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From: McGrath on 16 Feb 2010 13:39
I'm looking for a good OCR scanning package coming with scanner
or stand alone. I'd appreciate any recommendations of hint which
one should I choose. I'm familiar whit Omipage 14 basic OCR but
someone said that Readiris is better.
TIA for any info.
From: Charlie Hoffpauir on 16 Feb 2010 17:21
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:39:59 -0000, "McGrath" <McGrath(a)uni.net> wrote:

>I'm looking for a good OCR scanning package coming with scanner
>or stand alone. I'd appreciate any recommendations of hint which
>one should I choose. I'm familiar whit Omipage 14 basic OCR but
>someone said that Readiris is better.
>TIA for any info.

Omnipage basic is just not that good. I had Omnipage 12 (the full ver)
and later upgraded to Omnipage 14. I decided not to upgrade that
version since it seems to do a good job with whatever I throw at it.
I've also heard that ABBY Finereader is very good, but I don't see a
need to own more than one, so I haven't tried it. But I only use OCR
occasionally.
From: McGrath on 17 Feb 2010 03:24

"Charlie Hoffpauir" <invalid(a)invalid.com> wrote in message
news:od6mn5556nvftaf6sc70737s1dfeu98rah(a)4ax.com...
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:39:59 -0000, "McGrath" <McGrath(a)uni.net> wrote:
>
>>I'm looking for a good OCR scanning package coming with scanner
>>or stand alone. I'd appreciate any recommendations of hint which
>>one should I choose. I'm familiar whit Omipage 14 basic OCR but
>>someone said that Readiris is better.
>>TIA for any info.
>
> Omnipage basic is just not that good. I had Omnipage 12 (the full ver)
> and later upgraded to Omnipage 14. I decided not to upgrade that
> version since it seems to do a good job with whatever I throw at it.
> I've also heard that ABBY Finereader is very good, but I don't see a
> need to own more than one, so I haven't tried it. But I only use OCR
> occasionally.

Thank you for sharing your experience.
I agree as the OmniPage is concerned - it's not good at all.
I'll search for any information on Readiris. I used the very
early version of it , year ago and it was then quite good and
accurate.

Thanks !

From: Jethro Pull on 17 Feb 2010 06:03
I've used both OmniPage and ABBY. ABBY is simpler and has done
everything I've thrown at it so far.

I also like the Nuance PDF app which will convert scans to Word, etc.

On 2/16/2010 5:21 PM, Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:39:59 -0000, "McGrath"<McGrath(a)uni.net> wrote:
>
>
>> I'm looking for a good OCR scanning package coming with scanner
>> or stand alone. I'd appreciate any recommendations of hint which
>> one should I choose. I'm familiar whit Omipage 14 basic OCR but
>> someone said that Readiris is better.
>> TIA for any info.
>>
> Omnipage basic is just not that good. I had Omnipage 12 (the full ver)
> and later upgraded to Omnipage 14. I decided not to upgrade that
> version since it seems to do a good job with whatever I throw at it.
> I've also heard that ABBY Finereader is very good, but I don't see a
> need to own more than one, so I haven't tried it. But I only use OCR
> occasionally.
>

From: spam on 17 Feb 2010 06:06
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:21:32 -0600, Charlie Hoffpauir
<invalid(a)invalid.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:39:59 -0000, "McGrath" <McGrath(a)uni.net> wrote:
>
>>I'm looking for a good OCR scanning package coming with scanner
>>or stand alone. I'd appreciate any recommendations of hint which
>>one should I choose. I'm familiar whit Omipage 14 basic OCR but
>>someone said that Readiris is better.
>>TIA for any info.
>
>Omnipage basic is just not that good. I had Omnipage 12 (the full ver)
>and later upgraded to Omnipage 14. I decided not to upgrade that
>version since it seems to do a good job with whatever I throw at it.
>I've also heard that ABBY Finereader is very good, but I don't see a
>need to own more than one, so I haven't tried it. But I only use OCR
>occasionally.


Yes. No need to stay on the upgrade treadmill.

Even when they talk of "90%" better between versions they fail to
mention that the thing is already 99% accurate, so you don't get much
more bang for the improvement.

A lot of the "extras" come in the interface. If you don't spend every
day using OCR, this is more confusing than helpful.

Look for something that delivers output in a useful format, probably
PDF.

You should be able to get a legit copy of an older version at a knock
down price. And if you have OmniPage basic with a scanner you should
qualify for the upgrade price rather than a "virgin install". In any
case, Nuance doesn't always check for old versions when installing an
upgrade.

MK





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