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Albert C. Hi. I bought Home Document Manager a couple of days ago here at BDJ. I have a question: what's the difference between the capabilities of PDF Scan Pro and those of Home Document Manager? Does PDF Scan Pro have additional tools or is HDM the "big brother" with all the tools plus others?
Thanks a lot for your time!

Apr 23 2010 at 12:05am Copy Link

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Tim Haughton Hi Albert - PDF Scan Pro currently has more advanced PDF creation capabilities. It can, for instance, add and remove pages from a scan. It can reorder the pages and rotate them.

It creates searchable PDF files, but does not organise them. Home Document Manager was design to be kind of like Outlook for your paperwork, PDF Scan Pro is aimed at people who want to go paperless, but would rather manage the PDFs themselves.

The more advanced PDF capabilities will be added to Home Document Manager soon too.

Dokix Inc - Apr 23 2010 at 12:11am Copy Link

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Albert C. Thanks a lot for your answer Tim! I'm grabbing a license next Friday! ^_^

Apr 23 2010 at 9:33am Copy Link

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Tim Haughton ***Update published***

Not one for standing still, I've just released an update this morning which allows you to scan documents straight in to Google Docs. Works with standard Google Docs accounts as well as with Google Apps accounts.

It's a first version of our Google Docs integration, and we'll refine and improve it based on feedback. Happy shredding!

Dokix Inc - Apr 24 2010 at 10:35pm Copy Link

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bsr007 Hi Tim,
I installed the trial version of PDF Scan Pro yesterday. In order to install the latest update do I download the trial again and install over the top of the previous version? (or do I need to uninstall the previous version first?)

Apr 25 2010 at 3:46am Copy Link

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Tim Haughton Hi Brenton - assuming your machine is connected to the Internet, PDF Scan Pro will update itself when you run it. It's around 60meg, so just give it time to update. Any problems let me know.

Dokix Inc - Apr 25 2010 at 3:49am Copy Link

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bsr007 Hi Tim - PDF Scan Pro updated successfully and I can see the new Google Docs save button. Thanks for your help.

Apr 25 2010 at 4:03am Copy Link

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Jon Koerner @Developer -- Please clarify your previous statement. Are you saying that the plan is to improve Home Document Manager so as to include ALL of the features of PDF Scan Pro?

Apr 30 2010 at 8:52am Copy Link

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Tim Haughton @Jon - It's my intention to add page reordering and rotation to Home Document Manager. I also plan to add advance document clean-up to PDF Scan Pro, such as despeckle, holepunch removal, geometry correction etc. There are no current plans to add that to Home Document Manager.

Dokix Inc - Apr 30 2010 at 9:07am Copy Link

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Robert Keen Have the trial version, am able to scan with no problem. But, the program does not show me how to find what I scanned. Please advise as I have only till 12am EST to make my decision as to wheither I want this program or not.

Apr 30 2010 at 9:08am Copy Link

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Tim Haughton @Bob, when you click 'Save', you specify the location.

Dokix Inc - Apr 30 2010 at 9:10am Copy Link

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Robert Keen I understand that, what I need to know is how do I use the program to find the scanned document that I need? Or is this program just anouther scan program?

Apr 30 2010 at 9:29am Copy Link

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Tim Haughton @Bob - PDF Scan Pro is not a desktop document management application, it simply offers the easiest and cheapest way to convert paper into searchable PDF files.

To find files, you can use Windows Search. Or if you require a desktop document management application you might want to try our product (Home Document Manager)

Dokix Inc - Apr 30 2010 at 9:39am Copy Link

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Jon Koerner That last comment by developer totally confuses things...
The BDJ Description of this product above certainly implies that this program enables user to FIND documents that contain the information he is seeking. Now you say that it cannot find files. ????

Apr 30 2010 at 9:52am Copy Link

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Jon Koerner Please tell us plain & simply what are the differences between this program and Home Document Manager. Where is a comparison chart?

Apr 30 2010 at 9:55am Copy Link

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Tim Haughton @Jon, most modern operating systems have a search technology which allows the finding of information. Whether it's Windows Search or Google Desktop.

PDF Scan Pro uses OCR to create searchable PDFs. This means that your computer can index the documents, allowing you to use Windows Search (or other technology) to find the documents you're looking for.

Home Document Manager is a desktop document management application. As well as creating searchable PDFs (and support for many other file formats) it can organise files (with folders and tags) and maintains its own index of files for quick searching.

Dokix Inc - Apr 30 2010 at 10:14am Copy Link

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Jon Koerner @Tim - Please explain whether/why I should purchase Home Document Manager or PDF Scan Pro, if I already own the Fujitsu Scan Snap? Comparison chart? (I guess same could be asked about comparison to Paper Port software.)

Apr 30 2010 at 10:16am Copy Link

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Tim Haughton @Jon can I turn the question upside down? What problem do you have that you want to solve with a piece of software? What are you trying to do?

Dokix Inc - Apr 30 2010 at 10:21am Copy Link

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Roger Thomasson @ Jon Without OCR technology, scanned documents are not searchable via any search engine, desktop or otherwise. This is because a non-OCR scan simply generates a flat image. A scan that utilizes OCR, however, is searchable because the scanned characters have been identified and converted into actual ACSII (or Unicode?) text. PDF Scan Pro does not include a search mechanism, but it does make documents searchable by Windows Explorer, Google Desktop, or any other search engine capable of parsing text. Chances are your existing scan software will not do this unless it uses OCR. I altered the copy slightly, hopefully it will clear up any confusion.

BitsDuJour Admin - Apr 30 2010 at 10:29am Copy Link

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Jon Koerner @Roger - I understand all of that, thanks, what confused me was that the description copy here gave the impression that PDFScanPro *also* had built-in search system. Your edit helped a bit, but it still does tend to lead one to that impression.

Apr 30 2010 at 11:57am Copy Link

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Jon Koerner @Tim - it's quite simple. The problem I am trying to solve is: Way too much paper all over the place here, impossible to find anything in the mess. So, I am looking for the BEST solution, best way to move to paperless. Fujitsu ScanSnap system is a pretty darned fantastic leap in the history of attempts to progress toward that goal with software. If you (Home Document Manager) has something that significantly improves on ScanSnap, then I want to hear about it.

I saw on your HDM website that you show how to make HDM work with ScanSnap, but you don't say WHY one ought to do so.

So please do tell us what are its advantages vs. ScanSnap.

If you can convince me that it has some, then I'll regret having passed it by on the April 21 BDJ sale, and try to get it. (Though I passed it by then for a different reason....)

Apr 30 2010 at 12:05pm Copy Link

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Peter Basralian Can this program be used with the PC or Mac or both if I use Google Docs? Basically, I'm switching over to Mac. File organization is the critical part of scanning. Is there any example setup you have for cataloqing the scanned files for later retrieval?
Thanks

May 7 2010 at 5:32am Copy Link

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