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    Mendeley

    Score2.7 out of 10
    N/AMendeley, 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

    Tungsten PaperPort

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ATungsten PaperPort (formerly from Kofax and 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

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    MendeleyTungsten PaperPort
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    PaperPort Standard
    $99
    one-time fee per license
    PaperPort Professional
    $199
    one-time fee per license
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MendeleyTungsten PaperPort
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Perpetual license products, there are no subscription or maintenance fees. Buy once, own forever.
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    MendeleyTungsten PaperPort
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    Mendeley
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    MendeleyTungsten PaperPort
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Usability
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    Support Rating
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    User Testimonials
    MendeleyTungsten PaperPort
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Tungsten Automation formerly 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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    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
    Incentivized
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    Tungsten Automation formerly 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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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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    Tungsten Automation formerly 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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Mendeley
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    Tungsten Automation formerly 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.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Mendeley
    No answers on this topic
    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    For us, it's only focusing processes that we're already doing... creating folders, placing scanned files into those folders, then searching for and opening up those files later, as needed. It just helps us view everything in one place - very convenient. Further, being able to drag non-native files to their corresponding source app for editing (Word, Excel, etc) is pretty nice.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Tungsten Automation formerly 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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    Return on Investment
    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!
    Incentivized
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    • Simple focus on organization of files
    • Efficient later, when searching for files
    • Convenient throughout the office, as we're all accessing a shared data store
    Incentivized
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