David Seachrist's NSTL Software Roundup review "Document Image Managers" (May) contained inaccurate conclusions and omissions about our product, PaperClip for Windows. The review overlooked PaperClip's unique Visual Context Processor (VCP) technology, which lets the program integrate with existing applications without special programming. Somehow, Seachrist missed this feature, incorrectly relating it to OCR output and file conversion. In fact, thanks to VCP, PaperClip's folders can be pointed to from numerous other contexts and applications without DDE or OLE.
The other products are islands of technology that will exist outside users' daily application environments without a large investment in systems integration. PaperClip's unique approach obviates that need.
Sol Rosenberg
President and Chief Technology Officer
PaperClip Imaging Software
Inc.
Hackensack, NJ
I agree that the scope of the roundup was broad. This is endemic to any new software category. It is true that I misstated the reason for PaperClip's inability to maintain text formatting. It was the OCR engine, and not PaperClip's linking technology, that was the cause. But I continue to question the wisdom of employing VCP technology at the complete exclusion of OLE, a technology that is now well established. -- David Seachrist, NSTL
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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