OmniPage® Professional 16, is the newest version of the world?s best-selling and most accurate optical character recognition (OCR) and document conversion application for Microsoft Windows. With the best document conversion accuracy, breakthrough three-dimensional (3D) digital camera capture technology and amazing speed advances, OmniPage Professional 16 is the easiest way to edit, share and store paper, PDF and electronic documents.

OmniPage Professional 16 is the first desktop OCR application to provide native support for the new open standard Ecma Open XML file formats used by the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Further, OmniPage Professional 16 is the first OCR application to provide input and export support for the XML Paper Specification, or XPS, an important new ?electronic paper? format for scanning, sharing, archiving and indexing documents for search applications.

Most compelling in OmniPage 16 are the features and capabilities that extend the applications of OCR and document conversion to a broader set of everyday document tasks. Many of the enhancements and new features in OmniPage 16 are unique innovations not available in alternative solutions. These include:

• Best OCR and Document Conversion Accuracy ? OmniPage Professional 16 is 27 percent more accurate in overall document conversion than the previous release, with significant advances in providing ?same as original? conversion to editable formats. Instead of relying on text boxes and other visual tricks to mimic the look of the original, OmniPage duplicates the original using the highest-level features within word processing and spreadsheet applications. This results in columns, tables, graphics and text that are eminently editable, and makes OmniPage 16 up to 50 percent more accurate than alternatives.
   
• The Fastest Ever ? OmniPage Professional 16 avoids the traditional trade-off of accuracy at the expense of speed. The new release is both more accurate and faster, delivering up to 46 percent speed improvements for document conversion. Nuance has implemented additional improvements that enable even better performance on Intel and AMD dual-core processing chips, which have become common for personal computers from vendors such as Dell and HP.
   
• Innovative 3D Capture for Digital Cameras ? A picture really can be worth a thousand words with OmniPage Professional 16. While others have tried to support converting documents captured using digital cameras, the accuracy and results have disappointed. Through the addition of 3DC, or 3D Capture, OmniPage automatically corrects for the distortion of the angle and rotation of the camera, as well as for the curve of the page in an open book ? making OmniPage 16 a practical solution for digital camera capture and up to an astounding 74 percent more accurate than alternatives.
   
• Unique ?Scan-and-Redact? ? Handling sensitive information is a serious concern for government and corporate organizations, as well as individuals concerned with names and email addresses, social security and phone numbers and other information that can be used by identity thieves. OmniPage Professional 16 is the first desktop OCR product to address this concern, making redaction ? the removal of text from an image and PDF file ? a core feature. It is also the first ever to make redaction a part of the scanning process. Users can set sensitive words or phrases as an attribute prior to scanning, and OmniPage Professional 16 will redact on the fly. Users can also select highlight-for-redaction, where candidate words are highlighted for review by the individual or others prior to the final redaction step. Nuance has submitted a patent application for the redaction capabilities delivered in OmniPage.
   
• Easiest OCR to Use ? OmniPage 16 proves once and for all that scanning and document conversion does not have to be complex. Its Quick Convert feature automates and simplifies turning paper and PDF into documents that you can edit, while its patented One-Button scanning makes it easy to associate specific tasks to buttons on your scanner ? such as scan-to-Word or PDF, save as XPS and more. The new File-It Assistant feature even creates barcode coversheets that let you automatically scan documents directly into specific folders on your PC and network.
   
• First OCR with Integrated Document Management ? Scanning and OCR simply aren?t enough for the millions of people using all-in-one and multifunction devices to turn paper into digital information that they can store and search. Nuance responds to this need by being the first to bundle document management capabilities with a desktop OCR application by adding PaperPort 11 to OmniPage Professional 16. Further, for existing users of PaperPort and PaperPort Professional, OmniPage Professional 16 includes enhanced ?scan to? features that make using the two products more seamless and powerful than ever.
   
• First OCR to Include Electronic and Paper Forms Processing ? For organizations needing a better way to implement electronic and paper forms processes, scanning and OCR alone are not sufficient. While sending PDF forms is easy, the challenge is in processing completed forms into data ? a challenge that is met with the new release of OmniPage Professional 16. Now users can complete PDF forms on their PC and submit them as either paper or PDF, where OmniPage Professional 16 will automate the data extraction into CSV files suitable for Microsoft Office Excel and database applications.
   
• One-Button Workflow ? In order to distill complex, multi-step tasks into a single click, OmniPage Professional 16 has made creating and using document workflows even easier ? and has added native support for the ODMA content management standard and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in order to make storing your documents even easier.
   
• First OCR to Support 2007 Microsoft Office System Files and XPS ? Nuance and Microsoft have had a close relationship on OCR and document conversion for many years, including a collaboration that resulted in PDF Converter, the first-ever solution that accurately turned PDF into Microsoft Office Word documents. The collaboration has continued through the development of export filters for OmniPage that leverage the Ecma Open XML file formats used in 2007 Microsoft Office system applications, including Office Word (.docx), Office PowerPoint (.pptx) and Office Excel (.xlsx). Nuance has also added robust support for the XML Paper Specification, XPS, which enables document sharing and archiving with Windows Vista.

Additional Features

• PaperPort included ? Integrated Document Management
  OmniPage Professional 16 comes with the world?s most powerful desktop document management system ? PaperPort 11. The integration of PaperPort allows you to set up quick navigation links inside OmniPage that instantly jump to your favorite folders when opening or saving a file to your desktop. PaperPort will open directly to the folder you are saving to so you can see your converted document in context with all your other documents. You can even apply PaperPort Folder Notes to automatically add important keywords and notations to PDF and Word documents for more robust indexing ? perfect for searching with all popular search tools including Windows, Yahoo and Google Desktop Search.
   
• Automated data collection from forms
  Not only does OmniPage Professional instantly turn scanned paper forms into editable electronic PDF forms ? but it now extracts the data too. OmniPage can batch process all your filled forms, either PDF or printed on paper, and create a .csv data file that can be opened in a spreadsheet or database program. Powerful stuff.
   
• Protect or highlight important information
  OmniPage can now recognize and automatically mark up your text on the fly based on a list of key words, numbers or phrases. You can redact (black out) text for confidentiality, quickly locate information with highlights or communicate a revision with strikethrough text.
   
• Multiple-Document Support
  Save additional time by working on multiple documents at once. OmniPage can now open, process, correct and save multiple documents simultaneously.
   
• Flexible Interface
  OmniPage works the way you like by allowing you to rearrange its various function windows to tailor the workflow to best fit your individual processing needs.
   
• Quick Convert View
  Converting documents doesn?t have to be complicated. The Quick Convert View gets the job done in seconds - there?s no need to learn a lot of options and tools.
   
• Save Custom Views
  As you work more and more with OmniPage you might want to create different customized views to perform certain tasks. OmniPage not only allows you to rearrange its windows, it lets you save as many layouts as you want so you can easily configure OmniPage to your liking in a snap.
   
• Improved Workflow Assistant
  Turn multiple complex tasks into a single button press ? in OmniPage or on a scanner button. Customize your document conversion processes with an unlimited number of combinations. No other product easily compresses such power and efficiency into a single step. It?s easier than ever with the newly improved Workflow Assistant.
   
• File-It Assistant and Paper Coversheets
  Yes, we actually developed a technology that allows you to use a simple piece of paper to control how OmniPage works. If you?re scanning paper anyway you might as well use it to your advantage. It?s easy to set up and even easier to use. Tell OmniPage where you want your scanned documents to go on your computer or on your network, and in what format you want your documents saved. Then print out a bar-coded coversheet that holds all the proper processing information. Put that coversheet on top of what ever you are scanning and hit the ?scan? button on your scanner. OmniPage automatically follows your instructions. What?s best is that anyone can now use that same exact coversheet to control OmniPage document processing. There?s no need for everyone in your organization to learn how to use OmniPage. They just push a button and they?re done! It?s as easy as making a photocopy.
   
• Convert Now Wizard
  You?re wandering through folders on Microsoft Windows and you come upon a document you need to convert. Simply right click on the document and let the Convert Now Wizard do the job without even having to open OmniPage. It?s the fast and easy way to get on-demand document conversion in Microsoft Windows.
   
• Legal Document Recognition
  OmniPage is now optimized to recognize and convert legal documents that contain special formatting including headers, footers, line number, stamps, signatures and more.
   
• How-to-Guides
  Learn how to use OmniPage in no time at all. Our How-to-Guides lead you through basic terminology and product features so you can become an expert user fast.