It uses a built-in optical character recognition to create files in searchable Portable Document Format (PDF); text in these files is indexed and can be searched for with appropriate software, such as Microsoft's Windows Search.
PaperPort allows scanned documents to be separated into individual pages, and reassembled into new PDF files.
[3] An open-source program called Paperman provides basic functionality for Linux (and has been partially ported to macOS).
[5] The software used a visual metaphor for dragging pages and a typewriter function for annotating electronic documents.
[5] In December 2019, the Nuance document division, which included PaperPort, was sold to Kofax.