Is Omnipage 15 any good?

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I've Omnipage 12 and 14, and favour version 12 because

(a) it makes a far superior job at automatically straightening misaligned
scanned pages, and

(b) you click Save to File, and it automatically converts the scanned page
to text and assumes you want to save all pages to a single file, whereas
version 14 gets angry with you for not first manually telling it to perform
the character reading phase, and then forces you to manually select all the
pages (or else it will only save the current page) and then forces you to
manually fiddle between different categories of "save as ..." file types
instead of having them all in single drop down list.

Question is: Is version 15 worth getting? How does its page straightening
feature compare with 12 and 14? Does it have any other quirks that are
better or worse than previous versions?
 
ITMA said:
I've Omnipage 12 and 14, and favour version 12 because

(a) it makes a far superior job at automatically straightening misaligned
scanned pages, and

(b) you click Save to File, and it automatically converts the scanned page
to text and assumes you want to save all pages to a single file, whereas
version 14 gets angry with you for not first manually telling it to
perform
the character reading phase, and then forces you to manually select all
the
pages (or else it will only save the current page) and then forces you to
manually fiddle between different categories of "save as ..." file types
instead of having them all in single drop down list.

Question is: Is version 15 worth getting? How does its page straightening
feature compare with 12 and 14? Does it have any other quirks that are
better or worse than previous versions?
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I would say Omnipage 15 is an improvement over Omnipage 12. The OCR accuracy
is better and the page layout seems faithful.

As far as I can tell Omnipage does all of the things that Omnipage 12 did
and more.

Included in my copy was Scansoft PDF Converter 3.0 and Scansoft PDF Create!
3.0. Those two extras were worth the price by their self.

It is not a bad deal if you have one to their offers for $100.
 
ITMA" ([email protected]) said:
I've Omnipage 12 and 14, and favour version 12 because

(a) it makes a far superior job at automatically straightening misaligned
scanned pages, and

(b) you click Save to File, and it automatically converts the scanned page
to text and assumes you want to save all pages to a single file, whereas
version 14 gets angry with you for not first manually telling it to perform
the character reading phase, and then forces you to manually select all the
pages (or else it will only save the current page) and then forces you to
manually fiddle between different categories of "save as ..." file types
instead of having them all in single drop down list.

Question is: Is version 15 worth getting? How does its page straightening
feature compare with 12 and 14? Does it have any other quirks that are
better or worse than previous versions?
Click to expand...


I can't compare 15 with earlier versions because it was preceded by
Textbridge 9, which had all sorts of problems, as does Readiris 9, which
came with a scanner. But I've had only one problem with15, and that's a
mis-install of PDF Creator, which insists on launching for certain
keystrokes, like "delete" when I've opened windows explorer. (If anybody
has a cure, please let me know!). Otherwise it's deadly accurate and does
straighten pages, as well as read reversed type up to a certain limit.

Be warned, however, that Nuance Software (the new owner) expects you to
pay for tech support beyond one courtesy call, so they say, because they
were being bothered by too many people who needed hand-holding with their
complicated program.

I've had no real problems, aside from the price, and am glad I bought it.
YOu are expected to sequentially go through the steps of getting page(s),
recognition and saving, and are launched into proofreading the document
right after OCR no matter how long it is, but if the text is clear
accuracy is pretty decent. And formatting for Word Perfect (which can be
rather finicky) if much better than Readiris. Saving is as you least left
it, not someting you have to re-set, if that was your question.

Brendan
 
How does it compare to Abby Fine Reader?

TIA,
DTV

ITMA" ([email protected]) said:
I've Omnipage 12 and 14, and favour version 12 because

(a) it makes a far superior job at automatically straightening misaligned
scanned pages, and

(b) you click Save to File, and it automatically converts the scanned page
to text and assumes you want to save all pages to a single file, whereas
version 14 gets angry with you for not first manually telling it to perform
the character reading phase, and then forces you to manually select all the
pages (or else it will only save the current page) and then forces you to
manually fiddle between different categories of "save as ..." file types
instead of having them all in single drop down list.

Question is: Is version 15 worth getting? How does its page straightening
feature compare with 12 and 14? Does it have any other quirks that are
better or worse than previous versions?
Click to expand...


I can't compare 15 with earlier versions because it was preceded by
Textbridge 9, which had all sorts of problems, as does Readiris 9, which
came with a scanner. But I've had only one problem with15, and that's a
mis-install of PDF Creator, which insists on launching for certain
keystrokes, like "delete" when I've opened windows explorer. (If anybody
has a cure, please let me know!). Otherwise it's deadly accurate and does
straighten pages, as well as read reversed type up to a certain limit.

Be warned, however, that Nuance Software (the new owner) expects you to
pay for tech support beyond one courtesy call, so they say, because they
were being bothered by too many people who needed hand-holding with their
complicated program.

I've had no real problems, aside from the price, and am glad I bought it.
YOu are expected to sequentially go through the steps of getting page(s),
recognition and saving, and are launched into proofreading the document
right after OCR no matter how long it is, but if the text is clear
accuracy is pretty decent. And formatting for Word Perfect (which can be
rather finicky) if much better than Readiris. Saving is as you least left
it, not someting you have to re-set, if that was your question.

Brendan
 
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