Review by Peace Daddy

Omnipage 18 seems to me like an OCR solution that could have been perfect, but instead decided to bog itself down with advertising and unneeded crud. It never ceases to amaze me when companies decide to do this - they figure ‘people who need it will still use it either way, so we can put all this extra unnecessary stuff on here and people won’t care.’ Only through consumers taking a stand on this will any of it change - there are other solutions for OCR like ABBYY, but they seem to have the same issues. Regardless, if you can get past the imperfections and overall buggy performance, Omnipage does function for the most part. I was able to create and edit a few PDF’s which saved with no issues, as well as convert a few others from SkyDrive. Overall, I really wish Nuance would take a lead on listening to the consumer when it comes to bogging down their product with unnecessary additions. Either way, if you’re in need for a cheap solution, Omnipage 18 may work for you.