OmniPage Professional 17 is the fastest, most precise way to convert paper, PDF files and forms with 99%+ accuracy into files you can edit in your favorite PC applications or archive in a document repository. Superior accuracy and formatting combine with easy-to-use workflow technology to automate all your conversion needs. Whether you want to make paper digital, create batches of PDF files, or collect data from filled electronic forms, OmniPage is up to the task. OmniPage provides the speed, quality and features making it the perfect choice for organizations of all kinds.
What's New in OmniPage Professional 17
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| Increased word accuracy |
OmniPage delivers an amazing 42% increase in accuracy for scanned documents |
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| Increased layout and formatting accuracy |
Improved table recognition, large titles, vertical text, character matching and more |
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| Faster launch times |
OmniPage opens up to 200% faster than previous versions |
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| Multi-core parallel processing |
You can be even more productive on today’s popular dual-core and tomorrow’s multi-core computer processors with a dramatic increase in speed. |
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| Send to Amazon Kindle |
Scan a document, automatically convert into a readable format and send it to the Amazon Kindle? electronic book reader in one easy step. |
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| Easy loader |
A new interface window called Easy Loader allows you to quickly view, find and open multiple documents at a time. |
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| One-click toolbar in Microsoft Office |
Now you can get all the power of OmniPage in Microsoft Office with Direct OCR buttons for “One-Click” document conversion without opening OmniPage |
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| Asian language recognition |
OmniPage now recognizes Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean |
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| Automatic Asian language detection |
When Western and Asian texts are mixed on a page OmniPage will automatically alert you so you can get the best possible results |
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| Integrated document management with PaperPort |
Be more organized. OmniPage includes PaperPort, the world’s most popular desktop document management software. |
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| Native ECM connectivity |
Improved SharePoint Connectivity and direct support for Open Text Hummingbird and Interwoven iManage |
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| SharePoint 2007 |
Direct support for SharePoint 2007 services and server |
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| Digital camera 3DC technology |
Accurately capture text anywhere with your digital camera thanks to advanced technology that automatically corrects for three-dimensional distortion. |
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| Automatic data collection from forms |
OmniPage makes forms made easy from start to finish. You can turn paper forms into electronic forms and then collect the data. |
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| Automatic redaction, highlights and strikethroughs |
Keep information confidential by blacking out sensitive words with redaction. Quickly locate information with highlights or communicate a revision with strikethrough text. |
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| Flexible interface |
Rearrange the various function windows in OmniPage to work the way you like. |
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| Quick convert view |
Find the most important conversion options on one screen for fast and easy operation. |
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| How-to-guides |
OmniPage is easier to use then ever with How-to-Guides that lead you through basic terminology and product features. |
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| New workflow assistant |
Turn complex tasks into a single button press with a greatly enhanced Workflow Assistant with more features, options and destinations |
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| File-It Assistant and coversheets office |
There’s no need for everyone to learn OmniPage when a document can be automatically converted and properly filed by using a simple paper cover sheet that does all the work. |
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| Legal document recognition |
OmniPage is now optimized to recognize and convert legal documents including line number, headers, and more. |
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| PDF-MRC |
Create up to 8 times smaller scanned color PDF documents faster with improved PDF-MRC technology. |
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| Convert Now wizard |
Be more productive with on demand document conversion in Windows Explorer. |
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Note: — Feature is the same in OmniPage Professional 17
FEATURES
OmniPage 17: Does more than you think — saves you more than you'll believe!
OmniPage 17 is the world’s most accurate document conversion application; it has 99%+ character accuracy so it can turn paper and PDF files into electronic files you can edit, search and share in the format of your choice. You can turn documents that would take hours to re-type into perfectly formatted documents in seconds.
This superior document formatting accuracy means organizations save significant time and money by radically improving the ways in which paper and digital documents are processed, archived and shared. It’s simple to use, tasks are automated, information is easily accessed and productivity soars.
Even digital camera or iPhone pictures can be converted into files you can edit in your favorite PC applications, while scanned documents can be turned into electronic books specially formatted for easy reading on the Amazon Kindle so you can take your documents with you.
Accuracy features
Accuracy is the single most important feature of an OCR program because greater accuracy translates directly into time savings. PC Magazine's independent lab tests have confirmed OmniPage to be the most accurate, and the only OCR product to successfully process all of their test documents. The newest version makes it easier than ever for you to re-use content from existing documents. A 27% increase in overall document accuracy translates directly into fewer word errors and less editing - resulting in greater processing efficiency and additional time-savings. With an accuracy level up to 50% greater than most alternatives, you’ll spend dramatically less time converting documents. Because electronic archive & retrieval efforts depend heavily on OCR accuracy - the more accurate the conversion, the more accurate the document retrieval. OmniPage Professional’s increased accuracy helps reduce the time required for proofreading to a minimum, boosting your productivity while simultaneously making it easier to retrieve archived documents.
- The most accurate conversion in 123 languages: OmniPage's sophisticated multi-engine voting capabilities deliver unprecedented accuracy at a level greater than 99% for 119 different languages.
- Financial, legal and medical recognition: Recognition dictionaries for financial, legal and medical specialties ensure the most accurate conversion of important industry specific terms for documents that utilize this terminology.
- Despeckle module: We know enhancing difficult to read documents dramatically improves recognition. Our sophisticated despeckle module helps to reduce background noise allowing colored, shaded and previously unrecognizable documents to be converted with less human intervention.
- Breakthrough PDF conversion: OmniPage Professional 17 helps you to easily re-purpose information trapped in PDF files by instantly converting them into editable word processing and spreadsheet documents complete with layout, text, graphics and tables. Our PDF Overlay Matching technology provides an accuracy level greater than other solutions for PDF normal and image/text conversion.
Formatting features
What good is OCR if you need to spend additional time reformatting the results? This can be a very time consuming process especially if there are columns, tables or graphics involved. Because formatting is so crucial to automatically reconstructing the layout of a document we built superior page layout algorithms to ensure converted documents are as exact to the original as possible. OmniPage Professional 17’s precise layout retention maintains the look and text flow of the original page. Whether you’ve got a single page from a book or a 1,000 page report, OmniPage can handle them with both speed and accuracy.
- Flowing page output: Flowing page output offers a unique combination of page fidelity and editability that is truer to the original document than competitive OCR products. OmniPage ensures columns, tables, lists and graphics remain in place, while text flows naturally around these embedded objects.
- Superior character matching: Font matching, font-consolidation, size, bold, italics and color background matching accuracy helps cut editing time to a minimum. Matching the individual character attributes ensures your converted documents look as close to the original as possible.
- Superior page analysis: Before recomposing the layout of a document, OCR software must first understand all of the objects on the page and their relationship to one another. OmniPage Professional 16 offers improved detection of individual page objects, in particular tables. This feature ensures tables and spreadsheets, with or without gridlines, are formatted correctly.
- Superior speed: Accomplish more work in less time. OmniPage Professional 16’s improved hyper threading process allows you to power through OCR tasks 20% faster than before. This boost helps make OCR the fastest, most accurate time-saving way to automatically convert documents into more than 30 different formats.
- Multi-core parallel processing: Using today’s popular dual-core and tomorrow’s multi-core computer processors allow you to be even more productive with a dramatic 46%+ boost in speed for less wasted time waiting for OCR processing to finish.
Document management features
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| Free PaperPort included |
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| Free PDF Create with PDF Create Assistant |
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| Customizable open dialogs with PaperPort folders |
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| Customizable save dialogs with PaperPort folders |
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| Apply PaperPort folder notes to PDF and Word files |
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| Open and view with PaperPort |
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Document input features
OmniPage Professional 17 is not only a paper-to-digital conversion application; it also allows you unlock the information that is trapped in static image and PDF files. Using OmniPage you can convert almost all image formats into editable files for your existing PC applications, including Microsoft Word and Excel. Better still, OmniPage can be used to convert a document from one format to another (TIF to PDF for example,) and to make static image documents searchable on your PC and within content management applications.
- Form recognition and export: OmniPage now uses Logical Form Recognition? technology to process forms. Bring both paper and electronic forms (distributed mainly as PDF files in an office environment) into OmniPage, recognize them and edit their content, layout or both - in True Page view and produce a fillable form that can be saved in the following formats: PDF, RTF, HTML or XSN (Microsoft Office InfoPath format).
- Digital-to-digital document conversion: A major new feature of OmniPage is that it can open not only image files, but also documents created in word-processing and similar applications. Supported file types include: .doc, .xls, .ppt, .rtf, .wpd and others.
- Text, tables and graphics: Most people think of OCR as simply a way to extract text and spreadsheet data from existing documents. Because OmniPage has advanced page segmentation capabilities, it is also a powerful way to re-use pictures, clip-art, graphics and charts within documents. Simply zone-over the area you want to extract, and OmniPage will let you save the content of that area in a wide range of image formats.
- Image format conversion: Images of scanned documents contain a "picture" of the document, which can be viewed but not edited or searched. OmniPage converts static images into documents that can be edited and searched. Support for converting all popular image formats includes: TIF, JPG, BMP, PCX, GIF, PDF, MAX and more.
Document output features
The ability to turn paper or PDF documents into your favorite program format is what makes OmniPage Professional 17 so versatile. Whether you want to edit a document, create a searchable archive, share information on the Web, or integrate information into other applications, OmniPage allows you to make the conversion quickly and accurately.
The WYSIWYG HTML allows you to turn documents directly into Web pages with just a click of a button. Converted Web pages will include graphics and pictures while maintaining the precise look and feel of the original document.
Advanced productivity features
Optimize time savings and productivity for your particular business needs. A host of adjustable controls allow you to transform documents with speed, formatting, and output styles that are specifically tailored to the way you work.
- Improved multiple-document support: Save additional time by working on multiple documents at once. OmniPage can now open, process, correct and save multiple documents simultaneously.
- Integrated document management tools: Get more organized. OmniPage includes PaperPort, the world’s most popular desktop document management software, PDF Create! and PDF Converter. Create PDF files from any PC application to share, secure documents, and turn PDF files into fully-formatted Microsoft Word, Excel and Corel WordPerfect documents. An "Assistant" that simplifies creation and conversion of PDF files from the desktop, and within Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer. With OmniPage you get the core Digital PDF conversion capabilities found in Adobe Distiller Server and Jaws PDF Server, but in a more affordable and easier to use application. PDF power at the desktop for everyone!
- Direct connection to PaperPort: OmniPage now automatically links up to PaperPort if it is installed so you can bring color images from PaperPort directly into OmniPage to speed up your processing workflow even more.
- Digital camera 3DC technology: Use your digital camera to accurately capture text anywhere. Advanced technology automatically corrects for three-dimensional distortion to ensure the best OCR results possible.
- Automatic data collection from forms: Electronic forms are easier to distribute, fill and process than paper forms. The challenge has always been getting existing paper forms into an electronic format. If you have ever tried to work with electronic forms, you know how slow and frustrating the process can be. The Form Converter feature turns scanned, paper forms into editable electronic PDF, XML, or Microsoft InfoPath forms automatically. OmniPage is a true breakthrough that makes forms easy from start to finish. In short, we've merged the best of our award winning OmniForm? product into this best ever OmniPage so you can quickly turn paper forms into electronic forms and then easily collect the data with virtually no typing at all.
- Manual speed zoning: Speed up the manual zoning process by viewing auto-detect zones and double-clicking to select the one you want.
- Concurrent file saving: Now archiving and editing can co-exist in a single step. Save to multiple file formats at the same time. For example, you can save a searchable PDF file for your archive, a Word document for editing and the original image for verification simultaneously.
- Resolution control: Choose your desired resolution for saved images and for images embedded in recognized pages.
- Adjustable speed control: Customize recognition performance by selecting the speed and accuracy settings that are optimized for your needs.
- OPD files: OmniPage document files contain training files, user dictionary and zone information to make follow-up OCR sessions faster and easier than ever before.
- Custom converters: Create custom documents according to your business standards. Document output can be tailored for specific attributes so that each time documents are converted to specific programs they have specific properties pre-selected to minimize required completion work in the target application.
- Direct OCR: Save time by performing OCR from directly within your favorite program. Use OmniPage to place fully formatted text within Word, Excel and many other popular word-processing programs without ever needing to launch OmniPage.
Proofing and training features
Proofreading your converted documents ensures the highest accuracy possible. OmniPage Professional 17's proofreader offers increased speed and flexibility to make the proofing process easier, faster and more intuitive than ever before.
- Automatic redaction: Keep important information confidential by blacking out sensitive words with automatic redaction. Save times, money, and greatly reduces the chances of errors by redacting documents electronically instead of by hand.
- Automatic highlights and strikethroughs: Electronic collaboration is now a breeze. Quickly locate information with applied highlights or communicate an important revision with strikethrough text just like marking up a paper document with a pen or pencil.
- IntelliTrain proofing system: The IntelliTrain proofing system "learns" your editing style by recording your previous text corrections to generate better OCR results in each successive document. Our superior proofing algorithms result in better correction suggestions, handling of hyphenated words and fewer key strokes than competitive products.
- Context specific correction: Confirming the accuracy of questionable words is much easier because suspect words are displayed within a wider context of the document's text to facilitate more accurate corrections.
- Dynamic verification: OmniPage’s proofreading mode provides a more dynamic view of the original document's text image so you do not have to second guess if your corrections are appropriate or not.
- Individual character training: IntelliTrain proofing also allows specific individual characters or symbols to be learned thus ensuring better accuracy in subsequent document conversions.
- RealSpeak? voice readback: As the world's leading provider of speech technology, Nuance realizes that text-to-speech functionality can greatly enhance productivity. OmniPage Professional 17 benefits from our market leading technology through audio book publishing. This exciting feature allows you to work faster and leverage information as never before.
- Audio book publishing: Take documents with you wherever you go with OmniPage's Audio Book Publishing. Paper and electronic documents can now be converted into natural sounding audio files for playback or burning to CD. This .wav file output allows any document to be converted into an audio book for portability and convenience.
- Create audio documents from paper and digital documents: OmniPage lets you turn scanned paper, PDF files and even electronic documents into human-sounding audio-documents. Using Nuance RealSpeak?, the world’s best text-to-speech technology, you can listen to documents on your PC, from a CD or even on digital music devices. A great productivity tool for professionals on-the-go and for those who experience difficulty reading documents on a computer screen.
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OmniPage
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OmniPage Professional 17
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| Individual character training |
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| Dynamic verification |
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| IntelliTrain? proofing — smart automatic correction |
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Document control features
Compatibility features
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OmniPage
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OmniPage
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OmniPage Professional 17
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| Network installable |
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| Section 508 compliant |
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| 123 languages recognized |
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System requirements
- Windows XP 32/64-bit (from Service Pack 2), Windows Vista 32/64-bit
- Computer Processor 400 MHz/Windows XP, 1 GHz/Windows Vista, Dual-Core or Quad-Core processor recommended for advanced performance
- 256 MB of memory (RAM), 1GB recommended for advanced performance.
- 230 MB of free hard disk space for the application files and sample images, plus 70 MB working space during installation. An additional 170 MB for RealSpeak(tm) Solo speech modules.
- 1024x768 pixel color monitor with 16-bit color or greater video card
- CD-ROM drive for installation
- A sound card and speaker for reading text aloud
- A compatible scanner with its own scanner driver software for scanning documents.
- 2-megapixel digital camera with auto-focus or higher for digital camera text capture
- Web access needed for automatic product activation and Scanner Wizard database updating
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 for Micorosoft Office 2007 and XPS formats
Note: Performance and speed will be enhanced if your computer's processor, memory, and available disk space exceed minimum requirements. This is especially true when converting very large color PDF files.
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