PaperPort® Professional 11 is the most productive way for everyone in your office to scan, organise, find and share photos, paper and electronic documents. PaperPort Professional combines the efficiency of document management with the convenience of perfectly scanned documents and the power of creating PDF files, to bring a new level of operational proficiency to your organisation. The visual document desktop allows you to browse and assemble documents with drag-and-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.

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Faster access to important documents
PaperPort Professional is so fast and productive that it makes scanning and managing documents a breeze. PaperPort can organise, view and print PDF files, plus over 150 document and photo formats. Information no longer needs to be trapped in paper and application files scattered around your office and PC. PaperPort simplifies things by handling everything that your office handles now, plus stuff that Microsoft Windows doesn’t do well – such as scanned paper and PDF documents – in a way that is so fast, unique and efficient that you’ll wonder how you ever worked without it.

Superior scanning capabilities
PaperPort provides complete scanning automation with Scanner Profiles that allow you to capture your unique scanning requirements for any type of document. Once established, your scans are delivered as perfect documents in one simple step. You can automatically straighten a crooked page, rotate, crop and colour correct your documents. If youneed to manage multiple page documents or batch scan many documents at once, the new Capture Assistant provides a powerful preview window to get all your pages and documents organised before they are sent to the PaperPort Desktop.

Easily create PDF files from all your PC applications
PaperPort® Professional includes our award-winning ScanSoft PDF Create! 4 that provides industry standard PDF creation right on the PaperPort Desktop. You can also create PDF files from your scanner or PC applications, including Microsoft® Office and Corel WordPerfect Office. PaperPort produces PDF files that are compatible with, but do not require, Adobe® Acrobat® and support PDF password protection for document security that many businesses require. Simply right click on any document and create a PDF.

File it right, find it fast
Once a paper document is scanned and filed in PaperPort, it will never be lost under a desk or left at home. Digital documents are always there waiting for you and unlike paper files, can be used by several people at the same time. PaperPort works with your current Microsoft Windows folders and allows you to customise your folder views, so they make more sense.

Get more organised
PaperPort goes beyond paper management and helps you get more organised by adding significant value to Microsoft Windows, including the upcoming Windows Vista. PaperPort Folder Notes allow you to attach meaningful information to every folder that can be automatically added to every scanned PDF file. Manage, blend and share your scanned paper documents, along with your existing PC documents, in one powerful filing system.

Communicate clearly, quickly
Scan and email documents as PDF files to clients, vendors and colleagues. PaperPort has a new scanning interface that is so easy to use that it makes faxing documents seem difficult and inefficient by comparison. It gives you perfectly-scanned documents in one step, with the push of a single button. Emailed PDF files are more accurate and much easier to manage than a faxed paper copy. Add electronic sticky notes to any PDF to enhance collaboration. Work more efficiently within your own office, with your customers, and all those you communicate with by using PaperPort and its advanced scan-to-PDF features.

Communicate in colour with 8x smaller PDF files
Typical scanned colour documents are just too large to scan and email. A typical 10 page colour document when scanned can be 15MB or more. Now with PDF-MRC High Compression technology featured in PaperPort Professional 11, you can create files that average 8 times smaller than regular scanned colour PDF documents. That makes that original 15MB colour PDF file less than 2MB!

Easily assemble PDF documents
Create a single, compact and universally-readable PDF document from multiple word-processing, spreadsheet or scanned paper documents using simple drag-and-drop on the desktop. It is as easy as stacking or rearranging paper on your real desktop. You can even select multiple files at once and stack them with the click of a button. PaperPort also includes the PDF Create! Assistant for batch conversion of many files into PDF documents at one time. And with the revolutionary Split-Desktop, you can easily merge documents across two different folders.

Save space and money
Reduce expenses involved with filing, copying, finding and storing paper documents. Eliminate the storage of old archived paper documents. Make digital backups of paper you are required to keep on hand. Turn thousands of pages of printed documents into instantly portable documents by reducing them to digital files you can view, share and print on demand.

Convert paper documents into documents you can edit
PaperPort Professional 11 lets you unlock information stored in paper documents and turnthem into text files you can edit. You can copy and paste text into emails, or scan directly to new word processing or spreadsheet files. If maintaining the document layout, colours and graphics is important, or you need searchable PDF files, then we have great news – OmniPage, our award-winning document conversion program, integrates seamlessly with PaperPort.

Never misplace a document again with fast and reliable searches
All-in-One Search™ is a powerful search engine that enables everyone in your office to find any document instantly – whether it’s local or on a network folder. Search by content, keyword or annotations. PaperPort Professional uses a flexible and robust All-in-One Search Index Manager that allows you to schedule when and how PaperPort will convert all your image files to searchable documents using the built-in OCR document reader. Now you can search more information in one place on your computer.

A smarter way to gather information
What’s the perfect complement to the PaperPort All-in-One Search? That’s elementary - PaperPort Watson, our Intelligent Search Agent. What makes PaperPort Watson so special? Three things – First, it understands the context of what you are doing when viewing a website, finds relevant information and automatically brings it to you in a flexible sidebar. Second - PaperPort Watson takes your search further by searching the Web, email, news sites, blogs, shopping sites. It can use Google, MSN and X1 desktop search utilities along with the PaperPort All-in-One Search. And third – You can drag and drop documents from your search results right to the PaperPort Desktop. It’s a revolutionary way to intelligently find what you are looking for, no matter where or what it is!

Fill out forms quickly, neatly
PaperPort’s FormTyper is a real time-saver. It lets you scan in paper forms, and then automatically identifies the fields on your scanned form — allowingyou to fill in the form on your computer and simply tab from field to field. Once you fill in all the fields, you can then print a perfect, completed form.

Easily route documents anywhere
PaperPort makes distributed document capture easy and affordable with its advanced DesktopDelivery feature. Have documents scanned to any PaperPort Desktop directly from any networked computer, scanner or multifunction copier. PaperPort also links to popular content management systems such as standard FTP, Web Folder, OMDA supporting systems and Microsoft SharePoint®.

Minimum system requirements
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 (SP4 or higher), XP (SP1 or higher) or Vista
• Intel® Pentium® processor or equivalent
• 128 MB RAM, 256 MB RAM or higher recommended
• 300 MB free hard disk space
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher (free download available at www.microsoft.com)
• CD-ROM drive (required for installation)
• SVGA monitor, minimum 800 x 600 pixel resolution with 256 colours. High Colour in Windows 2000 and Medium Colour in XP (16-bit colour) recommended
• A Web connection is required for activation and automatic updates