I’d recommend this software to anyone.
This software is extremely easy to use. It has a wizard type interface. This interface will quickly carry you through all the installing steps. Whether you want to scan directly, or you wish to open previously scanned file, you can open a new MS Word file. The outputs it works with are MS Word and MS Excel. The inputs are all the scanned image formats like jpeg, gif and others.
Also, be aware of the fact that if you scan a low resolution text (at 30 dots per inch) or smaller, you can not covert the text because there aren’t enough scanned details for the character converter. But if you scan a 10 point text at 100 dots per inch, you will get great results because the software will do an amazing job. I tend to scan at 300 dpi or 600 dpi and this ensures an excellent scan.
Besides this, this software works fast and there are no complaints about that. You can scan and convert a whole book in a matter of hours. I can’t imagine anyone complaining about the speed. I’d have no hesitation at scanning and converting an entire book. In order to facilitate the work, you can scan multiple pages once and convert them into a single multi-page file. An excellent feature of this program is the fact that it highlights with red the text that the software is not sure about. If you do a 300 dpi scan of a 10 point text, you will find little if no typos at all. This means the software is highly reliable.
I have used this software to scan old books with many drawings and funny text formats. It has performed excellently. The program even keeps the position of the photos on the page or table columns etc.