PaperPort is

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document management software published by

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, used for working with scanned documents. It uses a built-in

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to create files in searchable

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(PDF); text in these files is indexed and can be searched for with appropriate software, such as Microsoft's

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. Earlier versions of PaperPort used

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to provide this function. It provides image editing tools for these files. 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 Mac OS).

History

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, 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 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, the Nuance document division, which included PaperPort, was sold to Kofax.

Selected versions and their estimated release dates

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