Paperport Pro 9.0 Office CANADA95/98/NT/WME/W2K

by Nuance Communications, Inc.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 8 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008A6CJ
• Item model number: F309A-G89-9.0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 3, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,955 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #82 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Scanning & OCR

Product Description

95/98/NT/WME/W2K

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PaperPort Pro Office Version 9 works great!, June 6, 2003

By 

Anthony Alphiso (La Jolla, CA) - See all my reviews

I am really impressed with the new PaperPort Pro Office. I read the PC Magazine review (5-of-5 Stars) which was very favorable, but I didn't expect to be this pleased. I get PDF creation, scan to PDF, document management and photo-thumbnails all in one application. It does something I haven't seen anywhere else - it lets me stack and unstack my digital documents as if they were paper! This is really useful for anyone who is trying to combine Word pages with Excel or PowerPoint pages. Simply convert each into PDF, then order the pages.

The program adds document management to my current folders. I just Added Folders to the file tree view, and there it was. It includes an OCR engine for indexing scanned paper, faxes, etc. so I can find paper, PDF, photos and digital documents in one search (something I can't do with Windows Explorer). It lets me add meta data to my digital photo's, and searches on that.

It is really a bargain ... especially when you add up what it would cost to get Acrobat, a document management app, and photo-thumbnails. I am using it on Windows XP and it works great.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A proven workhorse of a product, June 21, 2003

By 

Stuart Todd Mollerup (Glen Ellyn, IL USA) - See all my reviews

I have been using PaperPort for over four years. It is an outstanding product that everyone should own. I have loaded thousands of documents onto my computer, emptying an entire filing cabinet. I have also eliminated the filing of incoming bills, invoices, and other things that come in the mail. Now I never have to ask myself, "should I keep this?". I just scan it and toss it in the trash. For critical documents, I scan and then toss them in a rubber container that I save as a backup. Nothing collects around my home or office.

Windows "My Documents" Integration

I have integrated PaperPort with Windows XP's "My Documents" allowing me to view and manage all of my documents, photos, PDFs, and scaned document through a single file structure manageable through PaperPort. There is no better gain in productivity than having your whole work life in a single structure accessible through a single powerful tool. PaperPort will turn your images, scans, and saved Office documents into thumbnails, so you can find what you're looking for visually, and it will OCR them into its search engine, so you can search for that important document by a keyword. Additionally, anything you can print, you can send directly to PaperPort using PaperPort's faux print driver.

Productivity Gainer

All document formats (Scans, PDFs, Excel, Word, etc) come together through a single view of multiple thumbnail images. Click on a folder in the folder structure on the left, and all of the documents appear as small images on the right. "Color code" your folders (i.e. directories) so you can find what you need visually. Want to send someone a scanned document in another format, such as TIF? Just right click on the document and export it to the TIF format or any supported format you would like. Want to find all scanned and saved documents that contain "BMW"? Just type it in to the search feature and your whole auto history appears.

Digital Photography

I also use PaperPort with my Canon digital camera. I use it to manage my photos and to turn them into websites, complete with thumbnails and descriptions. Through the automatic website creation feature, family and friends are able to see my selected photos. They visit my PaperPort created website, click on the thumbnails, and see a larger image. I also take digital photos of "whiteboard" diagrams at work and keep them in PaperPort.

Conclusion

There are few programs that have done so much to move people from the paper world to a document management world. Don't hire an organization expert or get a bigger office, just buy PaperPort and a fast scanner (USB 2.0 or SCSI) with an automatic document feeder (ADF) or buy something like the HP1220 document feed scanner/laser printer combo, and move your life to PaperPort.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better in every way, December 31, 2003

By A Customer

I am a long time user of PaperPort, and I think this verison is by far the best. By basing the entire product on the PDF file format, PaperPort is now one of the most useful products on my machine. The speed and stability issues mentioned in reviews above have all been ironed out in 3 service packs released over the last several months, and the last pack seems to fix all the major issues. Why is this version so godd?

- I can create PDF files from any type of document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and combine them right on the PaperPort desktop by right-clicking and stacking.

- I can scan paper documents into PDF, add electronic annotations and then email them to lawyers, accountants, mortgage brokers and all the other people who ask me to fax them things. It is so much faster and reliable to email instead, and with PDF files, I know they can open it on their computer and see it just as I did.

- The new "batch processing" feature lets me clean-up multiple scanned documents at one time and also apply a clean-up operation to all the pages of a single document. This is way better than it was in v8.

These are just a few of the reasons why the new verison is great. As further proof of this, PC Magazine named PaperPort one of the top 100 technologies for 2003 (one of only 6 productivity software titles along with Microsoft Office 2003 and QuickBooks.) Smart Computing put PaperPort on its top 50 list, and there are numerous other great reviews out there as well.

Don't let the few angry people here give you the wrong idea about PaperPort 9. It's great.