PaperPort is commercial document management software published by Tungsten Automation , 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.
6-403: 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. It previously supported iOS and was compatible with
12-669: A developer of intelligent document capture solutions, including hardware and software products. Visioneer is a Xerox licensee, licensed to build, sell and support stand-alone document scanners. Founded in March 1992 by Pierre-Alain Cotte, Visioneer introduced a sheetfed scanner called the PaperMax. The scanner weighed just 2.5 pounds and fit between a keyboard and monitor. A typical document could be scanned in about six seconds. Visioneer's proprietary software application known as PaperPort
18-402: A typewriter function for annotating electronic documents. Its form-filling tool recognized lines in scanned forms to allow filling in fields and printing completed forms, replacing the laborious old method of typing entries into paper forms. It integrated with optical character recognition (OCR) software for converting scanned paper documents into editable electronic documents. In December 2019,
24-621: The Nuance document division, which included PaperPort, was sold to Kofax. On January 16, 2024, Kofax was renamed to Tungsten Automation. This text editor article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Visioneer Visioneer, Inc. is a privately owned technology company based in Fremont , California , with offices in Canada and the Netherlands. Visioneer is
30-473: The iPad. An open-source program called Paperman provides basic functionality for Linux (and has been partially ported to macOS). Visioneer , the original developer of PaperPort, first released its predecessor, MaxMate document communications software bundled with the MaxMate scanner and MaxMate Viewer software, in 1994 for DOS, Windows and Macintosh . The software used a visual metaphor for dragging pages and
36-552: Was spun off and sold in 1998. The hardware side of the business was sold to Primax Electronics in January 1999, but later bought back by a private investor. In March 1999, Visioneer acquired ScanSoft from Xerox to form a new public software company with ScanSoft as the new company-wide name. In August 2003, Visioneer announced an exclusive licensing agreement with Xerox to develop and market Xerox-branded document scanners. In 2005, Visioneer acquired JFL Peripherals. Visioneer launched
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