When it comes down to it, there appear to be three main products in the arena – Nuance’s PaperPort, Lucion’s FileCenter, and ITAZ’s Sohodox. GloboDox – Big brother to Sohodox, pricing starts at $399. PaperMaster – Appears to have been discontinued. What do you think? Have you seen other options out there? Tried PaperPort 14? Hate FileCenter? Let me know in the comments! Potential Alternatives: Scanitto – An inexpensive, basic scanning solution. 🙁 Sure, standard is only $50…but I want the professional…maybe I’ll wake up one day and the software fairy will leave a copy under my pillow…or maybe one day I’ll find that I really need an excellent application to perform document scanning and management – but right now, I don’t…and being a bit of a perfectionist, I don’t want the semi-good standard but the robust professional (I think their features are actually largely on parity with each other). Why? Because the Professional version of the product is $200. That said, I’m not using FileCenter right now. It feels so much smoother and more intuitive than PaperPort (at least version 12 – the last version I have access too). I began by doing a pretty extensive overview and in the end just fell head-over-heels for Lucion’s FileCenter… so I decided not to finish filling out all my charts and just let folks know I love FileCenter. So this is my attempt to find the best solution. Yikes! PaperPort was on the expensive side and a trial wasn’t readily available. I knew it originally came with PaperPort, but it didn’t have it by the time I took it in – so I went looking. Recently I took in a homeless Dell MFP with some issues (like frequent jamming while printing). In my experience MFPs and scanners generally come with some lite version of document scanning / management software – oftentimes an older version of Nuance’s PaperPort. Now we have these wonderful MFP devices at affordable prices with document feeders available to consumers and small businesses – it is a wonderful world! But what about the whole process of taking the captured image and moving it to data storage, formatting it, sorting it, perhaps running some OCR against it?
Scanners and scanning have come a long way from the old days.
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