Scansoft Omnipage 15 Professional Upgrade

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Product Features

• Repurpose documents automatically rather than retyping them
• Store paper documents as searchable electronic archives
• Share documents broadly and quickly via email and the Web
• Editing or updating information requires the time consuming task of retyping the paper document
• Filing information and retrieving it requires time spent searching through paper files, manila folders and file cabinets

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8 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: B000AQSTMK
• Item model number: E789A-G00-15.0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 2, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,433 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

OmniPage Professional 15 allows business professionals to achieve new levels of productivity by eliminating the manual reproduction of documents. Precision OCR analysis, advanced layout detection, Logical Form Recognition (LFR) technology, and advanced security features quickly turn office documents and forms into over 30 different PC applications for editing, searching, and sharing. Custom workflows handle large volumes of documents with a click of the mouse or the push of a button on your scanner or all-in-one device. Robust tools enable you to print to PDF, turn text documents into audio books, and add digital signatures to your electronic documents. In addition, the award-winning, ScanSoft PDF Create! and PDF Converter programs are included providing a complete and unmatched PDF solution.

Features:

• Fastest, most accurate OCR engines
• Improved formatting
• Make paper forms digital
• Advanced workflow automation
• Digital-to-digital document conversion
• Scanner Enhancement Technology (SET) tools
• Google Desktop Search with OmniPage indexing

Product Description

Marketing Information:

OmniPage Professional 15 allows business professionals to achieve new levels of productivity by eliminating the manual reproduction of documents. Precision OCR analysis, advanced layout detection, Logical Form Recognition (LFR) technology, and advanced security features quickly turn office documents and forms into over 30 different PC applications for editing, searching and sharing. Custom workflows handle large volumes of documents with a click of the mouse or the push of a button on your scanner or All-in-One device. Robust tools enable you to print to PDF, turn text documents into audio books and add digital signatures to your electronic documents. In addition, the award winning, ScanSoft PDF Create! and PDF Converter programs are included providing a complete and unmatched PDF solution.

Product Information

Software Sub Type: OCR Utility

Software Name: OmniPage v.15.0 Professional - Upgrade

Features & Benefits:

The Most Accurate OCR and Layout Retention

The Best in Speed and Accuracy

Improved Formatting

Batch Digital PDF Archive

Amazing Digital-to-Digital Document Conversion

Automatic Form Conversion from Paper and Digital

Point and Click Document Capture and Workflows

The Most Editable Word Conversion

Never Rescan Another Document with SET Tools

Includes PDF Create! and PDF Converter 3.0

Create Audio Documents from Paper and Digital Documents

Language Support: English

Platform Support: PC

License Information

License Type: Product Upgrade

License Pricing: Standard

License Quantity: 1 User

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is a Downgrade from OP Pro 14, October 15, 2005

By	Price - See all my reviews

Buyer beware on this "upgrade." As a long-time customer of ScanSoft products who has been highly satisfied with the OmniPage software, I purchased my upgrade directly from ScanSoft and discovered:

1) If you want to set new styles in the Text Editor window, it must be done each time the software is started; the new styles do not save for me. Instead, they disappear each time I exit and I have to re-establish them each time I use the software.

2) When saving a scaned document to MS Word (using the function which automatically opens Word), the directory must be selected before the file name is entered because changing directories clears the file name box. The file name should not vanish. This is not a problem with Version 14.

3) When selecting text zones, the selection order is no longer relevant to the scanned results (this has also proven to be a problem with Version 14). Pre Version 14, the zones were numbered and they would be presented in the Text Editor window in that order. For at least the most recent two versions, if you scan parallel columns and select no formatting, whichever column's top border is higher on the scan path will be placed in the Text Editor window ahead of the other column(s). I scan recipes for my wife and reformat them to a standard format for her recipe collections; many recipes present the ingredients and/or instructions in parallel columns. It is not useful to have the baking instructions end up before the ingredients or the mixing instructions.

4) The automatic de-skew function is now weaker than in the past, as well. Many document now need to be manually de-skewed whereas Version 14 was almost foolproof.

I've spent hours on the web searching both the ScanSoft knowledge database and researching the above issues through various searches. The ScanSoft support is weaker than ever and, apparently, Version 15 is too new to have generated any truly useful support from other sites.

Although ScanSoft grants free technical support for one incident, their support is M-F, daytime, only. Additionally, they have shown no inclination to extend the free support to deal with defects they have (albeit, inadvertently) built into their product. I strongly believe that if the defect is in my use of a good product, then I should pay for my ignorance; however, if the defect is in the product in spite of my good use, ScanSoft should support the fixes and explanations without additional cost.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Upgrading makes your opd files unreadable, October 18, 2005

By	L. Miller (Colorado) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

While I was dazzled with the improved OCR accuracy, that can't make up for it silently making my old opd files unreadable. It is no good to read in the readme after installing that Omnipage 15 can only read files created in 15 and 14. Since the install process located version 11 on my machine, it *knew* it was going to make me unable to look at my previous research scans, and could have warned me that this version is not capable of reading my files!

This is not a new company, and while I admit I could have hunted for a readme on the CD before installing, to destroy customer access to their previous work files is not acceptable. Note that this is an UPGRADE version. The ability to import documents from the earlier versions is an absolute must!

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Caution! , October 10, 2005

By	Psybearian "psybearian" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

I purchased OmniPage 15 directly from Scansoft and got a special price because I owned another of their products. It has been a nightmare. First, it doesn't want to install all its parts and the PDF Create installer launches when ever you try to open a file...any file. It completely hosed my HP printer/scanner/fax/copier and then started to change my file icons.

My system is virus free and had been very stable. I run at least 4 antipest programs in addition to both a hardware and software firewall. I also am a computer professional. I have never experienced such a miserable performance from a major piece of software from a reputable house. I couldn't even uninstall it! To their credit the tech support is friendly, based in Florida and they try to help but...I can't be spending hours per week doing what the developers should have done in the first place.

I'll be returning my rights and asking for a refund.