I have been trying the new version of Devonthink Pro since it was released at the end of November. DEVONthink Professional Office is currently in beta testing, its full prince will be US$ 139.95, and its main features include, according to the blurb:
- “Advanced Email Archiving
- Import email from all major email applications
- Store messages including formatting and attachments
- Apple Mail plugin, inserts convenient commands into Mail’s menu
- Enhanced Workflow
- Share your database on your LAN or the Internet
- Built-in web server
- Import Paper Documents
- Create PDFs of any paper documents with a Image Capture compatible flatbed scanner
- Run optical character recognition (OCR) on scanned documents to make them searchable
- Use the Fujitsu ScanSnap auto-feeder scanner to digitize batches of paper documents to searchable PDF files”
I have not yet all the new features and the “integrated web server allow[ing] other users on the local network or on the Internet to search your database” does sound most intriguing. Nevertheless, I have found the built-in optical character recognition, based on the industrial-strength ReadIRIS engine, most resourceful for my specific needs as an academic. This is so much so that I shall soon be upgrading to the Office version. I have recently been converting a number of documents from a pdf format to rich text format. It is a lot more convenient than using a separate programme. I had been testing a few this year, but DTP Office will save me the cost of purchasing such a OCR software (WorkingPapers X Pro 2.2.2, my first choice, would have cost me US$99.00 for an internet download).
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