XnView Software

CCIroniesPP wrote: Sun May 29, 2022 10:45 am Does this read PP format ?
Presumably not as I can’t attach one as an example.

CCIroniesPP wrote: Mon May 30, 2022 9:22 am I used PP as an image format many years ago - are you saying XnView is mainly for text ?

https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/Max wrote:Nuance PaperPort Image file format

• Extension: max
• Company: Nuance Communications
• Samples: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=vigcj+filetype:max (google "vigcj" and find files with a .max extension)

This format is undiscovered, but has ViGCj as the first 5 bytes of the format. It has the ability to store both text and images for a document.

http://zenkov.freeforums.org/viewtopic. ... ef108d1f2c

Apparently uses leadtools image format to store the image in the file. Format partially reverse engineered here: http://maxview.cvs.sourceforge.net/maxv ... iew=markup

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/PaperPort_(MAX) wrote:PaperPort (MAX) is a proprietary image format used in early versions of the PaperPort document scanning and management software originally from Visioneer, then ScanSoft then Nuance Communications. In version 14 they switched to MAX files being read-only and to using the PDF format instead, making it possible to use standard tools with the files instead of being locked into proprietary tools from the original vendor.

Paperport MAX files begin with three bytes in ascii “ViG”

• PaperPort 2 files begin with ViGAe or ViGBe
• PaperPort 3-4 files begin with ViGCj
• PaperPort 5-7 files begin with ViGEm
• PaperPort 8-12 files begin with ViGFk

In order to migrate from version 2 to 5-7 you need to first convert to version 3-4 using the utility included with the install.

https://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6327 wrote:The MAX file format has been the proprietary image item format of PaperPort for many years. Since the introduction of the MAX format, the PDF file format has since become the standard for exchanging digital files. For that reason, there is no longer a need to preserve the proprietary format of MAX in PaperPort. In PaperPort 14, MAX files retain limited functionality and are now read only.
[…]
After installing PaperPort 14, the MAX to PDF Converter utility is available from the Windows Start Menu. This program automatically creates PDF Image or PDF Searchable files from existing MAX files, and can automatically detect all MAX files that are located on the computer. This utility can also transfer annotations from the original MAX file to the resulting PDF file.

XnTriq wrote: Sun Jun 22, 2014 6:30 pmXnView doesn't support this format, but Visioneer and Xerox provide a free viewer.

XnTriq wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:00 pm

http://web.archive.org/web/20100107022200/http://www.scansoft.com/paperport/viewers/ wrote:The PaperPort Viewer enables you to share PaperPort items with others who do not have PaperPort on their computer. It allows them to view and print PaperPort image items (.max files) that you send to them via e-mail.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090427220742/http://www.nuance.com/paperport/viewers/ wrote:The PaperPort Viewer enables you to share PaperPort items with others who do not have PaperPort on their computer. It allows them to view and print PaperPort image items (.max files) that you send to them via e-mail.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/688796/how-to-open-max-file/?p=4643704 wrote:.MAX was the native format for Nuance PaperPort. I use this myself.
You will need PaperPort in order to stack / manipulate them.
Nuance did have a viewer, but that was back in XP days and the link I have no longer works. These days, PaperPort saves in PDF by default, but will still open MAX files.

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/paperport-scansoft/#post-2290316 wrote:Not sure if this helps, but I had issues opening some of her old PP .MAX files a few years ago and came across a similar issue trying to view them.

I’ve used PaperPort Viewer 7.0 on my Win7Pro and now Win10Pro to view my wife’s years old scans in .MAX from early versions and most recent PP files. I can open them easily and see the scans/files. She still uses PP 8.0 and set it to run in Compatibility Mode with XP. It suits her fine, she hates change.

I can open her PP 8.0, open a .MAX scan file and then save it as a .png (and several other extensions) but not .pdf. So, if you can view them and save them as another file extension that you can use, that’s the only way I know. Kind of a PITB, but an option.

Both systems are running Win10Pro 64bit

• YouTube: How to convert Paperport max files to pdf
  “If you were an early user of Paperport / Visioneer then you may have a lot of files on your computer in the proprietary .max format which cannot be read by your current software. The single-file converter that used to be in the public domain no longer works. There is a batch converter in the current Paperport release which you can download for free (for 15 days) but it is less than perfect so I show you how to get the most out of it.”
• SourceForge: Maxview Document Management (Linux)
  “This is a document management program similar to PaperPort in aim. It allows scanning of paper into directories quickly and easily with a thumbnail/desktop view. Maxview decodes .max files and can convert them to PDF.”
• GitHub: max2pdf (Linux)
  “A hacked version of Simon Glass' paperman which exposes only a very simple command line interface for converting a max file to a PDF file”
• Macintosh Repository: PaperPort Viewer 2.0 for Mac

ftp://ftp.scansoft.com/pub/program/paperport/setupex.exe
ftp://ftp.scansoft.com/pub/program/paperport/PaperPort_5_0_Viewer_Installer.bin
http://support.visioneer.com/utilities/viewer.exe
http://www.xeroxscanners.com/help/utilities/viewer.exe

CCIroniesPP wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 2:38 amThe only link you give which includes a Mac version is so old it no longer works !

CCIroniesPP wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 5:19 pmThanks XnTriq - that's good to know for Windows users, but I'm on a Mac !