Mac substitute for Windows' PaperPort?

PaperPort was a product made by Visioneer, they dropped support for Mac when SCSI died. The applicaion still works in Classic mode but even my SCSI to firewire converter will not see the scanner, so I still have an old SCSI/OS 9 system to run all my old SCSI devices and the PaperPort application.

Suggest you contact the company and urge them to support the Mac platform once more as they have 15 models of scanners in production and none of them have drivers or access to the PaperPort software with Macs.

Hi Roger

I haven't used any OCR and document management software, myself. However, to find Mac OS X software you would do well to search the following websites, using search terms like "ocr", "optical character recognition" etc.

http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/

http://www.macupdate.com/

http://guide.apple.com/index.lasso

The former two sites provide user feedback that can help you to choose. I recommend reading as much user feedback as possible and not just the most recent two or three.

Hope this helps.

Matthew Whiting

Paperport is now owned by Nuance (formerly Scansoft). It appears to me that they are a totally windows orientated outfit. I as well used to use it before converting to the Mac.

You might try Presto! Pagemanager:
http://www.newsoftinc.com/products/product-main.asp?productid=NAI0023

or
iView Media
http://www.iview-multimedia.com

I have not used either of them and from looking at them I don't believe they have all the functionality that Paperport had.

Roger

Have a look at Readiris Pro 11 for Mac.

I don't have this version - I'm still at Readiris Pro 9 - so I can't confirm that it actually does do all the things that you have specified, but it appears promising.

I feel your pain here. And I feel a little guilty about it, frankly! I'm coming from Win 98 and a circa '99-'00 version of PaperPort with a Visioneer USB scanner. How does the old Joni Mitchell song put it: "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." Even though it scanned documents to it's own proprietary MAX file extension, everything in PaperPort could be exported/converted to other forms. Within the program, you could scan, straighten, add text, sticky notes, delete text within the document, wizards to adjust the scans, etc. In short, everything that I want to do now and can't. I'm not looking for OCR ... just the scan options that were standard equipment in a 7-to-8 year-old program (how long is that in computer years?) I just bought an HP Photosmart 2575xi All-In-One and I thought "Geesh, seven years down the line, the software HAS got to be screaming. I mean I'm a Mac guy now, right?" I'm really dismayed. I've already been through "Quicken is Lame in Mac" **** ... and now this! I know I'm whining, but geesh! 🙂

imac intel Mac OS X (10.4.5) New Windows Refugee!

Digging up an old thread, but thought people might be interested. I found this scanner by Fujitsu now has Mac OS X support:

http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/products/scanners/scansnap-5110Eoxm/