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 |
Excellent |
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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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 |
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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 |
Superior |
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 |
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TruePage™ output |
Superior |
Superior |
ExactWord output for improved editing |
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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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