Qwertyuiop! If that sequence makes you blanch, you probably hate to type or have too much typing to do. Caere wants to spare you from repetitive stress injuries with its new version of OmniPage Pro, the best-selling Mac optical character recognition (OCR) package. Version 8 adds some neat tricks that should appeal to the business and multiculti crowd while improving on the program’s legendary accuracy in turning scans of documents into editable text.
And the name of the game in OCR definitely is accuracy. You don’t want to run a series of pages through your scanner and OCR software and end up with text riddled with bizarro errors. OmniPage Pro boasts the highest accuracy of any popular OCR app — a clearly scanned laser-printed document with a simple layout stands a good chance of being recognized with 99 percent accuracy.
That means you’ve still got a few errors to correct. OmniPage Pro makes finding and fixing them easy. The OCR Proofreader, which chums through the document figging potential errors, shows them in context and suggests corrections. The window is a model of design that all spelling checkers should emulate. The whole process, from scan to save, is streamlined and efficient — a single click on the AutoOCR Toolbar takes you through it.
Most documents aren’t simple one-column things. OmniPage Pro can handle multiple columns, inset text boxes, color art, and fonts in multiple sizes, colors, and styles. However, complexly formatted docs often come through with imperfect results — we found that OmniPage Pro occasionally inserts empty lines and adds text stuffings where there were none.
The interface hasn’t changed much from version 7; most new features are under the hood. OmniPage Pro 8 now recognizes text as small as 4 points and can deal handily with that OCR bugaboo, skewed scans. It can deskew pages up to 10 degrees off vertically, which is really crooked, and does a good job on thermal faxes and other degraded text.
Another valuable feature, especially for standard business OCR, is Numeric Mode, which identifies parts of a document containing only numerals, as in a spreadsheet table. Once the area is tagged, the OCR engine can do a more accurate, faster job of recognizing numerals than it would if it followed the standard algorithm for letter recognition.
This version deals better with foreign languages in roman character sets, a fact that should warm the hearts of language diversity advocates (or anyone who’s doing business overseas). It contains rule sets for 12 western European langues, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Scandinavian languages, and British English. OmniPage Pro can handle an occasional umlaut or accent grave, but don’t try diacritic-heavy languages such as Hungarian.
Without a doubt, OmniPage Pro 8 is the best OCR solution for the Mac. Pair it with a good scanner — especially one with autofeed capability — and your typing days are numbered.
Anzovin, Steven. (July 1998). OmniPage Pro 8. MacAddict. (pg. 56).
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Architecture
IBM PowerPC
System Requirements
From Mac OS 7.5
Compatibility notes
- Minimum Requirements
- Power Macintosh or compatible
- 10 MB RAM available
- 25 MB hard disk drive available
- System 7.5 or later
- 640 x 480 display or larger
- Supported Scanners
- Adara ImageStar I, ImageStar II, ImageStar III, MegaStar I, Starlight 1, Starlight 2
- Agfa SnapScan, SnapScan 300, SnapScan 310, SnapScan 600, SnapScan Plus, StudioScan IIsi, StudioStar
- Apple Color OneScanner 1200/30, Color OneScanner 600/27
- Canon IX-3010, IX-4015, IX-4025
- Epson Action Scanner II, ES-1000C, ES-1200C, Expression 636, GT-5500
- Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 4p, ScanJet IIcx, ScanJet IIp, ScanJet 3c, ScanJet 3p, ScanJet 4c, ScanJet 4s, ScanJet 5p, ScanJet 6100c,
- La Cie SilverScanner DTP, SilverScanner III, SilverScanner IV
- Microtek Color PageWiz, ScanMaker E3, ScanMaker E3+, ScanMaker E6, ScanMaker IIhr, ScanMaker III, ScanMaker IIsp, ScanMaker IIxe, ScanMaker V300, ScanMaker V310, ScanMaker V600, ScanMaker 6400XL
- Nikon AX-110, AX-210
- ScanPaq SCANPORT DS 1200, SCANPORT SQ-2000, SCANPORT SQ-2030, SCANPORT SQ-4800, SCANPORT SQ-9600
- UMAX Astra 600S, Astra 1200S, PowerLook II, Vista S8, Vista S6E
- Visioneer PaperPort, PaperPort Strobe, PaperPort Vx
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