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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Coming up on two years ago (yikes) I did a post in which I had helped a DocumentSnap reader use his Fujitsu ScanSnap to scan into Microsoft OneNote 2007. I know that OneNote is a popular program, but I had never actually used it myself other than a few minutes at Gnomedex 2005 when Robert [...]

If you are a Windows user and already have Microsoft Office XP through 2007, chances are you already have the ability to OCR documents to get the text out of them. It’s called Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI). I’m not going to lie, what I am about to show you is not exactly the best [...]

A while ago, Evernote teased that they had a big announcement coming, and today they held an event to break the news.  Their new App directory, the Evernote Trunk, is now live. Evernote has had an API for quite a while and a number of applications have had Evernote integration for some time (many of [...]

Using the Kelly Clarkson quote was just way too easy, I know.  This post is not in fact about American Idol winners, but is about Hazel, a Mac-only rules-based file management application.  It does a ton of stuff, but today I am going to talk about how you can use it in a paperless workflow. [...]

The other day I was having a conversation with a consulting client, and we got to talking about things to do with your paper before you scan it. I’ve written a lot about scanning documents and what to do after you scan them, but I haven’t written too much about document preparation. One of the [...]

Once upon a time, it wasn’t Apple that Adobe was getting beat up by, it was our good friends at Microsoft. They wanted to create a competing format to the ubiquitous PDF, so they created the XML Paper Specification (XPS). When I read that Home Document Manager now supports XPS files, it occurred to me [...]