OMNIPAGE PRO 12 OFFICE

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Summary: Great product, stocked with cool extras!
Review: Love this software! Very accurate, fast, and easy to use. Let's me convert all my files into HTML and quickly update my company's Web site. Can do a ton of cool stuff: turn scans into e-mail attachments, have the computer "read back" your files, scan magazines two pages at a time, etc. Recognizes a bunch of different languages-very helpful when updating the Spanish section of our site. Easy to understand user's manual. Highly recommended!

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Summary: Quality + Speed + Accuracy = Very Satisfied Customer
Review: More accurate than any other scanning software on the market. Equipped with a bevy of good features, many of which you'll actually use. Can even scan and manipulate PDFs. This feature alone is worth the price, which is very reasonable given the power and performance. Have purchased ScanSoft products before for their speed and reliability. Omnipage Pro 12 Office is another impressive leap forward. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Quality + Speed + Accuracy = Very Satisfied Customer
Review: More accurate than any other scanning software on the market. Equipped with a bevy of good features, many of which you'll actually use. Can even scan and manipulate PDFs. This feature alone is worth the price, which is very reasonable given the power and performance. Have purchased ScanSoft products before for their speed and reliability. Omnipage Pro 12 Office is another impressive leap forward. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Omnipage Pro 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 [a fee]to submit a problem form. Imagine, paying them to spend time fixing their own mistake! This is a bad way to conduct business.

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Summary: Great product, great price
Review: Powerful software with multiple functionalities. Easy to use and exceptionally accurate. Favorite options: ability to edit PDFs and convert scanned files into HTML. Software saves a lot of time and pays for itself over the course of a couple months. Very satisfied. Can't beat the power for the price. Great product!

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Summary: Great product, great price
Review: Powerful software with multiple functionalities. Easy to use and exceptionally accurate. Favorite options: ability to edit PDFs and convert scanned files into HTML. Software saves a lot of time and pays for itself over the course of a couple months. Very satisfied. Can't beat the power for the price. Great product!

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Summary: Keeps getting better
Review: Strong update of an already user-friendly, proven product. Some good new features here, like recognizing over 100 foreign languages and conversion to XML. Still very fast, very powerful, and very accurate. Easy to edit documents after they've been scanned; even PDF files and spreadsheets are manageable-no small feat! Can also convert easily to HTML; definitely makes life easier for our Web masters. Also pleased that it can save documents into several word processing programs, not just Word-hey, some of us (where few and far between, I know) still use WordPerfect! Every bit as good as its predecessor and worth the upgrade. Five stars.

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Summary: Keeps getting better
Review: Strong update of an already user-friendly, proven product. Some good new features here, like recognizing over 100 foreign languages and conversion to XML. Still very fast, very powerful, and very accurate. Easy to edit documents after they've been scanned; even PDF files and spreadsheets are manageable-no small feat! Can also convert easily to HTML; definitely makes life easier for our Web masters. Also pleased that it can save documents into several word processing programs, not just Word-hey, some of us (where few and far between, I know) still use WordPerfect! Every bit as good as its predecessor and worth the upgrade. Five stars.