OmniPage 16 Professional

Press One Button--Convert Paper and PDF Files in 2 Easy Steps

Converting information locked on paper or in digital files into your favorite format is simpler and easier than you could ever imagine. Load it, convert it and you are ready to go!

Superior Accuracy from the World's #1 OCR Software
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 world's most accurate OCR software, now includes PaperPort, the world's 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.

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, OmniPage's 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, you'll 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 Professional's 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.

Top 10 Reasons to Buy 1. The most accurate OCR Precise OCR is critical for document conversion and indexing PDF and TIFF files for content management systems. Independent labs and millions of users agree--OmniPage delivers the highest OCR accuracy available. 2. Maintain perfect formatting OmniPage easily converts scanned documents into editable files that look exactly like the original complete with columns, tables, bullets and graphics. 3. Faster than ever OmniPage Professional 16 now includes smarter and more powerful OCR engines that are up to 46% faster than the previous release. 4. Turn complex tasks into a single press of a button Customize your document conversion processes with an unlimited number of combinations that can be assigned to a single push of a button. No other product easily compresses such power and efficiency into a single step. 5. High volume batch processing Turn large volumes of documents into searchable PDF and editable file formats. Schedule batch processing for unattended automation and automatically watch folders or email for processing incoming documents. 6. Automatic data collect from forms OmniPage automatically recognizes the form fields in filled PDF or scanned printed forms and collects the data. The output can be opened in a spreadsheet program or imported into a database. 7. Built-in automatic redaction and highlighting Redact or black out text for confidentiality, use highlights or communicate a revision with strikethrough text. OmniPage recognizes and automatically marks up your text based on a list of key words. 8. Supports all your favorite applications OmniPage 16 delivers the most value with a wide range of popular output formats including Microsoft Office, Corel WordPerfect, HTML, and native Microsoft Word 2007, and Excel 2007. 9. OCR for everyone Automatic OCR is easy to use and set up. Just place a File-It Assistant cover page in the scanner with the document and press the scan button. Your document is sent automatically and arrives in the right format. 10. Recognizes over 100 languages OmniPage lets you turn paper and PDF files from anywhere into documents that you can edit and store. It even recognizes multiple languages on the same page.

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's precise layout retention maintains the look and text flow of the original page. Whether you've 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 editability 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 Professional 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 Professional 16's 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's popular dual-core and tomorrow's 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.

• Overlay Matching
  OmniPage is the first product to combine image OCR and text capture for superior results on all types of PDF files. PDF files (even image-only files) can be converted into many different formats with up to 100% accuracy. The ability to work with PDF files in an editable format saves countless hours of file re-creation time to let you focus on more important work.
• PDF Output
  Paper can be quickly converted into any number of searchable PDF formats helping you create space-efficient and easily retrievable digital archives. Because OmniPage's OCR is the most accurate the retrieval process will be as well - a search can only be as accurate as the OCR that indexed the document.
• Improved PDF-MRC
  Create up to 8 times smaller scanned color PDF documents faster with improved PDF-MRC technology to reduce file sizes dramatically.

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.

• Improved Workflow Assistant
  If you spend time on repetitive OCR processing workflows, the Workflow Assistant will help to automate your complex multi-step tasks into a single electronic process that can be initiated by a simple press of a button.
• Improved File-It Assistant and Coversheets
  There's no need for everyone in your organization to learn how to use OmniPage. Documents can be automatically converted and properly filed by using a simple paper cover sheet that does all the work.
• Custom Workflows
  Custom workflows are designed to take you to the next level of productivity. OmniPage tailors itself to the way you work when you distill your favorite multi-step conversion processes into a single mouse click. For example, you can set up a template to automatically recognize a 20 page PDF file, convert it into a Word document, email it to a friend and save a copy to your local hard-drive and exit the application with a single click of the mouse.
• Mailbox Watching (Outlook, Lotus Notes) in Batch Manager
  OmniPage lets you use the Batch Manager to monitor your email mailbox for incoming documents and automatically process them to save you additional time.
• Customizable email Notification Text
  OmniPage allows you to send tailored email messages notifying people when conversion jobs have completed.
• Set Scanning Workflow Default from Scanner Pushbutton
  Further automate the paper collection and conversion process by linking an OmniPage scanning workflow directly to your device's start button to make the OCR process as easy as pressing a single button!
• New MS Office SharePoint 2007 Link
  New streamlined support for SharePoint has been added to make it easier to export information from your desktop directly to this back office information repository.
• Instant Workflow Access
  Once you've created your favorite workflows you will be able to access them from outside OmniPage for improved ease-of-use and increased speed with a single mouse click from the Windows toolbar.
• Email Notification
  OmniPage can be configured so that it routes informational email notifications alerting you to the completion of key processing events or intervention requirements to optimize performance and system efficiency.
• Batch Manager
  Unattended batch processing of documents allows you to concentrate on other tasks while OmniPage does the OCR work for you. The Batch Manager allows files or entire folders to be processed automatically. It can continually search folders, OCR all the contents and route the results to other pre-selected folders.

Experience OmniPage

View OmniPage 16 demos to see how much the newest version can do for you. These demos require Macromedia Flash Player 8 or later. For an optimal viewing experience, use a broadband internet connection and set your screen resolution to 1024 x 768 or higher.

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.

• New Automatic Redaction
  Keep important information confidential by blacking out sensitive words with automatic redaction. Save times, money, and greatly reduces the chances of errors by redacting documents electronically instead of by hand.
• New 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 or pencil.
• IntelliTrain Proofing System
  The IntelliTrain proofing system "learns" your editing style by recording your previous text corrections to generate better OCR results in each successive document. Our superior proofing algorithms result in better correction suggestions, handling of hyphenated words and fewer key strokes than competitive products.
• 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's proofreading mode provides a more dynamic view of the original document's text image so you do not have to second guess if your corrections are appropriate or not.
• Individual Character Training
  IntelliTrain proofing also allows specific individual characters or symbols to be learned thus ensuring better accuracy in subsequent document 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 16 benefits from our market leading technology through audio book publishing. This exciting feature allows you to work faster and leverage information as never before.
• 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 any document to be converted into an audio book for portability and convenience.
• 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. A great productivity tool for professionals on-the-go and for those who experience difficulty reading documents on a computer screen.

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.

• WYSISYG HTML
  WYSIWYG HTML allows you to turn documents directly into Web pages with just a click of a button. Converted Web pages will include graphics and pictures while maintaining the precise look and feel of the original document.

Advanced Productivity Features
Optimize time savings and productivity for your particular business needs. A host of adjustable controls allow you to transform documents with speed, formatting, and output styles that are specifically tailored to the way you work.

• Improved Multiple-Document Support
  Save additional time by working on multiple documents at once. OmniPage can now open, process, correct and save multiple documents simultaneously.
• New Integrated Document Management Tools
  Get more organized. OmniPage includes PaperPort, the world's most popular desktop document management software, PDF Create! and PDF Converter. Create PDF files from any PC application to share, secure documents, and turn PDF files into fully-formatted Microsoft Word, Excel and Corel WordPerfect documents. An "Assistant" that simplifies creation and conversion of PDF files from the desktop, and within Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer. With OmniPage you get the core Digital PDF conversion capabilities found in Adobe Distiller Server and Jaws PDF Server, but in a more affordable and easier to use application. PDF power at the desktop for everyone!
• Direct Connection to PaperPort
  OmniPage now automatically links up to PaperPort if it is installed so you can bring color images from PaperPort directly into OmniPage to speed up your processing workflow even more.
• New Digital Camera 3DC Technology
  Use your digital camera to accurately capture text anywhere. Advanced technology automatically corrects for three-dimensional distortion to ensure the best OCR results possible.
• New Automatic Data Collection from Forms
  Electronic forms are easier to distribute, fill and process than paper forms. The challenge has always been getting existing paper forms into an electronic format. If you have ever tried to work with electronic forms, you know how slow and frustrating the process can be. The Form Converter feature turns scanned, paper forms into editable electronic PDF, XML, or Microsoft InfoPath forms automatically. OmniPage is a true breakthrough that makes forms easy from start to finish. In short, we've merged the best of our award winning OmniForm product into this best ever OmniPage so you can quickly turn paper forms into electronic forms and then easily collect the data with virtually no typing at all.
• Manual Speed Zoning
  Speed up the manual zoning process by viewing auto-detect zones and double-clicking to select the one you want.
• Concurrent File Saving
  Now archiving and editing can co-exist in a single step. Save to multiple file formats at the same time. For example, you can save a searchable PDF file for your archive, a Word document for editing and the original image for verification simultaneously.
• Resolution Control
  Choose your 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 document files contain training files, user dictionary and zone information to make follow-up OCR sessions faster and easier than ever before.
• Custom Converters
  Create custom documents according to your business standards. Document output can be tailored for specific attributes so that each time documents are converted to specific programs they have specific properties pre-selected to minimize required completion work in the target application.
• Direct OCR
  Save time by performing OCR from directly within your favorite program. Use OmniPage to place fully formatted text within Word, Excel and many other popular word-processing programs without ever needing to launch OmniPage.

Document Conversion
OmniPage Professional 16 is not only a paper-to-digital conversion application; it also allows you unlock the information that is trapped in static image and PDF files. Using OmniPage you can convert almost all image formats into editable files for your existing PC applications, including Microsoft Word and Excel. Better still, OmniPage can be used to convert a document from one format to another (TIF to PDF for example,) and to make static image documents searchable on your PC and within content management applications.

• Form Recognition and Export
  OmniPage now uses Logical Form Recognition technology to process forms. Bring both paper and electronic forms (distributed mainly as PDF files in an office environment) into OmniPage, recognize them and edit their content, layout or both - in True Page view and produce a fillable form that can be saved in the following formats: PDF, RTF, HTML or XSN (Microsoft Office InfoPath format).
• Digital-to-Digital Document Conversion
  A major new feature of OmniPage is that it can open not only image files, but also documents created in word-processing and similar applications. Supported file types include: .doc, .xls, .ppt, .rtf, .wpd and others.
• Text, Tables and Graphics
  Most people think of OCR as simply a way to extract text and spreadsheet data from existing documents. Because OmniPage has advanced page segmentation capabilities, it is also a powerful way to re-use pictures, clip-art, graphics and charts within documents. Simply zone-over the area you want to extract, and OmniPage will let you save the content of that area in a wide range of image formats.
• Image Format Conversion
  Images of scanned documents contain a "picture" of the document, which can be viewed but not edited or searched. OmniPage converts static images into documents that can be edited and searched. Support for converting all popular image formats includes: TIF, JPG, BMP, PCX, GIF, PDF, MAX and more.

Additional Features
A host of other features allow OmniPage to work more efficiently saving you additional time and money.

• Improved Flexible Interface
  OmniPage works the way you like by allowing you to rearrange the various function windows to tailor the workflow to best fit your individual processing needs.
• New Quick Convert View
  Think OCR processing is too complex to master? Instantly find the most important conversion options on one screen for fast and easy operation.
• Improved Legal Document Recognition
  OmniPage is now optimized to recognize and convert legal documents including line number, headers, and more.
• New How-to-Guides
  Begin processing documents with OmniPage in no time at all. Our How-to-Guides lead you through basic terminology and product features so you can become an expert user fast.
• Improved Convert Now Wizard
  Be more productive with on demand document conversion in Windows Explorer.
• Improved Scanner Enhancement Technology (SET) Tools
  Scanner Enhancement Tools (SET) are a robust collection of powerful image correction capabilities that improve the quality of scanned documents, faxes and poor quality copies. The new 3D Deskew allows you to correct severe distortion in the perspective of digital camera images. Straightening, despeckling and color conversion tools ensure you get the results you demand.
• 2 Page Scanning
  Cut your scanning time in half by using OmniPage to separate and independently recognize each page from books, magazines and journals.
• 508 Compliance
  The Americans with Disabilities act requires computer programs to be easily navigated by visually impaired users. This software effectively addresses their needs and is fully compliant with section 508.
• Multithreading
  OmniPage can be configured to execute multiple processes in parallel in order to decrease the total amount of time it takes to convert large documents. For example, the software can begin the OCR process while it is still capturing additional images through the scanner.