ScanSoft PaperPort 11 [OLD VERSION]

by Nuance Communications, Inc.

Product Features

• Organize scanned copies of your documents on your PC: perfect for your home office, finances, school work, photos, hobbies, crafts and more
• Stop losing important documents under a desk or by getting damaged or accidentally thrown away; your digital documents will always be available
• Find any document or photo on your PC; just type in a word or phrase and PaperPort will bring up the right document
• Clean-up and share digital photos; you can even create PDF pages from your digital photos and add digital sticky notes
• Quickly find your financial paperwork when you need it--tax returns, receipts, financial statements, mortgage papers, insurance forms and more

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000FQVXFA
• Item model number: 6809A-G00-11.0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (81 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,753 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #2 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Scanning & OCR
  • #98 in Software > Graphics > Photo Editing

Product Description

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With PaperPort 11 scanned and electronic files can be easily viewed, accessed and arranged via large clear document and individual page thumbnails on the desktop. PaperPort enables you to quickly scan paper items such as receipts, registration forms, tax returns, pay stubs, mortgage records, warranties and more, so you can manage, archive and share them as PDF files. PaperPort makes it easy to view and enhance photos as JPEG or PDF files.

Sometimes scanned documents are skewed. Sometimes the contrast or color isn’t right. And sometimes the document you are scanning might be not very clean in the first place. With PaperPort 11, one press of a button delivers fully corrected results directly to the PaperPort Desktop. PaperPort’s four customizable Scanner Profiles will auto-straighten, autocrop, auto-rotate and auto-enhance your documents using the Scanner Enhancement Technology (SET).

PaperPort Professional 11 turns scanned documents into text files you can edit or copy and paste text into e-mails. If maintaining the document layout, colors and graphics is important to you then we have great news – ScanSoft OmniPage, the award winning document conversion program, integrates seamlessly with PaperPort for more accuracy, power and flexibility. View larger.

Millions of people use ScanSoft PaperPort to turn piles of paper into organized digital documents. At work and at home we are inundated with paperwork – receipts, bills, letters, tax information, memos, investment statements, contracts - you name it – the paperwork keeps piling up.

PaperPort simplifies things. It’s the best tool available to make your all-in-one device or scanner easier and more efficient to use. It enhances Microsoft Windows with large clear thumbnails of over 150 document and photo formats you can print, organize and share.

End the frustration of looking for paper or digital documents by searching for words inside your files with the exclusive All-in-One Search. Save time and have the security of knowing that important documents and photos will never be lost. PaperPort is perfect for your home or small office. Once you start using PaperPort you’ll wonder how you ever did without it.

Unlock the Information in Scanned Paper
PaperPort Professional 11 turns scanned documents into text files you can edit or copy and paste text into e-mails. If maintaining the document layout, colors and graphics is important to you then we have great news – ScanSoft OmniPage, the award winning document conversion program, integrates seamlessly with PaperPort for more accuracy, power and flexibility.

Stack and Unstack Documents
Want to combine two scanned documents into a single file? Simply click and drag one of the files and drop it on the other file. PaperPort will immediately create a single file — it's just like stacking and stapling paper in the real world. You can also add, delete or rearrange the pages within any PDF file.

Stop Filling Out Forms By Hand
PaperPort’s FormTyper lets you scan in paper forms, and then automatically identify the fields on your scanned form – allowing you to fill-in the form on your computer and simply tab from field to field. Once you fill-in all the fields, you can then print a perfect, completed form or send it as a PDF file through email.

Send To E-Mail, Fax or Print
Save time by sending email, faxing or printing your documents directly from the PaperPort Desktop with a simple drag-and-drop to the PaperPort SendTo Links. You can also go directly from your scanner or All-in-One to any SendTo Link using the PaperPort ScanDirect Utility.

Find Everything – Fast
PaperPort's All-in-One Search quickly finds all matching documents - from standard word processing, spreadsheet and presentation files, to scanned paper, PDF files and photos. PaperPort provides the security of knowing that important information will never be lost. The perfect complement to the PaperPort All-in-One Search is our intelligent search agent: PaperPort Watson. PaperPort Watson expands your search universe far beyond the All-in- One Search. It searches the Web, e-mails, news sites, blogs, shopping sites, and works with other desktop search applications like MSN, Google, and X1. PaperPort Watson is special because it finds relevant information and automatically brings it to you in a flexible sidebar that docks to your PaperPort desktop. It’s a revolutionary way to intelligently find what you are looking for no matter where or what it is!

Top 10 Reasons to Buy ScanSoft PaperPort:

1. Improve Microsoft Windows
   PaperPort stores and organizes copies of your scanned documents and photos on your PC. Perfect for your home office, finances, school work, photos, hobbies, crafts and more!
2. Stop Losing Important Documents
   Once a paper document is filed electronically in PaperPort, it will never be lost under a desk, damaged, or accidentally thrown away. Your digital documents will always be available and are easy to back-up digitally.
3. Find Information Fast
   PaperPort helps you find any document or photo on your PC. Just type in a word or phrase and PaperPort will bring up the right document. PaperPort Watson expands your search to Websites, email and blogs.
4. Clean-up and Share Digital Photos
   PaperPort has the right set of tools to make your digital photos look great. You can create PDF pages from your digital photos and add digital sticky notes to help tell the story behind the photos.
5. Keep Financial Documents Orderly
   Quickly find your financial paperwork when you need it – tax returns, receipts, financial statements, mortgage papers, insurance forms and more. PaperPort makes it easy to collect documents to load into financial software or send them to your accountant, lawyer or bank.
6. Email Documents Easily
   Native support for the standard PDF format brings you the power to scan, annotate and email documents and photos in a format that ensures everyone can view and print them on any computer.
7. Save Money by Printing Less
   PaperPort can "print" web pages into PDF files. Great for saving online receipts, articles and other Web pages that you normally print for safe keeping.
8. Easily Convert Paper Documents into Digital Documents You Can Edit
   Turn your scanned images into editable text through popular word processing or spreadsheet software using PaperPort OCR.
9. Fill Out Forms Quickly, Neatly
   FormTyper converts scanned paper into electronic forms you can fill out on the computer.
10. Simplify Your PC With Less Software
    With PaperPort you can use one program to manage your files, control your scanner and take files off of your digital camera.

Product Description

ScanSoft PaperPort® 11 is the easiest way to turn piles of paper and photos into organized PDF and JPEG files that you can quickly find, use and share. PaperPort produces excellent scans with the push of a button. Your documents are displayed as small thumbnails on a unique visual desktop for fast browsing. The exclusive All-in-One Search™ ends the frustration of looking for paper or digital documents by searching for words inside your files. Save time and have the security of knowing that important documents and photos will never be lost. PaperPort is perfect for your home or small office.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

113 of 119 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a scam in the making...., August 31, 2006

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fm97.1 "jurassic park" (SF, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ScanSoft PaperPort 11 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

First, let me be specific, I am reviewing Paperport 11, not Paperport Pro. Why do I think Paperport 11 is a scam? Because it's like a demo version of Paperport Pro (which is the full product). The use of this non-pro version is super limited.

Problems:
1) I can't create a new scanner profiles (I am limited to the 4 they supplied initially) for scanning.
2) They claim to support most scanners, but unless yours is a popular scanner, it's treated just as a generic plain paperport scanner. Nothing special.
3) I bought the product hoping it can create searchable PDF files so I can use my desktop search engine (like google desktop) to search my scanned documents. No such thing! To do it, you have to: a) buy Paperport 11 Pro, b) buy OmniPage (I presume). Which totals more than 300 bucks!!!
4) Very very limited customer support. You have ONE free technical support call (which I used up during installation because the installer crashed my system). After that, it's 20 bucks per phone call. There is no free email support. The first and every message you send them will cost 10 bucks each. What a scam: crash the user's computer upon installation, force them to call you so they burn up their "free" support. After that, any questions you have will cost you $$$!

I so want to return this product, but I already mailed in the UPC code for the rebate so I cannot return the product anymore. Another trap!!! Unbelievable!!!

Final words: STAY AWAY!!! I will never buy anything from Nuance, EVER!

48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Apparently An Exception, January 1, 2007

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Christian Girard "SuSEKing" (I am a citizen of the world taking refuge in the USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ScanSoft PaperPort 11 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

My experience is atypical of the majority so I am unsure the value that my review will add, but here goes:

I purchased a Brother MFC-5840CN printer because it is network capable ... an absolute requirement for my home network that has linux, Mac OX, and Windows boxes. The software cd included PaperPort 9.0, which I had not used. I tried it and immediately liked it. I used the software to scan my receipts, manuals, and other documentation. I liked how your could easily drag the scanned images/documents into customized folders and that you would have a pdf of the document. The software allowed double-sided scanning, you simply flipped the stack of papers when the one side was done, which was a real bonus.

What I did not like about Version 9.0 was that you could not change the document's name when it was scanned and saved to the desktop. I also had to sometimes tweak the scanner settings to get a good scan of a color or lightly printed document.

I decided to upgrade to PaperPort 11, because I found a special for $39. Version 11 was a big improvement for me. The software increased the scan speed, improved the automatic scanning settings, and allows me to add comments, keywords, and the document name when the scan is finished. There is also an automatic straightening option for when the paper becomes skewed in the ADF.

Overall, I have been tremendously pleased with the Software. The only reason that I gave it a four star instead of a five is because I learned from the reviews here that you are only allowed one free email for technical support. That is simply not right. If you purchase the software, then you should be provided with free tech support.

51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Paperport 11: Still the slowest application I have found..., August 9, 2006

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James Zachary "dr_zzzzz" (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ScanSoft PaperPort 11 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I have used Paperport for the past 3 or 4 versions. Paperport 11 is improved but still the slowest application on my hard drive.

In particular displaying thumbnails of files in a folder seems to take from a minute to several minutes to accomplish.

Also scanning with my Epson 3170 scanner appears to be problematic; whenever I hit the scan button and do not wait until the scanner's light stops flashing, I will get an error. I then cancel out the scanning dialog and start over. Usually I will be granted a scan.

Overall, I like the program to help organize all my important documents, but I do not like the fact that almost every operation is slow.

By the way my computer should not be the problem; I'm running a new AMD 64 x 2 4400+ processor with 2 GB of RAM. Every other program I have is zippy except for Paperport 11.