Re: mystery dac


administrator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
When you do let us know what SW you found useful. I just got ScanSoft's
PaperPort that supposedly allows the creation of an increasingly
'paperless' environment. But I didn't get around to trying it yet.
Basically a scanning and archiving package.


I had to reply when I saw the mention of Paperport Pro. I have Version
9 which is supposed to be better than Version 10. This product is slow
and full of bugs. For instance you can't have more than 200 pdfs in a
directory or it will crash. It often crashes anyhow for no reason. Its
been years since I've had and app which requires constant Ctrl Alt
Delete / End Task.

I will also be more than happy to host your data*** collections in
browseable (Ad free) directories on the DatasheetArchive. With No
catches. No Adverts.

For example: http://www.datasheetarchive.com/yourname/yourdatasheets

Email me if interested.

I bought, loaded, and compared six or seven document management
programs some 8 or 9 years back. PaperPort was, simply put, fabulous.
It did what it was supposed to do, and, most wonderfully, allowed me to
flip pages of a document pretty much as quickly as flipping the pages
in a book.

I've got many thousands of pages scanned, and it's awfully handy to
be able to back up and carry the lot on a single CD.

Pagis (by Xerox, now ScanSoft), by contrast, was possibly the worst
software product it has ever been my misfortune to encounter, and I
don't say that lightly. The highly-touted format-preserving OCR made
streams of ASCII-gook from even the highest quality scans, and many of
the other features (such as database wide searches by content) simply
didn't ever work at all. "Flipping" pages: the disk thrashes, an
editor window opens, and then is dog-slow, making electronic docs much
slower than paper to peruse, which cripples the main point of the
paperless thing. The program injected itself into Windows Explorer,
causing WE to be as unreliable and crash-prone as Pagis. Absolute
crap.

PaperPort was since purchased by the ScanSoft-borg, but I don't know
how it's fared--I'm still using my same old original copy, and still
love it.

James Arthur

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