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OmniPage Professional 17 Software

by Nuance Communications,

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Product Detail Information:

ASIN:	B0027ERW6C
Sales Rank:	1035
Catalog:	Software
Binding:	CD-ROM
Product Group:	Software
Product Type:	Software
Release Date:	2009-06-01
Brand:	Nuance Communications,
Manufacturer:	Nuance Communications,
Model:	E709A-G00-17.0
Part No:	E709A-G00-17.0
UPC:	780420120532
EAN:	0780420120532
Format:	CD-ROM
Hardware Platform:	Pc
Operating System:	Windows 2000
Platform(s):	Windows Vista Windows XP

Features:

OmniPage 17 Professional boasts improved OCR engines, delivering 99%+ accuracy for document conversion and archiving of business-critical documents
Converted documents look exactly like the original and are easier to edit than ever before, complete with columns, tables, bullets and graphics; Quick Convert View gets it done in seconds, with no need to learn a lot of options and tools
Scan a document, automatically convert into a readable format and send it to the Kindle electronic book reader in one easy step
Wide source support for mobile scanners, desktop scanners, all-in-one and multi-function printers, digital and mobile phone cameras, and more
Professional version includes PaperPort and PDF Create software, batch conversion, multi-function printer support for high volume scanning/conversion, and more

Product Description:

OMNIPAGE PRO 17.0 MINI BOX
OmniPage Professional 17 is the fastest, most precise way to convert paper, PDF files and forms with 99%+ accuracy into files you can edit in your favorite PC applications or archive in a document repository. OmniPage can recreate a 20 page paper document as a fully editable digital document in your favorite word processor in less than 2 minutes. It would take a person with normal typing skills about 2 1/2 hours to recreate that same document. Don't waste your time and let OmniPage do all the work for you.

Professional version also includes PaperPort (above) and PDF Create software. Click to enlarge.

Easy Loader allows you to quickly view, find and open multiple documents at a time. Click to enlarge.

Quick Convert View gets it done in seconds--there's no need to learn a lot of options and tools. Click to enlarge.

Scan a document, automatically convert into a readable format and send it to the Amazon Kindle. Click to enlarge.

New support for iPhone and 2-Megapixel phone cameras. Click to enlarge.

Quick and easy highlighting or redaction. Click to enlarge.

OmniPage Professional does so much more than scanning and recognizing text. Superior accuracy and formatting combine with easy-to-use workflow technology to automate all your conversion needs. Whether you want to make paper digital, create batches of PDF files, or collect data from filled electronic forms, OmniPage is up to the task. It can even scan, convert and send documents directly to your Amazon Kindle through email with the push of a single button.

OmniPage Professional also includes PaperPort desktop document management software and PDF Create software. PaperPort is seamlessly integrated with OmniPage Professional and makes Microsoft Windows better by allowing you to visually organize and manage all your documents. PDF Create allows you to create 100% industry-standard PDF file from any application.

Why use OmniPage?

Save time by automatically recreating documents without retyping them
Scan and send documents to your Amazon Kindle
Always find your documents by turning paper documents into searchable PDF electronic archives
Share documents broadly and quickly via email, Web, SharePoint or FTP
Create PDF files in batch
Use your connected network multi-function printer as a high speed scanner
Automate the collection and conversion of forms and data

What problems does OmniPage solve?

The continued use of paper slows organizations down and frequently leads to "knowledge re-creation." This wasted time, where workers have to re-create information from existing paper documents or search for misplaced documents, is a drain on both productivity and profits:

Editing or updating information requires the time consuming task of retyping the paper document--filling out forms and then collecting the data can be the most time consuming component
Filing information and retrieving it requires time spent searching through paper files, manila folders and file cabinets
Sharing information is limited to inefficient and costly processes such as postal mail, courier or fax machines--keeping information confidential is often a deterrent to sharing information digitally
Critical documents are not backed up electronically for effective disaster recovery.
Currently available OCR software included with a scanner, All-in-One or MFP device does not produce the quality required
Re-formatting or re-editing of converted documents may be as time consuming as re-typing especially for documents with images, columns and tables

It all comes down to a single question for paper or electronic documents--"How do I get the document into the format I want without having to do extensive re-typing or re-editing?"

OmniPage eliminates paper and digital inefficiency by improving productivity, enhancing responsiveness and reducing storage and material costs. Organizations save significant time and money by leveraging the superior OCR and document formatting accuracy of OmniPage to instantly convert documents into the format of their choice. Retyping is eliminated, tasks are automated, information is easily accessed and productivity soars.

What's New in OmniPage Professional 17?

New Send paper & PDF to Amazon Kindle with optimized formatting for reading and navigation
New Hyper-Binary Conversion delivers 42% accuracy increase for scanned documents
23% overall accuracy increase for PDF and digital documents
200% faster launch speed
21% faster processing and support for quad-core computers
New OmniPage One-Click Toolbar in Microsoft Office puts conversion at your fingertips
Dramatic improvements in document layout retention to reduce or eliminate corrections
Easy Loader allows you to quickly view, find and open multiple documents at a time
New support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean documents added to over 120 other languages
New support for iPhone and 2-Megapixel phone cameras
12% accuracy improvement for 3D-Capture using digital and mobile phone cameras
Improved OmniPage Batch Processing with new unattended processing option
New direct connection to Microsoft SharePoint 2007 web-repositories
New direct connection to OpenText Hummingbird and Interwoven iManage ECM systems
PDF/A compliance, and PDF 1.7 support

Key Features

Superior OCR accuracy
Improved OCR engines deliver 99%+ accuracy for document conversion and archiving business critical documents.

Maintain perfect formatting
Converted documents look exactly like the original and are easier to edit than ever before, complete with columns, tables, bullets and graphics.

Send to Amazon Kindle
Scan a document, automatically convert into a readable format and send it to the Kindle electronic book reader in one easy step.

Mobile document capture
Capture text with a digital camera or iPhone. Quickly convert your pictures to text documents with the most accurate 3D Correction technology available.

Works with any scanner
If your device can scan then it can work with OmniPage. Mobile scanners, desktop scanners, All-in-one and Multi-function printers all work more productively and with better accuracy using OmniPage

Supports all your favorite applications
Supports the widest range of output formats including PDF, HTML, Corel WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 plus many more formats.

Batch processing, amazing value
Schedule large volumes of files for batch processing from folders or email with unattended automation for real time processing of documents.

Complete forms processing
Convert paper forms to fillable and distribute electronically. OmniPage can collect data from PDF or paper forms and export to a spreadsheet or database.

Built-in automatic redaction and highlight
Redact or black out confidential text or quickly locate information with highlights. OmniPage can recognize and automatically mark up your text based on a list of key words.

Recognizes over 120 languages
Process, edit and store documents from anywhere in the world. Now includes Chinese, Japanese and Korean recognition.

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Legal Beagle

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

Fantastic and Poor

2/25/2010

I have had OmniPage 17 Professional for five months and use it to convert printed trial transcripts into scannable pdf documents. I previously used ReadIris Pro 9 but with it, there is a 50-page limit in one file and you can't and append documents or delete pages without totally destroying the search capabilities. With OmniPage, I can use my Adobe Acrobat to delete pages, insert pages, join files and the search capabilities remain intact.

Legal transcripts have line numbers along the left and when I do a search for a phrase that word wraps from one line to the other, I don't want an imbedded line queering the search. Both ReadIris Pro and OmniPage can get around that but with ReadIris Pro, you have to define areas you don't want included whereas with OmniPage, it has a Legal pleading option that does it all automatically.

Parts of the interface with OmniPage are quite nice, but most of it is so incredibly non-intuitive that I have not a clue how to make it work. The Help is worse than useless, obviously written by people who presume you already know things you don't, and I just finished searching for cottage industry books on how to use it and they don't exist, except for one for a very old version. So learning to use the features is going to be a very long and tedious trial and error experience. I for the life of me don't understand why software companies even bother putting in features that 99% of the users will never be able to find to use.

The accuracy of the OCR scans is amazingly accurate. However, when it does the conversion, it asks your input when it doesn't recognize something and it highlights something then gives you strange choices, for example "Ignore" and "Ignore All." One would think if you select "Ignore All," it would ignore it every time if finds it but it doesn't. It stiff stops at every occurrence. It offers you some guesses it makes and another option is "Change." But just clicking on change doesn't put the suggestion in. The suggestion is highlighted, but you have to click on it before clicking on change or it moves on without doing anything. You can also type in what you want it to be, but half the time, the "Change" button is deselected so once you type in what you want, you can't do anything with it. It is terribly non-intuitive.

It allows you to add something to the dictionary, but if you try doing that, it tells you that you have to create your own dictionary and name it and so on so I tried that and apparently that somehow screws the whole thing up because the OCR results became utterly awful after that, almost like it created a dictionary where every letter combination is a valid word.

So, if I click on Scan, then click on Recognize using the Legal Pleading option, then click on Create Document (or something like that), it does fine, but if I try to change anything, it generates total garbage. Oh, and when it creates documents, you have a choice of "Text" "Image" or "Multiple." Well, I want my original scanned image, but with text I can search buried in there somewhere, so I have to go with "Multiple," but when it does that, it creates both a pdf file and a Word file. I detest Word so don't want that, but I can't stop it, so it creates a lot of extra documents I don't want.

Oh, something I discovered (simply by trying it) is if you find a page didn't scan correctly or got missed, you can go to the thumbnail of the page before it and rescan the page that is screwed up, and it puts it right after the page you highlighted. You can also delete a page. The only thing to remember when you do this is when done, click in the area of the thumbnails, then press Ctrl A to select all pages, then click on your Recognition. If you don't do this, when you click on Recognition, it recognizes only the one page. Again I had to discover this by trial and error.

And one last thing. This is the slowest loading program I have ever used. It takes several minutes to get going, literally. And on my particular computer (XP Home), when I click on the icon to launch it, my cursor shows it is busy and the splask screen comes up, then the cursor returns to normal and I sit there wondering if anything is happening or has it locked up.

So, in summary, its accuracy (on printed text) is incredible, and it is easy to use when you stay with defaults, but if you want to use anything other than defaults or use some of the features it has, heaven help you in figuring out how to do it. Powerful - yes. User friendly? No.

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R. O. Bodkin

1 of 7 people found the following review helpful

Great Product

10/2/2009

I have been using OmniPage for quite some time, beginning with version 8.0. It is a great product that truly gets better with each new version.

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Jerry Woroniecki

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

It's called "Professional" for a reason

7/4/2009

OK. This program is complex. However, there are workflows and batch processes that can simplify frequently used features. I've created ones that automatically turn scanned PDF files into seachable PDFs and Word documents with incredible accuracy. I also like the ability to save documents to audio files (WAV format). With this and your Ipod you can practically listen to most any documentation while on the go. It's probably not a practical purchase for harry homeowner, but for a business or business professional, it can quickly pay for itself in time savings.

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lingvistika

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful

Outrageously complex, virtually no documentation

6/14/2009

This program is definitely not worth buying if you don't want to spend a major portion of your life learning it and training it to behave properly. I am a tech-savvy person who is known for being able to figure programs out quickly, but this one is just too hard to figure out within a reasonable time, and the documentation doesn't explain it. There is no quick-start guide, and what little explanation there is assumes that you are going to scan the document yourself before performing optical character recognition. It gives the impression that the writers have no clue how people might use the program.

Among the problems I had with OmniPage Professional 17 were that I could not seem to get the program to process a whole document instead of just one page. Also, if I set the language of the document, it either didn't apply the setting, or else it applied it to only the first page. There was no spellcheck dictionary on my system for that language, so instead of just converting the image to whatever text it looked like (which was largely accurate), it kept stopping and making me approve words that it didn't find in the English dictionary -- which in a foreign language would be nearly EVERY word! So instead of just processing the document, it would make me approve every word in it. I don't have time to sit there and do that.

There are probably ways to remedy these problems, but the interface is so complex, the terminology so strange, and the documentation so sparse and off-track, that I couldn't find a way to make the program cooperate.

Nuance phoned me and phoned me, and e-mailed me and e-mailed me, until I finally got suckered. I got a 75% discount, and it still wasn't worth it.

If you need this type of program, but don't want to make optical character recognition your life, I recommend a combination of ABBYY PDF Transformer and ABBY Scan to Office.

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Steven Lehrer

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Install & Office Problems

6/11/2009

I downloaded the program from Nuance today. It did not install automatically. I had to find the extracted folder on C: and then click the install icon, after first manually uninstalling v16, which the program told me to do. Office 2003 does not like this program. Omnipage throws in something called officeaddin17.dll which both Powerpoint and Excel want to disable and they flash up serious error warnings. Of course I let them disable whatever they wanted. Omnipage finally seems to be working OK. Text recognition is much improved over v 16 and v 17 can recognize considerably degraded low resolution text that v 16 could not.

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