OmniPage Professional

"OmniPage Pro is the world's most accurate document conversion and OCR software"
By SoftCns Editor:
How can you get the document into the format you want without having to do extensive re-typing or re-editing?

Now the answer is OmniPage Professional 18. This innovative solution lets you convert paper, PDF files and forms at lightning speed into documents you can edit on your PC or archive in a document repository. Amazing accuracy, combined with batch processing and comprehensive network features, make it the perfect choice for organizations of all kinds.

OmniPage eliminates paper and digital inefficiency by improving productivity, enhancing responsiveness and reducing storage and material costs. Organizations save significant time and money by leveraging the superior OCR and document formatting accuracy of OmniPage to instantly convert documents into the format of their choice. Retyping is eliminated, tasks are automated, information is easily accessed and productivity soars.

What's New

Better Performance!
• 67% improved layout accuracy
• 18% improved word accuracy
• 50% more compressed Searchable PDF-MRC files without loosing any word accuracy
• 30% faster processing on multipage PDF documents

NEW! Start Page provides guidance
When OmniPage opens it presents clear options to open or scan documents, open OmniPage Project Documents and provides pre-programmed workflows to take your documents from one format to another in one easy step.

NEW! Most productive and accurate searchable PDF ever - eDiscovery Assistant for searchable PDF
PDF files are everywhere and can come from a variety of sources. They can include scanned pages, embedded images, and other types of information. Many of these elements don’t include searchable text. The new eDiscovery Assistant for searchable PDF is a revolution in safely converting a single PDF or batches of PDFs of all types into completely searchable documents. Now you don’t have to open PDF files one by one, or use an OCR process that might unintentionally wipe out valuable information.

NEW! Connect and convert in the Cloud
Download input files from web storage sites and return recognition results there. OmniPage provides native integration with Evernote and Dropbox. In addition, the included Nuance Cloud Connector application provides access to a number of cloud services including Microsoft Live SkyDrive, GoogleDocs, Box.net and many more. The added benefit of the Nuance Cloud Connector is its ability to integrate directly with Microsoft Windows providing easy drag-and-drop access directly to cloud services. The Nuance Cloud Connector is also upgradeable to a more feature rich version of the product called Gladinet Cloud Desktop Pro. This enhanced version adds additional functionality for using cloud services for automatic backup and file synchronization.

Better scanned images produces better accuracy - Improved Pre-Processing
The algorithms for removing speckles and dots from page images to help increase accuracy are improved, with a choice of despeckling methods (Normal, Halftone, Salt & Pepper).

NEW! Poorly scanned images need OmniPage with scanner enhancement tools (SET Tools)
When whiteboard content is captured by digital camera, the text and diagrams can be enhanced for maximum readability. Auto-crop pages to have margins detected and reduced; the punch hole remover and border tools produce clean page borders without scanning shadows and marginal notes.

NEW! Automatic language detection
Let the program assign a single language to each incoming page during unattended processing. It chooses from the languages with dictionary support that use a latin-based alphabet (so Russian and Greek are excluded) plus Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified). When this feature is enabled, no manual language selection is necessary.

NEW! Better control over determining blank pages
A new sensitivity setting increases the accuracy of recognizing blank pages that may scan as light gray or colored pages by allowing the threshold for blankness to be adjusted. This improves the use of two controls: the new pre-processing option ‘Drop blank pages’ and the existing saving option ‘Create a new file at each blank page’.

NEW! ISIS scanners
Scanners that support ISIS drivers can be used to scan directly into OmniPage.

Features

Powerful Advantages:
• Take advantage of superior word accuracy to re-create documents quickly
• Maintain formatting so a converted document looks exactly like the original
• Make documents completely searchable while preserving existing text
• Batch convert paper and PDF files into documents you can edit and archive
• Automate the collection and conversion of forms and data
• Connect with leading cloud storage services and convert documents in them
• Redact and highlight automatically with workflows

Maximize productivity with the eDiscovery Assistant for searchable PDF
PDF files are everywhere and can come from a variety of sources. They can include scanned pages, embedded images, and other types of information. Yet, many of these elements don’t include searchable text.

The new eDiscovery Assistant for searchable PDF is a revolution in safely converting a single PDF or batches of PDFs of all types into completely searchable documents. Now you don’t have to open PDF files individually, or use an OCR process that may unintentionally wipe out valuable information.

Access and convert documents in the cloud
Storing, sharing, and archiving documents using cloud storage services is a fast and convenient option today. OmniPage is designed to easily connect to a variety of cloud storage and online document websites. Now you can access and convert documents stored in Windows® Live SkyDrive, GoogleDocs, Evernote, Dropbox, and many other storage options. You can even open documents directly from one cloud service, convert them, and store them in a different cloud service – all in one convenient step.

Take advantage of the most accurate OCR solution
PC Magazine’s independent tests confirmed that OmniPage is the most accurate OCR solution. Now, it’s easier than ever for re-use content from existing documents. A 27% increase in accuracy translates directly into fewer word errors and less editing. With accuracy levels up to 50% greater than most alternatives, you’ll spend dramatically less time converting documents.