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Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Mon 09 Mar 2009 07:39:56p, Ed Pawlowski told us...
>
>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>> I used OmniPage Pro at work connected to an IBM PC, but I didn't
>>> connect it, so don't remember about the dongle.

>> I have version 8. No dongle.
>>
>> I did not even bother installing it on this computer since the Epson OCR
>> works so much better that what I had. Maybe new versions are better. .
>> They are up to ver. 16 now.
>>
>> At work we use PDF895 instead of Adobe. Does what we need for $8.95
>> instead of $300

>
> I wasn't able to find that product using Google for "PDF895" or "PDF 895".
> Does it have another name?
>

Wayne are you a windows or Linux user ?
Linux Ubuntu for example has heaps of open source PDF add ons
as does Firefox for most OSÅ›

I think open office in Ver 3 has also a new nifty PDF function but have
not used OO3 as happy with 2.4

Phil open source lover