ScanSoft OmniPage Professional 16 Upgrade

This upgrade version of ScanSoft OmniPage Professional 16 will install only if you are a licensed user of ScanSoft OmniPage v.12, v.14 or v.15.

OmniPage Professional 16 allows business professionals to achieve new levels of productivity by eliminating the manual reproduction of documents. Precision OCR analysis, layout detection, Logical Form Recognition (LFR) technology, and advanced security features quickly turn office documents and forms into over 30 different PC applications for editing, searching and sharing.

Custom workflows handle large volumes of documents with a click of the mouse or the push of a button on your scanner or All-in-One device. Robust tools enable you to print to PDF, turn text documents into audio books and add digital signatures to your electronic documents.

OmniPage, the worlds most accurate OCR software, now includes PaperPort, the worlds most popular desktop document management software. Additionally you get PDF Create!, our industry-standard PDF creation software. Both integrate seamlessly for a total document solution.

OmniPage Professional 16 KEY FEATURES:

OmniPage Professional 16 is the most precise way to convert documents and forms into your favorite PC applications. The world's best selling OCR software contains smarter and more powerful OCR up to 46% faster than the previous version. Breakthroughs in hyper-threading and parallel-processing combine with advanced workflow technology to automate all your conversion needs. Innovative features make OmniPage Professional 16 the first of its kind on a multitude of fronts. Whether you want to transform paper into digital files, convert a picture of a Word document into an audio file, or batch-create PDFs, OmniPages superior speed and accuracy is up to the task. The cumulative results make the world's most powerful document conversion application nothing less than astounding!

Accuracy

Accuracy is the single most important feature of an OCR program because greater accuracy translates directly into time savings. PC Magazine's independent lab tests have confirmed OmniPage to be the most accurate, and the only OCR product to successfully process all of their test documents. The newest version makes it easier than ever for you to re-use content from existing documents. A 27% increase in overall document accuracy translates directly into fewer word errors and less editing - resulting in greater processing efficiency and additional time-savings. With an accuracy level up to 50% greater than most alternatives, youll spend dramatically less time converting documents. Because electronic archive & retrieval efforts depend heavily on OCR accuracy - the more accurate the conversion, the more accurate the document retrieval. OmniPage Professionals increased accuracy helps reduce the time required for proofreading to a minimum, boosting your productivity while simultaneously making it easier to retrieve archived documents.

• The Most Accurate Conversion in 119 Languages - OmniPage's sophisticated multi-engine voting capabilities deliver unprecedented accuracy at a level greater than 99% for 119 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 for documents that utilize this terminology.
• Despeckle Module - We know enhancing difficult to read documents dramatically improves recognition. Our sophisticated despeckle module helps to reduce background noise allowing colored, shaded and previously unrecognizable documents to be converted with less human intervention.
• Breakthrough PDF Conversion - OmniPage Professional 16 helps you to easily re-purpose 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 an accuracy level greater than other solutions for PDF normal and image/text conversion.

Formatting

What good is OCR if you need to spend additional time reformatting the results? This can be a very time consuming process especially if there are columns, tables or graphics involved. Because formatting is so crucial to automatically reconstructing the layout of a document we built superior page layout algorithms to ensure converted documents are as exact to the original as possible. OmniPage Professional 16 precise layout retention maintains the look and text flow of the original page. Whether youve got a single page from a book or a 1,000 page report, OmniPage can handle them with both speed and accuracy.

• Flowing Page Output - Flowing page output offers a unique combination of page fidelity and edit ability that is truer to the original document than competitive OCR products. OmniPage ensures columns, tables, lists and graphics remain in place, while text flows naturally around these embedded objects.
• Superior Character Matching - Font Matching, font-consolidation, size, bold, italics and color background matching accuracy helps cut 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 of a document, OCR software must first understand all of the objects on the page and their relationship to one another. OmniPage 16 offers improved detection of individual page objects, in particular tables. This feature ensures tables and spreadsheets, with or without gridlines, are formatted correctly.
• Improved Superior Speed - Accomplish more work in less time. OmniPage 16 improved hyper threading process allows you to power through OCR tasks 20% faster than before. This boost helps make OCR the fastest, most accurate time-saving way to automatically convert documents into more than 30 different formats.
• New Multi-Core Parallel Processing - Using today popular dual-core and tomorrow multi-core computer processors allow you to be even more productive with a dramatic 46%+ boost in speed for less wasted time waiting for OCR processing to finish.

PDF Capabilities for Paper and Digital Conversion

Ideal for both archiving and file sharing, PDFs are image perfect representations of the original document. In the last few years, PDF files have become the de-facto imaging file standard. OmniPage Professional 16 supports the creation of searchable PDF files from any paper or electronic document. OmniPage also allows you to turn PDF files (even image-only files) directly into your favorite editable document format. These collective PDF capabilities enable easy document editing, archiving and sharing to save valuable time and money.

Automated Conversion

OCR Software saves time and money by replacing manual processes with automated ones. OmniPage Professional 16 allows the execution of all processing tasks more quickly and with less manual intervention. OmniPage adapts to the way you work by transforming your most frequent multi-step document conversions into a single mouse click. Automation is taken a step further with the batch manager that can be set up to perform unattended processing and convert multiple batches of files without any user intervention whatsoever.

Editing and Proofing

Proofreading your converted documents ensures the highest accuracy possible. OmniPage Professional 16's proofreader offers increased speed and flexibility to make the proofing process easier, faster and more intuitive than ever before.

Document Output

The ability to turn paper or PDF documents into your favorite program format is what makes OmniPage Professional 16 so versatile. Whether you want to edit a document, create a searchable archive, share information on the Web, or integrate information into other applications, OmniPage allows you to make the conversion quickly and accurately.

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System Requirements

• An Intel Pentium III or higher processor or its equivalent. Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD X2 Dual Core 3600+ recommended for advanced performance.
• Windows 2000 (from Service Pack 2), Windows XP 32 bit (from Service Pack 2), Windows XP 64-bit, Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher
• 256 MB of memory (RAM), 1GB recommended for advanced performance.
• 150 MB of free hard disk space for the application files and sample images, plus 70 MB working space during installation. An additional 245 MB for RealSpeak Solo speech modules (nine languages)
• 20 MB for ScanSoft PDF Create! and 250 MB for PaperPort
• 1024x768 pixel color monitor with 16-bit color or greater video card
• CD-ROM drive for installation
• A compatible scanner with its own scanner driver software for scanning documents.
• A sound card and speaker for reading text aloud
• Web access needed for automatic product activation and Scanner Wizard database updating
• To save DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files (Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel and PowerPoint file formats) or to load and save XPS files (XML Paper Specification files), you should install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 if you are not already running Windows Vista or have Office 2007 installed.

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. OmniPage has been specifically engineered to take advantage of multi-core processors

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