ScanSoft PaperPort 10 Description:

ScanSoft PaperPort 10 review:
1 stars (ALL DOWNHILL FOR VERSION 10) - I HAVE USED PAPERPORT FOR THE LAST 7 YEARS. IT HAS BEEN ONE OF THE BEST PROGRAMS I HAVE USED FOR HANDLING DOCUMENTS BUT THEY HAVE ENDED THE GOOD TIMES WITH VERSION 10.





WOW WHAT A FAILURE.



BUGGY

ERRORS

WON'T SAVE DOCUMENTS

SLOW

TOTAL SYSTEM SLOWDOWN!!!





JUST GET VERSION 9 UNTIL SCANSOFT IS LISTENING.
5 stars (Vast Improvement....) - Over Ver 8.0, which is what I was using. I love being able to scan to PDF format. The FormTyper will actually change default font and opening screen size, which was offered in 8, but didn't work. FormTyper will print without saving the document and will print just the fields, neither of which were even offered in 8.



The indexing is much better and much, much faster. Someone complained that auto-straighten doesn't work in ver 10. Untrue!! It works, but only with b&w images, which it clearly states in the status bar when you put your cursor on the toolbar button. It allows you to go outside the My Paperport Documents folder, which 8 would not. It allows you to set a sort button on the tool bar as well as a display button.



I never tried 9, so I can't compare it, but so far, I am very happy with version 10.
1 stars (Paperport was once a great product) - I've been using Paperport since Version 4. Each upgrade since has brought at least one important feature, and many new bugs, which usually get ironed out, but not always. I've never been able to use the indexing system, mainly because it's always been buggy and a CPU hog when it's running.



While storing in PDF is a great idea, especially since Paperport seems to be on a downward trajectory in quality (and no support other than paid support--you can't even report bugs without paying), it's a good idea to be able to get your documents out of the MAX format and into a format supported by others.



Version 10 is so slow on my dual processor programmer class workstatio (Dell Precision 650), that I hate having to go and look for my documents. It's not slow finding them, it's too slow opening them and working with them. It used to be instantaneous--now its wait, wait, wait. It's basically unacceptible.



With Scansoft's poor support policy, I will not be buying Paperport any longer. I will stay with Version 9 until I can find something else. My version 10, if used for anything, will be used to convert out of the MAX format.