I scanned a slew of different documents using my Canon CanoScan 9000F, with varying results. But I found that it also depends on what you’re using to scan your documents. The application’s success depends on the type of document (of course).

Let’s Document ThatĪll of that might be forgiven if OmniPage Professional 18 were to excel at its main function: optical character recognition. Ultimately the interface will get the job done, but at times it confuses and confounds–something one wouldn’t expect on version 18 of a product. One window has zoom icons, but another important window does not you can access a zoom command via right-clicking, but only in certain areas. Keyboard and mouse shortcuts for zooming don’t work in OmniPage Professional 18. And the OCR Proofreader tool, which you use for accepting and rejecting recognized text, has no undo function. You can find standard undo and redo commands under the edit menu (or in keyboard shortcuts) when you’re in the application’s main window–but they disappear if you’re using certain modes within the application, such as the image enhancement mode, where you’re expected to click a reset button to start over if you don’t like the results of your edits.

The application is rife with inconsistencies. The same icon appears in the child window, too, but clicking it there pops up the Help dialog box. To clean up graphical elements, you must click an Image Enhancement icon in the Page Image window, and it pops up a child window (a window that you can’t access any other way). For instance, to specify areas of a document that contain graphics, text, or tables, you use a Page Image window, with its own commands to edit the text of a processed document, you must work in the Text Editor window. Many operations in the application happen in discrete windows.

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