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DESCRIPTION
DEVONthink Pro Office... In today's world, everything is digital. From shopping receipts to important research papers, your life often fills your hard drive in the form of emails, PDFs, Word documents, multimedia files and more. Questions eventually pop up, like where do you store all of this stuff? How do you organize these very different file types, and even better, how do you find the exact file you're looking for the second you need it? It's almost as if you need a second brain just to keep your digital life straight.
DEVONthink is the solution to the digital age conundrum. It is your second brain, the one and only database for all your digital files, be they PDFs, emails, Word docs or even multimedia files. Boasting a refined artificial intelligence, DEVONthink is exceedingly flexible and adapts to your personal needs. And if the files are not digital yet, digitize them with DEVONthink Pro Office.
Use it as your document repository, your filing cabinet, your email archive, or your project organizer; DEVONthink can do it all. You can even collect and organize data from the web for your own use, enrich it with sound and movie files from your hard drive, and then export the finished product as a website or to an Apple Pages document to print, should you so desire. Or copy the content to your iPod! The possibilities are only as limited as your imagination.
DEVONthink Professional Office extends DEVONthink Pro with three additional modules: Pro-grade email archiving, paper capture including optical character recognition, and integrated web sharing (search only.)
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0b5: - From this release on all editions of DEVONthink require Mac OS X 10.5 or later. This beta expires July 31, 2009.
- NEW: Properties of RTF/RTFD and PDF documents (except locked and indexed ones) are now editable via Tools > Show/Hide Properties...
- NEW: Comparison options Ignore Umlauts and Fuzzy added to Search window, to toolbar search and to smart groups editor.
- NEW: Tag predicate added to smart groups.
- NEW: Tooltip added to location field of Info panel; tooltips of smart group results include the location, the comment and available meta data.
- NEW: Option to ignore umlauts ignores now all diacritics.
- NEW: Expanded smart groups in three-pane view display number of found items.
- NEW: Attribute icon shows that an item has a comment.
- Improved: Occurrences are now always highlighted blue on yellow.
- Improved: Ranking of search results using wildcards.
- Improved: Selection handling while toolbar search results are visible.
- Improved: Capturing from text views via drag-and-drop or services retains the URL of the original document.
- Improved: It is again possible to begin editing of the comments and URL columns after pressing the Tab key.
- Improved: Revised shortcuts of Go and Format menu to avoid conflicts. In addition, shortcuts for Previous/Next Tab are now identical to Safari 4.0.
- Improved: Tooltips of recent destinations of Move/Replicate/Duplicate sub-menus display location of destination.
- Improved: All attribute icons for external and/or locked items or items with an attached script are now displayed.
- Improved: Slightly revised order of Format menu.
- Improved: Double-clicking search results with the Option key pressed opens them in a new tab if tabbed browsing is enabled. The behavior of Option-double-clicking is harmonized also for all panels.
- Improved: Links to local files in rich text or PDF documents are always opened externally.
- Improved: Go > Previous/Next Instance unhoist the current window if necessary.
- Improved: Highlighting of occurrences of opened Spotlight search results.
- Improved: Items replicated both inside and outside of the trash are again returned by smart groups, can be duplicates and are used by automatic Wiki linking.
- Improved: Recognition of duplicates.
- Improved: Rebuilding retains the original order.
- Improved: English, French, and German Localizations.
- Fixed: Issues of database locking on computers with multiple network interfaces/host names.
- Fixed: Incompatibility to local domains.
- Fixed: Some Wiki links containing multiple numbers did not work.
- Fixed: Tooltips of navigation bar were not always correct.
- Fixed: Some column widths did not adapt correctly.
- Fixed: Locked orphaned files could not be repaired using Tools > Verify & Repair.
- Fixed: Data > Reveal did not always work.
- Fixed: Importing/indexing of certain Word documents was very very slow.
- Fixed: Bugs and glitches.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| DEVONthink Pro Office User Reviews (14 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Apr 29 2009 |
MERRIMAC The new ABBYY OCR engine is excellent and a big improvement over the previous Readiris engine. From what I gather, ABBYY is generally considered to be the top OCR engine, but up till now it wasn't available for Mac. Now, with DEVONthink Pro's new integration of ABBYY, DEVONthink seems to have become the best OCR option available for Mac (other than Acrobat Pro, which I have not tested). Given that ABBYY's OCR software for Windows and Acrobat Pro both costs hundreds of dollars, DEVONthink Pro is a bargain.
(Version 2.0b4) | |
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| Jan 31 2009 |
LORD LIGHTNING Finally I have found sufficient reason to dump Eagle Filer, MacJournal and Together. Some nice chrome would help a lot to make it an even more enjoyable experience.
(Version 2.0pb2) | |
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| Jan 30 2009 |
MAUDLIN This is from the "Upgrader's Guide" on Devonthink Pro Office 2.0pb2 "Due to technical difficulties with the new engine this public beta comes with OCR temporarily disabled. We and ABBYY are working hard on making it work again and will release a new public beta as soon as possible." If you need OCR stick with the previous beta, where it still works.
(Version 2.0pb2) | |
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| Jan 30 2009 |
ANON BUD I've used and loved this app for many years now. When version 2 came out I especially loved the sorter which allows for the quick dropping of anything into a DTP inbox or any one of several user-defined folders from within any application.
(Version 2.0pb2) | |
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 | Jan 11 2009 |
DIGITAL FURY I'm writing this short review, to complement the one I did for the "Pro" version. This "Pro Office" makes more sense to me, because of the scanning + OCR integration (using a Fujitsu S300M) which allows some nice time saving automation. I haven't tested the email, which should really be included in all version by default, and the integrated web server, but it seems stable for a beta. Considering it includes scanner support and an OCR engine, the $150 price is a better value than the "Pro" edition at $80.
(Version 2.0 pb1) | |
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| Dec 19 2008 |
COOKIE08 This new version is brilliant very fast almost instant start and import. Retains original format of docs and at last opens multiple data bases at once.
(Version 2.0 pb1) | |
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| Dec 18 2008 |
ROD76 Its been a long wait, here are some of my observations. The application finally changes the name of the actual file to match a name change in the database; this has been driving me nuts for years. There are a few beta glitches that need ironing out, namely: 1: The new DEVONthink sorter doesn't play nice on multi monitor setups - it has to be placed on the furthest edge otherwise it doesn't properly collapse. 2: There are some refreshing issues when moving between files in the display pain - its not showing the view of the newly selected file unless you click it a few times or move back and fourth from another file I'm sure I'll find a few more bugs before a full release is made next year. That said, I'm very pleased with this new version and expect great things from it. The only feature I really wanted and can't find is full database encryption option. I keep sensitive info in it and I really don't want to create a separate sparse image to achieve what could be done in the app itself!
(Version 2.0 pb1) | |
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 | Apr 8 2008 |
GLOBETROTTERDK Is there a text highlighting app that can highlight text in other apps (Pages, TextEdit, Word, NeoOffice, Mail, etc.) like DEVONthink Pro Office can with imported text and text files?
(Version 1.5.1) | |
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| Dec 19 2007 |
LEE123 I agree with multimago, this software is good but could be so much better. I have owned this for several years and love it but there are some things that really need some polish. I wish the developer were more ambitious with such things as interface and the little quirks that annoy everyone. For instance, type Sam into the search field. So maybe you find something but how do you get back to the main group? You can click everywhere and not get the main group to come into view.
(Version 1.5) | |
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 | Dec 23 2007 |
BILLD Lee, here's the answer to your question. How to "back out" to the original document after a search from the Three Panes view: 1) Clear the query by clicking on the "X" symbol in the Search field. Your original document will be highlighted. OR 2) Click on the "back" triangle to the left of the URL field. There's your original document. What's neat is that if you now click the forward triangle you can see the search result document you viewed (or, with another click of the forward button, another search result that was selected and viewed). Clicking (multiple times if needed) will again) let you travel back to the original document. Disclaimer: I'm the Evangelist for DEVONtechnologies.
(Version 1.5) | |
| Dec 23 2007 |
LEE123 using x did the trick, thank you. Your other hint does not work for me though as I have no little back or forward arrows. I have looked at the toolbar options and dont see them. I am sure i am overlooking something.
(Version 1.5) | |
| Oct 8 2007 |
MULTIMAGO This softeare is very nice, of course. However I have only few small vegative notes: The interface is 1990style, not intuitive. ...a genius in a closed box I use EagleFiler ( http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/ ), very very Bad icon but very nice program. In EF the database is "open" (but protected), if you don't like to use more EF you can change! without problems. This is the most important thing. I want my files today but also tomorrow!, also with another software... DevonThing can do it??
(Version 1.3.3) | |
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| Oct 24 2007 |
BILLD Yes, DEVONthink databases can have all their documents sent to and stored in the Finder. That has always been the case. The user's data is not "locked" into the DEVONthink database and is fully recoverable.
(Version 1.3.3) | |
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