Editorial Review

OmniPage Pro 12 is a powerful productivity application that delivers accurate document conversion, turning PDF and paper letters, contracts, tables, and manuals into editable word processing and spreadsheet documents. Ideal for desktop, workgroup, and enterprise users, OmniPage Pro 12 delivers everything you need to convert, edit, process, and share your paper and PDF documents.Read more

Reviews (10)

Greatest thing since sliced bread
As I am writing this review OmniPage Pro 12 is whirring away in the background. not clear it's worth the upgrade from 11
I like the new batch mechanism, which has an "output file per input file" option.I haven't particularly noticed a stability problem (Win2K SP4 + OP12 SP1/2).However, the deal with the PDFs is this: when OP12 reads an image PDF, it will only save such PDFs as grayscale (if you ask for image/image+text), and OP12 can only save grayscale/color PDFs at 150dpi.Hence, if you have bi-level input PDFs at >150dpi resolution, you get enormous, ugly 150dpi grayscale output PDFs.On the other hand, OP12 can handle high resolution TIFFs just fine (i.e., it will save them as image/image+text PDFs with the correct resolution).This makes absolutely no sense and is a big step backward from OP11.As the other reviewer notes, they appear not to have any intention of fixing this in OP12.

Omnipage Pro 12 Loves to Crash
Omnipage Pro 12 loves to crash. So much so, that it is impossible to batch convert a folder of files to Adobe Acrobat .pdf "image with text", which is the only really useful Adobe Acrobat format. Here we are in the year 2003, and software developers still haven't figured out how to gracefully exit their programs when the unexpected happens. Ominpage Pro 12 simply cannot deal with Adobe Acrobat .pdf formats well. Review the user groups on Scansoft's website, and you will see two major problems with its Acrobat compatibility. The first is when using Scansoft on an existing .pdf image file. Importing the .pdf file, capturing the text, and saving the file as .pdf "image with text" (which is supposed to save the ORIGINAL image with searchable background text) causes the image to degrade. Don't ask me why, but the image in the output file is not the same quality as the imported .pdf image. So to work around this issue, I started scanning our documents into .tif format (600x600) on our high speed scanner, and then importing the .tifs into Scansoft, for conversion to .pdf "image with text". The resulting .pdf files were graphically sharper than when I had imported existing .pdf files. The big problem is that running the Omnipage Pro 12 "Schedule OCR" on the folder of .tif files, Omnipage Pro 12 simply crashes at random places in the conversion process. No graceful exit. No warning. To summarize, Scansoft's Omnipage Pro 12 is inadequate to save files as .pdf "image with text". It crashes. And this happens on both a Windows 98 PC and a Windows 2000 PC, so it's not a PC-specific issue. Scansoft wants to charge you money to submit a problem form. Imagine, paying them to spend time addressing their own mistake! This is a bad way to conduct business. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

A clever idea who's time has clearly come, the CardScan Executive 600c scans business cards in full color, connects to your PC via a USB port, and uploads the card into your database using the included CardScan software.Read more

Reviews (16)

Like a kiss, fun but it doesn't last long!
Product installs easy and is easy to use.Placed 3 of these at front desk of medical facilities, scanning dozens of cards daily.Two have died after about 12-14 months service. Tried one a trade show and got about 80% of info into correct fields, so it does save some typing.

Doesn't print pages as advertised.
The Cardscan Executive advertises that it will print in all the typical planner formats, Daytimer, Dayrunner, Franklin etc. It doesn't do what it says. The right edge of the page is cut off losing important information like half a phone number or half an email address. Technical Support was no help, they said "it's a defect with the program". None of the advertised formats on the pull down menu worked, or using the edit format feature. Users cannot change the width of the fields. Other than that it's a pretty cool product.

Great easy to use product
To the person who says it doesnt scan the graphics- it does.Read more

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• A trainable OCR. It recognizes Arabic, Farsi, Persian, French, English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
• Recognizes the diacritics in Arabic images. Opens multiple documents at the same time. Recognizes tables in scanned images. Special support for ill-formed tables. Recognizes underlined words. Recognizes broken and stickled characters.
• Supports both OMNI & Learning technologies to obtain higher accuracy in different fonts. Twain, ISIS and KOFAX protocols. Works with any type of scanner. Supports simplex and duplex scanners.
• Program interface is available in both Arabic and English. Includes bilingual spellchecker. Supports both automatic and manual framing modes. Ability to send OCR results by e-mail.
• Automatic style detection for fonts (Regular or Bold). Uses Arabic linguistic rules with recognition (Artificial Intelligence). Supports non-rectangular frames. Supports color documents.

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• Arabic, Farsi, Persian, French, English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.. Recognizes the diacritics in Arabic images.
• Opens multiple documents at the same time. Recognizes tables in scanned images. Special support for ill-formed tables.
• Recognizes underlined words. Recognizes broken and stickled characters. Automatic style detection for fonts (Regular or Bold).
• Uses Arabic linguistic rules with recognition (Artificial Intelligence). Supports non-rectangular frames. Supports color documents.
• Integration with Other Applications: Can easily integrate with any third-party application. Software Developer's Kit (SDK).

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• CD-ROM
• OCR Arabic, Farsi/Persian, Dari, Pashto with support for embedded English and French. VERUS identifies languages and fonts automatically so that large batches do not need to be presorted. TWAIN Scanner Support.
• File Formats: Input: TIF, PDF, PNG, JPEG. Output: Text, RTF and PDF with Hidden Text. Both RTF and PDF with Hidden Text preserve layout.
• Do not know the font on a page? Dont worry! VERUS is able to recognize all major font families and has beentrained to handle over 100 Middle Eastern language fonts.
• Never correct the same word twice.Quickly check a documents spelling and add special dictionary wordsas necessary. Support for Mixed Arabic and Latin Scripts, VERUS is able to automatically extract embedded English and French text within Middle Eastern languagedocuments to achieve superior OCR results.
• Highly intuitive graphical user interface provides workflow flexibility and timely feedback that speeds the user through each task.Facilitates rapid adjustment of text zone boundaries, and manual editing and spell checking of OCR text.Automatic workspace management keeps related files (image, text and exports) together. Restored workspaces allow users to resume work from previously saved spots.

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• CD-ROM
• OCR Arabic, Farsi/Persian, Dari, Pashto with support for embedded English and French. VERUS identifies languages and fonts automatically so that large batches do not need to be presorted. TWAIN Scanner Support.
• File Formats: Input: TIF, PDF, PNG, JPEG. Output: Text, RTF and PDF with Hidden Text. Both RTF and PDF with Hidden Text preserve layout.
• Do not know the font on a page? Dont worry! VERUS is able to recognize all major font families and has beentrained to handle over 100 Middle Eastern language fonts.
• Never correct the same word twice.Quickly check a documents spelling and add special dictionary wordsas necessary. Support for Mixed Arabic and Latin Scripts, VERUS is able to automatically extract embedded English and French text within Middle Eastern languagedocuments to achieve superior OCR results.
• Highly intuitive graphical user interface provides workflow flexibility and timely feedback that speeds the user through each task.Facilitates rapid adjustment of text zone boundaries, and manual editing and spell checking of OCR text.Automatic workspace management keeps related files (image, text and exports) together. Restored workspaces allow users to resume work from previously saved spots.

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• CD-ROM
• Paper & PDF files instantly converted into your favorite PC applications
• Use your voice to edit documents and activate workflows
• Loaded with new features
• OmniPage can read back text for easy proofing
• Now users can output to all new Office 2003 applications

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• Fill out and print forms electronically
• Import data from any database format
• Solve field dependencies with arithmetic zones
• One of the most efficient form software programs available
• Drastically cut the high cost associated with filling out forms by hand

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• Fill out and print forms electronically
• Import data from any database format
• Solve field dependencies with arithmetic zones
• One of the most efficient form software programs available
• Increase productivity by automating form filling

Editorial Review

Now your computer can read any text aloud. With Fonix iSpeak, you can simply listen while your computer reads any text file aloud to you in a human-sounding voice. Listen to e-mail, Web sites, lengthy documents, articles, or any other text on your computer. It also reads text as you type. Or, use iSpeak to record the synthesized speech to MP3 or WAV files. You can even listen to and record your Microsoft Outlook 2000 e-mail with the click of a mouse.Read more

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A fun and usefull tool!
This program is awesome!I've only had it one day, but I've been using it non-stop.I have converted tons of text to MP3 and transfered them to my MP3 player.Great for students or people like me who have an hour commute to work.The interface is very easy to use and the voices are easy to customize.The inflection in the voices is amazing.Text-to-speech has a long way to go, but this is the best I've heard yet.I plan to buy this program for everyone in my family!I highly recommend this product to students, people that are tired of eye strain and computer geeks like me that like the latest and greatest.

A fun and usefull tool!
This program is awesome!I've only had it one day, but I've been using it non-stop.I have converted tons of text to MP3 and transfered them to my MP3 player.Great for students or people like me who have an hour commute to work.The interface is very easy to use and the voices are easy to customize.The inflection in the voices is amazing.Text-to-speech has a long way to go, but this is the best I've heard yet.I plan to buy this program for everyone in my family!I highly recommend this product to students, people that are tired of eye strain and computer geeks like me that like the latest and greatest.

Wow! This is incredible! Highly recommended!
I got my copy of iSpeak two weeks ago and LOVE it!I use it all the time with Outlook to listen to my email while I am working on other stuff.I also have converted a number of etext-books from Gutenberg.com into audio and put them on CD's to listen to in the car.Read more

Editorial Review

Streamline 4.0 is an excellent bridge between the worlds of freehanddrawing and resolution-independent graphics. At its heart, the software isbasically a conversion utility, a tool for importing bitmapped (raster) imagesand exporting them as vector-based line art. But it's a disservice to theupgrade to downplay what is so simply stated.Read more