Nitro Productivity Suite vs. Tungsten Capture

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Nitro Productivity Suite
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Nitro Productivity Suite combines electronic signature and general PDF editing, from Nitro, Inc. It is built around capabilities such as getting approvals and esignatures in seconds and sharing and reviewing documents from anywhere.
$9.99
per month per user
Tungsten Capture
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Tungsten Capture (formerly Kofax Capture) is a suite of multichannel document capture applications.
$3,500
per year
Pricing
Nitro Productivity SuiteTungsten Capture
Editions & Modules
Nitro Sign® Essentials
$9.99
per month billed annually per user
Nitro Sign® Advanced
$19.99
per month billed annually per user
Nitro Sign® Premium
Let's chat
Kofax Capture
$3,500
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Nitro Productivity SuiteTungsten Capture
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Nitro Productivity SuiteTungsten Capture
Best Alternatives
Nitro Productivity SuiteTungsten Capture
Small Businesses
Foxit eSign
Foxit eSign
Score 9.0 out of 10
Square 9 Softworks
Square 9 Softworks
Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
MSB Docs
MSB Docs
Score 9.4 out of 10
MSB Docs
MSB Docs
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
DocuSign
DocuSign
Score 8.7 out of 10
M‑Files
M‑Files
Score 8.9 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
Nitro Productivity SuiteTungsten Capture
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(17 ratings)
9.2
(9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.2
(3 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Nitro Productivity SuiteTungsten Capture
Likelihood to Recommend
Nitro, Inc
I run a professional services business from home. I need to edit documents quickly and easily and with minimal subscriptions to minimize overheads. I love that Nitro is a one-off payment to get a license to the software, and you can simply upgrade to the latest version if that's what you want, but you're not obligated to. I've been using the same version of Nitro for 7-8 years now. Despite the fact the upgraded versions have a lot of great, nice-to-have features, the version I'm on still does the job.
Read full review
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
Kofax [Capture] meets our needs and for the most part is easy to use and setup. Configuration could be a little bit easier. The scripting language is a double edge sword if you will. It gives you nearly unlimited possibilities to script what you need, but the downside is you have to script it. Does a good job at batching and scanning documents. The tool integrates well into our workflow which makes our business partners happy and in turn provides for happy customers.
Read full review
Pros
Nitro, Inc
  • Ability to combine files SEAMLESSLY and order them around as necessary (so underrated)
  • Signing not only for yourself but for others. Helpful for those who have been granted the authority to sign for VPs and directors
  • Much easier to use than some other PDF viewing services
Read full review
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
  • The VRS application included with Kofax Capture is the best image pre-processing platform available on the market today. It can handle a wide array of common document problems such as skew, flipping, wrinkles, lines, and dots.
  • The platform is incredibly scriptable and can be customized to handle all sorts of unusual document contents to allow information to be extracted that many other platforms just struggle on. Table extraction, line item matching, and smart extraction are all strong points with this platform.
  • Through the use of SBL and .NET the platform can be expanded and scaled quite easily to allow for the software to be integrated into existing business processes and platforms with ease.
Read full review
Cons
Nitro, Inc
  • Converting from PDF to Microsoft Word can be complicated at times. Some parts of a document such as tables are not converted properly.
  • Sometimes it appears to be easier to save MS Word documents to PDF rather than using NPS to convert. It can be a bit slow to convert at times.
  • In my view, it wasn't user friendly at the beginning.
Read full review
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
  • We struggled with configuring Kofax with AP Automation. We used to receive vouchers in different formats by different companies, by different departments. The people from different departments used to scan those vouchers through regular scanners to a central location, which ended up as image pdfs. We fed these image pdfs through Kofax Capture for character recognition, which was painful as the accuracy of recognition was 50 to 60%.
  • Having a connectors with a workflow tool would be helpful where people can validate and approve the output.
  • More samples and documentation related to use of API in .NET applications would be a good improvement, that would help users to adapt the product easily into their organization.
Read full review
Likelihood to Renew
Nitro, Inc
We will definitely be renewing the Nitro Productivity Suite. Saves the company a lot of money for something we use everyday
Read full review
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
Cost of Kofax is high, however the cost to benefit scenarios always pay off.
Read full review
Usability
Nitro, Inc
For the most part, the entire software is extremely easy to navigate and use. You won't need to follow tutorials or anything for the bulk of the core features, as it's all pretty seamlessly designed.
Read full review
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
It's good.
Read full review
Performance
Nitro, Inc
It works as advertised.
Read full review
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Nitro, Inc
Nitro checks all the boxes for what we need. It is fairly priced, it allows us to read and edit PDF documents, convert PDF to MS Word and convert MS Word to PDF. It allows us to combine multiple files and do all the post processing like adding page numbers and adding headers and footers
Read full review
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
Haven't really used their support yet
Read full review
Alternatives Considered
Nitro, Inc
Every 1-2 years will do a check on current PDF options to include trialing the software. Have tried Foxit and several that seem to have failed in the marketplace. Over the last 4 years, I have always stuck with Nitro. Unfortunately, we still need to keep Adobe Acrobat (free version) installed to view a small percentage of some PDFs we receive.
Read full review
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
Quality of data capture. Automatic data integration with Oracle and SAP ERP. Automatic image integration with Oracle and SAP ERP. Automatic invoice booking in Oracle and SAP ERP.
Read full review
Return on Investment
Nitro, Inc
  • ROI was very quick as the license costs were so low. We purchased 8 licenses versus the initial 2 we were planning on for Adobe.
  • More people were able to use the product than we initially thought due to low purchase costs.
  • We haven't had any further costs to own the product after the initial purchase. We would need to purchase new licenses if we wanted to upgrade.
Read full review
Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
  • We were able to decrease personnel expenditures as there was not a need for individuals to index documents prior to incorporating them into the record.
Read full review
ScreenShots