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10 Welcome
New features in OmniPage Pro X
The family of OmniPage
®
products is now augmented by OmniPage
Pro X for Macintosh. Here we summarize its most important new
features compared to OmniPage Pro 8 for Macintosh.
u A better recognition engine has been integrated, capable of
delivering greater accuracy, particularly on degraded documents.
u Support for the Mac
®
OS X operating system. A revised user
interface exploits the improved display techniques of the new
system. Support is maintained for Mac OS 9.
u A new Assistant facility provides interactive step-by-step guidance
for users new to the world of OCR processing.
u Improved parsing of page elements to retain the formatting and
layout of the original pages, in particular better retention of color
graphics and smarter text/graphics detection.
u Better auto-detection and handling of tables and spreadsheets.
u Detection and recognition of reverse text (white or pale letters on
black or dark backgrounds).
u Portable Document Format (PDF) files can be opened and their
contents transformed to editable text.
u Recognized pages can be saved to Portable Document Format
(PDF) files, ready for display, use on the Web or for file transfer.
u Export support added for MS Word 98, 2001 and X and MS
Excel 98.
u Improved export support for HTML (upgraded to HTML 4.0).
u Voice read-back facility for texts in English and Spanish.