LEE123  What are you talking about. Unless your scanner is broken you can always scan your doc with Epson software and then import into Devonthink at your leisure. There are a dozen ways to use your scanner and Devon in a workflow.   
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IRRADIATED SOFTWARE  Your review is fairly narrow sighted. By the developer doing a beta program, they can get critical feedback to shape the product into something the customers desire. It also shows that this product is under active development, so your purchase will not go toward an abandon piece of software. Good software takes a long time to write, especially for small indie companies.

If you want stability, you can still buy and use the 1.x version which gives you a free license to 2.0 when it releases. Even 1.x is more capable than most other competitors in this market, but it's also more expensive.

Just my 2 cents.  
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LEV  Well well. And to think I never knew that DevonThink was cobbled together by Silesian elves from old time-expired sheep components which would disintegrate like at the end of Lost Horizon once they'd sucked in ALL YOUR DATA and then you NEVER BE ABLE TO USE IT AGAIN. I thought they were a small but meticulous dev shop which produced a really fine everything-manager of great power, albeit with a slightly crufty front end, and that they were taking a while to make a major integer release.

Come on, fella. If you don't have facts, don't print the story. You're just ticking off (and -- it's a legal term -- defaming a company for reasons which are beyond me. And you're also ticking off MU users who don't like being told what to to unless we get good reasons. Come back with good reasons and welcome. For now, hold it right there...

(Move along people. Nothing to see here. Move along.)  
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HMURCHISON  LOL

Devon Technologies has been around a long time my friend and is well known for those that have looking into tools for research. I check the forums everyday and for the most part they are quiet. Kudos should be given to DT because very few companies allow you to beta test the program at such a level. Hang tight and check it out when its out of beta and I'm sure you'll be happier. DT doesn't ship crappy software.   
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VALDIMAR THOR H  BERU0 has no idea what this softwere is about. Complete misunderstanding of the whole concept and lack of knowledge about both the softwere and the developers of it. This softwere is well worth every penny and deserves 4.5 stars!   
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TOD WICKS  Beru is a known troll and constant whiner on the DevonTech forums. He's so wrapped up in this ongoing beta cycle that he even believes his own rants about losing data. It has been shown many times over that the data remain intact and are in fact in readable format (ie PDF, RTF, JPG) and totally accessible through the Finder, even if you decide not to continue with expiring betas. The betas have expiration date, it's true, but there is a very good reason for this: It keeps support overhead down by not having to support older versions once the product ships the final release. Even so, simply setting your computer's clock back a few months will "reactivate" the expired beta should you ever need to extract data (for instance if you ignore the fact stated above about the data being Finder accessible even if DT is no long on your Mac).

This guy doesn't know what he's talking about and should be totally ignored just like we do on the forum.  
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BRYANG  DevonThink Pro Office is absolutely the best-of-class product with world-class service and support. I have been using the product since before the "Pro Office" version was offered, and my databases have matured and expanded exponentially since then. I have NEVER (repeat, NEVER) lost data when upgrading, even when upgrading to one of the publicly released beta products.

The company provides detailed info, warnings, and procedures to guard against loss of any hard-won data when trying out one of their beta products. The improvements and features that still need work are explicity detailed in the docs. The author of the oriiginal comment seems to be, honestly, a whiner without substance.

I am still developing workflows to add onto well-established workflows using the 7th beta version of Pro Office 2.0 - this is as I discover features, services, scripts, and automator functionality that truly makes this a unique product that will last for years. Thank you Devon Technologies! And to you, those reading these reviews - I'm sure you've gained enough discernment to see through the spoiled, superficial brattiness of these casual dabblers (sometimes going under the guise of "reviewers") who loves to disparage wonderful solutions.  
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BILLD  Yes, there's a version of DT Pro for OS X 10.4.x.

See http://www.devon-technologies.com/support/faqs.php?p=default&cat=19  
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CC  Hi,

Does anyone know if the ABBYY OCR engine incorporated with DevonThink will cope with digital photos of books [straightening lines, etc] like the stand-alone version does?

I can upgrade from DT personal 1.9 [which I have not in fact used] to 2 for $50, a lot less than buying ABBYY itself [equivalent of $140 in the UK]. Sadly no sign of ABBYY Photoreader for the Mac.

Cheers, Colin  
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