Kofax PaperPort vs. Mendeley

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kofax PaperPort
Score 7.9 out of 10
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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
Mendeley
Score 5.0 out of 10
N/A
Mendeley, an Elsevier company headquartered in London, offers their eponymous reference management software suite, including Mendeley Reference Manager, Web Importer, the Citation Plugin add-on, available in Premium package.N/A
Pricing
Kofax PaperPortMendeley
Editions & Modules
PaperPort Standard
$99
one-time fee per license
PaperPort Professional
$199
one-time fee per license
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Kofax PaperPortMendeley
Free Trial
YesNo
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.—
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Kofax PaperPortMendeley
Small Businesses
Square 9 Softworks
Square 9 Softworks
Score 9.7 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
MSB Docs
MSB Docs
Score 9.7 out of 10

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Enterprises
M‑Files
M‑Files
Score 9.2 out of 10

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User Ratings
Kofax PaperPortMendeley
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(9 ratings)
2.0
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Kofax PaperPortMendeley
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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Mendeley
Mendeley Desktop used to be a decent software, and comparatively one of the best among Reference Managers. The new online version is beyond expectations
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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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Mendeley
  • Easy to use interface
  • The use of font size and style makes information easily discoverable within the article previews
  • Drag-and-drop functions make article indexing particularly simple
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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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Mendeley
  • In my opinion, terrible web-based function in the new version
  • Very difficult to annotate and search in PDF's
  • New version removed many previous functions
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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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Mendeley
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Support Rating
Kofax
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Mendeley
There are a lot of references that do a good job troubleshooting, although I am not sure there is a direct number to an actual person.
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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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Mendeley
Microsoft EndNote. Mendeley has better user interface and is able to store, sort and organize a large number of articles effectively. Also can import and extract information from citations from articles online without the entire full text pdf availability. Can be used and accessed from portable devices such as iPads and mobile phones as well.
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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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Mendeley
  • It is great that for instance, you download the paper you need once, and share it with your entire team.
  • You can present your annotation with the team!
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