The only way to assess a price-to-value ratio for this product would be to compare it to Adobe’s Acrobat Pro, since that’s the only other product that I can think of that comes close to the features in OmniPage Professional. The two products also have very close price levels; Nuance has OmniPage Pro 16 listed on their website for $499.00 and Adobe has Acrobat Pro listed for $449.00. But there are features in OmniPage for which you’d also need at the very least a good scanner utility and OCR program in addition to Acrobat, and even then the combination would still leave holes in comparative features.
If you need the features, then OmniPage is a good value, if you consider the power of the product I would have to say that OmniPage is not only a good deal, but something that an organization could make and or save tons of money with, and here’s why: with OmniPage, you can set up workflows and output options that anyone in an organization can capitalize on.
For instance, you could set up a printed “cover sheet” that initiates a workflow within the software. Virtually any computer user can be shown how to use it just once and be able to repeat it at will. To get the same capabilities out of another product (or set of products), the user will have to actually learn how to do something, and worse, that user would need to be a much more proficient computer user in general and most likely have to know the bigger concepts of what they’re doing even to figure out how to get the result they want.
More than most pieces of software, the level at which you use OmniPage has more to do with the price-to-value ratio than the price itself. If you use it for things like document conversion, workflows, and content repurposing, then it’s a total bargain, if you use it just as a “PDF printer,” it’s no deal at all and you should look at some of the lesser alternatives on Nuance’s website.
The price isn’t a problem if you use even a few of the unique features OmniPage Pro possesses.
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