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No optical character recognition application is 100 percent accurate. But if your OCR program's word accuracy falls below 95 percent--that's no more than five errors per 100 words--you're probably wasting your time using it. Caere's new OmniPage Pro 9.0 makes the grade. And to my mind, Caere's interface is the best in its category.
I tested a preproduction version of OmniPage Pro 9.0, using scanned documents ranging from simple text to pages in multicolumn formats with tables and graphics. OmniPage Pro did best at converting plain-vanilla, laser-printed documents, scoring an...