We are using paperport 12 professional. It seems to be working ok, there are things that could be better but I would probably say that about anything that didn’t flow the way I think it should:). It is slower when I’m linking into a network folder and if I try to convert several documents at one time or do other things in bulk it's really too slow to use. Normal activity of stamping and making notes on the document, saving, printing and faxing seem to be ok. We are currently working around bulk conversion issue by having the front office staff do our conversions when the fax comes in. We have a dedicated machine hooked to our brother MFD. It’s only function is to accept incoming faxes and hold the shared folders for document management. It doesn’t even have AC on it. They use this machine to do all the conversions through a remote-desktop.
I’ve thought about several options around the networking issues. Use remote desktop to allow the user on the machine where all the shared folders are located. This would work well but it’s not really practical for everyone in the office to do. My next step will be to move my shared folders to the pc where they will be needed most. Physician folder on the physician pc, nurse call back/follow up folder on the specific nurse pc and so on… I’ve not tried this yet but I’m making the assumption my speed will increase and the only delay might come if you try to move things from one folder to the other in bulk.
Paperport 11 came with our Brother and I originally put it on several of our 32 bit vista machines with a 2 GHz processor running 4GB of ram and it was horribly slow. We received a new 32 bit 3GHz window 7 pro machine running 4GB RAM today. I elected not to install PP 11 and went straight to PP12, it is much much faster on the new device.
--- We just started using this software; they may tell me it’s too slow once we get through the “new” stage. I know many of you have much more experience but I already have the software and we are not seeing a big slow down. It appears like it might work for us.
