DocumentSnap

Photo by technicool Recently, Om Malik wrote a post called The Ugly Truth About Broadband: Upload Speeds. The article is about slow upload speeds in general – you can have the fastest download speeds in the world, but for many tasks that involve uploading, even our broadband is excruciatingly slow. One of the things Om [...]

I have received a number of questions recently about the software that is included with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. For example, why does the ScanSnap come with both Abbyy FineReader and Adobe Acrobat? Aren’t they both for doing OCR? I suspect part of the reason that this question comes up is because of my posts about [...]

Yesterday I was in the middle of a scan-a-thon and hit a snag. I was scanning a receipt for my new sofa (this one, if you are interested), and ScanSnap Manager didn’t like it one little bit. It said “Incorrect Paper Size”. All I could guess was that the receipt was just too long. I [...]

Photo by iwantanimac In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I am generally a Mac user. I do have access to borrow a Windows ScanSnap, but my personal ScanSnap is a S300M. One thing I get asked quite a bit is which software should someone use to manage their PDFs? The ScanSnap comes with [...]

Recently I came across this tweet from Ross L. Kodner and he brought up a good point – one of the benefits of an online backup is having your data safe and sound. If you live in a city that is prone to earthquakes, hurricanes, etc., it kind of defeats the purpose to have your [...]

Just thought I’d post about something a little different today. One blog I really like (no surprise) is Unclutterer.com. There is a great range of posts on a lot of different topics. A few recently caught my eye: Could your productivity benefit from a professional nagger? talks about one situation where nagging is a good [...]

Just came across this video that was posted by Michael Sidejas, the Product Marketing Manager for the ScanSnap at Fujitsu. He gives a good demonstration of all the features (new and otherwise) of the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 and its bundled software. I like it when companies use video like this so thanks Michael.