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A large percentage of posts here on DocumentSnap are relating to creating or processing PDF files in some way. However, there’s a dark side to PDFs – or more specifically, using outdated PDF reading software on your computer. The Lawyerist blog has a writeup on the topic, and points to a scary ZDNet article that [...]

As many of you know, in 2008 I posted an Applescript that will use Adobe Acrobat to make PDFs searchable using Acrobat’s OCR capabilities. In the comments to that post, user nodis pointed out that adding 2 words to one of the lines can make the PDFs quite a bit smaller. In my testing, I [...]

As much of a paperless geek that I am, I normally wouldn’t sit and watch a video of someone scanning and shredding paper. However, I just wanted to point you to this YouTube video by user allenday. He’s got a really cool setup of a ScanSnap S300M, Adobe Acrobat, a Mac Mini, a wall-mounted Sharp [...]

So you read all this great stuff about how the Fujitsu ScanSnap is awesome and creates searchable PDFs, and you’re on a Mac and want a portable scanner, so you drop the cash on a ScanSnap S300M. Then you get it home and find out – wait a minute – the S300M doesn’t come with [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

As you may know, when I want to OCR a bunch of PDFs at once as part of my scanning workflow, I use an Applescript droplet to have Adobe Acrobat OCR the files. The other day I came across this blog post from Jonathan Bowman over at Adobe. He shows how to use a feature [...]

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 [...]

Though I am neither a lawyer nor live in Delaware, I’ve been enjoying some of the posts on the Delaware Employment Law Blog written by Molly DiBianca. The author writes some really useful stuff that would be useful for any law firm considering the switch to a digital office, or as digital as possible. For [...]

This was referenced in my ScanSnap workflow series, but I thought I would provide it in its own article as well. I have a ScanSnap S300M and Adobe Acrobat, and was getting pretty tired of sitting there OCRing the PDFs manually in Acrobat. I came across this article by MacWorld which had a great Applescript [...]