PaperPort Deluxe 9

by Nuance Communications, Inc.

Product Features

• The easiest way to turn piles of paper and photos into organized digital files that you can quickly find, use and share
• Stores and organizes exact copies of your scanned documents and photos on the computer
• Capture local copies of web pages on PaperPort's desktop using the powerful WebCapture feature
• Helps you find any document or photo on your PC instantly via word or phrase search
• Quickly find all the paperwork needed to prepare you taxes - previous returns, receipts, mortgage information, stock transactions and more

Product Details

Product Manual [1.18mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008A6CG
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 13, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,189 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #10 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Document Tracking & Inventory
  • #63 in Software > Utilities > Backup

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

PaperPort Deluxe 9 is one of the easiest ways to turn piles of paper and photos into organized digital files that you can quickly find, use, and share. PaperPort Deluxe stores and organizes exact copies of your scanned documents and photos on the computer. Plus, PaperPort's native support for the standard PDF format brings you the power to scan, annotate and e-mail documents and photos in a format that ensures everyone can view and print them on any computer.

Capture local copies of Web pages on PaperPort's desktop using the WebCapture feature. This lets you save online receipts, directions, articles, and other important information from the Web. Also, you can turn your scanned images into editable Microsoft Word, Excel, or text files with a simple drag and drop to PaperPort's Send To bar.

The software virtually eliminates the need for retyping documents, as well. FormTyper automatically recognizes the fields on a scanned form. Simply tab and type in PaperPort to neatly fill all in the information. Print the filled-in form and PaperPort automatically saves an electronic copy for your records.

Product Description

Scansoft PaperPort Deluxe 9.0 . PaperPort Deluxe is the easiest way to turn piles of paper and photos into organized digital files that you can quickly find, use and share. Stop wasting time searching for paper documents. End the frustration of organizing, editing and sharing your digital photographs. PaperPort will make you organized saving you time and giving you the security of knowing that important documents and photos will never be lost. PaperPort is the easiest way to organize your home office, finances, school work, photos, hobbies, crafts and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

51 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Huge Disappointment, May 6, 2003

By 

SZ Columbus OH (Columbus, oh USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PaperPort Deluxe 9 (CD-ROM)

I purchased this product with great excitement, as I had been using Pagis Pro and was looking forward to converting all files to pdf format for easy file sharing. However this product is a huge disappointment. First, it is extremely slow to load, and even slower printing last night it took me 8 minutes to print a 10 page pdf. I opened the same file in Acrobat and it printed in 30 seconds. (BTW the printer I used was a new HP 3330 with the latest drivers!) It is one of the few programs that I have ever used that can lock up windows 2000, an amazing feat in and of itself. Then, for more added excitement many of the features dont work. They advertise a scan to email feature- great if you can get it to work, I never could and there is not support in manual or online for this feature. Then when printing to pdf the option to allow you to view your work after saving it- will not work -ever. What a pain to create a pdf doc then to have to navigate via explorere to open it and make sure you actually created it! Another huge annoyance is that you must use the My Documents directory on your c drive as the default to save your docs! You cannot change this!! Your only other option is to save to the last directory used. Well if you dont remember the last directory you used and you use the "send to bar" have fun on your scavenger hunt. In short its horribly slow, locks up, and many of the features flat out dont work and there is no support. I give up they win. What a shame. I think this product was rushed to market to beat the new Adobe Acrobat 6 to market. I plan to take this product back to Staple (hopefully they will let me) do get Adobe. This product is clearly a full iteration away from being useful. Wait for version 10. Hope this helps

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Program with Some Problems, June 2, 2003

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David A. Lessnau (USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: PaperPort Deluxe 9 (CD-ROM)

I've used PaperPort 7.0 for many years to store scanned images of my financial data. My biggest reason for upgrading from 7.0 to 9.0 was because PaperPort 9.0 can now save files as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. It can also convert existing PaperPort MAX files to PDF via the Save As function. So far, this is what I've found:

Irritations: First, PaperPort 9.0 insists on creating a folder in My Documents entitled "My PaperPort Documents." You can cosmetically rename it WITHIN PaperPort to anything you want. But, you can't actually change the name that Windows itself shows and you can't delete it (except via a Registry hack). You can delete everything out of the folder and use whatever other folders you want, but still, it's irritating that the folder exists. Another irritation is with the version numbering. I actually downloaded the upgrade from Scansoft's site. According to their site, with the latest Service Pack (SP-2), the latest version should be "9.0, SP-2 (9.0.0.503)." In my case, under Help -> About PaperPort, I show a version of "9.0 (9.1.0.497)." So, I'm not sure what I have (I'm missing the SP-2 designation, but I have a higher version number). PaperPort 9.0 does have a "Get Latest Updates" function under Help -> ScanSoft on the Web, and it says I'm fully up-to-date. So, I'm a tad confused.

Problems: The first glitch I ran into was when I was batch converting folders full of MAX files to PDF files. In a few cases, the new files didn't name correctly, so I had to copy the old names and paste them on the new documents. That problem seems to be related to the existence of periods in the document names. The next, and more serious, problem is that it doesn't handle multiple page printing of PDFs properly. I tried printing some stacks of PDFs to my Tektronix Phaser 740 Postscript color laser printer (on my network (not shared)). Stacks of 8 and 6 pages just timed out. A single page PDF prints fine. If I duplicate twice that properly-printing page and either stack and print those two pages or just print the two pages as one operation, the first page prints, but the second doesn't. Any time a page prints, it's followed by a printed Postscript "ERROR: ioerror, OFFENDING COMMAND: image" page. I'm assuming this is what's stopping multiple page PDFs from printing.

From within Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1, I can print the smaller PDFs fine (the 6 and 8 page ones still time out).

If I unstack objects and separately print each page in it's own operation, I can get everything printed (with a doubling of used pages since each page generates that error page). Also, if I re-convert the PDF back to a MAX file, it prints fine. For instance, I re-converted that non-printing 8 page PDF stack (about 3.9MB) to a MAX stack (about 4.5MB). It printed in about 13 minutes (which seems reasonable for that file size). So, it is possible to work around this problem.

Another problem was mentioned by j. zehala, here. PaperPort's ScanDirect program allows you to scan a document directly to other applications (no need to open up PaperPort). Though it offers the theoretical capability to scan directly to my copy of Outlook, the file it attaches to the email doesn't arrive with an extension and there doesn't seem to be any way to rename it. Thus, Windows won't open the attachment. The work-around I found was to scan the document into Paperport and then just drag it onto an email. The other problem j. zehala mentions (Print to PDF) I can't reproduce: with PaperPort set to default to PDFs, telling a program to print using one of PaperPort's print drivers puts the file right in the last folder used in PaperPort (which is where the program will open).

In general, I'm fairly satisfied with the program. Once I get the printing problem solved, I'll be very satisfied. But, whatever you do, make sure you either go to Scansoft's web site or do the "Get Latest Updates" from within the program itself. As of this writing, SP-2 is out and it's supposed to correct many problems.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Feature-rich and very useful, January 19, 2004

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Travel & Tech (Northern California) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: PaperPort Deluxe 9 (CD-ROM)

Paperport is not the first document management program I have used, but it is the best. Version 9 has a great feature of scanning to PDF, which I set as the default save file type (otherwise, it scans to Paperport's proprietary MAX format). Paperport allows you to significantly decrease your paper count, as documents that you may have held on to can now be scanned and discarded. You can create any number of folders to categorize the scanned documents.

Paperport has been extremely reliable and has not given any problems in working with my Epson scanner. I've noticed that many of the negative reviews outline problems in doing more complex tasks such as batch conversion of files. As my workload is much simpler, I haven't used these advanced features and haven't run into any problems. And Paperport definitely beats any other document management software out on the market.

The scanning workflow in Paperport is a little awkward for multi-page documents, and you are indeed limited to having "My Paperport documents" be the default folder for storing your files. This hasn't been too much of a problem for me yet, as long as I remember to back up that folder along with everything else. Overall, Paperport has uncluttered my office area quite a bit since I started using it.