Review by D. Brennan

I am not sure about the source of all the complaints about a watermark. Version 12 has no watermark issues, at least as of the time I installed this software.

The OCR works better than older versions of PaperPort and other packages that I have used. It’s still not perfect, but we’ll probably have to wait through a couple of more generations of hardware and software evolution for perfection. It’s VERY good though now. As a test I scanned in a chapter of a book that I was reading. It was a hard cover, and PaperPort was probably 98% accurate.

After scanning some documents are organizing them through PaperPort, I confirmed that both Windows Search and Google Desktop had properly indexed the contents of the files. That is VERY useful.

A couple of things to think about when evaluating electronic filing systems.

1 - You will need a scanner in addition to this software. I know - it seems unnecessary to point this out, but some people do not seem to realize that.n2 - If you are going to scan in a bunch of documents, bills, statements, etc, you will want to invest in a good back-up system.n3 - In some cases, you will want to NOT scan documents to OCR. Examples of these types of documents include diplomas, etc. Anything that you want to maintain the original formatting.

In short, this is a very good product for home users, and will likely be superior to the software that is included with most scanners or multi-function devices.