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Originally Posted by Sporadic
What a shit program.
I tried messing around with OmniPage 17 Professional and it was horrible. Unintuitive, didn't save any of the settings I had so I had to set it every time I scanned a page and the Kindle option...
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Yeah, right because it's soooo difficult to use when you have to make a whopping TWO CLICKS, huh?
Menus could be better but I can say this about plenty of other apps - these menus are not worse than Apple's unintuitive 'dumbed-down-for-waiters-aka-wannabe-producers' menus or Microsoft's 'utterly-clunky-convoluted-idiotic-illogical-let's-create-10-more-clicks-if-we-can' menus.
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it's to save the file to .doc? They ripped off Calibre and you can mail it to your Amazon email address for conversion. That's it. The program doesn't actually do anything.
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At least it has a built-in "Kindle Assistant", available right from the Tools top menu - exactly two clicks away.
Yes, all it does is sends your scanned stuff to your kindle email if I understood correctly. Which, of course, can be either @kindle.com or @free.kindle.com, whichever you choose.
What's the ripoff here and what does it have to do with Calibre...?
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Save your money. If you need an OCR, go with ABBYY.
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Pleahhhhse. 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) you can trash it if it does not work (I doubt it as 10 years ago Recognita was able to chew 5000 pages of Cyrillic Soviet military documents with surprising results (they were heavyweight technical documents like Mi-8 and Mi-24 warship maintenance manuals etc.)
I'm not saying Abby isn't better (haven't tried current version) but Omnipage is a pretty powerful OCR app too, that's for sure.