MACWORLD: OmniPage for X ships
ScanSoft Inc. has reaffirmed its commitment to the Mac market with the introduction of OmniPage Pro X for Mac OS X.
This Carbonized release is the company's first update for the Mac in three years. Product marketing manager Chris Strammiello said: "The Mac market has developed in recent years. For us to introduce a new version of our industry-standard optical character-recognition software to Apple Computer Inc.'s next-generation OS was a no-brainer. This release shows a recommitment to the Mac for us."
ScanSoft has over eight million users worldwide. This release is nearly 50 per cent more accurate than competitor's offerings, and 40 per cent more than previous versions of the software, claimed Strammiello. Partially, this improved accuracy is provided by the utilization of two OCR technologies working in tandem within the product, and partially due to many advances in the product itself, he said.
Direct from PDF
The release offers many new functions, including the capacity to scan PDF documents, and transfer scans to a variety of document formats, such as Microsoft Word. This means static PDF files can be transformed into editable documents. Likewise, editable documents can be transformed into PDF documents. Strammiello explained: "PDF is an open standard, we can develop with it too."
Other features include the capacity to make the computer read back scanned documents -
Macworld.co.uk
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