I have been a big fan of Paperport over the years, although there is no lack of PDF tools now for storing/viewing/combining/edting/searching PDF. Various file viewers and browsers (such as XnView) also allow one to add comments about a file for searching. Just to mention there is a open source equivalent of Paperport called Maxview, and I use it. It is much less capable than real Paperport, but it has some key features that make it handy for me. <u>Key Features of MaxView</u> Programmed in C and very fast Saves to the old .max format -- compact, and will view some of your old .max files from real Paperport Has the same desktop, combine/burst/delete thumbnails motif as Paperport Prints to ps, easy to convert to pdf Very fast scanner function, so works well as a copy/scan to desktop Only works on Linux, need qt (from KDE) libraries to work.
The URL for the maxview project on sourceforge is: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129198 Screen shots of how this program looks are here: http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=129198&ssid=29599