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Jim Thompson · 11-05-2009, 01:18 PM

I have learned (I think):

1. PCMag review in (I think it was '08) suggested ABBYY or OmniPage depending upon ones needs.

2. People tend to prefer interface and support for ABBYY.

3. OmniPage may be better for people who want more customized automation or larger batches. For example it will permit creating a zone template that will remove standard headers/footers (page #s) from every document in a batch fed through the ADF -- whereas that would have to be done a page at a time in ABBYY.

4. ABBYY seems to have a relationship wit Fujitsu, so if buying a scanner and software, there might be less frustration with getting them to work well together.

I'm looking into OmniPage for my purposes. Trying to determine if I need the professional version and which ADF scanners seem most used with it. I'll report again when I'm smarter, or if you have insight, please enlighten me.

11-05-2009, 01:18 PM	#22
Jim Thompson Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: iPhone	I have learned (I think): 1. PCMag review in (I think it was '08) suggested ABBYY or OmniPage depending upon ones needs. 2. People tend to prefer interface and support for ABBYY. 3. OmniPage may be better for people who want more customized automation or larger batches. For example it will permit creating a zone template that will remove standard headers/footers (page #s) from every document in a batch fed through the ADF -- whereas that would have to be done a page at a time in ABBYY. 4. ABBYY seems to have a relationship wit Fujitsu, so if buying a scanner and software, there might be less frustration with getting them to work well together. I'm looking into OmniPage for my purposes. Trying to determine if I need the professional version and which ADF scanners seem most used with it. I'll report again when I'm smarter, or if you have insight, please enlighten me.