Product Description

OmniPage 17 is the fastest and most precise way to convert paper, PDF files, and even digital camera pictures into files you can edit in your favorite PC applications. It works with all scanners and you can capture text with a digital camera or iPhone®. OmniPage 17 lets you turn documents that would take hours to re-type into perfectly formatted documents in seconds. You can even turn scanned documents into specially formatted pages for easy reading on the Amazon Kindle. Get started right away because OmniPage is easy to use. OmniPage 17 is ideal for students, home office and small businesses. ¿ New Hyper-Binary Conversion delivers 43% accuracy increase for scanned documents ¿ 23% overall accuracy increase for PDF and digital documents ¿ 200% faster launch speed ¿ 21% faster processing and support for quad-core computers ¿ New OmniPage One-Click Toolbar in Microsoft Office puts conversion at your fingertips ¿ Dramatic improvements in document layout retention to reduce or eliminate corrections ¿ Easy Loader allows you to quickly view, find and open multiple documents at a time ¿ New support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean documents added to over 120 other languages ¿ New support for iPhone and 2-Megapixel phone cameras ¿ 12% accuracy improvement for 3D-Capture using digital and mobile phone cameras ¿ New Send paper & PDF to Amazon Kindle with optimized formatting for reading and navigation

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #481 in Software
• Brand: Nuance Communications, Inc.
• Model: 2889A-G00-17.0
• Released on: 2009-06-01
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.50" h x 5.25" w x 7.51" l, .20 pounds

Features

• Improved OCR engines deliver 99%+ accuracy for document conversion and archiving business critical documents.
• Converted documents look exactly like the original and are easier to edit than ever before, complete with columns, tables, bullets and graphics.
• Converting documents doesn't have to be complicated. The Quick Convert View gets it done in seconds - there's no need to learn a lot of options and tools.
• Scan a document, automatically convert into a readable format and send it to the Kindle® electronic book reader in one easy step.
• If your device can scan then it can work with OmniPage. Mobile scanners, desktop scanners, All-in-one and Multi-function printers all work more productively and with better accuracy using OmniPage

Amazon.com Product Description
OmniPage 17 is the fastest and most precise way to convert paper, PDF files, and even digital camera pictures into files you can edit in your favorite PC applications. It works with all scanners and you can capture text with a digital camera or iPhone. OmniPage 17 lets you turn documents that would take hours to re-type into perfectly formatted documents in seconds. You can even turn scanned documents into specially formatted pages for easy reading on the Amazon Kindle. Get started right away because OmniPage is easy to use. OmniPage 17 is ideal for students, home office and small businesses.

Easy Loader allows you to quickly view, find and open multiple documents at a time. Click to enlarge.

Quick Convert View gets it done in seconds--there's no need to learn a lot of options and tools. Click to enlarge.

Scan a document, automatically convert into a readable format and send it to the Amazon Kindle. Click to enlarge.

New support for iPhone and 2-Megapixel phone cameras. Click to enlarge.

Quick and easy highlighting or redaction. Click to enlarge.

The Most Accurate OCR Available

Never Retype Another Document
Don't waste your time recreating information trapped on paper. Typing a typical 20 page document (6,000 words) takes about 150 minutes for the average person. OmniPage can recreate the same 20 pages as an editable digital file in your favorite format in less than 2 min

Improved Features = Better Formatting, Less Editing
OmniPage 17 boasts a host of new features to make your job even easier. Support for binarization for scanned images technology, included in today's scanners, means more characters recognized right from the start, less editing for you. Improved OCR engines recognize vertical text, even Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters. And, OmniPage 17 is faster than ever, so you can get more done than ever before.

Great for Professionals on the Go
The 3DC technology in Omnipage 17 lets you to recognize text from JPGs on your digital camera, cellphone or portable scanner. So now you can capture text on the go. You can even save and listen to your output on your iPod or read on your Amazon Kindle book reader.

Supports All Your Favorite Applications
OmniPage 17 has made it easier than ever to work with all of your favorite Microsoft Office applications with more accurate Microsoft Office 2007 output. Turn any paper, PDF or XPS document into the new Microsoft Word 2007, Excel 2007 or PowerPoint 2007 formats for smaller, more reliable documents.

Easy to Use One Button Conversion
OmniPage is both more flexible and easy to use. The QuickConvert view gets the job done fast without having to learn a lot of options and tools. ScanDirect buttons for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook make it easy to convert your documents instantly.

The Power of OmniPage 17

Superior OCR accuracy
Improved OCR engines deliver 99%+ accuracy for document conversion and archiving business-critical documents.

Maintain perfect formatting
Converted documents look exactly like the original and are easier to edit than ever before, complete with columns, tables, bullets and graphics.

Simply the easiest to use
Converting documents doesn't have to be complicated. The Quick Convert View gets it done in seconds--there's no need to learn a lot of options and tools.

Unlock PDF files
Turn any PDF file into your favorite PC application for easy editing. You can also scan documents into searchable versions of these formats, for instant access by desktop search utilities.

A picture is worth 1,000 words
Capture text with a digital camera or iPhone. Quickly convert your pictures to text documents with the most accurate 3D Correction technology available.

Send to Amazon Kindle
Scan a document, automatically convert into a readable format and send it to the Amazon Kindle electronic book reader in one easy step.

Supports all your favorite applications
Supports the widest range of output formats, including PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2007, Corel WordPerfect, HTML and many more formats.

Recognizes over 120 languages
Process, edit and store documents from anywhere in the world. Now supports Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.

Supports all scanners
If you can connect a scanning device to your computer, OmniPage can use it. We guarantee it. OmniPage improves all mobile scanners, all-in-ones, and multifunction printers.

One button does it all
Process, edit and store documents from anywhere in the world. Now supports Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.

What Else is New in OmniPage 17?

The Best Accuracy and Performance

• New Hyper-Binary Conversion delivers 43% accuracy increase for scanned documents
• 23% overall accuracy increase for PDF and digital documents
• 200% faster launch speed
• 21% faster processing and support for quad-core computers

More Productive Than Ever

• New OmniPage One-Click Toolbar in Microsoft Office puts conversion at your fingertips
• Dramatic improvements in document layout retention to reduce or eliminate corrections
• Easy Loader allows you to quickly view, find and open multiple documents at a time
• New support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean documents added to over 120 other languages

More Mobile Than Ever

• New support for iPhone and 2-Megapixel phone cameras
• 12% accuracy improvement for 3D-Capture using digital and mobile phone cameras
• New send paper and PDF to Amazon Kindle with optimized formatting for reading and navigation

Customer Reviews

Disappointed
I compared the OCR processing of a printed letter containing a logo using OmniPage17 and Acrobat 9 Professional. OmniPage required several prompts to correct suspects and handled the logo as text. Acrobat on the other hand processed the file seamlessly and correctly.

The good news is that the company stood by its 30-day money back guarantee.
My advice is to give it a try. If it works for you, fine. Otherwise you can be certain of getting a prompt refund.

Just When You Thought
Just when you thought Scansoft could not make a product any more user-unfriendly: introducing Omnipage 17. This product is terrible. I still have not found a way to use it. I just want my money back. This is not from someone who has never used an Omnipage program before. I have owned both 12 and 14. Both were headaches (and the customer service is awful), but at least I could make sense of them after a while. But I am the idiot who thinks, "this time it will be different; this time they will get it right." All I want to do is one very simple thing: convert scanned pages into Word documents. Eventually (and after a lot of frustration) I will be able to figure this thing out as well, but for now, I make the same pledge I seem to make every few years to never buy another Nuance product again.
ADDED December 24: I finally got the program to work, but I could not remember how I did it. Certainly the "help" within the program was no help. It took me another thirty minutes (and a lot of frustration) to finally get it to work a second time--and I still don't remember quite what I did. I cannot adequately express the level of frustration I feel when trying to operate this program. I am sorry I purchased it.

Omnipage 17 fails to import PDF Files
have been a satisfied user of Omnipage 16. I just bought Omnipage 17 as an upgrade.

1. Installation is horrific. You must uninstall Omnipage 16 manually until you can install Omnipage 17

2. Omnipage 17, unlike Omnipage 16, did not import PDF files properly. I've always imported several individual PDF drawing files created by CutePDF into a single file containing all the drawings using Omnipage 16. However Omnipage 17 messes up the most of the imported files by distorting the borders. What was one page are now 2 distorted pages.

My only workaround is to print each page separately, then scan in the printed pages into a sing document.