ScanSoft PaperPort Professional 10

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Product Features

• Efficiently organize, find, and share paper and PDF documents
• Exceptional document management system; high-speed scanning
• Quickly and easily create PDFs from Windows applications
• Assemble scanned and digital documents with drag-and-drop simplicity
• Find documents, PDF files, photos, and paper instantly

Product Details

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• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00061NST8
• Item model number: F309A-G00-10.0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 1, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,442 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

From the Manufacturer

PaperPort Professional 10 is the most productive and cost effective way for everyone in your office to organize, find, and share paper and PDF documents. PaperPort Professional combines the efficiency of document management, the convenience of network scanning, and the power of PDF document creation and assembly into a powerful, easy-to-use application.

Features:

• To quickly turn paper into organized digital documents
• Provide a better way to organize documents on your desktop
• Easily create PDFs from Windows applications
• Assemble scanned and digital documents with drag-and-drop simplicity
• To ensure you never misplace a document, PDF file, or photo again

Scan, Create, and Assemble PDF Documents
Millions of users have discovered that PaperPort saves them time by making it easy to organize documents and files on their PC. Its intuitive thumbnail-based Visual Desktop allows pages within documents of all kinds--including scanned paper, TIFF, PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more--to be instantly viewed and organized without launching the associated application. Quickly create and assemble custom PDF documents, which can be reordered and merged using PaperPort's drag-and-drop stacking capability--just as you do with real paper.

Find Everything--Documents, PDF Files, Photos, and Paper Instantly
Use PaperPort's all-in-one search engine to quickly find all matching documents--from standard Microsoft Office and other digital document types, to scanned paper and business cards, as well as PDF files received on email or downloaded from the Web. The built-in OmniPage Search Indexer automatically creates searchable image files including PDF, while PaperPort's support for meta-data simplifies finding images and digital photographs. Best of all, PaperPort supports searching centralized document repositories anywhere on the network, and can connect to Web-based content management systems.

Automate Information Collection with High-Speed Scanning and Professional Document Capture
Replace making paper copies with PaperPort's DesktopDelivery, which automatically transfers PDF copies from your networked scanners and digital copiers to your PaperPort desktop. PDF copies are easy to share using email, are more secure than paper copies--and best of all they save you time and money. PaperPort Professional also helps you streamline business processes, and enables paperless document workflows through its network connectivity with content management systems, including Microsoft SharePoint.

Product Description

PaperPort Professional 10 is the most productive and cost effective way for everyone in your office to organize, find and share paper and PDF documents. PaperPort Professional combines the efficiency of document management, the convenience of network scanning and the power of creating PDF files, to bring a new level of operational proficiency to your organization. All-in-One Search quickly finds important documents, and 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

76 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great software ... to a point., November 27, 2004

By	Jerald P. Hobby (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the first edition of PaperPort that I have used, so I am not writing this from the perspective of the value of an upgrade from earlier versions. This is a "first impressions" review.

Right after I installed it, I wanted to start an index on my computer. I have about 30 Gig of documents, so I knew this would be a chore.

First effort: Run the included "Index Manager". This failed because Index manager does not erase temp files until the entire scan completes. I had 40 Gig of free space on my disk, but that wasn't enough. I had to abort the scan. A full two days wasted before I recognized the issues with Index Manager.

Second effort: Run the internal index by selecting, "Add to all-in-one index". This seemed to work, however it kept me from using PaperPort while running. I decided to try another route.

Third effort: Setup to scan during "idle time" and let it run. This worked fine. It still took hours, however it cleaned up as it went. I was still unable to use PaperPort while the index ran because the index would restart. I did let it complete my index, however.

Now I have all my documents indexed. How does maintenance work? Many of the local PC search utilities tie into Windows XP functionality and update in realtime without having to rescan the hard disk. Not true with PaperPort. Clearly dependent on old code, it must scan periodically. Okay, we'll move on.

PaperPort will scan during idle times. The problem is that it reads through everything, every time. Then if you use PaperPort, let it go idle, it will again restart from the beginning. If you have a substantial amount of documents, this method just won't do. The index program will run constantly.

Since I have the professional version, I have "Index Manager", which allows me to schedule regular updates for my index. While this tool was unacceptable for building the initial index, it does work for maintenance. I set it up and let it run through and "update" my documents. Just to be clear, no changes were made to my documents, I just wanted to test the program. Even though every single document was recently indexed and not one file was changed, it still took hours to rescan my data. Monitoring the temp folder, it produced over 1 Gig of temp files for documents that were not modified. This is horribly inefficient. Even with no document changes, an update scan will take a half day to complete. This is INSANE!

A "professional" edition of this product should index documents better. The entire index process is totally garbage-by-design. My point deductions for this program are strictly due to the indexing process.

If your documents are less than a couple gig, then this application will probably work okay for you.

So now onto the application of PaperPort. What a great product! I could make a long list of things to improve, but the improvements I would suggest are minor. I love being able to see the pages of my documents, to search through all these PDF documents, OmniPage projects (I love OmniPage), etc.

For the main application, you can use PaperPort to manage documents in all new ways. I love being able to stack and unstack pages, move things around, and it makes short work of organizing my huge collection of electronic documents. I could list a dozen features I would like to see added, however what is provided works extremely well.

I have to add a couple more negatives. If you want support, you have to pay for it. You get one free call and that's it. The documentation is weak, the knowledgebase is rediculously weak, and email is billable. The forums are the only free option for support and I have not been able to get a login setup for the forums.

I am a huge fan of OmniPage Pro 14 and I use it all the time. PaperPort will be part of my new routine for the time being. If I find a better product, I will fly quickly away since PaperPort cannot maintain indexes very well.

Indexing: 1 Star
Document Acquiring: 5 Stars
Application Functionality: 3.5 Stars
Support: 2 Stars

Conclusion: If you are interested in electronic document management and your volume is reasonably modest, this product is an excellent value. If you want a "professional" tool, don't be fooled by the word "professional" in the title of this product. This is not a professional solution.

41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Back to Paperport 9, February 23, 2005

By	A. Braswell Cooper III - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm a huge fan of Paperport 9; I use it extensively. I was excited to see an upgrade and recently installed PaperPort 10. While the split screen and other features are a nice improvement, the software seems very buggy.

The biggest problem for me is that I can no longer scan multiple page items using an HP OfficeJet scanner. I spoke with their technical support about this issue and was informed that "PaperPort 10 is not as good as PaperPort 9 at scanning and stuff." These were the exact words of one of PaperPort's support engineers. At least this engineer was kind enough to tell me how to best uninstall version 10.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wait until they get the bugs out. This software doesn't work, February 23, 2005

By	Steve J. Urich "SteveU437" (Hermosa Beach) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I would keep looking.

I installed v10 and was not able to get it working and I am a Microsoft Engineer. I do have a lot of software on my machine but with the lousy support that they have and the fact that they are making you pay to debug their software I would stay away from this unless you want to create headaches for yourself.

On their forums you can find many other users who requested their money back as I had to do.

The worse problem was that it broke the Version 9 that I had that was working and to add insult to injury, after they broke my system I had to pay $20 to have them get it back to working order.

I do not mind paying for support if it is my fault. But if you (scansoft) break it you should fix it.

Someone should tell the support line in India that if you are going to get a fake US sounding name and you are a female you should at least get a female name not one like Allen. This is just indicative of the lack of professionalism on the support line.

When you are a software company and your support line is a profit center you need to be concerned!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would have to agree with the comments previously mentioned.

I have to add a couple more negatives. If you want support, you have to pay for it. You get one free call and that's it. The documentation is weak, the knowledgebase is rediculously weak, and email is billable. The forums are the only free option for support and I have not been able to get a login setup for the forums.

I am a huge fan of OmniPage Pro 14 and I use it all the time. PaperPort will be part of my new routine for the time being. If I find a better product, I will fly quickly away since PaperPort cannot maintain indexes very well.