Kofax PaperPort vs. Tungsten Power PDF

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kofax PaperPort
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Kofax PaperPort (formerly from Nuance) is a document management software offering. It includes features such as desktop document management solution and allows you to manage and organize your documents in one solution.
$99
one-time fee per license
Tungsten Power PDF
Score 9.1 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Tungsten Power PDF (formerly Kofax) is a solution to manage PDFs for businesses and individuals available with a one-time purchase with no subscription fees. It has a built-in eSignature integration with SignDoc and DocuSign for a complete end-to-end document…
$129
one-time fee per license
Pricing
Kofax PaperPortTungsten Power PDF
Editions & Modules
PaperPort Standard
$99
one-time fee per license
PaperPort Professional
$199
one-time fee per license
Power PDF Standard
$129
one-time fee per license
Power PDF Standard for Mac
$129
one-time fee per license
Power PDF Advanced
$179
one-time fee per license
Power PDF Enterprise
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per year per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Kofax PaperPortTungsten Power PDF
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPerpetual license products, there are no subscription or maintenance fees. Buy once, own forever.Desktop licenses are buy once, own forever. No subscription fees. Enterprise server licenses are term-based with optional maintenance & support contract. Volume and upgrade discounts available.
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Community Pulse
Kofax PaperPortTungsten Power PDF
Considered Both Products
Kofax PaperPort
Chose Kofax PaperPort
I've been using this for years, had many different versions of it, so I just kept upgrading and I didn't try any other software.
Tungsten Power PDF
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
I previously used Adobe Acrobat version 9, which is quite old and outdated now. Power PDF was cheaper than upgrading to the latest Acrobat and is just as functional. It is much easier to use than version 9 was. Adobe Reader is used by most of my colleagues but despite being …
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
I think it is much, much superior. One of the law offices I contract with uses Acrobat and the Legal Assistant I work with can't figure out how to remove metadata from her PDF's. I do it for her. Document signing using a digital signature or the hand signature that I've scanned …
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
I have used a number of PDF products and have stuck with Power PDF as the best to date so far
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
Nuance was recommended to me years ago and since then I have never tried any other PDF program. Besides Kofax, I use Microsoft Word. These two programs are all I need to run my business. They both have quality designs and professional-looking documents.
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
Kofax definitely has a shorter learning curve which is greatly appreciated. I have little interest in spending hours on getting an important tool (the ability to edit and manipulate PDF files) operational.
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
As I said, I used Nuance PDF Converter, and this is an improvement.
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
I've tried some other products not listed in the drop-down but have always found Power PDF to be the best combination of value and functionality. At one point I tried the full Adobe Acrobat product but Power PDF is just as functional for all intents and purposes and it costs …
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
Kofax Power PDF (formerly Nuance) stands up well beside any PDF program out there. I do use and like Wonder Share PDF as well. Wonder Share is a good PDF program. Adobe is way to expensive so I do not use any of Adobe products. My default PDF program is Kofax Power PDF …
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
While the above reads as Reader I have used Acrobat 9, 10 and Acrobat Pro 11. I found Kofax Power PDF to be as good in most areas and better with more features in several areas like security, ease of use, cost, outright ownership versus subscription model for 11 Pro, and …
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
I have found Power PDF a much more powerful program than the commonly available shareware PDF editors and readers and it is much more affordable than Adobe products and easier to use. I also enjoy that I do not have to constantly update the program to correct bugs and security …
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
I was using other software applications from ScanSoft, TextBridge PaperPort, OmniPage, and Speech Recognition. When the need for a PDF utility arose, I compared the price of Adobe Acrobat to products offered by ScanSoft at the time. Colleagues did not like Adobe (cost was …
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
Power PDF is faster and a far better product than PaperPort. PaperPort crashes multiple times per day which is time-consuming and frustrating especially in the middle of an activity. If they can sort out PaperPort's glitches, it would be a fantastic program however, it appears …
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
I think this is a better product than Adobe Acrobat given the cost savings and the features.
Chose Tungsten Power PDF
I have been a past Acrobat user and high price points for equivalent functionality and the continual need to update drove me to what was then Nuance Power PDF and I have not looked back since. At the time, I started to use Power PDF, I also became a PaperPort user and found the …
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Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
MSB Docs
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Score 9.7 out of 10
PDFfiller
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 6.0 out of 10
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Kofax PaperPortTungsten Power PDF
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(9 ratings)
9.1
(574 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.6
(110 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(45 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(13 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(13 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(423 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
3.6
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(33 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(9 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(10 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(12 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(7 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(7 ratings)
User Testimonials
Kofax PaperPortTungsten Power PDF
Likelihood to Recommend
Kofax
Kofax PaperPort is great for any office that has paper documents - seriously! We have set up multiple businesses to use Kofax PaperPort to cut down their storage of paper receipts, invoices, documents, etc by nearly 90%! Their office is much better organized and they have the ability to edit PDF Documents for a lot cheaper than buying Adobe Acrobat.
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
Excellent for converting PDF to Word, truly effortless. Does a wonderful job of reducing file sizes. I have been able to reduce files sizes by up to 80%, which is great if you are working within an e-mail system that has file size limits. Does an amazing job of inserting accurate bookmarks (automatically) when combining multiple documents. Easy to remove unwanted documents and replace with others, as well as rearrange PDF's. Absolutely love and has saved so much time in the workplace using the electronic signature features
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Pros
Kofax
  • With Kofax PaperPort, documents can be merged, pages can be extracted from multiple documents and combined to make a new PDF document. It is an important feature as one needs to do it very often and more ubiquitous pdf readers like Adobe Acrobat Reader DC lacks functionalities like these.
  • Kofax PaperPort scans the documents and using it's OCR, converts these scans to searchable PDF documents so that these documents can be searched based on the text content in them.
  • Functionality to convert other formats to PDF and PDF to other formats. This is important as many times , we need to upload certain documents only in a specific format and conversion is required to and from PDF format.
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
  • Typewriter functionality is great, although can take some time to load. This allows you to fill in text wherever applicable without turning the rest of the pdf into editable text.
  • Fast load times
  • Has autogenerated text feature so anything in the pdf can become editable
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Cons
Kofax
  • It should have a back button, so if you go from one folder to the next, it would be simple to get back to the first folder.
  • When you combine two PDFs, it should retain the title of the one that's on top.
  • The send to bar should be easier to change.
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
  • I find that quickly editing text within a document or adding a line of text is clunky and can snowball into things popping out of place. I prefer to export text, and then work on it elsewhere.
  • Sometimes it seems that text recognition is trying too hard and throws me paper punches as "O"s and wrinkles as shapes, so I have to get rid of those artifacts.
  • The "Update Available" popup which is usually not an actual update announcement but rather an offer to sell me something is annoying.
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Likelihood to Renew
Kofax
PaperPort has a few quirks, but it is the only program of its kind that actually does what it claims to do. The power of it is so much more than they claim especially when it comes to trying to achieve a truly paperless office. With PDF editing built-in, it also saves considerable investment in other PDF editing programs.
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
This program can do everything that acrobat can do. Kofax PDF is priced so that we can afford to purchase for more employees when we need to. Since we are hoping to grow exponentially in the next few years, this product will be the one we go with. I'm very happy with Kofax Power PDF
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Usability
Kofax
No answers on this topic
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
It is fast and easy to get the hang of. It really didn't take a lot of effort to learn how to use this program and I appreciated that it was pretty "plug and play" and there wasn't a long learning curve.
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Reliability and Availability
Kofax
No answers on this topic
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
Other that a PDF partially disappearing if left up for a long period of time - no issues. (If you close it and reopen it, it is all there. We have some PDFs that are 400-600 pages long.)
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Performance
Kofax
No answers on this topic
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
Pages nearly always load at the expected rapid speed. Some documents that print quickly from Adobe Reader print much more slowly from Power PDF. I have never generated a report - that's a feature I didn't know existed until now and do not know what it's for
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Support Rating
Kofax
No answers on this topic
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
I haven't had much interaction with support for this product as it is relatively easy for me to use and intuitive. When Kofax acquired the program it rewrote some of the features and I think I reached out for help at one point but tech support provided a quick answer. I did have a very positive experience with the sales staff who helped me get a discount on the current version because I'm a long-time user.
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In-Person Training
Kofax
No answers on this topic
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
I got an overview of the product from my predecessor who was about to retire from the job I now hold. He did not go into very many of the features and probably only knew about the ones he used most frequently.
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Online Training
Kofax
No answers on this topic
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
We watched the training videos and tested out the features and functionality side by side. Some features are not used on a regular basis is it is convenient to go back and review training on that particular functionality when needed.
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Implementation Rating
Kofax
No answers on this topic
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
Easy and quick, with no problems or support needed. Worked as intended right out of the box. E-signing was the only area that implementation was dificult and required support
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Alternatives Considered
Kofax
I was ecstatic to see someone moving PaperPort away from Nuance (Those in my circle of friends refer to them as Nuisance). The lack of customer involvement by Nuance made finding answers to things that sometimes irritate a user to being downright frustrating. Maybe the purchase of Nuance by Microsoft will allow the company to focus more on the customer.
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
I think Adobe Acrobat is very slow and does not perform well with large documents. I often have documents that are thousands of pages long and with Adobe it's very difficult to open and load the document, let alone make changes. Kofax Power PDF, on the other hand, responds and performs well regardless of the document size.
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Scalability
Kofax
No answers on this topic
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
Not really familiar since I'm the only person who uses it. But in the past it has been my understanding that Power PDF was offered only on a single-license basis, so it's been expensive for me to use it at home and at work because I had to pay for it on my own. In my current position management supports it so I at least only have to pay for it once.
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Return on Investment
Kofax
  • Less amount of money is spent for filing purpose as less number of people and space are required for filing purpose now.
  • Information retrieval has become way faster as documents can be searched based on labels or on the basis of their content.
  • Lot of options to improve the quality of the scanned image.
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
  • Saved time and paper putting together binders of documents or Affidavits electronically, not to mention very functional when working from home!
  • It's one price, no monthly or yearly payments. I loved Kofax Power PDF so much that when I moved to a smaller firm I recommended it as a good purchase for the company to invest in.
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ScreenShots

Tungsten Power PDF Screenshots

Screenshot of The PDF Create Assistant can be used to create multiple PDFs at the same time from a variety of source formats. Create individual PDFs, or combine into one PDF package.Screenshot of PDF Profiles can be created to apply commonly desired settings to new PDF documents that you create in Power PDF.Screenshot of Users may choose to change the application's color to purple, blue, light gray or dark gray.Screenshot of Some lightweight document automation can also be achieved with the Watched Folder and Sequence features.Screenshot of Packages can be signed with pre built templates using Kofax Sign Doc or other integrating e-signersScreenshot of PDFs can be navigated with a thumbnail view