ABBYY FineReader vs. Tungsten PaperPort

The most common scenario is a need to do a high-level OCR-scan of a document followed by heavy editing. I believe that FineReader is in its own league in that regard, and there is no single reason why would someone choose an alternative soft for the purpose.

Another common scenario is a need of detailed comparison of pdf documents. A massive help!

Incentivized

It's a good tool for the organization which still send or receive a lot of paper documents. Keeping a track of paper receipts and documents is messy and not sustainable beyond a point. With Kofax PaperPort, the documents can be digitized and stored and even the information can be structured and the processes can be automated.

Incentivized

• Read and analyze complicated documents
• Automatically recognize tables and charts
• Convert any documents into various common formats

Incentivized

• The editing of a PDF or image by cleaning up an image are most important to me.
• Ability to remove scanning artifacts from difficult to scan items at the actual pixel level.
• The ability to set scanner profiles makes workflow easier.

• Conversion to MS Word (formatting accuracy issues occur)
• Conversion to MS Excel (formatting accuracy issues occur)

Incentivized

• It should have a back button, so if you go from one folder to the next, it would be simple to get back to the first folder.
• When you combine two PDFs, it should retain the title of the one that's on top.
• The send to bar should be easier to change.

Incentivized

PaperPort has a few quirks, but it is the only program of its kind that actually does what it claims to do. The power of it is so much more than they claim especially when it comes to trying to achieve a truly paperless office. With PDF editing built-in, it also saves considerable investment in other PDF editing programs.

Incentivized

For us, it's only focusing processes that we're already doing... creating folders, placing scanned files into those folders, then searching for and opening up those files later, as needed. It just helps us view everything in one place - very convenient. Further, being able to drag non-native files to their corresponding source app for editing (Word, Excel, etc) is pretty nice.

Incentivized

While Adobe Reader can identify documents and convert them to some other various formats, it cannot process the documents to identify tables for use in Excel. We only had success by letting Adobe read a file for any identifiable text but it wasn't always accurate. FineReaders ability to handle hundreds of pages at once felt leaps and bounds above Adobe

Incentivized

Tungsten PaperPort has actually gone through SEVERAL ownership changes since I began using it - I think I initially started using it when it came bundled with a Visioneer scanner...?... but regardless, I've used it for a very long time, and it's continued to get better. I've not actually tried any other similar software. This works, and I intend to stick with it.

Incentivized

• Great positive impact on productivity as it helps to avoid spending so much time scanning or editing documents
• Staff use the time saved with this tool on the substantive tasks of their position
• Our objective, being a public institution, is of a benefit to the population and not commercial, therefore everything that we add to perform efficiently and effectively, our work is always well appreciated.

Incentivized

• Simple focus on organization of files
• Efficient later, when searching for files
• Convenient throughout the office, as we're all accessing a shared data store

Incentivized