<s>
PaperPort	B-Language
is	O
commercial	B-Application
document	O
management	O
software	O
published	O
by	O
Kofax	O
,	O
used	O
for	O
working	O
with	O
scanned	O
documents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
uses	O
a	O
built-in	O
optical	B-Application
character	I-Application
recognition	I-Application
to	O
create	O
files	B-Operating_System
in	O
searchable	O
Portable	B-Application
Document	I-Application
Format	I-Application
(	O
PDF	B-Application
)	O
;	O
text	O
in	O
these	O
files	B-Operating_System
is	O
indexed	O
and	O
can	O
be	O
searched	O
for	O
with	O
appropriate	O
software	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
Microsoft	O
's	O
Windows	B-Application
Search	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Earlier	O
versions	O
of	O
PaperPort	B-Language
used	O
OmniPage	B-Application
to	O
provide	O
this	O
function	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
provides	O
image	O
editing	O
tools	O
for	O
these	O
files	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
PaperPort	B-Language
allows	O
scanned	O
documents	O
to	O
be	O
separated	O
into	O
individual	O
pages	O
,	O
and	O
reassembled	O
into	O
new	O
PDF	B-Application
files	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Originally	O
,	O
PaperPort	B-Language
created	O
files	B-Operating_System
in	O
.MAX	B-Language
file	O
format	O
natively	O
,	O
but	O
later	O
versions	O
use	O
PDF	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Versions	O
of	O
PaperPort	B-Language
from	O
V14	O
cannot	O
edit	O
.MAX	B-Language
files	B-Operating_System
,	O
but	O
they	O
can	O
be	O
converted	O
to	O
PDF	B-Application
,	O
which	O
can	O
be	O
edited	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
PaperPort	B-Language
only	O
supports	O
Windows	O
and	O
iOS	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Visioneer	O
,	O
the	O
original	O
developer	O
of	O
PaperPort	B-Language
,	O
first	O
released	O
its	O
predecessor	O
,	O
MaxMate	O
document	O
communications	O
software	O
bundled	O
with	O
the	O
MaxMate	O
scanner	O
and	O
MaxMate	O
Viewer	O
software	O
,	O
in	O
1994	O
for	O
DOS	O
,	O
Windows	O
and	O
Macintosh	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
integrated	O
with	O
optical	B-Application
character	I-Application
recognition	I-Application
(	O
OCR	O
)	O
software	O
for	O
converting	O
scanned	O
paper	O
documents	O
into	O
editable	O
electronic	O
documents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
December	O
2019	O
,	O
the	O
Nuance	O
document	O
division	O
,	O
which	O
included	O
PaperPort	B-Language
,	O
was	O
sold	O
to	O
Kofax	O
.	O
</s>
