Snippet/archive/library tool

Posted by Graham Rhind
May 10, 2007 at 04:06 PM

Chris Murtland wrote:
>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.

Thanks Chris - I had found that one it seems - and then forgot about it again :-)

>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’m wondering whether standard text pdfs would work for me, as my documents contain many languages - though the pdfs that PaperPort produce are not ideal, at least I can be sure to see what was on the paper. Oh, and I should say, re-scanning isn’t an option - apart from the time limitations, most of the original stuff has been recycled :-)

Graham