Kofax Power PDF vs. OpenText Documentum

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kofax Power PDF
Score 9.1 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Kofax Power PDF 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 Kofax SignDoc for a complete end-to-end document lifecycle…
$129
one-time fee per license
OpenText Documentum
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
OpenText acquired Documentum from Dell EMC in 2017, and now supports the enterprise content management (ECM) system. The vendor says users can build content-centric applications and solutions from collaborating on business documents to delivering case-based applications to managing highly precise processes in the most regulated business environments.N/A
Pricing
Kofax Power PDFOpenText Documentum
Editions & Modules
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Kofax Power PDFOpenText Documentum
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsDesktop 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. Visit any Power PDF page on kofax.com and ask for a human in the chat bot to learn more.
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Features
Kofax Power PDFOpenText Documentum
Enterprise Content Management
Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Kofax Power PDF
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Ratings
OpenText Documentum
9.2
7 Ratings
9% above category average
Content capture & imaging00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
File sync, storage & archiving00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Document management00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Records management00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Content search & retrieval00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Content publishing & creation00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Automated workflows00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Artificial intelligence00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Mobile support00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Integration00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
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User Ratings
Kofax Power PDFOpenText Documentum
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(456 ratings)
9.0
(10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.5
(106 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(41 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.5
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.1
(12 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(371 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
In-Person Training
3.6
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(32 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
5.8
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.0
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
5.9
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
6.3
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Kofax Power PDFOpenText Documentum
Likelihood to Recommend
Kofax
Our Prosecutor's office uses Power PDF heavily for redaction of documents published for Court proceedings. Our Assessor's office uses Power PDF to collect information for processing Homeowner Exemption Forms for the public. IT/PIO use Power PDF to create documents we publish on our main website for the public to download, fill out, and return.
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OpenText
Documentum is best used in medium to large institutions that can afford it, have alternate solutions for web publishing, and who have either in-house developers or can hire good Documentum developers (not the ones who know Java but do not understand ECM). It is, in my opinion, the best heavy duty ECM solution out there, assuming OT is not gutting it as we speak. That is my only hesitation to not giving it a 10, OpenText is an unknown quantity in this and I worry that they will only support Documentum until they have figured out how to fill the gap between Documentum and OT and then offer a migration path to OT with a Documentum sunsetting as an incentive.
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Pros
Kofax
  • Power PDF integrates well with the Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office ) modules. This makes it very convenient to create .pdf documents directly from Microsoft Word and Excel and automatically open the resulting .pdf document in Kofax Power PDF for any required post processing.
  • Power PDF allows easy "drag-and-drop" assembly of a .pdf document composed of pages from various other .pdf documents. This capability is crucial to generating a single cohesive .pdf document from a variety of source applications.
  • Power PDF's cropping function allows for easily picking out excerpts from a .pdf document for use in other .pdf documents or other applications. The ability to save these files in JPEG format also provides good flexibility for importing to other applications.
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OpenText
  • Records management: Compared to other content management systems, this provides a efficient and scalable solution. It gives lot of flexibility in managing the content as Records or Legal holds.
  • Workflow system has external plugins to connect with FAX, Mail, Database and FTP servers etc. which gives an option to integrate with any system with documentum.
  • Creation of websites and maintenance is easy. Content authors can create the pages with effective mechanism.
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Cons
Kofax
  • Difficult to add stamps - wanted to add a "checkmark" stamp and had to first find an image then work hard to make it a stamp
  • Would be nice to have a better library of stamps for different use cases
  • Sometimes the "search and redact" feature misses things if they are not exactly right. For example, the same numbers with a hyphen are found but without a hyphen, they are not.
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OpenText
  • WDK framework has been the biggest drawbacks from the application speed point of view, as well as client complexity and not so natural look and feel. Yes, with the latest releases much of these features are improved.
  • EMC is very expensive to buy, own and support, where some products require many dependent Docuemntum products to be installed to work at its best.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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OpenText
Stability is a key factor as well as its flexibility. Also, any organization that deploys Documentum will have made a significant investment in terms of time and money, so not renewing its commitment can come with a significant cost. That said, the decision to deploy Documentum initially should come only after extensive evaluation, knowing that once deployed it will likely remain the platform of choice.
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Usability
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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OpenText
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Reliability and Availability
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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OpenText
No answers on this topic
Performance
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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OpenText
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Kofax
I haven't had to use the support yet, but I will give this company the benefit of the doubt before giving it a lower than stellar rating, especially because the product itself is integral to my business and therefore incredibly beneficial to me.
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OpenText
Support is better than with ECM, but could use some improvement.
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In-Person Training
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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OpenText
No answers on this topic
Online Training
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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OpenText
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
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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OpenText
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Kofax
When I started using PDF software, I only knew of Adobe. I quickly learned Acrobat and found my way around that software pretty well. I tried others, like PDFCreator, but I stuck with Adobe until I switched to Kofax/Nuance. It was quick, simple, and seamless. It has a similar look and feel as Adobe; it has all of the same features; for the most part, the icons and menus are very similar in appearance and location; and the software, in general, is fairly intuitive.
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OpenText
At the time it was purchased it was one of the best, most robust solutions available on the market.
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Scalability
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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OpenText
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Kofax
  • The ability to make images of text searchable enables me to do my job. Without this ability it was virtually impossible to find relevant information in these large documents.
  • The return on investment was huge. I can now take on much more work than before.
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OpenText
  • After this product, the client is able to manage content security and due to it, the client is able to use the business process, and this really reduces effort and increases the profit in business.
  • It provides integration with SAP easily which really helps the client to manage this effectively and with minimum effort system is ready to use.
  • Also searching, automated flows also create a bigger impact and reduce a lot manual effort.
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ScreenShots

Kofax 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 Sign packages with pre built templates using Kofax Sign Doc or other integrating e-signersScreenshot of Quickly navigate a PDF with thumbnail view