Why I buy this one ?
- Save time and money with this powerful document conversion application
- Eliminating retyping; turn documents into e-files you can edit, search, and share
- Precision OCR technology, advanced layout analysis, and powerful editing tools
- Turn paper and PDF files into editable e-documents that match the original
- Turn text documents into audio books; add digital signatures to your e-documents

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What our customer's say!

"Do not deal with this company", Nuance owns OmniPage. OmniPage was once my OCR of choice. Now it is a crippled relic.

Furthermore, Nuance will use every device imaginable to avoid refunding money to dissatisfied buyers of products they sell.

I have a dispute going with PayPal for a refund.

Doug Briggs

"omni page pro 12 was better", omni page pro has compatibility problems with my ricoh scanner omni page pro 12 works just fine.

"OCR and customer service", I bought this software in Jan '04 and I've had occasion to use it infrequently, fortunately for me. As noted in other reviews, it can recognize simple text such as in a book page w/o photos or tables. But add any boxes, tables or graphs and it stumbles badly and does a Bill Gates, simply locks up.

You can't even ask a question w/o registering the product and that in itself is a task. Pack a lunch because you'll be there a while. They ask early on for a serial number and even tho it had been more than two years I had the original packaging. Feeling rather smug I opend the package and "mirebile dictu" NOTHING called a serial number, plenty of alphnumerics tho. After several tries, I found that serial number is code for "description". Then I moved on to pages of intrusive qustions up to but not including masturbatory fantasies, thank you. Then they had the temerity to try to sell me stuff.

There may be a good, simple, intuitive scanning program out there, but this ain't it. There may be a customer responsive company out there but Scansoft (now Nuance, how cute) ain't it. Keep looking and good luck, Jack Shale

"Works fine on simple text, not so on complex format.", Text recognition is very good on a simple, typewrited page but, hey, there are sharewares that do this for free. I tested Omnipage mainly on complex textbook pages with headers, 2 columns, figures with legends. I chose 240 dpi as a compromise between size and accuracy. The result:
1. When converting a 2-column page to PDF, the text flows ACROSS the columns instead of down then right. Useless for cut & paste. Also, word search is not sequential. Omnipage support never answered my questions on this issue (nor on any other).
2. Figures with small objects on a contrasting background (e.g. birds flying in the sky) are interpreted as text, with laughable result. In general, the recognition of image fields was bad.
5. Figure legends were systematically included with the text around them instead of being assigned to a separate text box.
4. This beast needs A LOT of CPU. I ran it on a 2.8GHz P4 and it was crawling through the pages.
5. Not an Omnipage issue, but as an aside: Omnipage offers to save the text as a MS Word file. Note that MS Word will not open a file larger than 32 Mb. I did not know this. Did you?
Final word: mediocre, too expensive. Try sharewares first.

"NEED HELP WITH OMNI PAGE PRO 10", I have been using Omni Page Pro 10 here at my work. However, in the last few months, when I scan it takes forever for it to scan -- recognizing goes faster tho.

I have removed all unnecesary programs from my computer thinking that I was using all my RAM. I am on a network.

However, this hasn't solved my problem. I am now running Win XP and have ServicePack 2 installed. Could this be my problem? Can anyone help?

Would like to get some input from others who have used Omni Page Pro 10 to get some ideas of what to try before I turn this over to our IT Department.

Like ya'll, I really do like Omni Page Pro 10 -- but with the problem that I am having was wondering if I needed to upgrade Omni Page Pro 14 -- but considering what ya'll have said -- upgrading would give me a bigger nightmare.

Please help if you can!!!

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Obvious negative plants - Read the facts", The previous 3 reviews show why Amazon is cracking down on planted comments by competing vendors. The facts - OmniPage 14 was reviewed by PC Mag and C|Net in independent comparisons to others - including Abbyy (referenced below). In all cases OmniPage 14 won the highest rating possible and Editors Choice - again in an independent review.

What does a competing product have to do with ScanSoft support? OmniPage 12 is over 3 years old - OmniPage 14 is the most recent release. Is it a suprise that XP needs patches to work with an older product? OmniPage supports creating PDF - the other doesn't - yet you think the other is better at PDF?

If you are going to plant a review, at least don't turn it into an ad for a competing product. OmniPage has been independently named the best OCR on the planet.

"Sorry! No Customer Support", This is a good product but forget about getting any available service packs from Scansoft and they won't help you. They also bury postings in the online help community if they are negative. The online knowledge help system is a joke. The company seems to be 'dead' to helping customers. I can see why Microtek scanner company dumped Scansoft to favor Abbey Fine Reader for bundled software. Wish I would have gone with Abbey instead. An important item with version 14 is the PDF tool. It is completely useless. You cannot get control of any fonts and the unicode or multinational font driver is 16 bit and won't do most of the characters. Trying any advertised acrobatics with a PDF is hopeless and security? none. Someone at Scansoft referred me to Digital River where it was bought via Scansoft online store to get help and Digital River simply ignores your request, and not only that their system retains email address use to buy it even if it changed and you cannot update it. They 'say' their response will go to dead email address. Looks like money rules to hell with the users. (This review is about the flagship OmniPage Pro 14 Office.) Addendum: Several months after this post XP Pro had to be reloaded on a clean drive, and the Scansoft service pack downloaded without a hitch provided some Scansoft knowlege base tips are followed.

"Beware of bugs and no free support", I want to add some more specifics to my review below. I bought Omnipage 12. It would not instal. Only after extensive searching on the internet did I find that it was incompatible - believe it or not - with the Windows XP start menu and also with all desktop backgrounds except the XP logo!

The problem could apparently be resolved by downloading service packs 1 & 2. So I changed to the new start menu and XP logo background and installation then was possible. But when I tried to get service packs 1 & 2, which can only be accessed by using the upgrade function within the program, nothing happened. An e-mail request to ScanSoft for help was ignored. No help was available on the users group either as no-one had found a solution.

But I persevered and tried to use Omnipage without the service packs. Then came the next unpleasant shock. I have an HP OfficeJet d135 four-in-one. Although listed by ScanSoft as a compatible scanner I found that this is only partly true. The shocking part was that Omnipage was not compatible - believe it or not again - with the automatic document handler on HP scanners! So I must feed in each page separately while it slowly scans them.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Omnipage users group is moribund or dead. I don't know if ScanSoft is blocking postings to the website because there were so many that were less than complimentary or whether users just gave up because there were no solutions.

Abbyy FineReader offers as complete a contrast as can be imagined. Free, unlimited technical assistance and a lively users group populated by a clearly contented group of users.

So decide for yourself.

PS: I suppose I invited Whukadogs' assupmtion that my review is a negative plant. For the record, I am an attorney practising in Johannesburg South Africa with no connection whatever to Abbyy. I too value reviews by IT publications but I wish that the reviewers would go to the user groups on the product to get the lowdown on it. One gets the impression that they all too often just read one another's reviews, with the result that they fortify one another in their misperceptions. We've all seen committees doing that.

"Beware of bugs and no free support", Beware of this product. It is buggy - see eg the users group at http://webboard.scansoft.com/ - and there is no free support, even for program bugs. Scansoft's attitude to known bugs is illustrated by the fact that there is a bug in both versions 11 and 12 which prevents many users from updating the program but despite a large number of postings to this effect on Scansoft's own website already referred to and e-mail notification to ScanSoft the bug remains. Abby FineReader apparently offers free support and a scanner that users say is better, for example, for OCR scanning.

"Simply the Best !", You can't go wrong with this sofwtare, it's the best of its category. It blows away Abby and IRIS softwares technologies and capabilities.