Windows 95, $39
You know it's easier to work if you can lay your hands on the documents you need when you need them, and if you've cleaned all the other documents off your desk that you don't need at that moment. Whether the documents are paper or electronic, PageKeeper helps you do that. And then when you need those other documents again, PageKeeper knows right where they are.
The neat thing is that you store documents in the way that works best for you, using familiar Windows tools like drag and drop, cut and paste, folders, and more. The result? A clean desk (both virtual and real), and a calm mind.
You place documents in PageKeeper by scanning them in, dragging them from your hard disk folders, adding them from the Internet, saving them from faxes received in Microsoft Exchange, or sending them to PageKeeper using your right mouse button and the Windows Send command. Once they've been added, PageKeeper never forgets where they are.
The ability to find and use documents from so many sources gives you a great handle on the information overload that threatens every PC user these days.
Documents can be text or pictures; PageKeeper doesn't care. PageKeeper's secret is integrated optical character recognition (OCR) that reads the words in every scanned document, and automatically identifies the text in electronic documents. So you can easily find any document by searching on a word. With graphics that don't contain words, you can add annotations and then search on the words in the annotations. And thumbnails make it easy for you to browse quickly through lots of documents on the desktop -- especially graphics documents.
So, search and retrieval are easy. But there's much more to managing documents than just being able to find them quickly and easily. How about clipping them together with other documents, just like using a paper clip? You can electronically clip spreadsheets, photos, drawings and letters to each other regardless of file type, making it easy to have every relevant document on hand when it's time to work on a particular project.
Documents can "be" in more than one place at the same time, thanks to PageKeeper's use of pointers to represent the actual documents. There's actually only one physical file, which doesn't get altered or moved. But, you can work as if there were actual copies in every folder that needs a copy. Beginning to see the possibilities of this versatile, flexible program?
Want to modify a document? Nothing easier. Just click the document to highlight it and then click an icon button on the PageKeeper toolbar to launch the document's native application or its closest available equivalent. Or, you can set PageKeeper to launch the native app as soon as you double-click the document.
The PageKeeper Application Toolbar lets you open documents in any Windows application. You can open a scanned document in Microsoft Word, for example, or in your web browser. Or open a PDF file in Word.
For only $39, this gem of a program keeps you functioning at your efficient best. Get organized -- it feels GREAT!
"PageKeeper Standard" includes an "OmniPage" engine for optical character recognition that provides superior accuracy. With OCR built into your document management application, you can use text from scanned images and find a document later by searching for a word in the document.
The simple ability to electronically "clip" associated documents together can help you think and work more effectively.
In addition to black-and-white and gray-scale documents, "PageKeeper Standard" handled up to 24bit color documents without a problem.
As a reporter, I clip stories for future reference. In the past I just stacked them up, making it hard to locate the clip I needed. Now, I just scan them in and "PageKeeper" never forgets where they are.