Your Power PDF program offers a powerful built-in OCR, similar to that in OmniPage.
However, there can be advantages in using this Kofax® OmniPage® Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program if you want more control over the OCR process.
Choose from four formatting levels instead of two (see below)
Win full control over the OCR process, including:
The ability to manually zone pages
Access to multi-lingual spell checking and proofing
Dynamic verifier image display to speed up editing
Voice readback facility
And much more.
Scan new pages into the converted document
Add new pages from fax, image files or digital cameras
Save to other formats, including OmniPage's internal format for document sharing with other OmniPage users.
The four formatting levels offered for saving in OmniPage are:
1. Flowing Page
The pages retain the layout of the originals. Graphics and framed elements are placed in text boxes. Whenever possible, other text is transferred without using text boxes. Power PDF offers this under the name Flowing Column. See Standard Document.
2. True Page
The pages retain the layout of the originals, but all elements are placed in text boxes, including text in columns. Power PDF offers this formatting. See Standard Document.
3. Formatted Text
Text is decolumnized, but text attributes, graphics and tables are retained.
4. Plain Text
Text is decolumnized and rendered as plain text. Graphics and tables are retained, but not in their original locations. This option is convenient for users who want to reformat the content.