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(More customer reviews)Just when you thought Scansoft could not make a product any more user-unfriendly: introducing Omnipage 17. This product is terrible. I still have not found a way to use it. I just want my money back. This is not from someone who has never used an Omnipage program before. I have owned both 12 and 14. Both were headaches (and the customer service is awful), but at least I could make sense of them after a while. But I am the idiot who thinks, "this time it will be different; this time they will get it right." All I want to do is one very simple thing: convert scanned pages into Word documents. Eventually (and after a lot of frustration) I will be able to figure this thing out as well, but for now, I make the same pledge I seem to make every few years to never buy another Nuance product again.
ADDED December 24: I finally got the program to work, but I could not remember how I did it. Certainly the "help" within the program was no help. It took me another thirty minutes (and a lot of frustration) to finally get it to work a second time--and I still don't remember quite what I did. I cannot adequately express the level of frustration I feel when trying to operate this program. I am sorry I purchased it.
UPDATE: It is now March, and I am still struggling with this software. After nearly four months, I am to the point of taking it off my computer and putting the old one back on. I can't say enough bad things about this product.
ONE LAST UPDATE: I did figure out how to use this program (on my own, of course), and I now use it frequently to good result. I am now glad that I own it; however, I will balance this by saying that the accuracy is not all that nuance makes it out to be. I am finding errors such as leaving both punctuation marks and small words like "I'll" out entirely. The program will also confuse an exclamation point (!) with a lower-case L (l) at times. These problems do not happen a lot, but I do find them I would estimate one or two every seven or eight pages, so careful proof-reading is necessary. I also check against originals to make sure that the source of the problem is not there, and it is not.
ONE LAST ONE LAST UPDATE: I'm done with 17. There are too many problems--problems with scanner and computers--I am back to OmniPage 14. It simply works better. Now I just have to remind myself to hang up the phone whenever some Nuance rep. calls with the "latest and greatest product" - there is no reason to believe it will work better than any of the others.
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OmniPage 17OmniPage 17 is the fastest and most precise way to convert paper, PDF files, and even digital camera pictures into files you can edit in your favorite PC applications. It works with all scanners and you can capture text with a digital camera or iPhone®. OmniPage 17 lets you turn documents that would take hours to re-type into perfectly formatted documents in seconds.You can even turn scanned documents into specially formatted pages for easy reading on the Amazon Kindle. Get started right away because OmniPage is easy to use. OmniPage 17 is ideal for students, home office and small businesses.
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