ScanSoft PaperPort 11 Professional [OLD VERSION]

by Nuance Communications, Inc.

Product Features

• Manage enhance, blend, share, and print over 150 document types and popular photo formats
• Quickly find your financial paperwork when you need it ¿ tax returns, receipts, financial statements, mortgage papers, insurance forms and more
• Use the new PaperPort Watson Intelligent Search Agent to research and find web pages, emails, scanned and digital documents
• Produce perfectly scanned PDF documents with one click to be shared with clients and colleagues; it's as fast as faxing but much more efficient
• Use revolutionary PDF compression to create super-small color PDF files

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FQVXG4
• Item model number: F309A-G00-11.0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,357 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #24 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Scanning & OCR

Product Description

Amazon.com

PaperPort Professional 11 is designed to make your scanners, All-In-Ones and multifunction devices easier to use and more productive. Auto-straighten, auto-crop, auto-rotate, and auto-enhance are just few of the improvements that happen at the push of a button. PaperPort Professional uses unlimited Scanner Profiles with Scanner Enhancement Technology (SET) to achieve excellent results on most any kind of document.

No other product lets you work so easily with PDF documents – create PDF files from any application; scan to PDF; search PDF; annotate and highlight PDF; merge PDF files; secure PDF and more. PaperPort Professional comes with ScanSoft PDF Create! - an Adobe Acrobat compatible PDF creation utility. In addition, PaperPort features PDF-MRC High Compression technology that allows you to scan color documents that are up to 8 times smaller than regularly scanned color PDF documents.

The revolutionary split desktop lets you work across two folders at once. View larger.

Millions of people – including office workers, lawyers, doctors, insurance and real estate agents – rely on ScanSoft PaperPort Professional to save time and money by transforming paper documents into searchable digital documents. It’s the one program that enables Microsoft Windows to visually manage paper and PDF plus over 150 document and photo formats. The unique document desktop allows you to view, browse and assemble documents with drag-and-drop drop ease. PaperPort Professional combines the efficiency of document management, the convenience of superbly scanned documents and the power of creating PDF files, to bring a new level of operational proficiency to your organization. It’s the most productive way for everyone in your office to scan, organize, find, merge, repurpose, print, share and email anything.

The Most Accurate PaperPort Ever
PaperPort Professional 11 lets you unlock information stored in paper documents. Turn scanned paper documents into text files that can be edited, copy and pasted into email, or scanned directly into new word processing or spreadsheet files. The PaperPort OCR feature indexes all your scanned documents with unsurpassed accuracy, ensuring high quality search results. And If maintaining the document layout, colors and graphics is important to you, then here’s more great news – PaperPort integrates seamlessly with ScanSoft OmniPage, the award-winning document conversion program.

Easier Document Assembly, Stacking, and Unstacking
PaperPort features a unique split desktop design that also displays individual page thumbnails alongside document thumbnails for superior document assembly. Drag and drop entire documents within another document or selectively copy and paste individual pages from one PDF document to another. Quickly assemble custom PDF documents with automatic conversion to PDF when combining scans and photos with word processing, spreadsheet and presentation files.

Auto-straighten, auto-crop, auto-rotate, and auto-enhance are just few of the improvements that happen at the push of a button. PaperPort Professional uses unlimited Scanner Profiles with Scanner Enhancement Technology (SET) to achieve excellent results on most any kind of document. View larger.

More Intelligent Searches
The PaperPort All-in-One Search allows you to find any kind of document on your computer including scanned paper, PDF, photos, word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphic files using keywords or search phrases. Plus, this release introduces PaperPort Watson, which searches the Web, e-mails, news sites, blogs, shopping sites, and also works with other desktop search applications like MSN, Google, and X1. It’s perfect for doing research and collecting relevant search results into a PaperPort folder to organize and combine.

Top 10 Reasons to Buy ScanSoft PaperPort Professional:

1. Get More Organized
   PaperPort goes far beyond basic scanning and helps you get more organized by managing, enhancing, blending, sharing, and printing over 150 document types and popular photo formats.
2. Faster Access to Important Documents
   Once a paper document is scanned and filed in PaperPort it will never be lost. Digital documents are always there waiting for you and unlike paper files, can be used by several people at the same time.
3. Gather Information Quickly
   Use the new PaperPort Watson Intelligent Search Agent to research and find web pages, e-mails, scanned and digital documents that can be moved into a single folder to be combined or edited as you like.
4. Communicate Clearly
   PaperPort produces perfectly scanned PDF documents with one click to be shared with clients and colleagues. It’s as fast as faxing but much more efficient. Enhance collaboration with electronic sticky notes.
5. Revolutionary PDF Compression
   Scan, share and print in color like never before. PaperPort produces super small scanned color PDF files with PDFMRC High Compression technology.
6. Assemble PDF Documents Quickly
   Create a single, compact and universal PDF document from multiple word-processing or spreadsheet files and paper documents using simple drag-and-drop.
7. Save Space and Money
   Reduce expenses involved with filing, copying, finding and storing paper documents. Eliminate the storage of old archived paper documents.
8. Quickly Convert Paper Documents into Digital Documents You Can Edit
   Turn your scanned images into editable Word, Excel or text files with a simple drag-and-drop to the PaperPort SendTo bar using PaperPort OCR.
9. Fill Out Forms Quickly, Neatly
   Convert scanned paper forms into electronic forms you can fill out on the computer.
10. Easily Route Documents
    Send or receive documents from multi-function devices, to other PaperPort Desktops or to centralized document management systems using Microsoft Sharepoint, FTP, Web Folder, and ODMA.

Product Description

ScanSoft PaperPort® Professional 11 is the most productive way for everyone in your office to scan, organize, find and share photos, paper and electronic documents. PaperPort Professional combines the efficiency of document management, the convenience of perfectly scanned documents and the power of creating PDF files, to bring a new level of operational proficiency to your organization. The visual document desktop allows you to browse and assemble documents with drag & drop ease. Millions of people – including office workers, lawyers, insurance and real estate agents, doctors and business professionals – rely on PaperPort to eliminate paper and streamline the way they work.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

99 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Upgrade, Costly tech support, July 9, 2006

By 

Kermit the Frog (Southeast US) - See all my reviews

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

I have been using Paperport for years. Each upgrade has added nice new features but also bugs. But the bugs were minor and I could live with them.

Recently I received several ads in the mail and an email from Nuance to upgrade from v10 to 11. Ad sounded great and the price $99 was reasonable. So I figured "what the heck." Clicked on the email link to upgrade and takes me to a non-existing website. Typed in the website link from the mail ad, again, no website. Probably should have clued me in, but I went against my best judgement and called Nuance to buy the download.

Installed the product. Registration didn't work smoothly but wasn't a big deal. Then I tried to scan a document. I checked the "Capture Assistant" box and clicked scan. Scanner does its thing then at the end of the first page, I get the famous Windows XP error box to report error to Microsoft. So I rebooted and tried again, without the Capture Assistant. Scanned my document OK this time. Sounds good, right?

Wrong. I have an automatic document feeder (ADF) which allows me to scan both sides of a document (at least in previous versions of Paperort). Wtih v11, I can only scan both sides automatically if I use Capture Assitant. Except whenever I use it, it crashes. Now I cannot take advantage of my ADF and have to scan 2-sided docuements page by page manually! That would be fine for a couple of pages but a nightmare for a 10-page (20-sides) docuemnt. So I should contact customer support for help, right?

Wrong again. You have to PAY for support. That would be fine it I'm don't know how to use the product and need a little guidance. But I SHOULD NOT have to pay to report software crashes. And what if I pay for help and they can't help me? Do I get my money back?

I sincerely hope an update soon will fix my problem. But I doubt it will happen since very few people will pay to let Nuance know about these issues. And if they don't know about the bugs, they are unlikely going to fix them. Soon I will likely attempt to take advantage of my "30-day money back guarantee". Probably have to pay a fee for that too!

52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unfortunately, No Alternative, August 10, 2006

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William W. Smith (Bridgewater, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ScanSoft PaperPort 11 Professional [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

If you want to manage both scanned and electronic documents, there is really no alternative to PaperPort. And that's too bad, because this flawed product just goes on and on with little or no improvement.

What flaws? The major one is that the program has two completely separate modes of operation, organize or view. The thumbnails are too small to read, so you can't label the document until you switch to the view mode to see what it is. Then, you have to go back to organize mode in order to apply the label, key words, what have you.

The next flaw is really a bug, but one that PaperPort perpetuates release after release. normally, you would want to sort your view of thumbnails by date, with the most recent ones on top. PaperPort pretends it can sort this way, but in fact when it indexes, it destroys the file dates of every file, rendering sort-by-date useless.

And this is emblematic of the company's attitude, which seems to be "too bad." As others have stated here, support is horrible and actually worse than no support at all. It is outsourced to India or the Philippines or somewhere, and those people know less about the product than you or I do. And you pay for it.

But getting back to my title, there really is no alternative. PaperPort is a perfect example of what happens when market forces are not at work. No one else competes in this space, so Nuance (I love that name) has no reason to improve it, other than to bring out meaningless expensive upgrades on some kind of schedule.

So if you have to organize your documents, this is all you have.

39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Support options are a disgrace, August 24, 2006

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W. J. Eisner (Short Hills, NJ...USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ScanSoft PaperPort 11 Professional [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I've used Paper Port for several years, starting with the version that was bundled with the Visioneer Strobe Pro. It was the only game in town that I could find and, having learned how to use it, I stayed with it through version 10 pro. I have not had substantial problems with it that could not be solved using their knowledge base. But, after a recent reformat when I had to reinstall the software, I found I could not activate it. It was brought home to me again that Nuance's policy of charging for all e-mail support after the first incident is no longer acceptable for a piece of relatively expensive, complex software that requires a certain level of computer expertise to install, run and maintain. I was thinking of upgrading to V. 11 but since v. 10 is fine for my needs as were versions 7, 8 and 9. I won't throw another cent down that Nuance upgrade rathole unless and until they change their policy on supporting it. If you have a previous version of PP that is working and that serves your needs, stay with it. It is obvious, after reading the other reviews, good and bad, the Nuance has not yet learned the nuances of making an easy to use, reliable product nor has it learned how to provide the support that the people who pay for their software deserve. P.S. the activation problem turned out to be a server glitch on their end that I only learned about after chancing a call to their (free) Customer Service.