|
|
Whistle Stopper - OmniPage 16
|
List Price: $149.99
Our Price: $75.90
Your Save: $ 74.09 ( 49% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Nuance Communications, Inc.
|
Average Customer Rating:  
|
|
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Nuance Communications, Inc.
EAN: 0780420117129
Feature: Faster, more accurate OCR with 99% character accuracy
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Manufacturer: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Model: 2889A-G00-16.0
Platform: No Operating System
Publisher: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Studio: Nuance Communications, Inc.
|
|
|
Features
|
Faster, more accurate OCR with 99% character accuracy
Improved page layout recognition for documents that look just like the original--complete with text, tables and graphics
Accurately capture text with your digital camera--automatically corrects for the angle distortion and rotation of the camera
Robust collection of powerful image correction capabilities that improve the quality of scanned documents, faxes and poor quality copies
One-button simplicity
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: don't buy it
Comment: I would have given 0 stars if possible. I'm sure it it is just as arrogant (if software can be arrogant--or its makers are) as 15. I bought Omnipage 15 to scan pages and had a lot of problems, so I uninstalled it. Unfortunately the program seems to have taken over my scanner and every picture I scan now is unreadable. A popup tries to reinstall Omnipage and won't let me open the picture files any other way. So all my scanned pictures are unusable. A company spokesperson said I could get technical help unintalling. Yet when I call the number he provided, a machine tells me I need to pay $19.95 per minute! Then puts me on hold!
Customer Rating:
Summary: This product borders on fraud!
Comment: I just made the singularly bad mistake of buying this software at the local Fry's Electronics (at full price no less), only to find that it won't even start up on my system, even after a successful install! And it is only at this point that I learn about the fact that they charge you for service support. This is crazy!
It is simply unacceptable to not provide some sort of free support, or at the very least a better FAQ that addresses this problem, since plainly I'm not the only one suffering it.
***STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY AND ITS PRODUCTS*** Lack of free support for their buggy product borders on out and out FRAUD. For all intents and purposes I'm out $[...] plus whatever I wasted in taxes on this POS.
Obviously, much blame attaches to me personally for not doing my homework and just impulse buying. (In my defense, I seldom buy specialty software like this, so I'm a bit of a neophyte). I will NEVER do this again.
FYI - Currently I'm running Win2K, SP4, but have plans to upgrade to XP. I can only pray these problems will go away at that point.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Meets the basic needs
Comment: The product meets my needs (article review and editing). I did experience a problem with registration and activation but was able to overcome the issue with perseverance. Much depends on expectations. Most of the work I do involves editing text. Perhaps for other more involved work this program may not be suitable (OP16 Pro?). Installation went well and the program appears to be performing well.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Extremely frustrating
Comment: I bought a scanner, which came with free ScanSoft software. I spent hours scanning a hundred page document. Then along came an upgrade offer - buy OmniPage 16 Pro (the continuation of the ScanSoft heritage). So I did. And found out that my previuosly saved OPD files were not compatible with the new version.
OmniPage 16 Pro is very buggy. Clicking on help has caused the app to become non-responsive. Shift clicking on a zone has caused the app to close, wiping out other apps that were running at the same time. It is enormously quirky, and has a difficult to use user interface - as though it was written by people who have never used a great interface. There are so many configurable items that it's impossible to learn (the Help doesn't), and if you try to experiment with them, you're likely to lose work.
My most recent frustration is that I've saved a book of 50 pages, and now want to add to it. I select the "add pages and continue processing" option, and it throws away all my work on the previously saved pages - meaning I have to rezone them, reproof them, etc.
If you really, really need to get documents scanned, hire a team of monkeys and have them do it. It will cost about the same, and you'll get about the same results.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't waste your money on it
Comment: I purchased Omnipage to convert scanned image-only PDF's into image-text PDF's. Every PDF comes through in horrible resolution. I spent several hours search their Support site, and couldn't find anything related to my problem. I also search the web and found other people complaining about the same problem, but no solutions.
I'll never buy a product from Nuance again.
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
Don't waste your time re-creating paper documents. Typing a typical 20 page, 6000 word document, takes about 150 minutes for the average person. OmniPage can re-create the same document as an editable digital document in your favorite format in less than 2 minutes. And millions of customers and independent labs agree - OmniPage delivers maximum productivity with greater than 99% character accuracy.
OmniPage 16, the entry-level version of the world's best selling OCR software, is the most precise way to turn paper, PDF, and even digital camera pictures into files you can easily edit. Don't waste time re-creating paper documents when OmniPage can quickly turn them into perfectly formatted digital documents in that look just like the original - complete with columns, tables, bullets and graphics. It's the world's most powerful document conversion product, not to mention the easiest to use. OmniPage 16 is ideal for students, home office and small business users alike. Multiple-Document Support - Save additional time by working on multiple documents at once. OmniPage can now open, process, correct and save multiple documents simultaneously Use your digital-camera to accurately capture text anywhere. Advanced technology automatically corrects for three-dimensional distortion to ensure the best OCR results possible PDF-MRC - Create up to 8 times smaller scanned color PDF documents faster with improved PDF-MRC technology to reduce file sizes dramatically Multi-Core Parallel Processing - When used with dual-core processors, achieve up to 46% faster speed 27% increase in overall document conversion accuracy over the previous release Supports Microsoft Office 2007
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
