I'm not at all surprised at your findings. I've been using Read Iris Pro for Windows here, its the best scanning/OCR solution I've seen and I paid £40.00 for it.
Now I'm not trying to be too critical here but let's face it, Omnipage Pro is not designed for a user without sight thus Omnipage relies on someone with vision to correct "Teach" the software about any mistakes in scanning and this is where software such as K1000 and Open Book come into their own, they're designed for the person without sight and thus they have tools which correct the sort of mistakes you're talking about, optimise recognition and scanning etc. Finally OCR is one of those things which has too many variants for us to make claims about this or that being product being better, you'd be surprised at the results another scanner may give you, another computer may give you etc. On 24/12/2011, at 11:21 PM, 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> ---------------------------------------
