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- ShadowProtect Desktop 3.1
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- OmniPage Professional 16
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OmniPage began performing optical character recognition (OCR) on documents in 1988, so it has had 20 years of experience converting complex documents into editable formats. The latest version, OmniPage Professional 16 ($499, direct), shows that experience in its often startling ability to preserve the layout of scanned documents in its OCR-processed files. Unfortunately, OmniPage's long history is also reflected in an interface cluttered with traces of an ancient, clunky design that no one would inflict on users today, and in program code that's cluttered with needlessly frustrating procedures.
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