Customer Reviews

Pagis Pro Millenium

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I bought Pagis because of its full range of functions (copier, fax, storage, search engine) and its file mgt system, with easy access thru Windows Explorer-type folders. Unfortunately, I've had nothing but trouble getting it to work as advertised. Incessant crashes, cumbersome scanner interface, patches that don't work, I wish I had $1 for every time I had to un- and re-install this program. The indexing function is a time-consuming nightmare which crashed on (rather than simply bypassing)any file deemed "corrupted." This aborted a 2-3 hour indexing session and required me to start all over only to have it choke again. The OCR for indexing is buggy, and I was able to show tech support verified examples of the search engine completely missing strings that were readily visible in the indexed document. I grew tired of the "re-install and re-index" routine and chalked it up to experience. Pagis was a monumental waste of my money and the many hours I spent trying to get it to work.

I used Pagis Pro 3 (part of PP Millenium)for several months. It was very slow and crashed from time to time. I did like it's features, though. I was able to customize scans and got good copies. Textbridge worked OK with b & w typed material but made lots of errors with color magazine articles and took ages to correct.

Since upgrading to IE5.5 I haven't gotten Pagis to work. Scansoft's patch and technical support haven't solved the problem either.

Overall, a good program (when it works), but buggy.

Go out for dinner with the money you'd have spent on this program! I haven't had so much trouble with software since the Norton System Works nightmare! Not only is this program slow to operate, it tends to stop other thing from operating...like my scanner. And that's the device that this software is supposed to enhance. Not in this lifetime! I spent many hours trying different combinations of scanner drivers and updated drivers from Mustek all to no avail. Nothing I tried would allow all of my scanner fuctions to operate. When I could scan photos, the Text Bridge program in Pagis wouldn't work. When I got the Text Bridge program to function, the photo editing portion of the scanner software wouldn't work. Then, when I tried to scan a picture directly into an editing program, things locked up and my only out was to do "control - alt - delete" to open task manager and "end task" that way so I could get out of the locked program.

I'm not going to take up a lot of your time or mine here. In short, find another way to do what Pagis Pro says it will do and won't. Fortunately, I bought this at Costco so it's returnable. Guess where I'm going tomorrow!

I have had Pagis and its upgrades for a number of years. After many problems such as described in the other negative reviews, I was reduced to mostly using it to scan text to file or as a copying function. I do prefer its copying function to that which comes with my scanner. I upgraded to XP and Pagis text scanning and copy function continued to work well until I bought a new scanner. When I experienced problems with my new scanner, I paid 9.75 to Scan Soft for email technical support and apparnetly I paid that to be told that Pagis is not compatible with XP. Evidently they have no intention of upgradng or solving this problem. I'm through with Scan Soft products!

Don't expect much from scansoft in either updates or customer concern. I would've paid for a new XP compatible upgrade. However Scansoft showed me no concern or regard for us ... who bought the original pagis and then the upgrade. I will do without an "easy" document handling solution before I will deal again with Scansoft Inc.

What a great program!! I read the reviews of some other customers and did not want to buy the software. I got it at a special price, however, and decided to go for it. I was holding my breath - expecting the worst. But what a joy!! From the moment "go" everything just worked perfectly. The installation was a easy as 1-2-3. I did not have to configure my scanner or change any settings. I opened the program the first time and scanned a document from a magazine. Then I sent the document through the OCR to Word 2000, with great results.

Make sure your computer and scanner are "up-to-date" and I am sure there will be no problems. If you don't have the sofware yet, rush to the shop before they sell it all. Feel free to e-mail me for more information: labmau@intnet.mu

I've owned Pagis Pro Millenium for the past three years and found its ability to perform key word searches on saved Word documents invaluable. I maintained a folder with over 3,000 resumes in it and using this program, I was able to do key word searches to locate potential candidates for our clients. It would then rank the resumes by the number of hits. Thanks to Pagis Pro, we did not have to trouble our candidates with forms that attempted to key word their attributes. I was using both Windows 98 and Windows 2000 with HP Scanners and never had the problems that the other reviews profess.

I have used this product for 3 years now. It worked well on Win NT and on Win 98SE. I upgraded to Win XP and it still works fine. It is functionally rich and I couldn't live without the form filling component. Don't expect much support from ScanSoft. They appear to have dropped this product from their roadmap and are now concentrating on others.

I have been using Pagis Pro for over 5 years and find it to be user friendly for it's sophistication. At work I use the form filler portion for all forms that we do here at work. My hand writing is atrocious and typing in the blanks makes my forms neat and presentable. I scan all recipts and documents therefore saving file space in a small office.
I run Windows XP Professional additional with no problems what so ever with Pagis. I doubt there is a better progrsm out there to do what Pagis does so easilyl

Initially it works well with XP until about the 3rd consecutive scan. After that is jams the scan cue and eventually will hang.
My advice is to save your money if you have XP. Get a Hewlett Packard printer, which has a decent driver and an excellent user interface to merge files together into a single document. Then drag the files it into Adobe Acrobat. I have a lexmark X125, which has a very poorly designed user interface with very few options for scanning.