Cannot install scanner driver for Epson 1650 Perfection

I suggest you remove any drivers you have installed. Delete any printers you've created via Print & Fax preferences. Install the Epson printer drivers from your Snow Leopard DVD and be sure the scanner is connected and turned on before installing the drivers. SL should automatically install both your printer driver as well as the scanner driver for the 1650. I've done this numerous times and it works fine with my 1650 scanner.

As far as I know OmniPro doesn't work with OS X and hasn't for years. If you need to do OCR you need to look at other alternatives such as:

VueScan
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition
ReadIris

All the above are current and compatible. VueScan has the added feature of having both scanning and OCR in a single application that's inexpensive and requires no third-party drivers.

Omnipage was last updated in 2002 before the product was sold and subsequently abandoned. Were I you, which I once was, I'd look for another OCR product. I currently use VueScan although my OCR needs are very minimal. That was not the case when I used Omnipage at which time I was scanning nearly 800 pages of material. Unfortunately changes in OS X rendered Omnipage nearly impossible to use. Once it was sold and abandoned I moved on to other products such as ReadIris. I never liked it that much either, but need is often more important than liking.

And, yes, VueScan has done OCR for quite some time now.

I feel your pain. Fortunately, there aren't many alternatives to test.

I was not aware that Acrobat now did OCR. I have a much older version, 8.x, that I had no reason to upgrade, so I haven't kept up on new features.

OmniPage was great software. But without updating there were ongoing problems with installing a scanner, recognizing them if they were installed, and constant crashes and kernel panics. For me it became a deterrent to production.

It's unfortunate that the demand for OCR products for Macs hasn't been large enough to pull in better competitive products than are currently available. I think that was the reason OmniPage disappeared (of course its hefty price tag didn't help.)

VueScan is loaded with options such as convenient multi-page document scanning, rotations, etc. I've hardly scratched the surface of what it can do. But whether it's a capable replacement for OmniPage I couldn't say.

I hope you have luck with your search.

We have a couple of suggestions that may help. First, is your 2TB drive partitioned in Mac OS Extended or Mac OS Extended (Journaled)? If not, could you make that change? It is required for the scanner driver to work correctly. Second, is Rosetta installed? It is required for this driver, too. Please let me know if these suggestions help.
Here to help,
Syd

I have been able to use OmniPage X in Snow Leopard with only one problem. I think it is because I did not try to instal it. It came across with my auto transfer from earlier software/hard drives. It reads documents but does not scan because I haven't transferred over my old twain files. I understand that the OmniPage twain file may not work in Snow Leopard but there is a freeware twain driver which I haven't tried.

So if you are having problems installing OmniPage on your Intel Mac, try copying over the app, (OS9 style) from an older Mac which has an old OSX system on which OmniPage X successfully installed.

I use VueScan to scan pages from my scanner, save the multiple pages as a pdf, open OmniPage and get it to import the pdf file. Then I do steps 2, 3 and 4 manually (though you could do all steps automatically). The result is much better and incredibly accurate text - much better than in the olden days when I could scan directly into OmniPage. The only things occasionally misread are numbers, particularly fractions.

I am scanning two pages at a time and the VueScan OCR, though it otherwise does a quite accurate job, tends to blend the two pages together, so it is not useful for me. It would be far too slow to scan in each page separately.

It's a shame that Caere sold OmniPage to Scansoft. I remember getting regular messages about improved accuracy upgrades and I'd always buy them. Caere cared. Scansoft does not, even though OmniPage still is the best OCR software for the Mac.

If Scansoft is not interested in upgrading OmniPage for the Mac, maybe it should stop hogging it and sell it to someone who would be interested in looking after its users.

It sounds as though your hard drive is correctly formatted. We would like to work with you directly. Please contact our technical support group at our support site. Go to www.epson.com/support, select your product, click on Contact Support and click on email your question. Include your original question and the last response you posted for me here. This will help us to identify your email when we receive it.
Here to help,
Syd