The short answer: Tungsten Automation, formerly Kofax, sells OmniPage Ultimate for $499 and OmniPage Standard for $149 in its US store. Both are one time desktop licenses for one Windows PC, and individual licenses bought there come with a 30 day money back guarantee. OmniPage Server and the OmniPage Capture SDK, the editions for high volume and developers, have no public price and are sold after an evaluation request.
That makes OmniPage one of the few OCR products that still prints a price and sells it outright. The two numbers hide a real difference in what you get, though, and the per PC model changes the math quickly once more than one person needs it. Below is what each edition costs, what Standard leaves out, what a team really pays, and when a different kind of tool is the cheaper buy.
How much does OmniPage Ultimate cost?
OmniPage Ultimate costs $499 per Windows PC as a one time license on the Tungsten Automation store, with prices shown in US dollars before local tax. These are the editions on the store and product pages when we checked them.
| Edition | Price | License | Who it is for |
|---|---|---|---|
| OmniPage Standard 18.0 | $149 | One time, 1 Windows PC | Occasional conversion, scanning to one PC |
| OmniPage Ultimate 19.2 | $499 | One time, 1 Windows PC, free trial | Offices converting every week, batch jobs |
| OmniPage Server | Quote | Evaluation request | High volume conversion with an API |
| OmniPage Capture SDK | Quote | Evaluation request | Developers building OCR into an application |
Two details on the product pages are worth knowing before you pay. The Ultimate trial is offered to offices scanning under 1,000 pages a week, and Tungsten points anyone above that to Server or the SDK. And OmniPage is Windows only: the specification says in plain words that it is not Mac compatible. The Ultimate 19.2 spec sheet still lists Windows XP SP3, Internet Explorer 8 and a DVD drive next to Windows 10 and 11, so this is a mature product rather than a recent rewrite.
What is the difference between OmniPage Standard and Ultimate?
Standard converts scans and PDFs to Office formats, Excel included, with built in workflows. Ultimate adds automation and accuracy features for offices that convert in volume. Tungsten's own Standard vs. Ultimate comparison sheet lists these differences among others:
| Feature | Standard ($149) | Ultimate ($499) |
|---|---|---|
| Output to XLS, XLSX, DOCX, PPTX, RTF | Yes | Yes |
| Batch processing from watched folders and email attachments | No | Yes |
| Scheduled batch jobs | No | Yes |
| Improved table conversion and layout learning | Yes | Yes |
| Form data export to CSV | Export only | Export and form processing |
| Receive scans from network copiers via scan to folder | No | Yes |
| PDF security (digital signatures, passwords, 256-bit encryption) | No | Yes |
| Legal, medical and financial dictionaries | No | Yes |
| Free trial | No | Yes |
| Windows 11 listed | No, Windows 10 and older | Yes |
One detail surprises people: improved table conversion is in both editions, so Standard at $149 produces the same kind of Excel file from a single document. What the extra $350 buys is unattended volume: watched folders, email intake, schedules and network copier scans. If one person converts files by hand, Standard covers the Excel part. If scans pour in from a copier all day, Ultimate is the edition built for it.
Is OmniPage a one-time purchase?
Yes. The desktop editions are perpetual licenses: you pay once and keep the version you bought on that PC. There is no monthly fee for OmniPage Standard or Ultimate. Resellers also list one year maintenance renewal products for OmniPage, so if you want support and updates beyond the version you bought, ask the reseller for that price before you commit, because the store page does not show it.
What OmniPage costs for a team
Because each license covers one PC, the total grows with every desk that needs it. Here is the year one cost at store prices, next to our own plans for the same team sizes. Our plans are billed yearly and include seats rather than machines.
| People who convert | OmniPage Standard | OmniPage Ultimate | PDFXLSX, billed yearly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $149 | $499 | $288 (Starter, 50 files a month) |
| 3 | $447 | $1,497 | $588 (Plus, 5 seats, 500 files a month) |
| 5 | $745 | $2,495 | $588 (Plus, 5 seats, 500 files a month) |
| 10 | $1,490 | $4,990 | $1,188 (Pro, unlimited seats, API) |
Read the table honestly. For one person on Windows, OmniPage Standard at $149 is the cheapest option here, and Ultimate at $499 overtakes a yearly Starter plan before the end of year two. Desktop licenses also keep working without a renewal. The order flips with headcount: at five people, Ultimate costs four times as much in year one, and every new hire or replaced laptop means another install.
Is there a cheaper alternative to OmniPage?
It depends on what you are buying OmniPage to do. As a desktop OCR suite, the closest rivals are Readiris and ABBYY FineReader. Readiris PDF 27 costs $79 or $149 once and runs on Windows and Mac (see our Readiris pricing breakdown). FineReader PDF is sold as a subscription, covered in the ABBYY FineReader pricing guide. Tungsten's own Power PDF is a PDF editor rather than an OCR tool; the Kofax Power PDF vs Adobe Acrobat comparison covers that one.
If the real job is getting scanned bank statements, invoices and reports into Excel as tables you can total, a desktop OCR suite is more product than you need. That work is what our OmniPage alternative for scanned PDF to Excel page compares in detail: a browser converter that detects each table, joins it across page breaks and writes amounts as numbers, for a team on any mix of Windows and Mac.
When OmniPage is the right buy
Buy OmniPage if most of these are true for you:
- You work on Windows and want files processed on your own PC, offline.
- You scan from a desktop scanner or a network copier and want OCR to start the moment pages land in a folder.
- Your output is mostly Word documents and searchable PDFs, with Excel as an occasional extra.
- You read documents in many languages; Ultimate recognizes over 120.
- One or two people do the converting, so the per PC license stays small.
For a records room or a legal office scanning paper into searchable archives, that is a strong product at a fair one time price, and nothing in this article argues otherwise.
When a table converter is enough
The picture changes when the output that matters is a spreadsheet. OCR suites are built to rebuild the page: columns, fonts, headers and footers, so the file looks like the paper. A bookkeeper reconciling a scanned statement needs the opposite, one header row, one transaction per row and amounts Excel can add up without Text to Columns. Our OCR to Excel converter does only that job, and the scanned PDF to Excel guide covers scan quality before you convert.
The same logic applies to other specialist documents. If the scans on your desk are commercial leases and what you need is rent schedules, renewal dates and escalation clauses rather than a searchable copy, lease abstraction software pulls those terms out directly, and a general OCR suite only gets you halfway there.
The fastest way to decide is a test on your own files. Take five scans you convert every month, export them to Excel with the OmniPage Ultimate trial, convert the same five with the box at the top of this page, and put a SUM under the amount column in each workbook. Count the minutes of cleanup, multiply by your monthly volume, and compare that with the license and plan prices above. Plans start at $49 a month, and the pricing page lists file limits and seats for each.