ChattyCathy wrote:
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> OCR software has come a long way from those days. I remember OmniPage
>> Pro
>> and is was a really good product in its day. Another improvement is
>> the recognition of many different standard fonts.
>>
> Did the version of OmniPage Pro you had come with a dongle that had to
> be plugged into the parallel port in order to get it do anything at
> all? Mine first version did (we had IBM boxes way back then). What a
> PITA.
I don't know about Wayne but the first version of OmniPage Pro that I
had came with a dongle. Looking back I thought it was good, and for its
time it was, but nothing to compare with the OCR software out today.

IIRC I was using it on an IBM 486, may have been the 386. Know it wasn't
the XT or the Osborne One. LOL

On Mon 09 Mar 2009 01:40:07p, George Shirley told us...

> ChattyCathy wrote:
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>> OCR software has come a long way from those days. I remember OmniPage
>>> Pro
>>> and is was a really good product in its day. Another improvement is
>>> the recognition of many different standard fonts.
>>>
>> Did the version of OmniPage Pro you had come with a dongle that had to
>> be plugged into the parallel port in order to get it do anything at
>> all? Mine first version did (we had IBM boxes way back then). What a
>> PITA.
> I don't know about Wayne but the first version of OmniPage Pro that I
> had came with a dongle. Looking back I thought it was good, and for its
> time it was, but nothing to compare with the OCR software out today.
>
> IIRC I was using it on an IBM 486, may have been the 386. Know it wasn't
> the XT or the Osborne One. LOL

I used OmniPage Pro at work connected to an IBM PC, but I didn't connect
it, so don't remember about the dongle.

--
Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.

"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

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 Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.

"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
5.247...
> 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 Boatwright

I was off a buck. www.pdf995.com

On Mon 09 Mar 2009 07:55:53p, Ed Pawlowski told us...

>
> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
> 5.247...
>> 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 Boatwright
>
> I was off a buck. www.pdf995.com
>
>
>

Thanks, Ed!

--
Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.

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

On Mon 09 Mar 2009 07:57:05p, phil..c told us...

> 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 had Linux installed at one time and liked it. However, since I do
roughly 50% of my work from home, I need to replicate my office environment
on my home PC for everything to work correctly. We have a lot of
proprietary software.

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

I used to use Open Office and liked it a lot. It was an early version, and
I can't recall if it had PDF capability at the time, however.

At present I have licenses from my company for all the software they need
for me to use, so I don't have a cost involved. I have Adobe PDF, but I
was interested in this version for a friend of mine.

>
> Phil open source lover

If I get to retire before I'm senile, I'll probably return to all open
source. :-)



--
Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.