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webraider · Oct 30, 2009, 03:16 AM

Which is the best...OmniPage Pro X (hasn't really been updated in a while), Abbyy FineReader Express, or ReadIRIS Pro? Any Thoughts???

CharlesS · Oct 30, 2009, 04:21 AM

Isn’t Acrobat usually pretty good at that sort of thing?

ide3308 · Oct 30, 2009, 01:00 PM

Acrobat Pro

pra9ab0y · Oct 30, 2009, 01:43 PM

I use Acrobat Pro.

ghporter · Oct 30, 2009, 02:46 PM

I can't afford Acrobat Pro. But I did get some pretty capable OCR software with my Canon all-in-one MX-310. It is, amazingly enough, OmniPage SE. While SE is somewhat dependent on scan resolution, it will do a pretty good job of correctly recognizing both the text and the formatting in the scan, and it does a similarly good job on text in image files.

turtle777 · Oct 30, 2009, 03:45 PM

PDFPen is a good, low-cost alternative to Acrobat Pro.

It includes OCR, but I can't tell how capable it is.

-t