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Scan & Organize Those Piles of Paper

We Review Paper Port

Look around you right now, wherever you are. How many separate pieces of paper do you have to deal with on a daily basis? Documents, bills, invoices, memos, contracts, to-do lists...whatever happened to all those promises of a paperless society? While you wait for that day to actually come, think about how much simpler your life would be if there was a way to quickly scan all that information on all that paper into your computer.

The fact that PaperPort is now in its eleventh version should indicate that in the world of document scan technology they have it down to a science, if not an art. PaperPort 11 from Nuance is the answer to your frustration at not being able to find that one missing document upon which having a happy day rests. The real power of PaperPort is not that it can scan any paper you see around you, but that you can organize all that paper so much more easily. How many times have you gotten excited about the idea of scanning a document onto your computer, only to find that it was created as an image file, making it essentially useless when it comes to editing? With PaperPort 11 any document you scan can instantly be converted into a PDF file or Word document.

But wait, it gets better. PaperPort 11 will be there for you when that paperless society finally arrives. With PaperPort 11 you don't even need a big wall of paper to make it worth the investment. The technology now allows you to instantly turn any Web page into a PDF file, the preferred and secure format for file sharing over the Internet. This is a valuable tool for storing away the content of you own Web site, for sharing your favorite Web pages with others or for capturing valuable research information. The information you "scan" with PaperPort 11 off the Web maintain the look of printer ready documents, making the program worth the price if you only use it for keeping e-commerce receipts.

Perhaps one day you will look around and the only paper you'll see will be contained within your favorite novel. Until then, PaperPort 11 may just actually make it fun to scan and organize all that paper.

Jason Vinglas