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ScanSoft OmniPage Pro 11

Verdict

Adding PDF input/output capability is inspired, but its features are limited, and the OCR engine is relatively slow and poor at dealing with fax-resolution originals.

Review Date: 1 Aug 2001

Price when reviewed: (£435 inc VAT); £84 (£99 inc VAT) when upgrading from competitive OCR product.

Overall Rating
4 stars out of 6

More impressive is the PDF export feature. We were able to create some good PDF documents from scanned documents, though it's a shame you can't use this feature to create PDF documents from existing text documents.

In the end, we were slightly disappointed by OmniPage Pro 11. It still can't deal with fax-resolution input very well and the novel PDF capabilities delivered less than we hoped for. But full marks to ScanSoft for adding a new dimension to OCR and let's hope the PDF functionality can be refined by the time version 12 arrives.

Author: Ian Burley

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