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NO OPTICAL character recognition (OCR) package recognizes every word perfectly, but Caere's OmniPage Pro 8.0 produces very impressive results, thanks to its new Predictive Optical Word Recognition Plus (POWR+) engine. Such accuracy, coupled with OmniPage's rapid rate of recognition, high retention of formatting, and improved zoning capabilities, make the program the dominate mainstream OCR application.
In one of my tests of the beta software, Version 8.0 generated only four errors when processing a page that Version 7.0 processed with 10 errors. I recorded even better results when OmniPage Pro scanned problem documents, such as faxes. In this case, one page that previously generated 25 errors now showed only six misreads. On average, OmniPage Pro 8.0 produced 62 percent fewer errors than Version 7.0.
The program now includes dictionaries for 12 western European...