Since Nuance still ships its products, on its support site you can even get a backup CD of your digital download. As per their website, they offer the usual knowledge base and a very handy section to verify if your computer is compatible with OmniPage. Nuance offers phone & mail support – be aware that if your version of OmniPage is old or you got the software through some bundle or through your OEM, you could pay to get your question answered. You can also convert your text into MP3, read by OmniPage itself (and the results are noteworthy), so you can check possible errors without even read the document – and since Nuance is the company behind Dragon Dictate, the result is pretty solid.

Of course, OmniPage export features are appropriate for one of the best OCR software in the industry, letting you easily save your files in a wide variety of formats, including Office different programs, Sharepoint, HTML, searchable PDF, and even to Kindles. As the cherry on top of its offerings, OmniPage reads vertical text as well as text captured through your smartphone’s camera, being from a page or a board. Just to name a few: batch scanning, or programme a scan from a folder or email, searchable PDF creation, layout recognition. For those of you that work in a traditional office, instead, OmniPage has many features that will simplify your chores. They added a few nice improvements over the last version, such a sort of cloud integration (you can open documents from a variety of web storages like Dropbox, Box, Evernote, etc.) which is very useful, especially if you work in a remote environment. OmniPage can detect so crisply your text because it uses a 3D correction: so it can easily ignore punch-holes and clean borders and text. It lets you scan pages in over 120 languages, far Eastern alphabets included.

OmniPage is an OCR software, meaning that it could scan a printed page, but also recognize the text on a digital file. They tried to overcome this by letting you drag & drop its various sections, but it doesn’t work as expected, because it neglects the user’s choice and places its windows in pre-arranged spots.

Overall, we think OmniPage needs a serious design overhaul, to really meet the needs of its users. You can get in a haze with OmniPage layout: too many informations in too a crowded space, with for example a bottom frame with stats about the page your scanning (you can of course disable this frame). Unfortunately, OmniPage interface is not so polished and simple as we’d like – sometimes having too many features is counterproductive, when it comes to lay them all out so that the user can use them (no pun intended). If you find OmniPage design confusing, you’re in good company.

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