Features

• CD-ROM
• Create PDF files with the click of a button from Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Internet Explorer
• Create a single Adobe PDF document from multiple sources, including portions of Web pages and previously combined Adobe PDF documents
• Easily attach source documents such as spreadsheets, multimedia files, images, and drawings to an Adobe PDF document
• Enable anyone with free Adobe Reader 7.0 software to use highlighter, sticky note, pen, and other commenting tools
• Protect documents with passwords, certificates, and other security controls

Editorial Review

Mimio writingRecognition 2.0 software plug-in works with the mimio English-language whiteboard-capture system, a PC, or mimio flipChart to convert words written on a whiteboard or flip chart into text for documents. Using CalliGrapher from ParaGraph, this optional plug-in easily translates notes from print or cursive into standard text. After mimio captures the user's handwritten whiteboard or flip chart notes to their PC, writingRecognition converts them to ordinary text, ready to be edited, saved, or dropped into a Windows document.Read more

Features

• Quickly Scan, Organize, and Share Documents and Photos
• Advanced Document Capture Features for All-in-Ones and Scanners
• Provides powerful industry standard PDF creation and security
• Effortlessly merge, take apart and repurpose documents
• All-in-One Search™ Finds Any Document - Perfect for office professionals and workgroups

Editorial Review

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology that sets out to dowhat the human brain can do almost instantly: convert visual data into textualdata; in other words, read and understand printed text. To a certain extent,today's generation of OCR software manages to recognize most of the text thatyou can throw at it--still, it needs to be babysat.Read more

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• CD-ROM

Subjects:  1. Scanning (Scanners)    2. OCR (Optical Character Recognition)    3. Computer software (programs)    4. Document Management   

Editorial Review

ScanSoft PaperPort® 11 is the easiest way to turn piles of paper and photos into organized PDF and JPEG files that you can quickly find, use and share. PaperPort produces excellent scans with the push of a button. Your documents are displayed as small thumbnails on a unique visual desktop for fast browsing. The exclusive All-in-One Search™ ends the frustration of looking for paper or digital documents by searching for words inside your files. Save time and have the security of knowing that important documents and photos will never be lost. PaperPort is perfect for your home or small office. ... Read more

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• CD-ROM

Editorial Review

A professional OCR program that satisfies even the most demanding user, FineReader Professional provides unsurpassed accuracy of text recognition, excellent layout retention, and unmatched productivity.Read more

Reviews (5)

Great Softwar - Buy The Upgrade
This package works extremely smoothly and accurately.The way it is priced is confusing however (more below). FineReader is not only easy to use and accurate, coping with curved lines of text coming from scanned book pages, recognizing tables, fonts and preserving layout of the scanned image, but it also organizes your work, saves images in batches, and keeps track of which image you have proofread, modified and saved.While you're proofreading you can see the part of the image about which there are questions.After the briefest of practice sessions I dove into a 700-page project and it went totally smoothly. The Abbyy website also offers you a fully functional free trial version that you can download. Great Softwar - Buy The Upgrade
This package works extremely smoothly and accurately.The way it is priced is confusing however (more below). FineReader is not only easy to use and accurate, coping with curved lines of text coming from scanned book pages, recognizing tables, fonts and preserving layout of the scanned image, but it also organizes your work, saves images in batches, and keeps track of which image you have proofread, modified and saved.While you're proofreading you can see the part of the image about which there are questions.After the briefest of practice sessions I dove into a 700-page project and it went totally smoothly. The Abbyy website also offers you a fully functional free trial version that you can download. Very much the best overall
I do a great deal of OCR in my research and have scanned thousands of pages each with OmniPage Pro 12 (OP12) and FineReader 6 (FR6). I have also made extensive use of previous versions of both programs. I am happy to have both, because they excel at different things. For my work, however, if I had to choose just one it would have to be FR6. Others might have different preferences depending on what they do and what their equipment and software are.

Editorial Review

OmniPage Pro 11 is the fastest, easiest way to turn paper documents into digital files you can edit. It features superior accuracy and the ability to convert PDF files into Microsoft Office documents. OmniPage Pro 11 extends its recognition capabilities from 13 to 114 languages and from one to three alphabets, including Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic. This new version also handles grayscale and color images. It can use the extra pixel-depth information in grayscale images to internally generate black-and-white images for optimized OCR performance.Read more

Reviews (2)

Second best
I am something of an OCR fanatic because I depend a lot on being able to digitize research material for compact storage and easy access. I began some years ago with TextBridge and looked forward to seeing what Scansoft had done in melding the features of TextBridge and OmniPage. The result was a big disappointment. The ability to make PDFs in one step is a major improvement but they "lost" one the features that I find most important -- automatic separation of a scan of two pages at once from a book into separate scan pages. And the recognition accuracy and flexibility doesn't even come close to the standards set by ABBYY FineReader 5.0 (or even the earlier versions of FR!). Essential Document Management Tool
This is a must-have program is you scan documents or receive faxes on your PC.It takes optical scanning recognition (OCR) to a level I never thought possible, and is a quantum leap from the OCR software that comes bundled with most scanners.ScanSoft, the manufacturer, claims a 40% improvement and from my experience I will not dispute this.Read more

Editorial Review

With the Readiris Pro series, I.R.I.S. has taken a quick, accurate OCR program and given it the ability to detect page layout and reproduce images. Readiris Pro 7.0 does a decent job at what it's supposed to do, but it's not without a fair number of flaws and flukes.Read more

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disappointed - both in product and their support.
Waited almost a year to get this product at a sale price.
Good Value for Home User
Readiris Pro 7 installed smoothly into Windows XP Home Edition on a Clean Boot, as recommended in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 310353.It interfaces with many, possibly most, common word-processing software.The scanning and interpretation process is quick at the recommended 300 dpi level (my Epson scanner is on a USB 2.0 port.)Initial, out-of-box, accuracy seems to improve by tweaking the contrast and brightness options and hopefully will continue to improve by using the "learn" option of interpreting data which it questions.At Amazon's current price it's a good value for a home user! ... Read more

Editorial Review

OmniPage Web is a fast and easy way to convert multipage documents into working Web sites. Using the award-winning OmniPage Pro OCR engine and the new Logical Structure Recognition (LSR) technology, OmniPage Web outlines your scanned document and creates a complete Web site with separate Web pages for each page, chapter, or section. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Document Management    2. OCR (Optical Character Recognition)    3. Computer software (programs)    4. Scanning (Scanners)   

Features

• Scan, Organize and Share Your Paper Documents and Photos
• The Best Scanning Solution for Any All-in-One Device or Scanner
• View, Print and Share Over 150 Document and Photo Formats
• Fill Out Forms Quickly, Neatly - Perfect for home and small office users
• Finds Everything – Documents, PDF Files, Photos and Paper

Editorial Review

Known for its accuracy and ease of use, OmniPage Pro 10 has earned its reputation as one of the most popular Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applications available. By converting printed documents into editable text, this program frees the user from hours spent retyping letters, papers, contracts, and more.Read more

Reviews (5)

ORU limited versions
I believe it is down right dishonest the way Caere and others ship,basically, a demo version.Mine stopped working after 25 uses.Heck, Ihad not even learned how to operate the thing. I think OmniPage 10 is great!
I'm not sure [people] had problems, but I installed OmniPage 10on my PIII-500 MhZ Clone machine with a 3 year old documan scanner, and it works like a charm!I scanned and OCR'd a 151 page document in about 10 hours (and it took this long because I was copying and pasting the text into a very old application)... and it was a photocopy! I would say it was about 98+% accurate.I saved SO much time that the [money] I spent on it was well worth it.The voice readback worked like a charm!(and my machine hasn't crashed 1 time while using it, and I've got A LOT of stuff on it). Omnipage Pro 10 a poor performer
I was very disappointed after trying this product.It was very slow, crashed a lot and was unacceptably innacurate in OCR.I truely believe that a fair typist could easily type a document faster than this softwarecan do OCR.With all the editing one has to do after OCR this software isnot recommended.I am using a Dell XPS T-500, 128 Meg RAM, 79% resourcesfree, HP 5200C scanner and pasting into Word 2000. ... Read more