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Summary: Best OmniPage Yet
Review: I've been using OmniPage since version 6, and this is by far the best version ever. I wasn't going to upgrade this time, but I saw the PC Magazine editor's choice + 5 star award and figured it would be worth it. It was. The formatting and accuracy are nearly perfect, and the PDF conversion is a great step forward from version 11. The time savings associated with those conversions more than paid for this product.
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Summary: Best OmniPage Yet
Review: I've been using OmniPage since version 6, and this is by far the best version ever. I wasn't going to upgrade this time, but I saw the PC Magazine editor's choice + 5 star award and figured it would be worth it. It was. The formatting and accuracy are nearly perfect, and the PDF conversion is a great step forward from version 11. The time savings associated with those conversions more than paid for this product.
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Summary: Freezes up under Windows XP
Review: I've used Omnipage since version 9, and always it has been the same story--Good software that is a nightmare to install. The best advice is to wait until the first patch comes out.I've installed and reinstalled this version numerous times, always with the same result--it works once, then freezes up after that. Don't look for help from Scansoft support. Although there are messages posted describing this problem, there's no fix. Not good.
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Summary: Omnipage Pro 12 Loves to Crash
Review: Omnipage Pro 12 loves to crash. So much so, that it is impossible to batch convert a folder of files to Adobe Acrobat .pdf "image with text", which is the only really useful Adobe Acrobat format. Here we are in the year 2003, and software developers still haven't figured out how to gracefully exit their programs when the unexpected happens. Ominpage Pro 12 simply cannot deal with Adobe Acrobat .pdf formats well. Review the user groups on Scansoft's website, and you will see two major problems with its Acrobat compatibility. The first is when using Scansoft on an existing .pdf image file. Importing the .pdf file, capturing the text, and saving the file as .pdf "image with text" (which is supposed to save the ORIGINAL image with searchable background text) causes the image to degrade. Don't ask me why, but the image in the output file is not the same quality as the imported .pdf image. So to work around this issue, I started scanning our documents into .tif format (600x600) on our high speed scanner, and then importing the .tifs into Scansoft, for conversion to .pdf "image with text". The resulting .pdf files were graphically sharper than when I had imported existing .pdf files. The big problem is that running the Omnipage Pro 12 "Schedule OCR" on the folder of .tif files, Omnipage Pro 12 simply crashes at random places in the conversion process. No graceful exit. No warning. To summarize, Scansoft's Omnipage Pro 12 is inadequate to save files as .pdf "image with text". It crashes. And this happens on both a Windows 98 PC and a Windows 2000 PC, so it's not a PC-specific issue. Scansoft wants to charge you money to submit a problem form. Imagine, paying them to spend time addressing their own mistake! This is a bad way to conduct business.
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