PaperPort

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| title = Tungsten PaperPort

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| developer = Visioneer

| released = {{start date|1995|05|30}} {{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=elneMPYGaagC&q=visioneer+paperport+dos&pg=PA328 |title=PC Magazine |author= |date=May 30, 1995 |website=www.pcmag.com |publisher=Ziff Davis Publishing Company |access-date=September 12, 2017 |quote=}}

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| latest release version = PaperPort 14.7 (Windows)
PaperPort Notes Version 2.1.0 (iPad)

| latest release date = {{start date and age|2020|12|11}}{{Cite web|url=https://knowledge.kofax.com/MFD_Productivity/Overview-Downloads/PaperPort_Product_Release_Information|title = PaperPort Product Release Information|date = 29 March 2021}} (Windows)
{{Start date and age|2013|11|13}} (iPad)

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| operating system = Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11

| platform = x86, x64

| size = 4.7 MB (iPad)

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| genre = PDF software

| license = Proprietary software

| website = {{URL|https://www.tungstenautomation.com/products/paperport}}

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PaperPort is commercial document management software published by Tungsten Automation, used for working with scanned documents. It uses a built-in optical character recognition to create files in searchable Portable Document Format (PDF); text in these files is indexed and can be searched for with appropriate software, such as Microsoft's Windows Search. Earlier versions of PaperPort used OmniPage to provide this function. It provides image editing tools for these files.{{cite web |last= |first= |date=2024-08-10 |title=PaperPort Guide |url=https://whatisnuance.com/paperport-guide/ |website=whatisnuance.com |location= |publisher=What is Nuance |access-date=2025-04-11}}

PaperPort allows scanned documents to be separated into individual pages, and reassembled into new PDF files.

Originally, PaperPort created files in .MAX file format natively, but later versions use PDF. Versions of PaperPort from V14 cannot edit .MAX files, but they can be converted to PDF, which can be edited.

PaperPort only supports Windows. It previously supported iOS and was compatible with the iPad.{{cite web |url=https://appadvice.com/app/paperport-anywhere/450834614 |title=PaperPort Anywhere by Nuance Communications |quote=Removed from the App Store}} An open-source program called Paperman provides basic functionality for Linux (and has been partially ported to macOS).{{Citation|last=sglass68|title=Paper managing and scanning: an electronic filing cabinet - sglass68/paperman|date=2019-04-20|url=https://github.com/sglass68/paperman|access-date=2019-05-05}}