| Ease of Use |
OmniPage 18 |
OmniPage Ultimate |
| How-to-Guides teach you the key steps to use OmniPage |
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| OmniPage Launchpad |
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| Image Capture – Scanners and All-in-Ones |
| Scanner drivers supported |
WIA/TWAIN/ISIS |
WIA/TWAIN/ISIS |
| Automatically receive images from scan-to-email |
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| OmniPage Workflows put more power behind on-device scan buttons |
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| Image Capture – Digital Cameras, Smart Phones and Tablets |
| 3DC digital camera correction technology |
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Superior |
| 25% higher accuracy |
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| Automatic camera image recognition |
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| Automatically receive images from scan-to-email |
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| Automatically receive scans from Cloud Storage Services |
Evernote, Dropbox, Box, Microsoft Live SkyDrive, Google Drive and more |
Evernote, Dropbox, Box, Microsoft Live SkyDrive, Google Drive and more |
| Image Capture – Networked MFPs |
| Supports Windows 2008 and 2012 Servers |
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New: DocuDirect |
| Improved automatic restart and failed job recovery |
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| 64-bit support for improved memory utilisation |
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| Automatically receive images from scan-to-email |
Batch Manager |
New: DocuDirect |
| Automatically receive scans from network MFPs via scan to folder |
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| Converted Output – Book Readers, Smart Phones & Tablets (support varies by model) |
| Kindle Assistant puts easy-to-read rich text output on your Kindle by email |
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| Normal PDF |
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| ePub |
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| RTF |
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| HTML |
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| Document Management (PaperPort required) |
| Free PaperPort® with PDF Viewer Plus included (a £ 99.99 value) |
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PaperPort Professional 14 |
| Free PDF Create with PDF Create Assistant (a £ 49.99 value) |
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PDF Create 8 |
| Customisable Open dialogs with PaperPort folders |
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| Customisable Save dialogs with PaperPort folders |
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| Open and view with PaperPort |
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| Accuracy |
| Word accuracy |
Superior |
Superior |
| Improved character attributes / font matching |
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Superior |
| Legal / Medical / Financial dictionaries improve accuracy with words in these dictionaries |
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| IntelliTrainTM proofing learns as you correct results |
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| Layout Accuracy – Formatting |
| Advanced flowing page output links columns of text for easy editing |
Superior |
Superior & Improved |
| PDF Overlay Matching provides superior text based PDF conversion |
Superior |
Superior |
| TruePage™ output |
Superior |
Superior |
| ExactWord output for improved editing |
Superior |
Superior |
| Line recognition |
Superior |
Superior |
| Improved table conversion |
Superior |
Superior & Improved |
| Better processing of similar pages (layout learning) |
Superior |
Superior |
| Colour recognition and retention |
Superior |
Superior |
| Maintains headers and footers |
Superior |
Superior |
| Titles / large font recognition |
Superior |
Superior |
| Legal (pleading) documents |
Superior |
Superior |
| Vertical text recognition |
Superior |
Superior |
| Recognition of Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters |
Superior |
Superior & Improved
Japanese accuracy |
| Auto-detection of Asian language characters within Western text |
Superior |
Superior |
| Document Input |
| Bitmap (*.bmp), DCX (*.dcx), GIF (*.gif), JB2 (*.jbg), JP2 (*.jp2), JPEG (*.jpg), MAX (*.max), PCX (*.pcx), PDF (*.pdf), PNG (*.png), TIFF (*.tif), XIFF (TIFF FX) (*.xif), XPS (*.xps) |
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| Image Pre-processing |
| Automatic camera image detection |
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| Automatic page rotation |
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| Deskew |
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| Keep original resolution |
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| Apply pre-defined Enhancement Template (profile) |
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| Despeckle/Normal |
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| Despeckle/Halftone |
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| Auto-crop |
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| Remove punch holes |
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| Clean borders |
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| Blank page removal with sensitivity |
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| Scanner Enhancement Technology (SET™) Tools |
| Brightness and Contrast |
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| Hue / Saturation / Lightness |
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| Crop |
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| Rotate |
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| OCR brightness |
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| Drop out colour |
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| Adjust resolution |
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| Fill |
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| Deskew |
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| 3D Deskew (for digital camera images) |
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| Adjustable Despeckle/Normal |
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| Adjustable Despeckle/Halftone |
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| Adjustable Despeckle/Salt & Pepper |
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| Adjustable Inverse Despeckle |
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| Auto-crop |
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| Remove punch holes |
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| Clean borders |
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| Enhance whiteboard photo |
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| Forms Conversion and Processing |
| Ability to convert paper and image forms |
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| Form drawing tools |
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| Collect data from PDF or printed forms with data |
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| PDF Workflows & Output |
| eDiscovery Assistant for searchable PDF keeps PDF files unchanged while making them searchable |
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| Intelligent searchable PDF workflow available in DocuDirect |
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| PDF formats — image, searchable image, normal and edited |
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| PDF/A |
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Enhanced with PDF/A-2b, -2u |
| Linearised PDF |
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| Auto-format headers and footers |
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| MRC-High Compression for maximum file compression of scanned documents |
Superior |
Superior |
| Retain annotations (when using eDiscovery Assistant) |
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| Create and preserve hyperlinks |
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| Bookmark page thumbnails |
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| Bookmark through Find-and-Mark |
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| Bookmark through Mark Text Workflows |
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| PDF append – attach content to existing PDF files |
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| PDF with digital signatures |
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| Password protect PDF |
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| Encrypted PDF files |
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256-bit encryption |
| Tagged PDF files |
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| Application (Text) Output |
| Microsoft Word (.rtf) |
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| Microsoft® Excel (.xls) |
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| Microsoft® WordML (.xml) |
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| Microsoft® Word 2007/2010/2013 (.docx) |
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| Microsoft® Excel 2007/2010/2013 (.xlsx) |
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| Microsoft® PowerPoint 2007/2010/2013 (.pptx) |
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| XPS — image, searchable image and normal |
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| Text |
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| Corel® WordPerfect® (.wpd) |
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| Fillable WordML, InfoPath® and PDF forms |
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| HTML |
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| XML |
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| Audio file output turns text into speech |
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Enhanced with natural
sounding voice and MP3
output |
| Form data export (.csv) |
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| Document Routing and Delivery |
| Batch Manager Console to manage and monitor jobs |
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| Immediate batch processing using new or existing Workflows |
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| Silently running (without prompts) batch processing |
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| Batch process from cloud storage (Nuance Cloud Connector, Evernote and Dropbox) |
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| Batch process incoming email attachments |
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| Batch process mark text (redact, highlight, strikethrough) |
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| Scheduled batch processing using new or existing Workflows |
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| Batch process files as they appear in a watched folder |
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| Batch process barcode jobs as they appear in a watched folder |
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| Access additionally exported Workflows locally or on the network |
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| Email notification of finished batch manager jobs |
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| User Interface Views and Function Windows |
| Launchpad |
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| Classic view for those familiar with OmniPage |
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| Quick Convert view with popular options in one window |
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| Flexible view windows arranged in a convenient tabbed arrangement |
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| Dockable and moveable function windows |
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| Custom views allow you to save your favourite window arrangements |
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| Complete Text Editor to modify recognised text |
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| Easy Loader for fast opening of files |
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| Document Manager for processing statistics |
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| Continuous monitoring with Workflow status |
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| Advanced OCR Tools |
| Workflow Assistant and Manager |
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| Zone templates |
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| User dictionaries |
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| Training files |
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| Custom saving preferences (output format profiles) |
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| Amazon® Kindle® Assistant |
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| File-It Assistant with barcode driven workflows |
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| Document Control |
| Manual speed zoning |
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| Selectable picture editor |
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| Image resolution control |
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| On-the-fly zoning |
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| Vertical text zoning |
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| Proofing & Training |
| Context correction |
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| Individual character training |
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| Dynamic verification |
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| Correction suggestions |
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| Windows Integration |
| Customisable “right click” workflow automation in Windows Explorer |
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| Convert Now Wizard with “right-click” in Windows Explorer |
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| Workflows in Windows 7 and 8 Jump List |
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| Advanced Productivity Features |
| Fast OCR engines |
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| Multi-threading |
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| Parallel multi-core processing (Intel and AMD supported) |
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| Parallel multi-document batch processing for multi-core processors |
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| Document-to-Document conversion (text input) |
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| Automatic language detection |
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| Add and preserve hyperlinks |
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| Open multiple documents at once with parallel processing |
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| Concurrent file saving |
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| Microsoft Office Direct OCR |
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Enhanced with
Office 2013 support |
| Automatically Redact (Black-out), Highlight and Strikethrough text using keywords |
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| Import and export Workflows |
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| Print and save Workflow barcode pages |
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| Nuance Cloud Connector |
| Nuance Cloud Connector with Windows Network Drive |
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| AT&T Synaptic Storage |
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| Caringo CAStor |
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| EMC Atmos Online |
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| Amazon S3 |
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| Google Docs/Storage |
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| Nirvanix |
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| Mezeo |
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| Windows/Azure |
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| Box.net |
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| OpenStack |
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| Peer1 CloudOne |
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| Rackspace CloudFiles |
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| WebDav |
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| Dateiserver |
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| FTP |
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| OmniPage Connectors |
| Evernote |
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| Dropbox |
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| Integration with SharePoint |
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2003 / 2007 / 2013 |
| Integration with Open Text eDOCS |
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5.3 |
| Integration with Autonomy-Interwoven iManage Worksite |
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8.2 / 8.5 / 9.0 |
| ODMA |
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| FTP |
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