Omnipage Scanning and OCR
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Omnipage scanning and optical character recognition software will work with most documents including some pdf formats and can usually cope with some faded faxes, poor-quality photocopies, small text, reversed-out type, text on a coloured background, multiple language documents, numeric text etc.
It can duplicate text, graphics, tables and spreadsheets in Word and Excel and has the ability to convert pdf to accessible text. It has a high level of page formatting, including columns, tables, type styles, reversed text. There is also an 'OCR Proofreader' which checks the results and like a spell checker, it highlights suspicious characters and suggests corrections.
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