Home | Forums | Article Search | Subscribe & Shop | Contact Us | Log Out ScanSoft OmniPage Professional 15 Email This Print This View My Personal Library Loading Zone October 2005 • Vol.5 Issue 10 Page(s) 76 in print issue Add To My Personal Library ScanSoft OmniPage Professional 15 OmniPage Professional 15 $499.99 ScanSoft www.scansoft.com 4.5 CPU’s Wouldn’t life be easier if we didn’t have to support such a wide range of file formats? What about paper documents? Scanning them into the computer is easy enough, but producing a digital file that actually resembles the original is easier said than done. With OmniPage Professional 15, ScanSoft has made impressive improvements to its popular OCR and document-conversion software. The software’s near-$500 price will discourage casual users from looking into it, but professionals should examine it closely. One thing that instantly impressed me about OmniPage Pro 15 is how wonderfully the program is set up. The interface and options could have easily been complicated, but ScanSoft created the software in a simple and progressive way. OmniPage Pro 15 leads you from start to finish in only a couple of clicks, and the conversion is fast and surprisingly accurate. I ran several documents and images through the system, and the editing I had to do was relatively minor compared to what I’m used to with other apps. You can scan in one or more pages at a time or import any other image or document file to take advantage of the digital-to-digital document conversion. OmniPage Professional 15 will produce a mirror image that you can tweak with the available manual editing tools. For example, if you notice that some text is off in a scan, you can proofread and make corrections to it. Formatting, graphics, and other document properties are preserved, which means you won’t have a garbled mess of data on the page; you’ll edit the document as if you were working in the original application. Once you have the results you want, you can save the output in any of the 30-plus supported formats, such as Microsoft Word and PDF. If plain text and graphics don’t cut it for you, the program’s ability to create an audio file from paper and digital documents gives you the option of listening to your files. OmniPage Professional 15 gives you the ability to make the format wars a nonevent. The program runs on Windows 98 SE/Me/2000/XP/Server2003 with pricing starting at $499.99. by Brandon Watts  User Reviews Be the first to write a review of this product Want more information about a topic you found of interest while reading this article? Type a word or phrase that identifies the topic and click "Search" to find relevant articles from within our editorial database. Enter A Subject (key words or a phrase): ALL Words (‘digital’ AND ‘photography’) ANY Words (‘digital’ OR ‘photography’) Exact Match ('digital photography'- all words MUST appear together) Home      Copyright & Legal Information      Privacy Policy      Site Map      Contact Us Copyright © 2010 Sandhills Publishing Company U.S.A. All rights reserved.