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What is Google Desktop Search? |
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Google Desktop Search is a personal search utility for indexing and finding
text-based files on your PC. For more information, please visit Google's
website at http://desktop.Google.com.
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What is ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer 1.0? |
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ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer 1.0 is a plug-in for Google Desktop
Search, which enables Google Desktop Search to index PDF (normal and image),
fax and scanned documents. The plug-in leverages ScanSoft's highly accurate
and fast optical character recognition (OCR) and PDF conversion technologies
to create text information from image-based content. (Be sure to install
the new version of Google Desktop Search before installing OmniPage Search Indexer.)
The OmniPage Search Indexer is a premier plug-in available from Google
at http://desktop.Google.com/plugins.html.
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What is ScanSoft OCR? |
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ScanSoft is the OCR behind the world's largest book scanning projects,
and supplies nearly 100% of commercial vendors implementing imaging solutions,
including AnyDocs, Autodesk, Avision, Brother, Canon, Captiva, Corex, Dell,
HP, FileNET, Kofax, Konica, Kyocera, Lexmark, Microsoft, Omtool, NSI, Verity,
Visioneer and Xerox.
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What languages does ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer 1.0 support? |
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Currently, the ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer 1.0 Beta supports English.
The final release will support will support English, Dutch, French, German,
Italian and Spanish
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Can ScanSoft support more languages? |
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Yes. ScanSoft's OCR and PDF conversion technologies support over 120
languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. ScanSoft will
assess interest in additional language versions through the beta period,
which ends in April 30, 2005.
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What file types are indexed by the ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer
1.0? |
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PDF (Image), TIFF, TIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP and PaperPort MAX formats.
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What ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer 1.0 do/not do? |
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- It uses ScanSoft's world-leading optical character OCR and PDF conversion
technology to quickly create accurate index information from image-based
content. It does this by finding all of the text on every page of a
document.
- It does provide access to the unformatted text in a converted document,
without graphics or images, via the Cache link on the Google Desktop
Search results page.
- It does not change the original, nor does it turn image PDF into
Image+Text PDF. Use ScanSoft OmniPage Pro Office 14 to create searchable
PDF's.
- It does not save as any format. It creates an index that is proprietary
to the Google Desktop Search database.
- It does not format or save layout or graphics of an indexed document.
Use ScanSoft OmniPage Pro Office 14 to convert paper, PDF and image
content into fully-formatted documents that you can edit.
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How does it work? |
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The ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer is seamlessly integrated with Google
Desktop Search, and once installed can be enabled/disabled from the Desktop
Preferences link within Google Desktop Search.
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What does it cost? |
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The OmniPage Search Indexer is free for personal use during the beta
release period, which ends April 30, 2005. The final version will be available
within 60 days. Pricing for the final release version has not yet been
determined. Corporate, academic and government organizations, as well as
OEM vendors, should contact ScanSoft for license opportunities.
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Will ScanSoft support other search products with the OmniPage Search
Indexer? |
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ScanSoft can deliver a version of the OmniPage Search Indexer that supports
other server and desktop products. Interested partners should contact the
ScanSoft OEM Imaging sales team.
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What are the system requirements for ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer
1.0? |
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- A computer with an Intel Pentium III Processor or equivalent
- Microsoft Windows 2000 (SP3 or higher) or XP (SP1 or SP2)
- 128MB of RAM, 256MB recommended
- 500MB of free hard disk space (for index cache)
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Are administrator privileges required to install and use ScanSoft
OmniPage Search Indexer 1.0? |
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Yes. Administrator privileges are required to install ScanSoft OmniPage
Search Indexer. Since Google Desktop Search can only be used by the user
who installed it and administrator privileges are required for installation,
it can only be used by a user with administrator privileges.
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Where can I download ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer 1.0? |
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OmniPage Search Indexer 1.0 is currently available from Google's website
at http://desktop.Google.com/plugins.html.
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How do I activate ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer 1.0? |
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When prompted to activated, simply click the "Get Key" button which will
take you to our registration website. We only require that you provide
your email address, and in return we will email you an unlock code which
you can copy and paste into the "Activation" dialog to activate.
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How do I uninstall ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer 1.0? |
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You can uninstall OmniPage Search Indexer through Microsoft Windows "Add/Remove
Programs" Control Panel.
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I have a very long document and I am unable to search for text at
the end? |
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Google Desktop Search will only store the first 37,500 characters of
a file, so searching will only be available on the first 37,500 characters
of a document.
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Why do I receive a message that my file is locked or being used by
another program? |
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Google Desktop Search is designed to stop processing when the computer
comes out of idle state. If the ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer is indexing
a file, it will pause and hold the file until they system goes idle again
and it can finish indexing it.
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Some words/pages within my images, or some of my image files are not
searchable? |
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If the image file is of poor quality, the ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer
may not index some words. In these rare cases it will skip over them.
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What limitations are there for what files ScanSoft OmniPage Search
Indexer will index? |
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The image must contain readable document text. It will not create index
data for photographs of people, scenes, etc.
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How do I find out more information on Google Desktop Search? |
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Additional information on Google Desktop Search can be found on Google's
website (http://desktop.google.com/support)
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