Product Description: PaperPort Professional 11 is the fastest and best version of PaperPort ever. At work and at home you're inundated with paperwork - receipts, bills, letters, tax information, memos, investment statements, contracts - you name it. The paperwork keeps piling up on your desk and documents keep collecting in your PC. With PaperPort, every organization with a powerful, new way to organize all of their files. Navigation speed has been increased by over 200 percent, for moving between folders, which is especially valuable for folders containing hundreds or thousands of files. Scan and organize documents with the fewest possible steps and get it right the first time. Packed with over 50 new features and improvements, PaperPort has never been easier-to-use, faster, or more productive. New SET capabilities for scanning invoices, receipts, magazine articles and newsprint, as well as for enhancing and editing photographs
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Save Space and Money Reduce expenses involved with filing, copying, finding and storing paper documents. Eliminate the storage of old archived paper documents.
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.
Fill Out Forms Quickly, Neatly Convert scanned paper forms into electronic forms you can fill out on the computer.
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.
Bugs, Crashes, and Junk This software really is a stinker. While it does do some things right, like making PDF files and giving some scanner profile options, the thing just crashes too much. I'm too scared to uninstall and reinstall it because the software will deactivate and I will have to probably pay for a support incident via email (no phone support available). What a really bad company. I am currently shopping for something else after having thrown 200 bucks down the pit.
Shameful failure to fix bugs I've been using PaperPort 11 Pro for two years. It presents a good way to scan, file and organize printed documents. I love the utility it offers.
Unfortunately, the program has critical, fatal bugs. If there were another product that does what PP does, I'd dump this dog and buy it immediately. (Hear that, software developers out there?) Nuance has done nothing to fix the bugs, nor has it offered any updates. Instead, I get regular pop-up "notices" about "updates" and "new features"... that are nothing but ads for other products. Gimme a break.
Key problems: Manipulating large documents results in program crashes. Scanning documents frequently results in program crashes. Adding annotations results in frequent program crashes. Scanning documents results in program crashes. The "sticky note" feature doesn't work. When you attach a note to a page, you can't edit or read the note past the first line.
Related problems: Nuance's web site offers no support or help on any of these issues. I'm not going to pay to get help with critical and fatal bugs. Nuance should just fix them. Nuance couldn't care less about its customers. I give them a big raspberry and will never buy another Nuance product. My problems have cost them many customers because I share my frustrations with others.
A friend of mine used to work for the company. He tells me that since it was sold, all programming for products is done overseas. There is no support of products, no maintenance, no bug fixes. You buy it, it's yours "as is", lotsa luck.
It's really too bad. This product is a great concept, and the bugs are fixable. I will eventually dump the program altogether and kludge together my own way to file and organize pdf's. I will probably buy Acrobat's PDF system, pay more, get something that actually works when I need it.
And that's the reason not to buy this software: It will leave you stranded in the middle of an important project.
Didn't work, didn't start, nada I installed the "free 15 day trial" version of PP Pro 11 from a website download. The install was slow but successful.
Something did start - an indexing program appeared on my system tray. My first ditch to drive into was to tell it to index the PDF files on My Documents. It indexed every single file there.
Next, I clicked on the friendly "paperport" shortcut on my desktop. Nothing happened. I rebooted. Clicked on the not-so-friendly-now shortcut, again. Nothing happened, again.
Found out I would have to pay $9.95 to report this problem via email.
My next stop was the uninstaller and a visit to Nuance's website to cancel the "free trial" which would have cost me $199.99 in 15 days.
Whew! Close one, Eddie. Such bogus stuff. How did they get to version 11.0? Do they multiple their internal alpha releases by 10 and start from there?
Stay far far away I have been a Paperport user for many years. Version 11 is full of bugs, frequently hangs running under Vista, and there is noooooooo help from Tech Support unless you are willing to part with $9.95 per call. Emails to Tech Support are answered with stock replies, if at all. Save yourself a lot of frustration, don't buy or upgrade to Version 11 if you running Vista.
They ruined an otherwise good program. We used PaperPort in our network since version 8.0, and we currently use PaperPort version 10.0 (Professional). Although speed has always been an issue, I would have previously recommended PaperPort as long as you had a computer with good processing speed (Note: we have a peer-to-peer Wundows XP Professional network)
After installing version 11.0 (Professional) I would STRONGLY suggest that you look elsewhere if you plan to use this product in a networked workgroup (peer-to-peer). Although they did improve the speed of the program in some areas, it now takes two minutes to save a scanned PDF file to a network folder! In PaperPort 10, it happened almost instantly.
I called PaperPort technical support and got some patch files, but they were of no help. When I called back the second time, technical support was out of ideas and my only alternative now is to return the product.
Once again, avoid this product if you plan to save pdf files in network folders. I have no idea what they did, but it's a shame how they ruined this product.
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