
For those interested in understanding the differences between Standard and Professional, the feature comparison matrix for PP12 is available at: It turns out that Nuance does offer a FREE upgrade to 11.2 and 12.1, and this EE Article explains where to get the download and how to install it properly.įor both PP11 and PP12, there are two consumer versions – "plain" PP (we'll call this Standard from now on, although Nuance doesn't use this terminology, except in URLs) and Professional. Unfortunately, the feature in both PP11 and PP12 is broken, so it's not clear how to upgrade. The ".0" releases are known to have bugs that have been fixed in subsequent releases, the latest being 11.2 for PP11 and 12.1 for PP12. In many cases, people are on PP11.0 and PP12.0. These are the two most recent production releases of PP, although there are rumors of a PP14 (yes, the rumors have Nuance being superstitious and skipping Version 13). I have been involved in numerous questions here at Experts Exchange where members have been using Nuance's PaperPort Version 11 (hereafter, PP11) and PaperPort Version 12 (PP12). PaperPort 14 - Free Upgrade to Version 14.5 PaperPort 12 - Free Upgrade to Version 12.1 PaperPort 11 - Free Upgrade to Version 11.2 In addition, a user of one version is not going to be concerned about the other two versions, so I published three separate articles for PP11, PP12, and PP14 users. I also decided that adding PP14 information to both PP11 and PP12 would result in a long, unwieldy article. To deal with such a substantial number of changes, I decided to deprecate this article. Lastly, there are "Standard versus Professional" feature comparison matrices for all three versions (this article shows the one only for PP12). In addition, Nuance provided links to a "Remover Tool" for all three versions. The new links are to direct downloads of the upgrades (PP11.2, PP12.1, PP14.5), rather than to a Download Request Form, as with the previous links.

However, Nuance provided new links for them, as well as links for the latest version, PaperPort 14 (there was no PaperPort 13). The links in this article for the PaperPort 12 upgrades no longer work and Nuance informed me that the links for the PaperPort 11 ones may soon stop working.

Update 13-December-2014: Article Deprecated.
