Nuance Unveils PaperPort Professional 14 for Easier and Faster Scanning

With an effort to make scanning faster and easier, speech and imaging solution leader, Nuance Communications (News - Alert), Inc., introduced PaperPort Professional 14. PaperPort 14 is one of the world's most popular scanning and document management application for Microsoft (News - Alert) Windows.

PaperPort 14 is known for an array of useful features such as fast and simple scanning, easy-to-use document organization, robust support for PDF, and connectivity to network folders and applications. The new release includes important innovations so that PaperPort 14 can complement two latest technologies productivity -- mobile devices and cloud computing---to enhance personal and business productivity.

PaperPort Professional 14, which includes Scan-and-Open additions to One-Click scanning, scanning is made faster and easier, Nuance claimed in a press release. The latestversion supports nearly any TWAIN, WIA and ISIS scanning device. Resulting scanned pages are higher quality due to enhancements in image processing, and OCR (optical character recognition) accuracy has been increased by up to 34 percent. In order to increase space saving, Nuance has also included PDF-MRC compression with the product, which creates industry-standard PDF files that are eight times smaller than regular image PDF files without compression. The product's ability to organize paper and digital documents is greatly enhanced through new folder views, support for Windows right-click actions and support for Windows 7 jump-lists.

The most interesting addition relates to the product’s capability to connect with over 20 cloud services, including Google Docs and Evernote (News - Alert), as well as integration with the new Nuance PaperPort Anywhere cloud and mobile service. PaperPort Anywhere lets users automatically store their desktop documents in the cloud, and access those documents via PaperPort 14 on Windows, through web browsers, and using free apps for the Apple (News - Alert) iPad, iPhone and Google Android devices.

“PaperPort 14 is prized by millions of users because it quickly turns piles of paper into organized digital documents, and because it is a better way to organize and use all of your PC files. The new release will make people even more organized and productive, and turns PaperPort into the universal desktop for documents and files in the cloud. There never has been an easier way to scan, organize and use all of your documents,” General Manager and Senior Vice President for the Nuance Document Imaging Division Robert Weideman maintained in a press release.

Nuance announced that PaperPort 14 and PaperPort Professional 14 are currently available through Nuance's global network of reseller partners. PaperPort 14 is priced at $99, while PaperPort Professional 14 at $199 for individual users. Volume discounts are available through the Nuance Open License Program.

This week, Nuance also introduced PaperPort Anywhere, a new cloud-based service that makes it easy to organize, access and share documents from nearly any PC and mobile device. PaperPort Anywhere lets users manage and access their documents in the cloud using web browsers, as well as using free apps from Nuance for Apple and Google Android (News - Alert) mobile devices.