DocumentSnap

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 [...]

Photo by iwantanimac In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I am generally a Mac user. I do have access to borrow a Windows ScanSnap, but my personal ScanSnap is a S300M. One thing I get asked quite a bit is which software should someone use to manage their PDFs? The ScanSnap comes with [...]

It looks like MacHeist is giving away a free copy of DEVONthink, an information manager. It is the Personal version of DEVONthink, not DEVONthink Pro Office. Here is more information from their site: This is a full license for DEVONthink Personal version 1.9.16 and can be upgraded to the upcoming version 2.0 for $20. Please [...]

Once you have your documents scanned you then of course need to put the PDFs somewhere. There are basically two schools of thought for document storage: storing in a folder structure (the Old Yahoo model), or dumping it all in one place and letting search take over (the Google model). Old Yahoo Model – Folders [...]

Possibly None It could be that you already have all the software that you need. If you have a ScanSnap or other scanner, it will come with software to scan and possibly even convert it to a searchable PDF. It might even come with some simple document management software. If you have an external backup [...]