Tungsten PaperPort

Overview
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Tungsten PaperPort
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Tungsten 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
Pricing
Tungsten PaperPort
Editions & Modules
PaperPort Standard
$99
one-time fee per license
PaperPort Professional
$199
one-time fee per license
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Tungsten PaperPort
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPerpetual license products, there are no subscription or maintenance fees. Buy once, own forever.
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Community Pulse
Tungsten PaperPort
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Tungsten PaperPort
Chose Tungsten PaperPort
Tungsten PaperPort has actually gone through SEVERAL ownership changes since I began using it - I think I initially started using it when it came bundled with a Visioneer scanner...?... but regardless, I've used it for a very long time, and it's continued to get better. I've …
Chose Tungsten PaperPort
Kofax PaperPort is considerably cheaper than Adobe Acrobat (Pro) and includes so much more than just PDF editing. It allows us to scan, organize, search, and manipulate our documents on the computer instead of in physical filing cabinets. The time saved doing document …
Chose Tungsten 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.
Chose Tungsten PaperPort
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 …
Chose Tungsten PaperPort
Purchased the Pro because of prior history with Nuance PaperPort. Wish I had done research prior to spending $199.
Chose Tungsten PaperPort
PaperPort is superior in both ease of use and functionality.
Chose Tungsten PaperPort
I don't know of any other software that manages as much as PaperPort and have never looked as I have been using the software for over 20 years! I started using the Pro version likely about 10-15 years ago.
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User Ratings
Tungsten PaperPort
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Tungsten PaperPort
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Pros
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.
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Cons
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.
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Likelihood to Renew
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.
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Usability
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.
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Alternatives Considered
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
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
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