I have consistently for 20 years, for functional, effective software and hardware in order to produce quality materials for students. We create thousands of accessible documents every single semester, the vast majority of which were originally PDFs. Also, having better tools will mean less labor time to get the right accessible text for your student, and saved time is saved money.

Creating substandard materials because the campus is too cheap to pay for appropriate tools will not win you any friends if you are sued by the Office of Civil Rights (either DOJ or DOE). Adobe is great for breaking up files or cropping or other types of editing, but really substandard in Adobe.Īdditionally, I will say that cost should almost NEVER be a factor when deciding which software to use – functionality/quality of production is the ONLY consideration. They use CapturePerfect’s engine, or some other, that produces a better-quality result. Even scanners that come with OCR software don’t use Adobe. It also does not balk at poorly-scanned materials oftentimes the OCR is virtually perfect with Omnipage, so again, less manual labor to fix problems.Īdobe’s OCR is good in a pinch, for something that will be a quick read, but you will get a better result overall with a true OCR program. It deals well with foreign language, which is a huge plus as we do many books with mixed languages.

Using Omnipage, we are able to OCR straight to ascii text (Abbyy does this too) so we can create very very clean word files with near-perfect formatting and navigation. You get a better overall result with less manual labor to fix problems if you use a better product. We do create a LOT of alternate format, so having a good OCR engine/program is critical.

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