BonzaiDuck
Lifer
At one time, when DBase 5 was available for Win 95/98, and with ORACLE, I built "document management" databases and applications -- searchable by title, date, author -- whatever attributes would accompany the actual OLE object or embedded document.
Since those days, I haven't had the time to work on these sorts of apps. Eventually, I had to export all the documents to regular files.
But I've still needed to manage documents. I think I started using PaperPort v.7 around 1999 -- maybe it was earlier -- can't remember. I was regularly scanning various documents -- bills, receipts, legal documents, property-management statements, etc. into PaperPort. I kept using it.
With the newer OS's, I had to keep upgrading the software. Finally had to get PaperPort v.10 to run under XP. Then, I decided to chuck XP and get 64-bit VISTA. PP v.10 will "run" under VISTA64, but the Paperport "printer" -- which ports document scans directly to PP's proprietary MAX files or PDF -- doesn't work. And my diagnostic software keeps trying to fix registry errors that PP creates.
At the same time, I had another VISTA64 machine and installed PP v.11 on it. The more versions of PP that you have to use on different machines, the better in that sense -- because it's made to "network" and access the same set of documents simultaneously from different workstations-- particularly if you put the document folders on a file-server.
So far, so good. But I finally decided that PP v.10 on one VISTA 64 machine was causing me sufficient trouble that I would upgrade to PP v.12 -- when I found the latter for about $60. When I tried to install it, the install failed. This was related to "access denied" to certain registry keys involving MSXML 4.0. I've submitted an "incident" to NUance -- Paperport's "publisher" -- but I'm losing patience with it. It's "updater" seems to be more of an effort to continually promote newer versions; registry problems had emerged with the updater even with Win XP 32-bit. Searches of the web show people complaining about once-elegant software being ruined after ScanSoft was absorbed by Nuance, and many people complaining about conflicts with MS Office 2007.
Another similar application, Presto! PageManager, was bundled with my scanner software, and I gave it a go. The only problem: it doesn't include a feature to "annotate" documents like scans of business forms, etc. so that they can be published with the annotations in PDF format.
I'm still picking away and experimenting with Presto! as I wait for Nuance tech-support to solve the other problem. But I discovered a freeware program published by a company that offers the "pro" version for a price:
PDF XChange Viewer -- by Tracker Software Products
It seems to be a very robust application, and integrates well with Presto!
Tell me your own experiences and choices.
Since those days, I haven't had the time to work on these sorts of apps. Eventually, I had to export all the documents to regular files.
But I've still needed to manage documents. I think I started using PaperPort v.7 around 1999 -- maybe it was earlier -- can't remember. I was regularly scanning various documents -- bills, receipts, legal documents, property-management statements, etc. into PaperPort. I kept using it.
With the newer OS's, I had to keep upgrading the software. Finally had to get PaperPort v.10 to run under XP. Then, I decided to chuck XP and get 64-bit VISTA. PP v.10 will "run" under VISTA64, but the Paperport "printer" -- which ports document scans directly to PP's proprietary MAX files or PDF -- doesn't work. And my diagnostic software keeps trying to fix registry errors that PP creates.
At the same time, I had another VISTA64 machine and installed PP v.11 on it. The more versions of PP that you have to use on different machines, the better in that sense -- because it's made to "network" and access the same set of documents simultaneously from different workstations-- particularly if you put the document folders on a file-server.
So far, so good. But I finally decided that PP v.10 on one VISTA 64 machine was causing me sufficient trouble that I would upgrade to PP v.12 -- when I found the latter for about $60. When I tried to install it, the install failed. This was related to "access denied" to certain registry keys involving MSXML 4.0. I've submitted an "incident" to NUance -- Paperport's "publisher" -- but I'm losing patience with it. It's "updater" seems to be more of an effort to continually promote newer versions; registry problems had emerged with the updater even with Win XP 32-bit. Searches of the web show people complaining about once-elegant software being ruined after ScanSoft was absorbed by Nuance, and many people complaining about conflicts with MS Office 2007.
Another similar application, Presto! PageManager, was bundled with my scanner software, and I gave it a go. The only problem: it doesn't include a feature to "annotate" documents like scans of business forms, etc. so that they can be published with the annotations in PDF format.
I'm still picking away and experimenting with Presto! as I wait for Nuance tech-support to solve the other problem. But I discovered a freeware program published by a company that offers the "pro" version for a price:
PDF XChange Viewer -- by Tracker Software Products
It seems to be a very robust application, and integrates well with Presto!
Tell me your own experiences and choices.