DocumentSnap

Photo by ricardodiaz11 Even the best scanners or copiers with document feeders can jam or pick up double sheets sometimes. Aside from picking a great scanner, there are some things you can do with the paper to get it ready to scan. Our friends over at the ScanSnap Community site have posted a primer on [...]

We have written about Pixily before. They’re a document scanning, digitization, and management service. They recently did an interesting blog post where they outline some of the other options they have for storing the data you send them. Normally, when you send services like this your documents, receipts, etc., they are stored online. However, when [...]

I’m sure you’ve been there… someone sends you a bunch of documents and you need to figure out which one is the latest, or what the changes are between them. There are a number of tools to do that, but if you just want to do a quick and dirty comparison without messing around with [...]

When it rains it pours.  When Fujitsu released their ScanSnap Update For Snow Leopard, the missing piece was the OCR provided by FineReader.  They said it would be released by ABBYY soon, and as of today, it’s out. The update is for the ScanSnap S1500M and S510M. Click Here To Download The FineReader Snow Leopard [...]

Photo by sashafatcat It’s a little known fact that Canadians are in fact very jealous of Americans. Why? Not because of any political or economic reason, but because they always have to sit and watch as those south of the border get cool stuff like Hulu and the Kindle. Well, at least one of those [...]

Just got notified from Fujitsu so I am posting now. I haven’t tried it yet so I am sure there will be updates later. Fujitsu announces ScanSnap Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard Update for ScanSnap S1500M, S300M, S510M, and S500M. Updating select ScanSnap models listed above is a two part process. The first update [...]

The Fujitsu ScanSnap and the Amazon Kindle are two devices that lots and lots of people love. What happens when they are used together? Lots and lots of happiness! Over at the ScanSnap Community site, Megan Fowler did a post outlining how she used her ScanSnap S1500 to scan documents in to her Kindle DX [...]

Being on the geekier side of the spectrum (as my wife is happy to remind me as I am hooking a Mac Mini up to our TV), I really like hearing about the inner workings of the software that we use. Too often things are dumbed down so much that they aren’t actually saying anything. [...]

Fujitsu has recently done a video that shows how you can use a highlighter (yes, a real physical highlighter) with a ScanSnap S1500 to choose which parts of a document you want to be searchable. Basically, you go into ScanSnap Manager and check the setting “Set the marked text as a keyword in the PDF [...]

There are, of course, a million ways to convert PDF documents to JPG or PNG files. However, sometimes you just want something quick and easy. A while ago, reader AS pointed me out an Applescript droplet written by Martin Michel over at MacScripter. AS mentioned that it would be nice to have a version that [...]