System requirements

System requirements

You need the following minimum system requirements to install and run OmniPage 17:

  • An Intel® Pentium® III or higher processor or its equivalent. Dual-core or Quad-core support recommended.

  • Microsoft Windows® XP 32-bit (from Service Pack 3), with 400 MHz processor, or Windows® VistaTM 32-bit (SP1), Windows Vista 64-bit (SP1) with a 1 GHz processor.

  • 256 MB of memory (RAM), 1 GB recommended for advanced performance.

  • 230 MB of free hard disk space for the application files and sample images, plus 70 MB working space during installation. Additionally:

    •  170 MB for RealSpeakTM Solo speech modules. (80MB for American English, 9-11 MB for each additional language.

    • 95 MB for Nuance PDF Create. (Supplied with OmniPage Professional only).

    • 150 MB for Nuance PaperPort®. (Supplied with OmniPage Professional only).

  • 1024x768 pixel color monitor with 16-bit color or greater video card.

  • CD-ROM drive for installation, or web access for.

  • A sound card and speaker for reading text aloud.

  • A compatible scanner with its own scanner driver software for scanning documents. Please see the Scanner Guide at Nuance’s web site www.nuance.com for a list of supported scanners.

  • 2 megapixel digital camera or higher for digital camera text capture.

  • Web access needed for automatic product activation, registration, Scanner Wizard database updating, and obtaining live updates for the program.

  • East Asian language handling must be installed in the operating system to view Japanese, Chinese or Korean documents. (Control Panel / Regional and Language Options).

  • To save DOCX and XPSX files (for Microsoft Office 2007 Word and Excel) or to load and save XPS files (XML Paper Specification), you should have or install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0. The link to the Microsoft download page can be found in the Release Notes, or in the application About box. Alternatively, click the OmniPage .Net Framework balloon tooltip. If you do not see these, enable them under Options/General.

Performance and speed will be enhanced if your computer's processor, memory, and available disk space exceed minimum requirements. This is especially true when converting very large color PDF files. OmniPage has been specifically engineered to take advantage of multi-core processors, quad-core support is introduced in OmniPage 17.

Recent Comments

By: Larry Liskovec Posted on 03-05-2010 4:11 PM

Great, but could you list what bells and whistles on the quad core would give the biggest rewards, ditto for the ram,  how much and what speed. Thanks