You may remember that a few months ago I did a how to make a $20 book scanner post. What I did not know then, but I do now thanks to awesome DocumentSnap reader Luke from Australia, is that there is a whole vibrant community around building and using DIY book scanners. The main site [...]
How To Leave OfficeDrop (Not That You’d Want To)
When using an online service for going paperless, the ability to get your stuff out of the system is as important as what you can do in the system. You don’t want a situation where you upload all your documents somewhere and then if you decide to leave the service, you can’t. Recently I wrote [...]
Lifehacker OCR Call For Votes
The folks over at Lifehacker are running one of their famous High Five calls for submissions, this time about readers’ favorite OCR tools. OCR tools have been around for decades, but only recently have they been affordable (in many instances free) and accessible to people outside of government and corporate offices. This week we want [...]
Bletchley Park Putting History Online
So you think you have a big scanning project to do. Ever since reading the books Cryptonomicon and Enigma, I’ve been fascinated with the story of Bletchley Park, the site of British codebreaking activities during World War II. Of course like many important historic sites, it has suffered from years of financial neglect and has [...]
Summarize Text Using Mac OSX Summarize Or Microsoft Word AutoSummarize
Whether you are wanting to create an executive summary for a document, or you just want to get the gist of a long document before diving in, wouldn’t it be helpful if your computer could do the skimming for you? The Mac OSX operating system and Microsoft Word on Windows have little-known summarizing tools that [...]
Fujitsu ScanSnap: How Are The S1300 and ScanSnap S1500 Models Different?
I get asked this question quite a bit: “What is the difference between the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 and the ScanSnap S1500 series?”, and then the logical followup: “Which should I buy?”. I decided to put together this blog post for me to point people to, so here is a rundown of the differences between the [...]
How To Combine PDF Files On Microsoft Windows For Free
Recently I wrote about how to combine PDF files using Mac OSX, so today I’d like to give Windows the same treatment. Of course, there are a huge number of applications out there that will do this, and if I had any brains I’d point you to some expensive one that would get me a [...]
Amazon Releases A New Kindle, Does Anyone Care?
Once upon a time there was a device called the Amazon Kindle, and people loved it. Really loved it. They wouldn’t stop talking about what a great device it was. Then a bunch of smaller manufacturers made cheap e-Readers that, let’s face it, were nowhere close to the Kindle. Then along came big bad Steve [...]
How To Combine PDF Files in Mac OSX Using Automator To Make A Service
A close friend of mine is currently doing a year long round-the-world trip. Being the sucker nice guy that I am, I have agreed to receive her mail and keep her important documents for her. Sometimes I have situations where I need to scan stuff for her and send them electronically. Usually my trusty ScanSnap [...]
What Do You Do With Your Filing Cabinet After Going Paperless?
Once you’ve done your huge scan-a-thon and gotten rid of most of your paper, what do you do with all the empty drawers? The folks over at the ScanSnap Community have a great list of 10 Fun and Creative Uses For Empty Filing Cabinets. I think my favorite is the healthy snack bar, but maybe [...]
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