Optical Character Recognition

OCR Font

Barcodesoft OCR fonts are desinged for Optical Character Recognition purpose. As defined by ANSI X3.17-1981 and ECMA-11, there are 6 fonts included in the package: OCRA I, OCRA III, OCRA IV, OCRB I, OCRB III, and OCRB IV. Barcodesoft OCR Premium Packages include a 30-day money back guarantee. If you are dissatisfied with the product for any reason, you will receive a full refund within 30 days...
Barcodesoft :: Optical Character Recognition :: ANSI X3 17-1981 :: ECMA-11 :: OCRA I :: OCRA III :: OCRA IV :: OCRB I :: OCRB III :: OCRB IV :: OCR bar code :: OCR-A :: OCR-B :: OCR Font

Scansoft PDF Create- 3 0

4 stars (great value ) - great value! I have been using this program to create architectural drawing pdf's for large format printing without a hitch. The program opens in my cad printing page. The program is strait forward with out a lot of bells and whistles but allows you to set all the nessesary perameters to get a good print, or send a clear email. Opens with acrobat reader. ...
Scansoft :: Multimedia :: Graphics (Graphic) :: Form :: Reports (Reporting) :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Schedule Man :: Scansoft PDF Create- 3 0

ReadIris Pro 9 for Mac OS X

1 stars (Returned it) - Wow... The guy at company support told me it only works on documents with less than 50 pages. That was after I scoured the web site for info. I sent it back unopened (so the star rating is for the deception on their site). This is a bad company... I use Adobe Professional instead. 3 stars (Left me wanting.) - The product falls short of its marketing hype. The User interface is somewhat quirkey. Over all the product is satisfactory for my needs. However, the tech support leaves a lot to be desired. Using the online trouble report screen gets you a sparse response that will require a follow up call to get an answer. The biggest problem I have come accross is the fact that you can only use the program if you are an administrator in OS X. Since all users have access to the program this is a major short-coming and there is no work-around (according to tech support). They do have a toll free phone number but it is not posted on their website. You will get it on the signature line of the technicians email response. Overall a good product that has left me frustrated. 4 stars (Good product) - It is nice to see that a company has a working OCR software under OS X. The software works well despite many scanner compatibilty issues. These issues can be resolved by getting the latest twain drivers or plug in from the scanner manufacturer. Biggest complaint is lack of customer support and tech support. After leaving many voicemails at various extensions no one called me back until one month later! If you don't mind the wait the software is well worth it. ...
I R I S :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Computer software (programs) :: Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple :: :: ReadIris Pro 9 for Mac OS X

ScanSoft OmniPage 15 OCR

1 stars (Unstable, expensive support) - I purchased this product two weeks ago to convert some PDF files to searchable format. When I could get the OCR to start it did a good job of converting the text. The interface was difficult to use, and in about 20% of the runs the application would hang before beginning the conversion. When I attempted to use set up batch scans the system crashed while I was configuring it in 100% of the runs. I would have reported the problem to technical support, but the publisher charges per incident. To be fair they do offer to wave the charge for the first incident, but since the program crashed in the first five minutes of use it seemed like I would be contacting support more than once. I finally took advantage of the 30-day money back guarantee (I'd highly recommend checking that this applies if you're thinking about buying the program) and purchased Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 instead. 4 stars (Appears to be a significant improvement over OmniPage 14) - I have just purchased this upgrade, so the following comments should be viewed as preliminary. Still, some information is better than none. Having used OmniPage since its beginning, I have been irritated by the company's practice of releasing software before it has driven the bugs out. That does not appear to be a problem in this case. The software loaded cleanly and came up and works properly. As one would expect after 15 shots at it, character recognition is generally excellent. The big advance is in speed of operation. Compared to ver. 14, this version flies, which will probably be the improvement of greatest interest to users. The interface remains non-user-friendly. New users will go crazy trying to figure out how to use it, but once you do, it's worth it. ...
Scansoft :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Computer software (programs) :: :: ScanSoft OmniPage 15 OCR

Omnipage Pro X

1 stars (Don't waste your money) - Doesn't seem to work under 10.3. No patches from omnipage either. 2 stars (Doesn't satisfy this long-time user) - I've used Omnipage for years, going through almost all the versions since the first. When an upgrade appeared it consistently offered incremental improvements and I rarely had to even glance at the user's manual. Not so with this version. In some key respects it is not apparent how it works even after consulting the manual. There are many more errors in text and formatting. Saves don't even go smoothly. I would guess that something that formerly took me 45 minutes now takes me several hours, including corrections. And I still don't know why the text selection doesn't flow from one page to the next in a multi-page document, as it used to. This product should have been put in the "leave well enough along category." ...
Scansoft :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple :: Genealogy (Genealogical) :: Computer soft :: Omnipage Pro X

Textbridge Pro 11

1 stars (textbridge pro 11 is not worth it) - I purchased this program with the intention of entering a bunch of typewritten pages into my computer. The document that this program produced from newly typed material was so full of errors that I simply had to re-type. It would have taken longer to correct than to re-type. When I talked to Textbridge about these problems all they would tell me is that the program was not meant for such use and that I should buy one of their other programs which had good optical character recognition capabilities. In other words, they know the product is not any good and they are not willing to stand behind it. The program is useless for optical character recognition work or anything else. 1 stars (Horrible is a Compliment) - This product simply does not produce accurate results. It skips entire lines, words on the same line, and misreads even the most legible characters. It came bundled with my scanner, so at least I did not waste my money on it. Don't waste yours! 1 stars (Poor is too optimistic!) - The product does not live up to its description. It is very inaccurate. It creates more work than it saves. It is slow to work with in every aspect. I am very dissatisfied. ...
Scansoft :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Diagnostics (Diagnostic) :: Maintenance :: Utilities :: Computer software (pr :: Textbridge Pro 11

IRIS Business Card Reader II for Windows-PC

5 stars (Awesome Product) - This is a superb product. Electronic rolodex with the options to export to Outlook and many other programs. Automatically fills in the information from the card to the program. Great feature! 1 stars (Would be great if customer service was behind you) - I purchased the item because I work for a company that deals with a lot of other companies and getting business cards is a large part of the communication. I thought it would streamline the process. It would but the unit keeps crashing. I would enter 20 or 30 business cards, write all the contact information in and then the next time I go to access it, it won't let me in. I get an error message. I've tried to get in touch with IRIS and get it resolved but they don't respond. Very dissapointed. 5 stars (Great, easy to use tool!) - This product rocks! I attend trade shows quite frequently and have needed a business card scanner for awhile. The IBCR is a great tool which makes it easy for me to organize and maintain my contact database. I no longer have stacks of cards sitting around in my way on my desk because they are in my computer and just a click away. I've also used the scanner to scan color photographs and it's worked great for that as well. I have had no problems with the scanner working with XP, it's worked nicely for me. ...
IRIS :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Computer software (programs) :: Scanner (Sheetfed :: Sheet Feeder :: Sheetfee :: IRIS Business Card Reader II for Windows-PC

Scansoft Omnipage 15 Professional Upgrade

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Scansoft :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Computer software (programs) :: :: Scansoft Omnipage 15 Professional Upgrade

ScanSoft PaperPort Professional 10

1 stars (Simply not usable from a scanning perspective.) - As one reader suggested: revert back to v8! I bought a Brother MFC that inlcuded PaperPort 8, because I wanted to utilise the ADF to get my documents onto disks, rather than floating around in the office. The software was a charm. Just put the documents into the ADF of the MFC, press Scan to file, and off it goes. I can't recall for what reason I upgraded to v9, but this was the end of being able to use the "Scan to File" function. I bought a new PC running XP. Installed v9, and had the same problem: no "Scan to file" functionality. I installed XP SP2 and the frustration kicked in. Now the software did not even work. ScanSoft advised on their web site that v10 would be required to run on XP SP2. I bought it, and guess what: scanning would not work properly. 1. "Scan to file" still does not work! 2. Scanning multiple documents does not work at all, no matter which way it is being intitiated, or whether PaperPort of SmartScan is being used. v9 and v10 are not worth the money, let alone the time wasted Google-ing around to find answers to the problem, with ScanSoft simply not carying at all. Their suggested fix of enabling Data Execution Prevention (except for PaperPort) did not make a difference!! Buy something else! I will see how how I go with v8. But v10 will be uninstalled! Buyer beware! There is much harsher critique out there... and I agree: ScanSoft does not deserve my business! 2 stars (Back to Paperport 9) - I'm a huge fan of Paperport 9; I use it extensively. I was excited to see an upgrade and recently installed PaperPort 10. While the split screen and other features are a nice improvement, the software seems very buggy. The biggest problem for me is that I can no longer scan multiple page items using an HP OfficeJet scanner. I spoke with their technical support about this issue and was informed that "PaperPort 10 is not as good as PaperPort 9 at scanning and stuff." These were the exact...
Scansoft :: Document Tracking (Inventory :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Bundle (Bundles) :: Office Suite (Suites) :: :: ScanSoft PaperPort Professional 10

ADOBE ACROBAT CAPTURE 3 0 22101258

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Adobe :: Internet electronic publishing :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Computer software (programs) :: :: ADOBE ACROBAT CAPTURE 3 0 ( 22101258 )

OmniForm 5 0

4 stars (Missing some features, has a learning curve, overall good) - I really like OmniForm 5. Actually I'm using version 5.1 and I'm very satisfied with it. I was using another forms program I had purchased that was adequate but not nearly as good. After using FormTool I have a much greater appreciation of OmniForm. ScanSoft has been on my list of not to buy software recently because of some of the poor performance of some of their other programs, tech support is expensive from ScanSoft and none of their software that I have used have been easy to learn using the manuals or help files. In contrast OmniForm was well worth the money. OmniForm 5 does a great job of either creating forms from scratch, scanning or converting from PDF. It's the only forms program I have tried so far that actually does a great job of importing a form from a PDF file. Its has all the tools you need to create a form starting with a blank page. You can define any field with a variety of formats. Example you can create a date field with a specific format then no matter how the data is input the program will automatically reformat the data the way you specified. You can create just about any field simply by dragging a symbol from a menu onto the page. In the case of inserting a graphic you can choose to have the graphic saved with the form or not saving with the form itself to conserve file size. You can have the graphic resized by the program with little loss of quality. Features such as these might be available in other programs of this type but I found OmniForm to do the best job with creating a form field by field with the least effort. Scanning in of a form is almost flawless. It even recognized fields on the paper form that were meant to be circled and created the field for them. Other programs I have used could not do this well if at all. The only adjustments I had to make on scanned forms were sometimes OmniForm recognized text as bold when it wasn't and occasionally i...
Scansoft :: File Conversion (Convert) :: Form :: Reports (Reporting) :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Computer software :: OmniForm 5 0

Adobe Acrobat 7 0 Professional Mac

4 stars (An Indispensable Tool for Any Pro) - Acrobat 7 Professional on the Mac offers very little over Acrobat 7 Standard. The windows version includes a whole extra program (livecycle designer) for creating forms and using xml data. The Mac version does not include that program. However, Professional does offer a couple of very important features: 1) The first is building indexes of documents. Indexing is similar to a search but is much more powerful. An index is a pre-built catalog of all the words in your document, saved as a separate file. After the index is built, whenever you want to search a document, you search the index instead, and searches are almost instantaneous. Searching a regular pdf without an index is quite slow. The real power of the index comes when you index multiple pdf's at once. You could have 100 reports, or a dozen books, or whatever, pre-indexed, and any future search is very very fast. Indexing is definitely a slick feature and an impressive trick if you create content for end users or clients. 2) The other important feature is mostly for the advertising/design/print community. Acrobat Pro allows a lot of interaction with press-ready files. You can view separations, preflight documents, and chop large pages into smaller pieces and print any portion of a page you like. If you work with documents for a living, the Professional version is almost a must-have. Finally....speed. Version 7 is still slow to load. But on a Mac you can leave your computer on for weeks at a time and just leave Acrobat running, so that's not too big of a deal. You can speed up load times by de-activating plug-ins that you don't use. If you just use Acrobat to just view documents, you don't need a lot of the plug-ins. If you use Acrobat professionally, I'd leave the plug-ins active. Do a Get Info on the Acrobat program, click open the Plug-ins tab, and you can uncheck plug-ins to deactivate. For a full description of each plug-in, look under the help menu whil...
Adobe :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple :: desk top publishing :: desktop publishing :: Adobe Acrobat 7 0 Professional (Mac)

Adobe Acrobat 7 0 Professional Upgrade from Standard Version 4-7 Mac

4 stars (A Good Reason to Upgrade) - Acrobat 7 Professional on the Mac offers very little over Acrobat 7 Standard. The windows version includes a whole extra program (livecycle designer) for creating forms and using xml data. The Mac version does not include that program. However, Professional does offer a couple of very important features: 1) The first is building indexes of documents. Indexing is similar to a search but is much more powerful. An index is a pre-built catalog of all the words in your document, saved as a separate file. After the index is built, whenever you want to search a document, you search the index instead, and searches are almost instantaneous. Searching a regular pdf without an index is quite slow. The real power of the index comes when you index multiple pdf's at once. You could have 100 reports, or a dozen books, or whatever, pre-indexed, and any future search is very very fast. Indexing is definitely a slick feature and an impressive trick if you create content for end users or clients. 2) The other important feature is mostly for the advertising/design/print community. Acrobat Pro allows a lot of interaction with press-ready files. You can view separations, preflight documents, and chop large pages into smaller pieces and print any portion of a page you like. If you work with documents for a living, the Professional version is almost a must-have. Finally....speed. Version 7 is still slow to load. But on a Mac you can leave your computer on for weeks at a time and just leave Acrobat running, so that's not too big of a deal. You can speed up load times by de-activating plug-ins that you don't use. If you just use Acrobat to just view documents, you don't need a lot of the plug-ins. If you use Acrobat professionally, I'd leave the plug-ins active. Do a Get Info on the Acrobat program, click open the Plug-ins tab, and you can uncheck plug-ins to deactivate. For a full description of each plug-in, look under the help menu while in Acrobat...
Adobe :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple :: desk top publishing :: desktop publishing :: Adobe Acrobat 7 0 Professional Upgrade from Standard Version 4-7 (Mac)

Adobe Acrobat 7 0 Standard Mac

4 stars (An Important Tool for the Paperless Office) - Acrobat 7 Standard on the Mac offers nearly all the features of Acrobat 7 Professional. The windows version of Professional includes a whole extra program (livecycle designer) for creating forms and using xml data. The Mac version does not include that program. However, Professional does offer a couple of very important features: 1) The first is building indexes of documents. Indexing is similar to a search but is much more powerful. An index is a pre-built catalog of all the words in your document, saved as a separate file. After the index is built, whenever you want to search a document, you search the index instead, and searches are almost instantaneous. Searching a regular pdf without an index is quite slow. The real power of the index comes when you index multiple pdf's at once. You could have 100 reports, or a dozen books, or whatever, pre-indexed, and any future search is very very fast. Indexing is definitely a slick feature and an impressive trick if you create content for end users or clients. 2) The other important feature is mostly for the advertising/design/print community. Acrobat Pro allows a lot of interaction with press-ready files. You can view separations, preflight documents, and chop large pages into smaller pieces and print any portion of a page you like. If you work with documents for a living, the Professional version is almost a must-have. Finally....speed. Version 7 is still slow to load. But on a Mac you can leave your computer on for weeks at a time and just leave Acrobat running, so that's not too big of a deal. You can speed up load times by de-activating plug-ins that you don't use. If you just use Acrobat to just view documents, you don't need a lot of the plug-ins. If you use Acrobat professionally, I'd leave the plug-ins active. Do a Get Info on the Acrobat program, click open the Plug-ins tab, and you can uncheck plug-ins to deactivate. For a full description of each plug...
Adobe :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple :: desk top publishing :: desktop publishing :: Adobe Acrobat 7 0 Standard (Mac)