process will be as well. A search is only as accurate as the OCR that was used to index the document.

The newly converted document retains its original formatting including text, tables, columns, headers and footers, bullets and graphics – so you can edit it just like working within the original application. View larger.

Automatically Convert from One Format to Another
OmniPage 15 lets you unlock information trapped in PDF files. Quickly convert almost all image formats into editable files for your existing PC applications, such as Microsoft Word and Excel. Set up your own custom workflows that distill multi-step conversion processes into a single mouse click or command so you can concentrate on other tasks. OmniPage even benefits from the use of our market leading voice control and audio output technology. Activate jobs simply by speaking and proof with your voice faster and more efficiently than typing!

Top 10 Reasons to Buy OmniPage 15:

1. Save Time and Effort with Unmatched OCR Accuracy
   New OCR engines deliver superior accuracy that cuts proofreading to a minimum and makes you more productive.
2. Maintain Perfect Formatting
   Converted documents look exactly like the original – complete with columns, tables, bullets and graphics. Improved output makes editing smoother than ever before.
3. Speed Is What You Need
   OmniPage’s new engines improve both speed and accuracy – an OCR first! Speed and precision combine to deliver the results you want faster than ever before.
4. Improve Poor Quality Documents
   Scanner Enhancement Technology (SET) tools improve the quality of scanned documents, faxes and poor quality copies. Straightening, despeckling and color conversion ensure you get the results you need.
5. Turn Paper into Searchable PDF Archives
   Paper documents can be instantly converted into searchable PDF files for archiving or sharing.
6. Convert PDF Files into Your Favorite Program
   Turn any PDF file into your favorite PC application for easy editing.
7. Proofread Documents Quickly and Easily
   Improved Intellitrain proofing is the easy way to confirm OCR accuracy. Dynamic Verification ensures your changes are fast and accurate.
8. Turn Any Paper or Electronic Document into an Audio File
   Advanced text to speech technology can turn any document into a natural sounding audio files for playback or burning to CD. Now important information goes anywhere you go.
9. Recognize Multiple Languages
   OmniPage recognizes over 100 different languages and even recognizes multiple languages on the same page!
10. Share Paper Documents Online
    Converting paper documents into PDF files, HTML Web pages, and e-mail attachments makes it easy to share important documents instantly.

Product Description

OmniPage 15, the latest version of the world’s best selling OCR software, is the most precise way to convert paper and PDF files into your favorite PC applications. Powerful new OCR technology, advanced layout analysis and intuitive editing tools allow you to quickly turn paper and PDF files into editable electronic documents that look just like the original – complete with text, tables and graphics.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

58 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Appears to be a significant improvement over OmniPage 14, August 20, 2005

By	Diego Banducci (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

I have just purchased this upgrade, so the following comments should be viewed as preliminary. Still, some information is better than none.

Having used OmniPage since its beginning, I have been irritated by the company's practice of releasing software before it has driven the bugs out. That does not appear to be a problem in this case. The software loaded cleanly and came up and works properly.

As one would expect after 15 shots at it, character recognition is generally excellent.

The big advance is in speed of operation. Compared to ver. 14, this version flies, which will probably be the improvement of greatest interest to users.

The interface remains non-user-friendly. New users will go crazy trying to figure out how to use it, but once you do, it's worth it.

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unstable, expensive support, August 23, 2005

By	Gregory S. Hartman (Elizabethtown, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased this product two weeks ago to convert some PDF files to searchable format. When I could get the OCR to start it did a good job of converting the text. The interface was difficult to use, and in about 20% of the runs the application would hang before beginning the conversion. When I attempted to use set up batch scans the system crashed while I was configuring it in 100% of the runs.

I would have reported the problem to technical support, but the publisher charges per incident. To be fair they do offer to wave the charge for the first incident, but since the program crashed in the first five minutes of use it seemed like I would be contacting support more than once. I finally took advantage of the 30-day money back guarantee (I'd highly recommend checking that this applies if you're thinking about buying the program) and purchased Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 instead.

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Scansoft's Omnipage continues to disappoint..., October 21, 2005

By	Bryan Michael (Menlo Park, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a computer scientist of 15+ years, I've seen my share of buggy code, frustrating application GUIs and useless technical support. But I must say that Scansoft's Omnipage far exceeds even the worst apps I've ever used (and I have used a lot). I'm able to crash the application in several ways- all repeatable. Some of the problems are more random but they all involve crashes or hangs that end up loosing whatever you were working on. I've submitted several of these bugs to their technical support- for which I have the pleasure of paying them $19.95 "per incident". Most of their responses involve "it works for me" or some type of unacceptable work around which no human being should ever have to subject themselves. They have yet to address the problem head on.

It's amazing to me that such a bad product has a significant market share - is this market too small to attract more competitors? It certainly doesn't seem like it would be very hard to provide a better product than this.

The only free support they use to provide was a message board where customers could post problems and try to help each other. They now no longer let anyone register to post on these boards- probably because everyone was writing about how bad the product and company support are...

I highly recommend you try any other package than this before going with Omnipage. This should only be a last resort- and then you must prepare yourself for the frustration, anger and disappointment.

BTW- If you must use this product, avoid the "proof reader" tool at all costs. Many of the crashes and problems come from this tool (but not all).

Good luck.
Bryan Michael