
This new article provides working links for 11.2 that Nuance says will continue to work after the other ones have been taken down. Although the links in the previous article for 11.2 still work, Nuance informed me that they may soon stop working. The earlier point releases of PP11 - 11.0 and 11.1 - are known to have bugs that were fixed in 11.2. In addition, a user of one version is not going to be concerned about the other two versions, so I decided to create three separate articles for PP11, PP12, and PP14 users. I decided that adding PP14 to the previous article would result in a long, unwieldy article. Now the latest version is PP14 (yes, Nuance was superstitious and skipped 13), and its latest "point" release is 14.5.

At the time of that article's publication, PP11 and PP12 were the two latest versions. More features are available in the more expensive Home and Pro editions of this software.In a previous article (now deprecated), I discussed how to upgrade - at no cost for licensed users - Nuance's PaperPort Version 11 (hereafter, PP11) and PaperPort Version 12 (PP12) to the latest "point" releases, namely, 11.2 and 12.1. You can even use the software to simply manage images you didn't scan yourself. For a simple piece of software it's very feature-rich: you can scan documents in batches crop and edit them save them as encrypted PDFs and more. PaperScan Free Edition is particularly useful if you happen to have an older printer and can no longer find software for it or if your printer's bundled software isn't easy to use - hardly a rare occurrence.

Unlike most scanner software this tool isn't limited to just one make you can use it with any compatible device. The software also includes optical character recognition (OCR) which lets you scan a document and convert it not into an image but an editable document. You can use this software to scan a document edit it and save it as one of a number of different file types. PaperScan Free Edition is a universal scanner utility that works with a wide range of different scanners.

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