Two things have driven the uptake of technology in printing; speed and quality. We not only need the best results for our project, we often don't have the luxury of long periods of planning or execution.

So what does OmniPage Pro 16 do that's worth shelling out as much as it costs for a low-spec PC? Publisher Nuance claims it's 46 percent faster than the previous version, and we clocked a full A4 page of text at around 20 seconds. If you convert so many documents with OCR that you can't afford to wait even that long you're better off paying an expensive software developer to build a proprietary system for you.

Like many of the best Mac tools, Billings looks easy but has a considerable amount of power and detail behind it. Every step of adding clients, adding jobs to clients, adding tasks to jobs and then tracking them can be done with a single click and a bit of text.