PaperPort


PaperPort is commercial document management software published by Nuance Communications, used for working with scanned documents,
Depending on the version, PaperPort can use its built-in optical character recognition to create files in searchable Portable Document Format ; text in these files is indexed and can be searched for with appropriate software, such as Microsoft's Windows Search. Earlier versions of PaperPort used Nuance's OmniPage to provide this function. It provides image editing tools for these files.
PaperPort allows scanned documents to be separated into individual pages, and reassembled into new PDF files.
Originally, PaperPort created files in.MAX file format natively, but later versions use PDF. Versions of PaperPort from V14 cannot edit.MAX files, but they can be converted to PDF, which can be edited.
PaperPort only supports Windows and iOS. An open-source program called Paperman provides basic functionality for Linux.

History

, the original developer of PaperPort, first released its predecessor, MaxMate document communications software bundled with the MaxMate scanner and MaxMate Viewer software, in 1994 for DOS, Windows and Macintosh. The software used a visual metaphor for dragging pages and typewriter function for annotating electronic documents. Its form-filling tool recognized lines in scanned forms to allow filling in fields and printing completed forms, replacing the laborious old method of typing entries into paper forms. It integrated with optical character recognition software for converting scanned paper documents into editable electronic documents.

Some Versions & Estimated Release Dates

7 - 1999
9 - 2003
11 - 2007
14 - 2013