DocumentSnap

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

File this post under the “I will probably regret posting this” category. I had a tip from DocumentSnap reader Hamad that was too helpful not to share. Remember back in November 2009, Fujitsu had to release an update for Abbyy FineReader because it was having problems with Mac OSX Snow Leopard? According to the website, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Update Nov 13, 2009: The Snow Leopard fix has been released. See this for more information! Since Apple’s new version of OSX – 10.6 aka Snow Leopard is released today, I thought I’d make this post so that we can share our experience using the Fujitsu ScanSnap with it. I haven’t found any indication that [...]

This one is for the Mac users out there. Anyone who has used Mac OSX, whether they know it or not, has probably used Preview (or as Mac-heads call it, Preview.app) at some point. Any time you double click on an image or PDF, it is probably Preview that is starting up to view it. [...]