[X4U] Re: Readiris 9.0 Problem

[Randy B.Singer]

George Harvey said:

>I use OmniPage Pro X instead, although its modest error rate requires 
>quite a bit of work making corrections. I hope that there will be an 
>update to this program to make it a little more accurate and handier to 
>use with my Epson 2450 scanner.


I'm afraid that there will be no updates to OmniPage Pro.  The developer, 
Caere, went out of business 5 years ago, and their assets were purchased 
by ScanSoft.  

ScanSoft, as far as I can tell, doesn't do any software development. They 
purchase products and sell them until they are no longer popular, at 
which time they discontinue them.  Examples: TextBridge, PaperPort, 
ViaVoice.

This is very sad, because even 5 years later OmniPage Pro is still by far 
the best OCR program for the Macintosh (as you have found.)  However, 
ScanSoft's tech support for the product is abysmal.  (Especially if one 
is silly enough to pay $500 for the product, instead of $150 for the 
upgrade version.)



Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

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