The OCR process was nearly impeccable, with just a few occasional typos, which we easily fixed using Omnipage Pro 17's built-in proofreading and text editing tools. For example, in one test that involved scanning a book chapter, Omnipage Pro 17 scored a 99.9 percent accuracy rate, with just 11 errors out of 11,175 characters. OmniPage Ultimate. Instantly convert any document into an editable digital file with the best OCR software. Read your document on your favorite eBook reader. Nook Simple Touch, Nook Tablet, Sony Reader PRS-350/PRS-650/PRS-950.

There was a time when I used to scan in a lot of documents. You’d go to an event or conference and people would give you handouts. If they were any use, you might scan in the text so you had it easily available.

These days, there’s less and less need for that because people don’t print off 50 copies of a document, they give you a link to an online PDF. Querying a database with linq to sql where clause. So if you do have scanning software, you want it to be pretty amazing.

Of course, HP sells lots of ‘all-in-one’ scanner/copier/printer units to the home market. So those people are going to want OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to convert scanned documents to something that is useful. I’m sure many parents can help their children with homework by scanning in text and images and reproducing that in a different format for school’s consumption. So, let’s suppose you go out and purchase the latest version of Nuance’s OmniPage Ultimate, what do you get? Well, to start with you get an installation that irritatingly launches Google Chrome in an attempt to register the software. By the time I’d cancelled that and put the address into Firefox, my software had given up registering and said it would try again in 7 days. Not an auspicious start.

Adobe illustrator serial numbers cs6 keygen free. I then launched the software expecting some user-friendly front end that would talk me through what I wanted to do. I connected the software to my scanner easily enough. I clicked around a lot expecting to find some way to scan in a document. After 10 minutes I just gave up – it didn’t seem to want to do that. In fact, it isn’t designed to do that.

So I scanned in a document in my usual way and saved it as a JPG. I then opened that in OmniPage. It was a mixture of text and images. And the OCR was perfect. OK it wasn’t the hardest document to read, but it was still perfect – down to the last semi-colon. I then tried the speech output – trying out the different voices available – and that was well done. It read the text nicely.

I could listen on any mobile device (tablet or smartphone) to it reading – so long as the device supported mp3 files. I later converted a long PDF document, I’d been sent, to mp3 and listened to it on my tablet – brilliant. A program that comes with OmniPage Ultimate is Launchpad. This looks a bit Windows 8ish and uses tiled action buttons to speed up the process of converting documents and sending them to any destination. This is obviously an attempt to freshen up the user interface – and it works. What makes Ultimate more than just an OCR engine is that it can convert PDFs and digital photos of text into files that users can edit/search/share.