Archive › July, 2009

Mozy Asks.. How Much Is A Petabyte?

Did you know that datacenters worldwide use up as much energy as Sweden? Neither did I, but it is one of the many things I learned from this awesome post by Mozy from a few weeks ago where they put together a bunch of stats to show how much data a petabyte actually is. Awesome! [...]

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Evernote Premium Now Makes PDFs Searchable

Well, that didn’t take long. Just 13 days after my post about making PDFs searchable before uploading to Evernote, they went ahead and added that feature for Premium users yesterday. Starting now, if you are a premium user and you upload a PDF, Evernote will OCR it on the backend and make it searchable. If [...]

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Making Acrobat OCR’ed PDFs Smaller With Formatted Text & Graphics

One complaint that people have with the PDFs that Acrobat kicks out when doing OCR, either by doing it manually or via an Acrobat OCR Applescript, is that the files can get really big. There are a few solutions to this, but one of them is to change the PDF Output Style. The default that [...]

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ScanSnap Evernote Giveaway

Yes, I do realize that this is the second ScanSnap Evernote post in a row. I just realized that I had somehow not blogged about this contest that Evernote is having in July where they are giving away 4 Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 scanners. Here is how to enter from their blog post:    * Follow [...]

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OCR Your ScanSnap PDF Before Sending It To Evernote

Update: Of course, a few days after I posted this, Evernote announced that they would make PDFs searchable for Premium users. So if you are not a Premium user, this will help. Otherwise, just upload away. One of the most popular posts on this site is on how to use the Fujitsu ScanSnap with Evernote. [...]

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