PaperPort
PaperPort is commercial document management software published by Kofax, used for working with scanned documents. It uses a built-in optical character recognition to create files in searchable Portable Document Format (PDF); text in these files is indexed and can be searched for with appropriate software, such as Microsoft's Windows Search. Earlier versions of PaperPort used OmniPage to provide this function. It provides image editing tools for these files.
| Developer(s) | Visioneer |
|---|---|
| Initial release | May 30, 1995 |
| Stable release | PaperPort 14.7 (Windows) PaperPort Notes Version 2.1.0 (iPad) / December 11, 2020 (Windows) November 13, 2013 (iPad) |
| Operating system | Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 and iPad |
| Platform | x86, x64 |
| Size | 4.7 MB (iPad) |
| Type | PDF software |
| License | Proprietary software |
| Website | www |
PaperPort allows scanned documents to be separated into individual pages, and reassembled into new PDF files.
Originally, PaperPort created files in .MAX file format natively, but later versions use PDF. Versions of PaperPort from V14 cannot edit .MAX files, but they can be converted to PDF, which can be edited.
PaperPort only supports Windows and iOS. An open-source program called Paperman provides basic functionality for Linux (and has been partially ported to macOS).