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ScanSnap S300M Unboxing Video

A while ago I picked up a Fujitsu ScanSnap S300M. In case you’re also thinking of getting one, I made a video of the “unboxing” where I take it out of the box and go through everything that is included in there. One note: at one point I pull out a USB cable and say [...]

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Fujitsu ScanSnap in Linux

There was a discussion recently on Twitter over whether the ScanSnap was supported in Linux. Out of the box, none of the models come with Linux drivers – the S510 and S300 come with Windows software, and the S510 and S300M come with Mac OSX software. However, there is a project called SANE – Scanner [...]

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Fujitsu ScanSnap and Microsoft OneNote – Happy Together

A reader (hi Matt!) wrote in because he was having trouble getting his ScanSnap S500 to work seamlessly with Microsoft OneNote 2007. Previously what he had to do was scan to a folder, then go into OneNote and manually import the file in. Needless to say if you do this a lot, it gets to [...]

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Acrobat Applescript For ScanSnap OCR

This was referenced in my ScanSnap workflow series, but I thought I would provide it in its own article as well. I have a ScanSnap S300M and Adobe Acrobat, and was getting pretty tired of sitting there OCRing the PDFs manually in Acrobat. I came across this article by MacWorld which had a great Applescript [...]

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When You Have To Print, Print Smart

As much as we try to move towards a paperless workflow, there are going to be times where we just have to print something out. Lifehacker‘s Gina Trapani is doing double duty and writing for PC World (I didn’t know she was doing that). She wrote a great article called 20 Tech Habits To Improve [...]

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