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Well, every once in a while you see a piece of software work that
is pretty darned good and you feel the need to comment on it - -

Omnipage is such a piece of software. Last Friday we got our
Apple Scanner - it seems competent enough - nothing special and
we also got Omnipage. I haven't read the manual yet! It works
well enough and obviously enough that I've scanned in Pulp
Newspaper scruff in columns into Macwrite, typed documents with
100% recognition or darned near most of the time and the ability
to scan multiple pages into a single document.

It is FAST and very accurate - compared to anything else in it's
price range that I know about. I would recommend that folks stick
with a Mac II since that is the way the software is shipped. You
can send your disk off and get a 68000 version but I don't think
they really intend for a whole lot of folk to do that cause of
the speed difference. I think they are probably hard-coding for
the math co-processor ( 68881 ) so they can't let you run the
same software on a 68000 ( just a guess ).

Where could it be improved? The retention of layout. Sometimes it
gets pretty confused about where things should go relative to
columns, etc. I suspect that a future release might make this
work better - but I'm guessing here. Again, I haven't read the
manual but I don't see TOO many ways to automatically keep
complex formatting in a scanned document.

I am very impressed with the software - hope they make a bundle
of $$$ and continue to work and improve the software. I'm
recommending it to anybody who might want to do some OCR
scanning.

Apple sure got lucky on this one cause the Apple software that
comes with the scanner is OK but Omnipage makes the scanner
worthwhile all by itself, and the some




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