Wow I remember in 2002 when i was first learning how to use a computer that I could use that software with my old cano scanner and laptop that ran 256 mb of ran using win xp. I'm surprised the quality would have gone down since the 9 years I used it. Hope this makes sense as I'm running on 0 sleep.
Take care and hope someone can help you tweak omni page before it id declared as something to be tossed. Take care all. On Dec 24, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > Hello everybody > > > Upon its release earlier this year, I bought us a copy of OmniPage > Professional 18 for Windows by Nuance, Inc. Due to a lot of combined > circumstances which I won't outline, we have only just yesterday managed to > get this installed on our now primary Windows machine which happens to be a > high end notebook with a quad core processor and 8GB of RAM. > > We have done quite a lot of testing with various different types of document, > ranging from type-written plain paper to newspapers, magazines and other > glossy media with various types of fonts and type faces. > > We've tested the same documents, precisely, using the same scanner on Mac OSX > Lion with three different Macintosh OCR utilities, including the Mac version > of OmniPage Pro X 16 by Nuance, Inc., AbbYY FineReader Express and VueScan > 9.4 64-bit for Mac. I plan to test the Windows version of VueScan later today > for absolute thoroughness. > > In every case, OmniPage 18 Professional for Windows came out bottom of the > pile in terms of accuracy, speed of OCR and also output formatting. With > OmniPage 18 Professional for Windows, I repeatedly had to correct basic > errors using its own dictionary and also manually inserted corrections for > words which it simply didn't recognise at all, even on basic type-written > documents. > > The scanner face is clean; I made sure of that by lightly brushing it with > mentholated spirits and then with a clean dry cloth. The scanner settings in > use were those extracted from the scanner database downloaded by the software > from the Nuance online resource. > > This package cost us in excess of £260.00 GBP which is just over $300.00 US, > way in excess of that in Australian Dollars. > > In short, I'm shocked at how poor this application seems to be in comparison > to those which cost a great deal less. Unless circumstances change when I try > another scanner, as I plan too later today, I won't be buying any further > upgrades or paid updates for OmniPage 18 Professional. It is currently > producing some pretty appalling results in comparison to its cheaper > competitors. > > Now, to be absolutely fair, I am prepared to tweak it, do whatever I possibly > can to improve things before I condemn the thing as bad; but initial test > results aren't very optimistic. > > Merry Christmas to everybody in the group. > > Lynne > > > Lynne > > > > ======================================= > > The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web > pages located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at > either of the following websites: > > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html > > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > --------------------------------------- ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
