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Deploy OmniPage Professional 18 Enterprise on every desktop in your organization to revolutionize document imaging processes. With 99%+ character accuracy, one-click conversion to Microsoft Office and universal compatibility with any scanning device, OmniPage transforms text from scanned pages or image files into electronic files you can edit, search, and share in the format of your choice. OmniPage recognizes and precisely replicates graphics, check boxes, radio buttons, text fields, characters, paragraphs, columns, tables, headings, and more.
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Better Performance!
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 Microsfot 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.
Powerful Advantages:
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.
And since electronic archiving and retrieval depends heavily on OCR accuracy, accurate conversions mean more accurate document retrieval. OmniPage’s increased accuracy also helps reduce the time required for proofreading.
The most accurate conversion in over 120 languages: OmniPage delivers unprecedented accuracy at a level greater than 99% for over 120 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.
De-Speckle: OmniPage helps reduce background noise, enabling better conversions of colored, shaded and previously unrecognizable documents with less human intervention.
Breakthrough PDF conversion: OmniPage Professional 18 helps you easily repurpose 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 greater accuracy than competing solutions.
Formatting
Stop wasting time reformatting OCR results – especially when there are columns, tables, or graphics. OmniPage Professional 18 includes superior page-layout algorithms to ensure converted documents are as faithful as possible to the originals. In addition, OmniPage Professional 18’s precision maintains the look and flow of your original page format. Whether you’ve got a single-page document or a 1,000-page report, OmniPage Professional 18 handles them with speed and accuracy.
Flowing page output: Enjoy a unique combination of page fidelity and editability that has higher levels of formatting fidelity than competing OCR products. OmniPage keeps columns, tables, lists and graphics in place, while text flows naturally around these objects.
Superior character matching: Font matching, font-consolidation, size, bold, italics, and color-background matching accuracy keep your 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, the OCR software must first understand all objects on the page and their relationships to one another. OmniPage Professional 18 improves detection of individual page objects, ensuring tables and spreadsheets, with or without gridlines, are formatted correctly.
Superior speed: Accomplish more in less time. OmniPage Professional 18’s improved hyper-threading speeds through OCR tasks 20% faster than before, making it the fastest, most accurate time-saving way to automatically convert documents into dozens of different formats.
Multi-core parallel processing: Using today’s popular multi-core computer processors, you can be even more productive with a dramatic 46%+ boost in speed and less wasted time.
Document Management
Document Input
OmniPage Professional 18 is not just a paper-to-digital conversion solution. It also lets you unlock the information trapped in static images and PDF files. OmniPage can convert almost all image formats into editable files for your existing PC applications, including Microsoft Word and Excel. Better still, OmniPage can convert documents from one format to another (e.g. TIF to PDF) and make static image documents searchable on your PC and within content-management applications.
Form recognition and export: OmniPage uses Logical Form Recognition™ technology to process forms. Bring both paper and electronic forms (typically distributed as PDF files in office environments) into OmniPage, recognize them, and edit their content and/or layout. View and produce a fillable form that can be saved in PDF, RTF, HTML or XSN (Microsoft Office InfoPath format).
Digital-to-digital document conversion: OmniPage can now open not only image files, but also documents created in personal productivity applications, such as .doc, .xls, .pptx, .rtf, .wpd, and others.
Text, tables, and graphics: Most people think OCR is simply a way to extract text and spreadsheet data from existing documents. With its advanced page segmentation capabilities, OmniPage is also a powerful way to re-use pictures, clipart, graphics, and charts within documents. Simply zone-over the area you want to extract and OmniPage lets you save the content of that area in a wide range of image formats.
Image format conversion: OmniPage converts static images into documents that can be edited and searched. Support for all popular image formats includes: TIF, JPG, BMP, PCX, GIF, PDF, MAX, and more.
Document Output
OmniPage Professional 18 turns paper or PDF documents into files you can use with your favorite programs. Whether you want to edit a document, create a searchable archive, share information on the Web, or integrate information into other applications, OmniPage lets you make the conversion quickly and accurately.
With WYSIWYG HTML you can turn documents directly into Web pages with just a click of a button. Converted Web pages include graphics and pictures while you maintain the precise look and feel of the original document.
Output Formats
Advanced Productivity
A host of adjustable controls let you to transform documents with speed, formatting, and output styles that are specifically tailored to the way you work.
Improved multiple-document support: Save time by working on multiple documents at once. OmniPage can now open, process, correct, and save multiple documents simultaneously.
Integrated document management tools: OmniPage Professional includes PaperPort, the world’s most popular desktop document management software, and PDF Create software that lets you create a 100% industry-standard PDF file from any application.
Direct connection to PaperPort: OmniPage now automatically links to PaperPort so you can bring color images from PaperPort directly into OmniPage to speed up your workflows.
Digital camera 3DC technology: Use your digital camera to 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. But how do you get paper forms into electronic formats? OmniPage incorporates the best of the award-winning OmniForm® so you can quickly turn paper forms into editable electronic PDF, XML, or Microsoft InfoPath forms.
Manual speed zoning: Accelerate the manual zoning process by viewing auto-detect zones and double-clicking to select the one you want.
Concurrent file saving: Archiving and editing now co-exist in a single step. Save to multiple file formats at the same time. For example, save a searchable PDF file to your archive, a Word document for editing, and the original image for verification simultaneously.
Resolution control: Choose a 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 files contain training files, user dictionary, and zone information to make follow-up OCR sessions faster and easier.
Custom converters: Create custom documents according to your business standards. Document output can be tailored with specific attributes so that, with each conversion to a specific program, the document has specific pre-selected properties to work in the target application.
Direct OCR: Perform OCR directly from within your favorite program. Use OmniPage to place fully formatted text within Word, Excel, and many other popular word processing programs - without launching OmniPage.
Proofing and Training
Proofreading your converted documents ensures the highest accuracy possible. OmniPage Professional 18’s proofreader offers increased speed and flexibility to make the proofing process easier, faster, and more intuitive.
Automatic redaction: Keep important information confidential by blacking out sensitive words with automatic redaction. It saves times and money and greatly reduces the chances of errors.
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.
IntelliTrain proofing system: OmniPage “learns” your editing style by recording your previous text corrections to generate better OCR results in successive documents. These superior proofing algorithms result in better correction suggestions, improved hyphenation and fewer keystrokes.
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 provides a more dynamic view of the original document's text image - so you don‘t have to second-guess your corrections.
Individual character training: IntelliTrain proofing also allows specific individual characters or symbols to be learned, ensuring better accuracy in subsequent 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 18 benefits from this leadership through audio book publishing.
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 you to convert any document into an audio book.
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.
Document Control
Compatibility
Customer Testimonials
"The way OmniPage Professional 18 looks and operates is fantastic. It’s much faster and easier to work with then the previous release. I’ve been an OmniPage user for a while and I change scanners several times a day in the course of my daily work. I can now do more work in the same amount of time using OmniPage Professional 18. This is an exciting and very functional piece of software."
- George Vogel
"We currently use OmniPage Professional versions 15 and 17 and have been long time customers. OmniPage Professional is much easier to use and I like the workflow in OmniPage Professional 18 the best. I really like all the new features, especially the eDiscovery Assistant for searchable PDF and the Nuance Cloud Connectors. The cloud computing features are and will be very valuable for those using cooperative construction of PDF and the sharing of documents in the cloud. We work extensively with PDFs in our development of training materials and OmniPage Professional 18 will most certainly broaden our PDF capabilities."
- Alan Hart
"I routinely process tens of thousands of scanned documents. Nuance Communication's OmniPage Professional 18 is my trusted source for delivering the most accurate searchable PDF files in the least amount of time. I rely on Nuance Communication's OCR technology, with its years of research and development experience, to provide cutting edge results. If you are looking for a product that will truly make your job easier and more productive, then you need OmniPage Professional 18."
- David Ocampo, Lead Senior Paralegal, Santa Clara County Office of the District Attorney
“OmniPage 16 is great and packed with new features such as custom views, support for digital camera files and support for new document formats. I like the new editing features which include, high lighting, strikeout and redaction that make revising documents a breeze. I recommend this product for any office or home environment that requires a digital document storage solution. There is no need to buy any extra document management software.”
“OmniPage 16 is great creating documents to share or archive and is cheaper than Adobe products.”
“I specifically like the new image enhancement window in version 16. Other features I find especially useful are the PDF functionality and the workflows/automated processing.”
- Terry Yamada, Home Office User
“Although OmniPage Professional 15 was very accurate, OmniPage Professional 16 will be even more accurate. True page now retains the formatting of the original document with greater fidelity.”
“I like the new flexible document interface. It allows me to have all of the views readily available without sacrificing screen real estate.”
“I think the new digital camera support is great. Now when I am researching away from the office, I'll be able to photograph any information that I need and convert it to text without having to go through a photocopy that may be very degraded depending upon the copy machine available.”
“We use OmniPage workflows all of the time to scan, crop (if necessary), zone and recognize our scanned documentation. It is extremely useful to us and saves a great deal of time and effort. We can simply place a document in the ADF and then let OmniPage take it from there.”
“OmniPage Professional 16’s value to us lies in the ability to save storage space and being able to have information readily available from our server instead of having to go through paper documentation looking for the information that we need.”
“OmniPage 16 produces clean, accurate, small files from massive amounts of paper documentation - it's a great product.”
- Sandra Ellmaker, Vice President/Senior Actuary - Stack, Ellmaker & Associates, Inc.
“I have found OmniPage to be very accurate with both the OCR and document formatting. I love that version 16 is faster than ever!”
“The PDF capabilities are fantastic. I save most of my documents in searchable PDF format - leases, bank statements, and contracts, so these features are a necessity for me.”
“OmniPage is successful for me because of its accuracy. If it wasn’t accurate I would have to spend too much time correcting documents instead of working. It saves me at least 15 minutes a page when I work on creating and editing new contracts.”
- Anne Wold, Commercial Property Management Bookkeeper - Ship Creek Center
“The key business benefit for me is the ability of OmniPage to convert files in to the Microsoft Excel format. The accuracy of this conversion in to this format is very good. This single feature has saved me the price of the software every week by eliminating retyping that we previously had to do, plus - it’s so fast. Our business depends on being able to rapidly enter information from paper documents in to our databases. - OmniPage Professional 16 is now an essential business tool for us.”
“I didn’t consider alternatives to OmniPage. Over the years I have used competitor’s OCR products, but none have been as reliable, useful, or as flexible and as OmniPage.”
“Version 16’s new forms capability could be very strategically important for our business. I am currently experimenting with this. If it is successful it could be a major advantage for our business in the near future.”
“OmniPage is now an integral part of my business activities; I don’t think I could function to such a high standard without the use of such a good document conversion and storage solution.”
“Version 16 looks to be a significant step forward in both speed and accuracy that could allow our business to take a massive step forward, by both saving man hours, and by improving the product we offer to our customers.”
- Brian Tetley, UK Director - SkilSure Ltd.
“We use OmniPage to OCR 1 to 10 files in an average day that range anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 + pages in order to create searchable PDFs of them. I have found version 16 to be more robust than the previous version and it OCR’s thousands of pages faster and with better accuracy.”
“I especially like OmniPage Professional 16’s new legal pleading OCR zone layout. Over the years OmniPage has successfully OCRed over 200,000 pages for us into searchable PDFs providing a means to quickly identify key documents. The product has saved us hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars by automating the task of making the documents fully searchable.”
“OmniPage Professional Version 16 is a superior product with unsurpassed OCR technology and the fastest, most powerful features available. I am very pleased with the product. It has made my job easier and has saved me a lot of time so that I can be more productive.”
- David Ocampo, Senior Paralegal - Santa Clara County Office of the District Attorney
“The integration of OmniPage 16 Professional with PaperPort is of critical importance to me, particularly with regard to working with PDF files.”
“OmniPage 16 takes OCR to the next level and makes my work with scanning written documents and forms, as well as converting to fully text editable PDF files, along with all the other bells and whistles, much more viable and practical, particularly with the use of PaperPort 11 Professional, which I use extensively for both business and personal record-keeping.”
“I have never considered any alternative OCR other than OmniPage because it is the most comprehensive and practical OCR software on the market. There are other products that are approximately as accurate and/or provide other features that are not what I consider to be critically important in OCR software, but I have always stuck with OmniPage because it provides the best collection of features and functions, along with very high accuracy when scanning paper documents and converting them to text. I have never considered going to another OCR product.”
“There is a significant improvement in overall page layout formatting and accuracy using OmniPage 16 vs. OmniPage 15. This is particularly true as regards to installation on Core2™ Quad Extreme and Core2 Duo systems, which are the only ones that I use currently in my network applications and general business consulting practice. The creation of support for these systems in OmniPage 16 provides a significant improvement in overall performance and speed.”
“Some features of version 16 that I find particularly useful include: improved PDF document support, multithreading capability, tight integration with PaperPort, improved page layout retention, and support for dual core CPUs.”
“Support for Microsoft’s new XPS format is absolutely necessary now that I am working with Office 2007. Although not too many of my clients are currently working with XPS, this particular format is one reason why I moved to the Office 2007 platform. Because XPS will become more important as time goes on, having the capability to support it now is very important for me.”
“Over the years OmniPage has literally saved me thousands of dollars and hours of time scanning and converting documents to editable text and the PDF format. I would guess that using it saves me, on average, 8 to 10 hours a week, and sometimes 2 to 3 hours a day.”
“OmniPage 16 Professional does more of what I need to do, more efficiently, faster, and with greater accuracy, both in terms of OCR conversion and page layout retention.”
“OmniPage 16 Professional is an extremely useful, viable, and much improved product. Not just in terms of comparison to other products, but even in terms of comparison to the previous version of OmniPage as well.”
- Chuck Runquist, Owner - GEMCCON Consulting
“I was astonished by OmniPage 16 Professional’s accuracy. There are three great strengths: significantly fewer false hits with extraneous marks and smudges on old texts; fewer errors if a line of text is bifurcated horizontally; overall it seems more accurate.”
“The new Flexible View is an absolute boon for us when trying to make the best use of the screen layout because we use two or more monitors simultaneously. My productivity with two 19” monitors is significantly higher given I can adjust the windows to fit the screens any way I want or in any way the text demands.
“Using an Intel Quad Core has already saved me at least 60% in terms of time. What a huge difference! At $45 to $60 an hour I can pay for the program many times over in just one day!
“OmniPage 16 raises OCR to the next level: by taking advantage of new dual and quad core technologies and improving its accuracy and flexibility, workflow times can be cut almost in half.”
- John Matson, Owner - Matsart Publishing
“ I use OmniPage to create searchable PDFs, editable legal pleadings, color PDFs, RTF, DOC, DOCX, JPG, PDF image over recognized text, XPS, PPTX, HTML and TXT files - approximately 40 files and more than 200 pages per day.”
“I especially like the new “legal pleading” capability and the feature that lets you convert documents directly from one format others – all with great formatting retention.”
“The accuracy of OmniPage 16 is amazing. Furthermore, the formatting is much better than with OmniPage 15.”
“The accuracy of the XPS conversion surprised me. After all, it is a new format and I know of only two (2) pieces of software other than OmniPage which can view XPS documents. It is clear that Nuance recognized this new format is a wave of the future by planning for it today. By simply adding support for this file type, Nuance not only looks to take care of today’s needs, it forecasts and provides for my future needs as well.”
“The reliability of automated workflows makes me think of the motto “Set it and forget it.” Plus, setting up workflows using the Wizard makes the process easily understandable and simple enough for those of us who do not have time to learn a whole set of programming functions and a new language. OmniPage is both straightforward and simple.”
“The ability to create different views helps make working with various documents and simple due to the “natural” flow GUI design elements: left-to-right, top-to-bottom, more-important-to-less-important.”
“This program easily saves me at least 45 minutes per day. My hourly billing is anywhere from $130 to $250. When I have large projects, OmniPage saves me at least 1/3 of the time I would normally spend. The savings are obvious.”
“OmniPage has become my OCR/document conversion software of choice. I doubt any other product can match its features, ease-of-use, reliability and accuracy. Version 16 makes OmniPage well-positioned to trump any other professional OCR software titles on the market today.”
- Edward Sager, Attorney - solo practice
“Using OmniPage saves me a lot of effort. I don’t have the time to re-type documents so jobs that take only a few moments with OmniPage get done rather than left in the “when I get a chance” pile. It helps make my life a lot more efficient.”
“OmniPage 16 is the most accurate OCR program yet – with ever increasing demands on our time OmniPage steps up and enables us to be productive and efficient. The Batch Manager functionality is ideal for working with multi-function devices and delivers the end result right to where you need it.”
“Using OmniPage has been successful for me because the OCR accuracy keeps getting better and better!”
- Megan Twentymen, Managing Director - Mistral Software
System Requirements:
SUPPORTED DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
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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