OmniPage
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OmniPage is Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software capable of turning scanned images into editable text. OmniPage has PC and Mac versions.
OmniPage's proprietary file type (*.opd). OmniPage Documents can consist of original page images, zones, and recognized text.
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History
Originally developed by Caere Corp., Caere bought by Scansoft in 2000, then merged with Nuance in 2005.
- 1992 Omnipage 2.1
- 1994 Omnipage 5
- 1995 Omnipage 6
- 1996 Omnipage 7
- 1997 Omnipage 8
- 1998 Omnipage 9
- 1999 Omnipage 10
- 2001 OmniPage 11
- 2002 OmniPage 12
- 2003 OmniPage 14
- 2005 OmniPage 15
- 2007 OmniPage 16
- 2009 OmniPage 17
- 2011 OminPage 18
File Identification
- Early OmniPage versions did not have a native format and only exported to popular text formats.
- Starting in version 5 or 6 until version 9, OmniPage native format was .MET. Headers begin with the acsii "
CCMET
" - Starting in version 10 until current, OmniPage saves in .OPD, a "OLE2" document container format.