Cheap OCR

[ffutures]

As part of the move to a "new" PC I've been looking at some of my older software and deciding whether or not to upgrade it. One was the OCR software I use, Omnipage Pro. I've been using version 13 for several years, and it worked pretty well, but I thought I might as well check. With interesting results...

Upgrade to the current version 17 is about a hundred pounds, way over my budget. But you can buy the OEM release of version 15 on eBay for £20. For that you get everything I got first time around except Paperport, an archiving program for images, which I've never found very useful. Three guesses which one I went for...

So if you want some pretty good PC OCR software, I can recommend this vendor - I think he still has quite a few left...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Omnipage-Professional-15-New-Sealed-/390063828222?pt=UK_Computing_Software_Software_SR&hash=item5ad19dacfe

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

You're right - that's a bit slower than Omnipage but VERY accurate. I'm impressed!

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't know about it, but a reader asked why I hadn't turned that on for the Space 1889 PDFs... the answer was that I'd done them back in the previous century, before Acrobat had this feature. Since then I've been using it a lot, and it works great.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I never even noticed, because I usually start with a Word file first.