The smartui.exe process is a mainframe application developed by ScanSoft, Inc., now merged with Nuance Communications, a multinational computer software technology corporation that provides speech and imaging applications. One of the applications to which smartui.exe belongs to is Paperport. Paperport is a document management system that is designed to help users organize digital documents and files, particularly scanned documents. PaperPort supports the stacking and unstacking of pages in a document, a method and system that manage records stored in a computer system, thereby allowing users to break them up into individual pages and to reassemble them into new PDF files. Image editing for these files is also provided by PaperPort. As part of Paperport, smartui.exe allows the use of a user’s scanner's buttons which enable one to configure the option “Scan to” key to the MFC, simplifies scanning of various file formats and manage scanned documents to a specific directory or folder.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. smartui.exe. is used by Paperport, If you shut down smartui.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop smartui.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Paperport, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed smartui.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Paperport, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if smartui.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that smartui.exe, belongs to, in this case Paperport