OmniPage Pro frees users from the necessity of retyping printed documents, such as memos, reports, contracts, correspondence, and résumés, so they can be used in computers. It converts printed documents and computer faxes into editable electronic text for use in word processing and other text-based applications. OmniPage Pro"s secret? Optical character recognition (OCR), which allows the computer to translate character images into editable text using special software. OCR is used by office workers, lawyers, insurance folks, graphic designers, governmental staffs, journalists, and anybody who wants to take a printed document and put some or all of it into their computer in editable form without having to do the retyping themselves.