You can't reprocess a page easily after adapting the areas that it needs to process, and You can't remove areas from the recognition thing, While it's processing you can't edit any of the previous pages, (Rather than looking for facing pages, it just seems to cut every image in half, no matter where the text starts or ends.) On a third title it cuts the inside 10% off every left page in a dual-page scan with the "look for facing pages" feature enabled.
On a second (GA 70) it mistakes half the german for greek, and generally makes gibberish out of the text (300dpi)
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(although it does so most of the time, the 'errors' it gives are often just as clearly scanned as the rest of the page)Ībbyy FR 9 is a lot better at this, although its recognition abilities are also far from perfect.Įdit: After trying Omnipage 17, I have to say I'm almost shocked at the mistakes the thing makes.įirstly, on the first PDF it just crashes, always at more or less the same point (800p JPG book that I like to use as a test)
Similarly, it seemed to make little use of the dictionaries when it was trying to recognize words, with lots of "recognized" OCRed (marked as unsure) text consisting of letter combinations that weren't words at all, apparently because it doesn't always use heuristics for guessing which dictionary word a recognized letter combination should be. I don't care about greek/cyrillic scripts, although I remember it having lots and lots of trouble with german Heidegger Gesamtausgabe volumes (German with lots of Greek mixed in). Well, one of the major gripes I had with OP 16 was that you can't specify the input language for a scanned document, especially in the cases where a book contains more than one language, nor does it ask what language the scanned stuff is in at the time of processing. Did you even try anything other than stupid English text with its lame, limited character set? Ominpage has its roots in the old Recognita, then-world's best OCR software, let's get real - try using foreign languages, especially with non-Latin character sets and you'll see how it works and THEN (only then)
Yeah, right because it's soooo difficult to use when you have to make a whopping TWO CLICKS, huh? (2) OmniPage also creates the document text needed for using search and the synthesized text-to-speech (TTS) “read-aloud” feature from Nuance that is built into the Kindle 2 and other devices." This is an important new feature in light of recent analyst predictions that, in the future, 75 percent of all book sales will be sold in an eBook format. The new release includes support for various eBook and PDF formats, as well as the first-ever “Scan-to-Kindle” feature, with documents automatically re-formatted specifically for easy reading and navigating using the Kindle 2 form-factor. "By leveraging recent advances in eBook technologies, highlighted by the popularity of the Amazon Kindle 2, Omni includes features that maximize the value of ‘electronic paper’ to not only saves trees but also deliver advantages over physical paper.
If you follow the link to the company press release in the article it becomes even more interesting: may be best known for specializing in speech-recognition technology, but the Burlington company has just unveiled its latest scanning application, which, among many other features, allows users to scan documents and send them to their Amazon Kindle e-readers." The article states that "Nuance Communications Inc.
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Yesterdays Boston Globe posted an article on the scanning software Omni having a scan to Kindle feature.