Omnipage Pro 10.0 Upgrade

Pages from books, magazines, and faxes are easily processed using the automated wizard. Process pages directly from your scanner or from one of six popular image file formats. You can even import text directly into a document that you are working on in Word or another application without opening OmniPage Pro. The application lets you choose whether you would like to save plain text, text with formatting, or text and images with formatting.

The most visible improvements to this version fall under the page layout heading. For example, the OmniPage True Page output format provides a nearly perfect replicate of the printed page for easy export to desktop publishing software. There is also a new feature that can read recognized text out loud to aid in proofreading.

The manufacturer claims that OmniPage can recognize text on almost any document, including poor photocopies or faxes with better than 99% accuracy. Our tests showed much poorer accuracy on photocopies, faxes, and color print outs, but the results were good enough to represent a significant timesavings over retyping documents. Other documents were handled remarkably well, including text and images scanned from a full color magazine. --Elizabeth Wall--This review refers to the full version

Amazon.com Product Description
Many people who buy scanners receive a "limited edition" OCR product bundled with the scanner. Most of the leading scanner manufacturers include OmniPage Lite or OmniPage Limited Edition. The purpose of these OCR products is to provide basic OCR capabilities and to introduce users to the OCR experience.

OmniPage Pro is dramatically more accurate than these entry-level products, offering powerful features that make OCR tasks easier and help you produce more accurate, true-to-life results.

Anyhow, I found myself needing an OCR program, so I ordered it thru Amazon (Amazon shunted me off to another vendor - which I cannot remember.)

After having the unit sent to me in July 2000, I learned that Ver 9 is obsolete. Why would Amazon allow obsolete software to be shipped?


I think OmniPage 10 is great!   July 27, 2000
Kevin A Coleman (Delray Beach, FL USA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

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).

I must admit that I almost didn't buy it based on the prior reviews, but I took a leap and don't regret it one bit.


Omnipage Pro 10 a poor performer   April 27, 2000
26 out of 28 found this review helpful

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 software can do OCR. With all the editing one has to do after OCR this software is not recommended. I am using a Dell XPS T-500, 128 Meg RAM, 79% resources free, HP 5200C scanner and pasting into Word 2000.


Omnipage Pro 10 OCR   April 13, 2000
18 out of 23 found this review helpful

Caere manufactures this. But they don't "care." I erased the copy I bought AND REGISTERED and they said "tough luck." So I bought version 10. It's no better than 9--maybe worse. Version 8 was as good. By the way, if you try to use somebody else's copy--and you don't register--they'll cut you off after 25 uses. Talk about "big brother." If you can find another brand, do it.


Better than the OCR that came with your scanner   February 3, 2000
Charles E. Kirk (Hugo, MN USA)
57 out of 57 found this review helpful

I purchased this software in the hopes that it would be a major improvement over the ocr software that came with my Epson scanner. However, even though I think it is a better program, I am uncertain whether it was worth the price of the upgrade. Even though its documentation states that it is 99% accurate - my testing of the software shows that it is about 80% accurate. The software works well - however, the feature where you can have your document read back to you does not work as expected.