Deceptive. They call it X and make it appear that you'd actually want to run this thing in this decade, but you have to run it in CLASSIC which isn't even available anymore on Mac? Please, either upgrade this app for Leopard 10.5.x or just quit trying to rip off Apple users and mothball this thing entirely.

What are they talking about? It works like a charm.

Horrible, horrible program.

It didn't find my scanner (canoscan lide 50). It had no way of trying to find my scanner.

There has been no update for this product for a long, long time.

As an alternative to installing from OS 9, you can install as root and then meticulously and painfully change ownership and permissions. Works but is a pain in the a** - at least if installed at the volume/applications level. I didn't try to install at the user/applications level.

Until this product is finally updated completely to use OS X, not relying on Classic versions of plug-ins, it is really incomplete and the manufacturer seems to make no noises about making a true OS X version. Many of us don't even have OS 9 installed and don't want to do it just to use OCR software. This was once the Cadillac of OCR products on the Mac, now it seems more like an Edsel.

This product should now be avoided like the plague.

Omnipage used to be state of the art. But the Mac version, having changed hands several times, has been left in limbo, and has not been updated for nearly 10 years. It runs under OSX X Leopard, even on an Intel Mac. But you can't use the scanning function which requires Classic (not available on an Intel Mac). And if you have a new scanner it's probably not in the scanner list.

Also, if you are upgrading there's another gotcha. It may not open your old files. To get round this, make sure your files have .opd as the file extension. Then open then in a hex editor and examine the resource fork. In all probability there isn't one. And that's why Omnipage won't open them. Create a new Omnipage file (import a single image - even a photograph) and save it. Open in the hex editor. Switch to the resource fork. Copy resource fork and then switch to the problem file. Paste into the resource fork and save. The file should now open (from the menu, not by double-clicking). You can then export the scanned images and use a more modern OCR package. I use, very successfully, ReadIris. Buy that instead.

If you MUST buy Omnipage have a hunt. I found a site (which I now can't find, of course) of a company that had taken it over and was selling at under £100 (~$150).