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- From: dsmith@mcis.messiah.edu
- Subject: More about Omnipage
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- In response to the following message I received from a fellow Omnipage user:
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- > We also have been using OmniPage Professional and have found it a bit
- > slow. True, we have it on a 16MHz machine, but it still seems slower
- > than some of the older packages we ran. You seem to like it. Have you
- > compared it to any other packages?
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- Yes, Omnipage Professional is a system resource hog. I can well imagine it
- would be VERY slow on a 16 Mhz machine. I am using it on a 386dx 25 Mhz with
- a math coprocessor with 4 Mb RAM. More RAM than I have is better, and it is
- probably best suited for a 486/33 or a fast 386 with a coprocessor.
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- I have not done a thorough evaluation of OCR packages. I know there are
- probably a couple of others that work as well as Omnipage. We had some
- experience with a couple lower end programs that were negative, that is why
- we went to Omnipage. We also had a version that ran on a 286 that required
- a special board (with a Motorola 68020 processor) to run it. We had very
- negative experience with that version because the board caused a lot of
- problems. However, when we upgraded to Omnipage Professional which requires
- a 386, the software functioned much better and yielded the desired results.
-
- There are two or three "good OCR" solutions out there. I was just sharing
- my experience with Omnipage Professional (which runs under Windows on 386 and
- 486 equipment). We also use it to scan graphics in many cases.
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