Snippet/archive/library tool

Posted by Chris Murtland
May 10, 2007 at 03:39 PM

At least in more recent versions of PaperPort (I have version 11), you can add any folder to show up and be managed in PaperPort - go to Tools -> Folder Manager.

One disappointing thing about PaperPort is that you can’t scan to standard searchable PDFs with it - it will OCR and index scans for its own internal search engine using the basic product, but to make a standard text PDF (not image), you also have to have OmniPage Professional - which is $499. Ouch. As far as I can tell, this limits the usefulness of PaperPort in conjunction with external desktop search engines and other software that searches PDFs. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.

I need to look for cheaper alternative scanning software that would scan and OCR to a normal text PDF. I don’t deal with a huge amount of paper, so it’s kind of on the back burner, but there has to be something out there. I’m pretty satisfied with Ultra Recall, but I would love to be able to drop scanned pdfs into it and actually be able to search the text content.

Check out this thread on the UR forum for a possible approach for UR users (and probably for desktop search engine users as well) : http://tinyurl.com/2pay7f - Microsoft Office Document Imaging creates tiffs that have their text info from OCR stored with them.I haven’t done a lot of testing with this, but it seems to work okay.

Chris